Week Four - Progress Report
Jan. 29th, 2008 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eponymous_rose(because, let's face it, this is getting kinda crazy)
Four weeks into my crazy writing New Year's Resolution - to post a fic or a chapter or a drabble for every day of 2008! You can browse the archives here, and slowly watch my brain explode.
Postings: 28
Words Posted This Week: 12,218!
Cumulative Word Count for 2008: 33,723 (er - this basically exceeds my entire output for 2007)
Comments: A very, very satisfying week - one fic that just needed to get finished already, four brand-new standalone fics (two of which have received way more attention than expected), another Deepsky chapter, and just one drabble.
I noticed early on that writing standalone fics was very definitely my sore spot - they're great fun to write, typically wind up being quite popular, but they're also the trickiest, because I definitely need a solid idea, especially when writing on deadline (and most of these are written, due to my present schedule, in an hour or less). I like letting the story evolve until it's quite finished - so coming up with stories that can be told in one to two thousand words is a bit on the tricky side.
(Also, I have a terrible, terrible habit of overwriting shorter fics - the somewhat frustrating What the Thunder Said, most of which I wrote last December, is a great example of When Wordiness Attacks.)
I've been experimenting with a much sparser writing style, and, judging by the reaction to Comes the Rain and Sometimes Forever (both of which, coincidentally, I posted as quasi-meta after my first viewings of "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" and "The Chase"), something's working. It still feels a bit on the awkward side, but, y'know. Will practise, etc.
No matter how far behind I get on replying to comments/reviews, you know I love every one of 'em, right? Sucker for attention, that's me. :D
Four weeks into my crazy writing New Year's Resolution - to post a fic or a chapter or a drabble for every day of 2008! You can browse the archives here, and slowly watch my brain explode.
Postings: 28
Words Posted This Week: 12,218!
Cumulative Word Count for 2008: 33,723 (er - this basically exceeds my entire output for 2007)
Comments: A very, very satisfying week - one fic that just needed to get finished already, four brand-new standalone fics (two of which have received way more attention than expected), another Deepsky chapter, and just one drabble.
I noticed early on that writing standalone fics was very definitely my sore spot - they're great fun to write, typically wind up being quite popular, but they're also the trickiest, because I definitely need a solid idea, especially when writing on deadline (and most of these are written, due to my present schedule, in an hour or less). I like letting the story evolve until it's quite finished - so coming up with stories that can be told in one to two thousand words is a bit on the tricky side.
(Also, I have a terrible, terrible habit of overwriting shorter fics - the somewhat frustrating What the Thunder Said, most of which I wrote last December, is a great example of When Wordiness Attacks.)
I've been experimenting with a much sparser writing style, and, judging by the reaction to Comes the Rain and Sometimes Forever (both of which, coincidentally, I posted as quasi-meta after my first viewings of "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" and "The Chase"), something's working. It still feels a bit on the awkward side, but, y'know. Will practise, etc.
No matter how far behind I get on replying to comments/reviews, you know I love every one of 'em, right? Sucker for attention, that's me. :D
