Hello everyone =) Hope you’re doing well? Anything you want to share about your writing? Your drawing? Maybe something you’ve read since the last round-up? Any plan for this weekend?

(For Federation Science, I’ll post my answers below with my mastodon account ^^)

  • @LeGaosaureOP
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    26 months ago

    PS: and I totally forgot about the fic I was supposed to finish for mid-January xD It’s not too late yet but if that keeps happening it’ll win one more year in the to-write pile x’D

    • a_mac_and_con
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      16 months ago

      I should keep poking you about this fic! With as much as it is on your mind, it will be such an accomplishment when you’ve finished. I hereby decree you should at least look at it sometime this week and figure out a plan for getting it done!

      That is, if you want me to poke you about it. If not, that’s totally fine.

      • @LeGaosaureOP
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        26 months ago

        I’m fine with poking, and that would probably be needed eventually given how much my brain is pretending this fic is not a thing x’D

        I’ll thus try to remember I need to work on it o7

        • a_mac_and_con
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          16 months ago

          Sounds good! I will be checking in with you next weekend to make sure you have started focusing on the fic. Be prepared, as next weekend I’ll probably be after you to get a certain amount of words done! (Though I’ll need to know about how long you think it’s going to be.)

          • @LeGaosaureOP
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            16 months ago

            File is currently 797 words long. It’s supposed to be a short PWP and skimming through it, it looks like I managed to squeeze the buildup in 800 words instead of my usual 1k+ x’D So I’d expect uh… I don’t know, how do people even guess at how long their stories are going to be? I suppose around 2k more? (no I won’t write 2k straight of smut, but I set up emotional stuff so it’ll probably be more than smut) But frankly I have no idea and I hope this will not turn into one of these “hey you thought it’d be short but now I’m 5 times your usual length for “short”, have fun” monstrosity x’)

            (No, seriously, how do people estimate the length of their works before being close to finishing them? Genuine question.)

            • a_mac_and_con
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              16 months ago

              I have no idea. I never know how long anything is going to be. I’m used to asking people about it because somehow I’m around a lot of people who estimate their stories all the time. However, I have gone into projects knowing it has to be a minimum of X words. In which case, I can at least plan out my time for those.

              If you want something around 2k more (or think that should be good enough to get it done, I can give you an assignment of 1k words a week. It would get you done with enough time to do whatever editing you want before sending it!

              So by New Years Eve, I expect to hear that you are about 1.8k words in!

              • @LeGaosaureOP
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                26 months ago

                I physically cannot edit lol (not even joking, my brain empties entirely if I try editing, I just can’t), I just need time to spellcheck =')

                Uh oh. This is getting serious. Welp, guess I’ll have to work on that then…

                  • @LeGaosaureOP
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                    16 months ago

                    I really should have refused this challenge because it was a very bad week for it x’) I had my first actual vacation since July so I just dropped everything… but it lasted only three days and I spent the rest of the week dealing very badly with the fact I wanted more vacation. I thought of working on this fic every day (except maybe Monday) but by Saturday evening I had decided I would fail anyway so if I could at least not give a fuck instead of making myself feel even worse that would be great thank you.

                    So no. I didn’t even open that fucking file. I want to scream at people about the whole vacation thing. I don’t know if I’ll be able to do anything about this fic in the coming weeks honestly.