wherein (shock! amazement!) Liz actually finishes a story

[edenfalling]

Back in 2005, I finished a Team 7-centric Naruto fanfiction called "Tides" and started work on what was meant as a short bridge-fic between that story and its planned sequel, "Leaves." I thought I could knock off the tale of an undercover assassination mission within a month or so.

...

Tonight, four years and 6,500 words later, I finally finished "Undertow."

I am not posting it yet -- the final scene is not very well balanced and I need to stick in a lot more sensory detail and stuff -- but the plot is done and I have an ending and a basic framework on which to hang the edits. That counts for a lot.

So that's one thing off my list of interminably delayed WIPs.

*returns to fighting "Secrets" ch. 14*

Comments

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

It's why I'm trying to finish stuff BEFORE posting, but... whoa, backlog.

Sadly, those dates actually sound reasonable to me... but what to do with the NEW PLUNNIES?

[edenfalling]

I know exactly what you mean. *sigh*

As for plot bunnies, at the moment, I am doing my damndest to restrict new stories to 15_minute_fic responses and occasional ficathon entries. Anything longer gets a page of background and outline notes in case I am still interested enough to come back to it in a few years, and then I close the file and pretend very hard it doesn't exist. So far, this has successfully diverted every idea! Okay, every idea except the Star Trek: AOS story I've nicknamed 'grief management for dummies; Spock, this means you.' But one out of dozens isn't half bad.

[smokyglass.livejournal.com]

Okay, every idea except the Star Trek: AOS story I've nicknamed 'grief management for dummies; Spock, this means you.'

OMG I want to read this.

[edenfalling]

The rough draft is currently 6,700 words, which may be a third of the way through the story. But perhaps it is only a quarter of the story. Either way, I expect it to be at least 20,000 words by the time I'm done with it. *sigh* And it was originally meant to just be a short conversation over a sushi dinner. Where did I go wrong???