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edenfallingThat took WAY TOO LONG.
It is, of course, at least 85% my own damn fault -- I'm the one who chose the story, and I'm the one who is terrible at time management and kept getting distracted by other things -- but even so. TOO LONG. (The word count is too long as well -- and yes, it did end up longer than "What Isn't Broken," because apparently I enjoy torturing myself.)
I was starting to go nuts Thursday and Friday night, when I couldn't get more than 500 words a day. Normally that is a good pace for me, but here? Not nearly enough. Tonight (I have not gone to bed; therefore it is still Saturday; shut up) I realized the problem was that I had written an entire scene that shouldn't be there, yanked it out, and wrote around the information that had been there. I also tweaked the beginning slightly so it at least pretends to match the ending, inserted several references to what ended up being kind of a major plot point, so it seems to grow organically out of the story instead of being something I pasted on about two thirds of the way through, and did a bit of pruning for commas and general wordiness.
And it is SENT IN.
Gah.
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Now I just need to get started on my Femgenficathon story... *cue ominous music and Liz running away screaming*
It is, of course, at least 85% my own damn fault -- I'm the one who chose the story, and I'm the one who is terrible at time management and kept getting distracted by other things -- but even so. TOO LONG. (The word count is too long as well -- and yes, it did end up longer than "What Isn't Broken," because apparently I enjoy torturing myself.)
I was starting to go nuts Thursday and Friday night, when I couldn't get more than 500 words a day. Normally that is a good pace for me, but here? Not nearly enough. Tonight (I have not gone to bed; therefore it is still Saturday; shut up) I realized the problem was that I had written an entire scene that shouldn't be there, yanked it out, and wrote around the information that had been there. I also tweaked the beginning slightly so it at least pretends to match the ending, inserted several references to what ended up being kind of a major plot point, so it seems to grow organically out of the story instead of being something I pasted on about two thirds of the way through, and did a bit of pruning for commas and general wordiness.
And it is SENT IN.
Gah.
...
Now I just need to get started on my Femgenficathon story... *cue ominous music and Liz running away screaming*
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Date: 2011-08-07 12:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-08 03:42 am (UTC)Femgen fics can be posted as early as August 15, but the final posting date is September 8, yeah. And thank goodness! I have a LOT of research to do for mine... and probably for no real return, since I intend to write about a disliked secondary character in a teeny-tiny Yuletide fandom with deeply disturbing subject matter. (In other words, I want to explain Avalyn Friesen from Mysterious Skin. Hence UFO research. *headdesk*) Nobody is going to read that story, but apparently my subconscious is bound and determined to see it written.