tentative rapture??? (ETA: yes, definitely rapture!)

[edenfalling]

OMG, I have written 500 words of "Friends and Neighbors" today. This is the most I have managed to write in a day since that unfinished Aravis/Cor thing a couple weeks back, and I am so close to the end of the story that I can taste it. Maybe I will even manage to finish it tonight!

Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please.

I so very badly need to create something that I can point to and say, "There, I made that. It did not exist until I decided it should, and then I sat down and brought it into being." Because that is the best feeling in the world and holy shit I need that right now.

*crosses fingers, returns to writing*

(7,100 words, fyi)

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ETA: 7,400 words. The story has taken an alarming swerve into ridiculously saccharine emotional hurt/comfort between Yukiko and Naruto. Agh, what is it about those two that makes me so stupidly mushy? I am trying to make a point about ninja cunning as applied to civilian social relationships, not to woobify Naruto beyond recognition. (Though he is only seven years old, here. A certain level of adorable sugar-puff woobieness is inescapable. Curse small children and their built-in cuteness rays!)

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ETA 2: 7,700 words. New favorite passage:

"What's fighting got to do with it? You can't make friends by hitting people," Naruto said.

"Maybe not with civilians, but it's a time-honored tradition among ninja," Yukiko assured him. Naruto pulled back and gave her a disbelieving look. "I swear by all the kami, that's how I got to be friends with my old genin team. Hoshi-sensei made us fight in three-way melee battles until we got sick of them and teamed up on him instead. And then we were friends."

"If you say so, Yukiko-neechan," Naruto said.

Yeah. :-D

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ETA 3: 8,050 words. I am so close to the end. SO CLOSE. And yet the fic will just. not. wrap. up.

Goddammit, what do I have to do to reach a last line around here???

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ETA 4: Finished at 8,200 words! Victory is mine!! Ahahahaha!!!

Of course, now I have to go back and edit the blasted story -- this is particularly relevant since I wrote it over such an extended period of time and there are probably a bunch of narrative and thematic discontinuities -- but psssh, whatever, it is always easier to fix something that exists than to create that thing in the first place.

And now I am going to bed because it is half past midnight and I have a 9am shift in the morning.

Good night!

Comments

[silverblade219]

Yay, congratulations!

[edenfalling]

Thanks! :-)

[branchandroot]

*applauds and waves pompoms* Done, go you!

And there you go, this exists because you made it.

[edenfalling]

Yes, yes it does! Creation is the best natural high I know of, bar none. *twirls*

[marycontrary]

Yay, grats! I think if I were asked to recommend an "Edenfalling" story to someone who knew all your fandoms, it would be "The Way of the Apartment Manager" as the story that shows your skills and style the best.

[edenfalling]

Aw, thanks! "Apartment Manager" is actually one of my personal favorite four stories I have ever written -- the others being "Knives," "Finding Marea: Truth and Change in the Circle of Kemar," and "Out of Season," btw. It's sloppier than the other three in the fine details, which is partly because of length and partly because it was written and published serially, but it is also one of the most heartwarming things I've ever written while still incorporating a bunch of my thematic obsessions (female characters with agency, world-building, the Power of Friendship and/or Family, etc.) and also the only novel I have completed to date, so yeah. I am pretty proud of it. :-)

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

:D That was fun to read!

[edenfalling]

Now and then I like to practice writing by liveblogging my troubles with writing. *wry*

[lynati-1.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I look forward to reading it. ^_^

[edenfalling]

I will probably post the beta draft on Saturday. :-)

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

This post makes me so happy. I am a huge fan of your "Way of the Apartment Manager" story (I have no idea how many times I've read it), and I was so excited when I saw that you were working on something connected with that story. I'm looking forward to reading it when it's ready to be posted.

[edenfalling]

Ah, thank you! "Apartment Manager" is one of my own favorites of the stories I've written, so I am always happy when other people like it too. :-)

Friends and Neighbors is up now in beta draft. I will probably tidy it up a little more before I cross-post it to ff.net or anywhere else, but the basic structure is, I think, sound.