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Feb. 11th, 2019 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mere_vanillaTalking about Writing and Feelings About Writing (for a small-ish fandom) ahead!
It feels really weird to be two-thirds of the way through the fanfic I'm working on--I honestly didn't think I'd see the day. Here I am, though, with the third of four chapters done...ish? I prefer to have at least six-and-a-half to seven pages done for a chapter; it's a good, easy-to-read amount, and gives me a sense of accomplishment! However, there's only so much I can write on a certain scene before I really ought to move on. For this particular chapter I have just barely six pages. Six pages leaves me... uneasy, I guess. Time for a second read-through for sensory details!
Back to the opening, though: I'm so close to being done with the story as a whole--and I am excited and nervous. Excited, because I'm looking forward to exploring where the story can finally go; nervous because... well. It's the only story of mine that's received a lot more attention than I anticipated, even though I was kind of... hoping it'd fill a niche in the fandom? (shrug emoji) While making it to rec lists sounds nice, I am absolutely terrified of the backdraft of "It's not as good as I was told it'd be" (and being told that, vehemently, to my (digital) face).
I am excited to be close to finishing up, though! I'll get to move on to the other story I'm working on for the same fandom! I will finally have time to write up a meta post that's been bouncing around my head like a mid-2000s Windows screensaver! I could even, oh my, get involved in a different fandom altogether! I've had this particular version of the characters in my head for so long that it feels almost wrong to say good-bye, even though it's not quite a good-bye, but more of a "see you later".
It feels really weird to be two-thirds of the way through the fanfic I'm working on--I honestly didn't think I'd see the day. Here I am, though, with the third of four chapters done...ish? I prefer to have at least six-and-a-half to seven pages done for a chapter; it's a good, easy-to-read amount, and gives me a sense of accomplishment! However, there's only so much I can write on a certain scene before I really ought to move on. For this particular chapter I have just barely six pages. Six pages leaves me... uneasy, I guess. Time for a second read-through for sensory details!
Back to the opening, though: I'm so close to being done with the story as a whole--and I am excited and nervous. Excited, because I'm looking forward to exploring where the story can finally go; nervous because... well. It's the only story of mine that's received a lot more attention than I anticipated, even though I was kind of... hoping it'd fill a niche in the fandom? (shrug emoji) While making it to rec lists sounds nice, I am absolutely terrified of the backdraft of "It's not as good as I was told it'd be" (and being told that, vehemently, to my (digital) face).
I am excited to be close to finishing up, though! I'll get to move on to the other story I'm working on for the same fandom! I will finally have time to write up a meta post that's been bouncing around my head like a mid-2000s Windows screensaver! I could even, oh my, get involved in a different fandom altogether! I've had this particular version of the characters in my head for so long that it feels almost wrong to say good-bye, even though it's not quite a good-bye, but more of a "see you later".
