fic rush!

[casualbird]

i'm so excited for fic_rush today and tomorrow! i hadn't even heard of it until the other day, but it really lines up with what i'm working on right now!

i'm writing a fic right now that is turning out to be way bigger than i ever expected it to be. the longest story i've ever written was maybe 4k words long, and that was for school, so i had a deadline. my wip is currently sitting around 8.8k words, so it's twice as long as anything i've ever finished before.

i think i'm actually over the hump with this one--not because i don't have much more to go, i'm definitely expecting it to blow past 20k, but because i already have the plot more or less figured out and plotting has always been very difficult for me. plus, in the past couple years i've been working on my creative writing degree, so i've been learning a lot craft-wise. i just need to put in the work to make this thing happen!

so, this weekend i'm going to work to get my fic over 10k words! then i'll really feel like i'm getting somewhere.

ps: if you're into fire emblem (awakening!) and are feeling charitable, let me yak about my fic to you!

Comments

[larissa]

i've never come across fic_rush before, but what a great idea! definitely going to have to keep it in mind when i get back to fic-writing.

sadly i'm not into fire emblem (yet) but good luck with your fic! 💪

[casualbird]

thank you! i'm gonna need a lot of muscle to get through this!!

writing

[oldtoadwoman]

I don't know your fandom, but I'm excited that you're excited. There's something amazing about that feeling of glee you get when a fic is going well and the plot is sorted out and you know where you're going with it and the words can just flow.

Yay!

Re: writing

[casualbird]

hey, thank you! i'm having such a great time with it. just. this is what it's all about!

[catness]

Wow, never heard of this community before, but it sounds like a great idea! And it's even open for non-writing challenges, so programming could fit right in. I'll consider participating next time (or at least if it doesn't coincide with a Pokemon Go event, which they throw at us almost every weekend... ;)

Good luck! Keep these words flowing! (y)

[casualbird]

thanks! i will!

ooh, what sort of programming project are you working on?

[catness]

Game(s)! Been rambling about game development for years, decided it's time to start actually doing something about it :)

[casualbird]

That's neat as all hell! I've made a couple (super amateur) visual novels with Ren'py, what do you get up to? (I have the vague feeling I've read this somewhere, but I follow more than one dev so /// also it's 4 AM)

[catness]

Yeah, I was talking about it in some of my Snowflake posts. Currently making a puzzle platformer in Java (with LibGDX), though I might switch to a point&click adventure game if I'll get more inspiration for that. Wow, great job with visual novels, did you post them somewhere? Did you draw the graphics yourself? I suck at drawing, so for the start, I'm using free assets. (I prefer old-school pixel art anyway, so it may be feasible.)

[casualbird]

oooh, fun! that sort of thing is way out of my depth, so it's really cool that you're getting along with it!

i've really only made a couple of things--school projects and gifts for friends. for my school projects, i didn't make my own assets, but for my friends, i did. i can't draw very well, but they're supposed to have a silly, low-rent style anyway. i've been considering making something more polished, but finding a way to make good-looking assets for it is kind of a barrier for me.

i've been wanting to learn pixel art as well!

[graveexcitement]

whoa, that community sounds super cool! this weekend is sorta busy for me so i probably won't be joining in this round, but i will keep an eye on it in the future!