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hindsightseeing) wrote2026-05-03 01:41 pm
hindsightseeing) wrote2026-05-03 01:41 pm
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Writing Check-In Number Something.
Keeping my promise to myself to Actually Talk About My Writing once in a while.
March was... I don't want to say a write-off, because I think I really needed to not be working on anything significant for a while. Like, I poked at a couple of small things (and things that were supposed to be small but made it clear after about two sentences that they were going to be less small), but after powering through 130,000 words in two months, I think my brain needed a reboot.
April was... well.
I should know better than to say to myself "I need to try my hand at something completely different before I jump into the next part of The Neverending WIP", because good grief, am I ever trying my hand at something completely different. I think I mentioned that I'm currently neck-deep in what may be the single most ambitious thing I've ever attempted, and it is wholly all-consuming.
I've finished the first of what is supposed to be five (5!?) parts. It was supposed to be a quick one- or two-chapter scene-setting and introductory thing, but wound up swallowing the entirety of April and ~40,000 words all on its own. Heaven only knows where the next four (4?!?) parts are going to end up, and I rather suspect I'm going to get overwhelmed and possibly crash out from sheer panic... but for now it's a very pleasant stretch of certain writing muscles I haven't used in a very long time.
That said...
I left the Get Your Words Out challenge. I actually did so after the March check-in, so this is my first month being answerable solely to my own conscience. I'll keep using that tag for my personal check-ins, since I started it, and I do really want to keep making these little posts here, but... y'know, when you sign up to do a thing in partnership with somebody else and then don't hear a single word from them in three straight months, you gotta take the hint.
C'est la vie, I guess. And hey, it's good inspiration to actually do what I'd planned to do all along, which is use this damn space to talk about my writing.
So... yay?
March was... I don't want to say a write-off, because I think I really needed to not be working on anything significant for a while. Like, I poked at a couple of small things (and things that were supposed to be small but made it clear after about two sentences that they were going to be less small), but after powering through 130,000 words in two months, I think my brain needed a reboot.
April was... well.
I should know better than to say to myself "I need to try my hand at something completely different before I jump into the next part of The Neverending WIP", because good grief, am I ever trying my hand at something completely different. I think I mentioned that I'm currently neck-deep in what may be the single most ambitious thing I've ever attempted, and it is wholly all-consuming.
I've finished the first of what is supposed to be five (5!?) parts. It was supposed to be a quick one- or two-chapter scene-setting and introductory thing, but wound up swallowing the entirety of April and ~40,000 words all on its own. Heaven only knows where the next four (4?!?) parts are going to end up, and I rather suspect I'm going to get overwhelmed and possibly crash out from sheer panic... but for now it's a very pleasant stretch of certain writing muscles I haven't used in a very long time.
That said...
I left the Get Your Words Out challenge. I actually did so after the March check-in, so this is my first month being answerable solely to my own conscience. I'll keep using that tag for my personal check-ins, since I started it, and I do really want to keep making these little posts here, but... y'know, when you sign up to do a thing in partnership with somebody else and then don't hear a single word from them in three straight months, you gotta take the hint.
C'est la vie, I guess. And hey, it's good inspiration to actually do what I'd planned to do all along, which is use this damn space to talk about my writing.
So... yay?
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