A little behind - status update

[misqueue]

I've fallen a bit behind with both writing and comment replies this week (distracted by the DNC), so I'll be getting to things a bit later than I'd like while I focus on getting my latest (but apparently not last) chapter of ITWOS done.

I have a draft, but it sucks, and it looks like I'm not going to have any trouble getting to 8 parts to satisfy my Fibonacci pattern. :) I swear, finishing this fic is like approaching an asymptote. Or, it's like there's this weird decompression algorithm my brain runs every time I go from outline to prose. To think I thought it was only going to be ~20K at most when I started! Oh my god.

Oh! And!

I noticed that Kurt is wearing the same blazer in NBK when he meets Blaine as he's wearing in OMW when he gets the first phone call from Karofsky. This works well with my fic. I am happy. And, of course he's wearing it in OMW with the skull coin scarf.

Comments

[wowbright.livejournal.com]

So how long is it now? I'm working on a fic that I started out thinking would be 17k bug recently hit 400 pages. I'm thinking that's somewhere close to 200k, but I'm not sure, because Word stopped counting around page 200. Sigh.

[misqueue.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's about 132,000 words, which is 256 pages of single spaced 12 pt. Times New Roman, so I'd say you're well in the ballpark of 200K! Wow. Your brain must have a similar decompression algorithm to mine. ;)

Before this story, the longest complete thing I had written was ~30,000 words and it was an outlier. Mostly I wrote short things of less than 5K length. I never thought I had it in me to do anything novel length. But now that I know I can do it, I'm really excited! Just a little (albeit happily) overwhelmed!