mistressofmuses

I am barely creeping earlier in the month with these. At least this one is (barely) within the first half of the month!

My goals for November

Well, the primary one was "Novella November" - to write 30k for the month. My intent was to do this on the Kingdom Hearts Angels and Demons AU. (Two angels and one demon are sent to influence a pair of humans. Some other people involve themselves.)

Unfortunately, I hit a major wall with it.

( More on said wall-hitting: )

I was also already really feeling dissatisfied with the writing quality in what I'd gotten done, which I was trying to push through because I was hoping this would be just "shaking the rust off," but with nothing about the fic feeling worthwhile... I think this one needs to go back into the "maybe someday" pile.

So that leaves me scrambling to find a new project in order to get something done with this month. I've written almost nothing since the election, so I am likely too far behind to accomplish the Novella November goal, but I want to at least try.

( I've got three possibilities for what to try and pivot to: )

I thought I was pretty set on the cyberpunk AU, but on further consideration, I think I should go for the iddy romance. It's the thing that I actually have outlined, and can just get straight into writing it. If I'm really wanting to still hit 30k for the month, I probably need to go for ease.

This does mean that I likely won't have anything ready to share until closer to the middle of next year, assuming I focus on a fic after that, but oh well.

Plans for December and beyond:

December: finish the first draft of the iddy romance
December: outline the Cyberpunk AU
January - February: rough draft of the Cyberpunk AU
February - March: outline the first part of the worldhopping fairytale monstrosity (possibly working on the more in-depth snowflake outline method for the story as a whole)
March: outline a different iddy romance
April: work on the second draft of the Cyberpunk AU

The above is obviously pretty tentative. It assumes that I can make myself write at all, and also that I keep up a fairly steady level of productivity. As always, I'd love things to go faster than planned (if an outline only takes a couple weeks, I could start a rough draft earlier.) In all likelihood, things will go slower than planned, lol. Something will need to be reworked, or I'll get burned out, or something else will come up. I could also change my mind and decide that something else catches my interest more!

( A pessimistic whinge: )