Stick a fork in me, I'm done

[ratherastory]

73,218 words, and I am done. Mostly. Sent off the last draft to pkwench for one last round of hand-holding and telling me where things don't work, and then all that's left is to wait for July 9th so I can post it. Oh, and do a whackload of html coding. Holy crap.

I added about 3,000 words to the last chapter, added in a bunch of missing scenes, extra lines, and tweaked some of the existing scenes so that there would be an actual emotional impact instead of, y'know, a grocery list of events. Oy. I hope I succeeded. I guess I'll find out soon enough.

Now I'm going to scrounge up dinner, put on an episode of NCIS, and poke at my spn_solstice fic. I'm aiming for a short fic for that one, and as an added challenge I'm going to try for exactly 1,000 words, just because. It also means I'll be able to get it done relatively quickly.

After that, it'll be time to figure out exactly what I want to do with my spn_summergen and castielfest fics, since they're both due one month and two weeks from now, respectively. I have a pretty good idea about spn_summergen in terms of voice and characterization, but I'm still working on the plot aspect, and castielfest is still only a kernel of an idea.

Oof.

Chuck was right: writing is hard.

Comments

[crayola-fics.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Your story is about twice as long as mine, so consider me quite impressed. I'm looking forward to reading yours, but it'll have to be after my posting date (July 13th). I've had to suspend all of my reading of Big Bang fics in order to force myself to finish editing mine... but it's a great incentive!

I am blown away by how many things you're entering stories into! You're awesome and I'm glad because that means more stories of yours to read :)

Also, I'd counter your Chuck quote with my own: endings are hard. urgh.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it! I had to fight with my ending forever to get it to work, and I'm still not sure it does, but I'm too close to it now to see it objectively. Thank God for betas.

I had to put all reading of BigBangs on hold in order to get my writing done too, so no worries there.