Mid-August Thoughts
2022-08-16 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rodoIn an effort to get a bit more active again, here's some short, random thoughts and things:
♠dawn_felagund wrote something really interesting about how the AO3 affects fannish infrastructure, especially single-fandom-archives: Library of Moria and Fanfic Walmart. It's really thoughtful and doesn't condemn the AO3 so much as put a spotlight on how our laser focus on one archive ends up giving us less options, in some ways, even though it was created to give us more. (Thank you vriddy for spreading the word!)
♠ OMG! Someone is requesting Carnival Row in exchanges!!! I might have some huge life changes coming up, but pending that throwing a wrench in the works, there might be a treat in it for you!
♠ And while we're on the topic of Carnival Row, I picked up my WIP from last year again and typed up all the drafted (which I like to do by hand, unless it's exchanges) chapters, drafted 1½ scenes and worked out how long the story is going to be and what I want each chapter to do: 17 chapters, which at my usual chapter length would put it somewhere at 70k. I'm going to try and finish it, guys. I've got 20k already. But I'm a super slow writer, and prone to get distracted and wander away, never to pick the fic up again. There's a reason the longest fic I ever finished is 23k which were written in a month. Wish me luck, guys.
♠ I also have a short Carnival Row oneshot planned that is very likely to actually get finished - drafted, at least. It'll eventually end up on my beta post where I collect all the fics I'm currently looking to get betaed (minus the ones for exchanges). Current fandoms: Warrior (2019), Game of Thrones and Mass Effect: Andromeda, plus three fics in German for Highlander and Babylon Berlin.
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dawn_felagund wrote something really interesting about how the AO3 affects fannish infrastructure, especially single-fandom-archives: Library of Moria and Fanfic Walmart. It's really thoughtful and doesn't condemn the AO3 so much as put a spotlight on how our laser focus on one archive ends up giving us less options, in some ways, even though it was created to give us more. (Thank you vriddy for spreading the word!)♠ OMG! Someone is requesting Carnival Row in exchanges!!! I might have some huge life changes coming up, but pending that throwing a wrench in the works, there might be a treat in it for you!
♠ And while we're on the topic of Carnival Row, I picked up my WIP from last year again and typed up all the drafted (which I like to do by hand, unless it's exchanges) chapters, drafted 1½ scenes and worked out how long the story is going to be and what I want each chapter to do: 17 chapters, which at my usual chapter length would put it somewhere at 70k. I'm going to try and finish it, guys. I've got 20k already. But I'm a super slow writer, and prone to get distracted and wander away, never to pick the fic up again. There's a reason the longest fic I ever finished is 23k which were written in a month. Wish me luck, guys.
♠ I also have a short Carnival Row oneshot planned that is very likely to actually get finished - drafted, at least. It'll eventually end up on my beta post where I collect all the fics I'm currently looking to get betaed (minus the ones for exchanges). Current fandoms: Warrior (2019), Game of Thrones and Mass Effect: Andromeda, plus three fics in German for Highlander and Babylon Berlin.
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Date: 2022-08-16 09:13 pm (UTC)I'm not familiar with this fandom but it's so cool to find other fans like this! Good luck juggling the WIPs along the life changes :D
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Date: 2022-08-17 02:45 pm (UTC)And the life changes aren't certain yet, which makes planning anything even more complicated right now.