Non-fic update

Hey, guess what I’ve been doing!

 

As you can see, I won NaNoWriMo! 

If you don’t know what NaNoWriMo is, the website is here. But put simply, it’s a challenge to write 50,000 words during the 30 days of November. And I did it in 26 days! (Admittedly the challenge was set up for original novels, but it says in their FAQ that fanfiction is totally fine, so I don't really care.) I feel pretty accomplished, given it took more than twice that to write the 33,000 words of Hearts and Minds. 

Which, speaking of... the project I was (and am) working on is actually the sequel to Hearts and Minds. I got kind of blocked on it, and almost gave up, but then I thought, “Hey, maybe I could use this challenge to motivate myself.” And I think it worked. It’s still going to be a while though – I’m nowhere near finished, and I need to go back and sort through the stuff I’ve already written, and probably add in some of the stuff I wrote prior to starting the challenge. 

NaNoWriMo very much values length over coherency, so the 50,000 words I’ve written will probably be a lot less than that once I’ve finished taking out the stuff that doesn’t make sense. (At the moment at least half of the fic can be summed up as, “Kirk is ill and Spock is worried, and sometimes McCoy is worried as well,” so it’ll definitely have to be cut down a bit.)

But anyway, I thought you might be interested in how it’s going, so here’s a quick snippet of Spock being worried. (I can’t guarantee that this’ll actually be in the final story – like I said, I really need to go through and edit it.)

 

( Read more... )