Lovely day

[valis2]

It's quite nice out. Cool, slightly overcast, my favorite kind of day.

I have just now broken 50k on the Giant Scary Fic.

I am scanning and cropping. And sorting stuff. oh my! It's going well so far. I love the initial scanning portion--I can write as the scanner cycles. It's a little annoying, but I feel like I'm getting twice as much done, lol.

I have an entry brewing in my head about writing. catsintheattic has been doing a series of entries about writing, and it's really made me think about my writing process, and how I think I'm inching toward trying to write something commercial.

Comments

[little-tristan.livejournal.com]

Ooh, pretty flower.

I'm wondering, though, if 50k is long, what's average? You have a story to tell, sometimes it takes a while. At what point do you start to think it's getting to be too big? I never really notice volume, but I start to feel longwinded around 30 pages, even when it's mostly double spaced dialogue.

Still, I can't wait to read it; and the longer it lasts, the better. :)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Ooh, pretty flower.

thanks!! They're nearly as tall as I am at this point...

I'm wondering, though, if 50k is long, what's average?

For me, about 10k is usually long enough to get the point across. However, this thing really really mushroomed. Like bigtime. I set up waaaay too big an event, and I need time to get everything into the corner pocket, so to speak. heh.

And I totally feel long-winded at this point. In fact, I usually reread most of a story as I'm writing new sections, but I'm to the point where that's pretty much impossible. Now I'm down to just reading the part I'm writing. I alternate from thinking a) this is total crap and no one will care to read it and b) this is actually kind of cool and has some good moments. Hopefully b will win out in the end.

And as far as it lasting--well, at this point, I don't think I can get away from it with much less than 80k total. Seriously. Maybe 70k if I scrimp a little. grah!

[little-tristan.livejournal.com]

Well, as a person who routinely surpasses 100K, I still say bring it on! And also, sorry. We need to write a fanfic writer's version of the song Little Conversations (I never could say anything in 20K or less...). If only there were a one syllable word for drabble. Damn it. I thought about it too long; now I have to do it. (Little Riptide Ficlets are we.)

But I say, if the boring bits are half the size (or less) of the good bits they connect, it's all good. :)