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I just finished my first epic fic. Over 43,000 words. *falls over, amazed* I have never written anything that long before, so this is a milestone for me. 76 pages!
It looks like I started this thing back in December, so maybe three months total to finish this first draft. I'm surprised I managed to finish at all. I rarely complete fics. I can get started easily enough, but I always run out of steam before the end. Or I abandon a fic, leave it alone for a long time, and then I come back and finish it very crappily. This one though...
I started a "write a little something every day" project around the time of NaNoWriMo last year. I had already started a fic so I figured it would be easier just to keep working on it than start a new project for NaNo. I tried to work on it every day but not surprisingly I ended up abandoning it. But I liked the idea of writing something every day, even if it was just a sentence or two. Maybe that's how I actually finished this epic. I worked on it every day or almost every day, time permitting. But I found it became so consuming. I got obsessed with trying to write something every day. Pretty soon I found it didn't want to do anything else but write on the weekends. Going out sounded like a chore, playing video games fell by the wayside, and I started reading less. In a way, I'm glad the majority of the work is done. This fic was turning me into a social hermit.
But clearly, it helps to have a goal and maybe that is what has been lacking for me. I just write by the seat of my pants most of the times. Reminds me of the BSG writers but that's neither here nor there... I still need to read it over, do some edits, and then hand it off to a willing beta, but right now it's a nice feeling to be done.
It looks like I started this thing back in December, so maybe three months total to finish this first draft. I'm surprised I managed to finish at all. I rarely complete fics. I can get started easily enough, but I always run out of steam before the end. Or I abandon a fic, leave it alone for a long time, and then I come back and finish it very crappily. This one though...
I started a "write a little something every day" project around the time of NaNoWriMo last year. I had already started a fic so I figured it would be easier just to keep working on it than start a new project for NaNo. I tried to work on it every day but not surprisingly I ended up abandoning it. But I liked the idea of writing something every day, even if it was just a sentence or two. Maybe that's how I actually finished this epic. I worked on it every day or almost every day, time permitting. But I found it became so consuming. I got obsessed with trying to write something every day. Pretty soon I found it didn't want to do anything else but write on the weekends. Going out sounded like a chore, playing video games fell by the wayside, and I started reading less. In a way, I'm glad the majority of the work is done. This fic was turning me into a social hermit.
But clearly, it helps to have a goal and maybe that is what has been lacking for me. I just write by the seat of my pants most of the times. Reminds me of the BSG writers but that's neither here nor there... I still need to read it over, do some edits, and then hand it off to a willing beta, but right now it's a nice feeling to be done.
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