October writing & November goals
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osprey_archerOctober is over! I had a jolly good fun writing ficlets for all those Whumptober prompts. There’s something freeing about writing so many things in such a short time span: the pressure to come up with so many ideas so quickly pushes you to write things you wouldn’t normally write.
Plus I did get one actual full fic out of it: Dreams in Damask, for Code Name Verity.
And - drumroll, please! - I finished the second draft of The Wolf and the Girl, so if all goes well, I’ll publish that in November! Probably late November, because I’ll be traveling to Massachusetts to visitasakiyume (and sundry RL friends) in the first half of November.
Thus, I won’t be doing NaNo this year, but in a way that’s a good thing; NaNo would have kept me busy till the end of the month, whereas this way I can start Honeytrap revisions as soon as I get back (after I finish edits for The Wolf and the Girl, I suppose).
My other goal for November is to brainstorm an m/m novella so I can move smoothly into my next project once I finish Honeytrap revisions. I’ve got a couple of ideas knocking around in my head - World War I amputees! Civil War soldiers! - but both of those feel like they need more time and research to mature, which is not what you want in your very next project.
Possibilities include:
1. Another fairy tale retelling.asakiyume, this might be one for us to chat about while I’m in town?
2. Do you remember Edmund & Timothy from Contrapposto and its sequels? The Victorian artist Timothy and his darkly handsome and dashing friend Edmund, on whom Timothy had a spectacular pash back when they were in boarding school, and by back when they were in boarding school I mean he definitely still the same right now? I could do that again, except this time not erotica and with more, like, feelings.
3. 1930s! The Great Depression! Our heroes are two tramps on the road, destitute of everything except each other! (In terms of wealth, they are basically the opposite of well-to-do Timothy and less well-to-do but not to the point of having to actually work Edmund.) I’ve actually got a more fleshed out f/f idea for this one, but it’s an idea that might be easier to write (and suffer from less of the hovering specter of possible sexual assault) with m/m.
Plus I did get one actual full fic out of it: Dreams in Damask, for Code Name Verity.
And - drumroll, please! - I finished the second draft of The Wolf and the Girl, so if all goes well, I’ll publish that in November! Probably late November, because I’ll be traveling to Massachusetts to visit
asakiyume (and sundry RL friends) in the first half of November. Thus, I won’t be doing NaNo this year, but in a way that’s a good thing; NaNo would have kept me busy till the end of the month, whereas this way I can start Honeytrap revisions as soon as I get back (after I finish edits for The Wolf and the Girl, I suppose).
My other goal for November is to brainstorm an m/m novella so I can move smoothly into my next project once I finish Honeytrap revisions. I’ve got a couple of ideas knocking around in my head - World War I amputees! Civil War soldiers! - but both of those feel like they need more time and research to mature, which is not what you want in your very next project.
Possibilities include:
1. Another fairy tale retelling.
asakiyume, this might be one for us to chat about while I’m in town?2. Do you remember Edmund & Timothy from Contrapposto and its sequels? The Victorian artist Timothy and his darkly handsome and dashing friend Edmund, on whom Timothy had a spectacular pash back when they were in boarding school, and by back when they were in boarding school I mean he definitely still the same right now? I could do that again, except this time not erotica and with more, like, feelings.
3. 1930s! The Great Depression! Our heroes are two tramps on the road, destitute of everything except each other! (In terms of wealth, they are basically the opposite of well-to-do Timothy and less well-to-do but not to the point of having to actually work Edmund.) I’ve actually got a more fleshed out f/f idea for this one, but it’s an idea that might be easier to write (and suffer from less of the hovering specter of possible sexual assault) with m/m.
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Date: 2019-11-01 01:51 pm (UTC)I'm also bringing a couple of fancy jams, so we've gotta fit some scones in there, too.
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Date: 2019-11-01 03:50 pm (UTC)Oooooooooh!! *grabby hands*
(As much as I’d love to read a f/f story with this premise - especially the part of my heart that was, like, REALLY into the “Kit dresses up as a boy and runs away with her cool hobo friend” storyline in the last (?) Kit Kitteridge book - ...yeah, the Looming Specter of Potential Sexual Assault makes that distinctly less fun. Curses!)
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Date: 2019-11-01 05:54 pm (UTC)And there absolutely there would have been cross-dressing in the f/f version of the story, but that wouldn't really remove the Looming Specter of Potential Sexual Assault. In fact, even making the story m/m won't remove it, but I think it will make it loom slightly less large.
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Date: 2019-11-02 06:14 pm (UTC)Edit like the wind!
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