Hockey and Stucky!

[przed]

Since Ros is doing her black belt next year (OMG!) she won't be playing hockey.

I, however, have signed up again for the women's learn to play lessons. I don't even know how this happened, but it turns out I kinda enjoy hockey. Or at least learning hockey skills. I may sign up for league play the year after.

In fannish news, I've got my Cap RBB story finished, formatted and ready to go, and my artist and I have a game plan for posting. My posting date is May 28th, so I'll be able to share the story and the fabulous art that inspired it then.

I've also just crossed the 10,000 word mark for my Stucky BB story, and have finally outlined where this sucker is going. And I've got a decent summary put together ready for the artist claims. There are, apparently, way more writers than artists, but I'm not going to stress about the claims too much. This is a story I want to write whether or not there's art for it. Not that it wouldn't be cool to get claimed.

Comments

[catalenamara]

Congrats on finishing your Cap RBB story! I'm still working on mine. I was sick for half of April which really slowed me down. I chose a posting date in late June. And I just signed up for the Marvel Big Bang. I'm going to do a sequel to the story I posted last year. I did some work on it last year, since there was more of the story to tell, and figured this year's Big Bang would be the perfect goal to aim for.

[przed]

I look forward to reading your Cap RBB story!

I briefly considered signing up for the Marvel BB, but I figured two BBs was enough for one year. (Three, if I miraculously pull off a Pros BB story, though I'm not counting on that.) Plus I've got a ton of shorter pieces and one longer series that I want to get to work on after the BBs are done.

[catalenamara]

I'm looking forward to reading yours too!

Yeah, two BBs are enough. I did three challenges last year, but only one was a BB; the others had a smaller word count. I still managed 16,000 words between the two of them. And, I really need to get back to a novel I've had in progress since 2014.

[przed]

Good luck with the novel! I've written one novel-length story (in Pros) and it took me about eight years to finish.

[catalenamara]

I've written five novels (50,000+ words) in three fandoms over the course of (gulp) 40 years in fandom. The shortest amount of time it took me was 3 months and I wrote it in longhand in the 80s. The longest amount of time it took me was three years. The one I wrote last year took six months. I made a point of writing 300-500 words a day five days a week, no matter if they were utter crap, and then spent a lot of time editing it. That method worked out pretty well. I'm using it on my CapRRB story.

[przed]

I've written a number of stories in the 30K to 50K range, they usually take me anywhere from 3 to 6 months of writing time. But that novel, (just over 80K words) took forever. It had fairly complex plotting, and then after I had a complete draft (oh, about four years in) some comments from a reader made me rip one of the main subplots completely out and redo it from scratch.

My current method is to do an hour of writing in the morning before anyone gets up. I used to be a total nighthawk when it came to doing creative stuff, but now I find I spin my gears at night, but get stuff done fairly efficiently in the morning.