A travel to the past
24 April 2025 02:59 pmMarch & April:
Finished the first draft of a novel set in 1982. I rely a lot on my memories, while there are also details that I take liberty with.
Currently rewriting a draft from last year. Now that I know what to do with the plot, the writing flows more easily.
ETA: Achieved my ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
getyourowordsout goal, 75k words.
So, February
5 March 2025 02:15 pmIn February, I finished the first draft of the fake dating story. It's a MESS but at least it exists.
Finished a chapter of an ongoing fanfic ahahahaaaa
March will proceed leisurely unless I have to revise a novel or sth.
The other account is for noting down writing accomplishments, and this one is for tracking my progress.
January begins with me developing outlines, rather sluggishly, and an attempt to start a horror novel. Then I re-acquired the rights to my debut novel, so I worked on editing it. Mostly it's correcting the word uses, shaving off parts that don't directly relate to the plot, and updating the technologies and cultural references. That book was written during the Gen 2 Kpop era, btw. After that, I restarted the fake dating novel, and that's what I'm working on right now.
Guess who's back.
1 January 2025 10:52 amAfter four (!) years, I'm resurrecting this account to participate in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
getyourwordsout. I wrote 205k words in 2024 so the pledge should be doable.
A side job
1 February 2021 06:03 pmThem: Hi, can I commission you to write a fanfic?
Me: Yes, sure, go ahead.
Them: What's your bank account number?
Me: ...What's your request?
Not that I'm not grateful that they were willing to pay up front but I was caught off guard. ^^
When I was being noisy about local K-pop fans' willingness to spend money on fanfic, the only way to shut me up would have been to bring up the doujinshi culture. Like I didn't see the parallel! Slow as usual.
On ship fic
9 January 2021 04:32 pmReading ship fic has taught me more about writing romance than reading origfic romance, because ship fic:
♥ Can be long, like a single title can be hundreds of thousands of words long = lots of space to explore the characters, their dynamics, the ups and downs in their relationship
♥ Has steamier sexy times; the emphasis on consent is sure nice
♥ Sometimes places the conflict that results in the temporary break like seven or five chapters away from the ending, or there's more than one such conflict = higher suspense while the characters have more time to heal and to consider the situation with cooler heads (more logical)
I'm the sort of writer who has to finish a story first before sharing it. That's not a method that really fits serialized fiction, which is what goes in both fanfic and origfic today. The Indonesian publishing industry has been hit hard by the pandemic, and online serialized fiction is how lots of Indonesian readers consume their fiction. I'll try to slowly adapt to that, writing a story chapter by chapter rather than finishing it first before posting.
Camp NaNoWriMo badges, get!
10 August 2020 08:48 amWhat I remember of the NaNoWriMo 2009 project: a 50k-word wuxia story.
What I saw when I opened the file named nano2009: a 83k-word wuxia story.
Current assumption: I rewrote the original draft and threw away 33k words. But where is the 50k-word version? It's only been 11 years and I'm already forgetting all this, what on earth, self.
One-shot fanfic on AO3 can be so long. Like 44k words long. This has tangentially inspired me to try writing a series. Before that, must know how to post multichaptered fic? (Correct me if this is wrong assumption, I've only posted one-shots on AO3 so far and haven't tried posting multichapters)
Status: waiting for badges
24 July 2020 04:52 pmCamp NaNoWriMo: Finished a super messy, plot hole-y first draft of a thriller novella. I like the premise but haven't really warmed up to the characters yet. Maybe I will during revisions.
The NaNo site seems to be having glitches since I've seen nothing (winner's badge, etc) on the winner page.
K-pop fanfic gives me life. *wipes at tears* It makes me read multichaptered fic, whereas I only used to read one-shots. Reader's growth, y'all.
Speaking of fanfic, my Saint Seiya fanfic is still getting kudos even now, I'm?? Where and how did people discover them?
I'm also seriously considering writing romance. Yes, I know. Wish me luck?
Hit the ground running!
2 November 2019 04:58 pmLearning from past mistakes, I don't laze around on November 1. That "there's still plenty of time to write" mindset is poison, humph. Writing exercises before November were also useful to get me into the right mood.
Constant opportunities (that pay well) are crucial for freelance creative workers, and I hope they keep coming my way. Being a NaNo ML actually helps; people hear about me and know what I do.
People are still giving kudos to my fanfic at AO3. Maybe it's because StS (original anime and Lost Canvas) are available on Netflix - some of the viewers look up the fanworks.
