Bears!

[dbskyler]

So, apparently hosting a ficathon with a late-November deadline was not the best way to get going on my Yuletide writing. I was way too caught up in it, and way too caught up in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary, to make any significant progress on Yuletide writing. I have finally come back to it, though, and I'm slowly making progress. I've been using WrittenKitten, and it's been really helpful, especially since I haven't passed the magic 1,000-word mark yet. Right now I have 5 kittens to go! Well, 5 kittens, plus however many additional kittens it takes me to actually finish the fic. Right now I don't know how many that will be; I'll have to wait and see where I am once I've gotten a few more kittens.

I feel badly because the last time I did Yuletide, my fic was finished early, and it was well over the word limit, and this time it looks like it's going to be down to the wire in terms of both time and words. Although I guess neither of those things ultimately matters in the end. My recipient won't get to read the fic any earlier if it's turned in before the deadline, and I really do think that fic length is unrelated to fic quality. I once recced a fic on Calufrax that had only 52 words. I wonder if I hold the record for reccer of the shortest fic?

Anyway, this Yuletide fic of mine does have to be longer than it currently is, but instead of just writing it, I feel like I have to anxiously watch the word count go up until I've at least reached 1,000. But after that, I will hopefully be able to relax and just write. And, at least there's a website that will count up the words for me, and give me kittens along the way.

Also, it's fic_rush this weekend! Hurrah!

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, good luck! The DW stuff was very distracting, I have to agree. :-)

I'm over 2000 words, but I'm not done yet, or all that enthusiastic and it's slow... *sigh* Still... *plods on*

[paranoidangel]

I found the same thing with the DW stuff - I've written loads during the Yuletide writing time, it's just not been Yuletide.

I like WrittenKitten - I'd never come across it before. But the idea of getting a reward of a kitten picture every so many words would definitely entice me to write more.

[eve11]

Oh, I forgot about WrittenKitten! I am trying to get ramped up on my WIP-o-Doom again; I hate being stuck and I hate hating everything I try to write on it. Blech.

I did quite enjoy the ficathon though! I am not really a small-fandom kind of person so I've never done Yuletide before. But, don't worry about the word count; the story will be the length it needs to be! And yes to more short Calufrax recs! :D

[clocketpatch]

I fell down horribly on the ficathon. There's this great story in my head with Three and the Weeping Angels, but transferring it into words that other people can read is proving to be unexpectedly difficult.

It doesn't help that I keep getting distracted by 1. The Day of the Doctor, 2. Random Origi!fic WIPS, 3. New Fandom... Blake's 7 has eaten my brain so badly over the last few months, I can't even...

Anyway, best of luck with reaching your Yuletide goal! Kitten are very useful allies when being attacked by bears, or so I have been told...