tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-07-11:421819Satelite 5Home of a geekgaladriel10102021-02-19T21:26:25Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-07-11:421819:149504My Planning Process2021-02-19T21:21:35Z2021-02-19T21:26:25ZMá Vlastpublic0For a long while now, I've been planning to write up something about my planning process, because I am a definite planner and my process is long and convoluted and multicoloured and multimedia and, most importantly, works really well for me.<br /><br />I've looked at processes like Snowflake and SaveTheCat and others, and even started designing my own method based on the PRINCE2 project management principals, but I keep rolling back to the same system that I've been using more or less consistently for years. Once upon a time, back in the mists of the noughties, I was a bit of a pantser. I'd have a concept and a goal in mind, but not an outline or any idea of how to get from start to finish. What I also had was a lot more time and, honestly, low standards for my writing. I can't look back on my stuff from that period with anything other than pride that I've come so far. There's a 200000 word fanfiction in my back catalogue that will, one day, with a lot of rewriting, be a decent 50k novel. It is not decent right now, because I only worked out where I was going with it a fair way into it, and stuffed it with far too much story. And, regardless of the quality, it took me 10 years to finish because I stopped loving it. That was time I could have spent working on things I did enjoy but no, I gave it to that pile of nonsense.<br /><br />So in the aim of never doing that again, I have developed a system that works for me and produces works I do not hate. This is, however, my first attempt to codify it. Wish me luck.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://galadriel1010.dreamwidth.org/149504.html#cutid1">The Planning Process</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=galadriel1010&ditemid=149504" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-07-11:421819:148713January Writing Round-up2021-02-14T10:03:58Z2021-02-14T10:03:58Zpublic0What do you mean it's literally the middle of February? Shhh...<br /><br />Anyway. January was a productive month for writing. I set myself a target of 13000 to ease myself into the year and ended up writing 25774 over 7 projects. Two personal projects, lots of exchange fic (several of which are still to be revealed).<br /><br />One personal project was just outlining. I did nearly 2k words on planning for a fic pairing Harry Watson with Greg Lestrade's wife, but I'm contemplating scrubbing it from the start and doing it as an original lesbian romance. The Sherlock connection is pretty much just that they met at Baker Street anyway. Watch this space, I guess.<br /><br />I finished off <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/27121369">Nine Lessons and Carol</a>, which is one of my favourite stories I've ever written. It's just shy of 50k, polyam friends-to-lovers about Mycroft Holmes and Greg and Carol Lestrade. E rated for one scene, but mostly just impossibly fluffy and sweet imo.<br /><br /><a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/28692183">How We Say It Here</a> is another polyam fic, this time a Doctor Who story for Thirteen/Yaz/Christina de Souza. Adventure and love confessions and confusions between love languages. I'd love to write more for this ship and may do so. Exchange gift for Holly_Poly for ShopFront.<br /><br />Everything else is for Chocolate Box or other exchanges, so aren't revealed until this month.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=galadriel1010&ditemid=148713" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-07-11:421819:136524Let's Get On It2020-05-07T17:24:00Z2020-05-07T17:24:00Zpublic2<div><div data-reactroot="" class="resolved" style="all: initial;"> </div></div>In the midst of all the chaos, which really is A Lot to deal with and needs its own post, the one bright point is that I'm working from home, and it's been amazing. My commute was an hour and a half each way before, and required me to be p before 7 every morning. It's no surprise really that I haven't written in years. Now, though, I'm seizing my chance and I've started writing again. I've signed up for <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://nowriteway.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png' alt='[community profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://nowriteway.dreamwidth.org/'><b>nowriteway</b></a></span> to try and bring people together. If you'd like to join us, that would be lovely <3<div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=galadriel1010&ditemid=136524" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments