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malenkayacherepakha) wrote2020-01-23 09:19 pm
malenkayacherepakha) wrote2020-01-23 09:19 pm
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Writing Goals 2020
I did a post on my goals for the year as part of the Snowflake Challenge, but now that we're a few weeks into 2020 I thought I'd do one more specifically focused on my writing goals for the year, as I think I've finally come up with them.
As I mentioned in my Snowflake Challenge post, one of my main goals this year is to do fewer fests. This is sort of going well - I've only signed up for Kinkfest so far, and I always knew I was going to do that fest. But apart from Kinkfest (and maybe Jeddy fest as I do want to support rare pair fests) I'm not going to let myself do anymore. This is going to be a big challenge for me, so if you see me wavering at any point, remind me of this and tell me not to even look at the prompts!
I'm not doing fests this year because I have three larger projects I want to work on, and my main goal for the year is to at least make a start on all three of them (and ideally finish them, but let's be realistic!). In the hopes that it helps me to actually write and publish the fics, I'm going to start sharing more about the ideas and the process, so to start with, here are the basic premises of each. I'll stick it under a cut to spare your dash.
1) A Harry/Draco fic inspired bymagpie_fngrl 's answer to my ask on Tumblr. I'm trying out a new tactic of not outlining, and the fic has already taken on a life of its own but, following Magpie's prompt, so far the basic plot is: Harry is sad and grieving after the war, and starts walking to fill the lonely evenings. He then ends up in various pubs, where (to all of our great shock) he bumps into Draco one evening. At some point they sleep together, but Draco has to go back to Paris where he is studying at the magical Sorbonne. There's plenty of pining, and letters, and post-war healing, and they end up in a long distance relationship, with trips to Paris and plenty of smut before somehow the plot all resolves itself and they end up happy and together.
The plot is likely to change as I write, but I'm super excited about this one - I did long distance while I lived in Paris so I'm looking forward to revisiting that time in my life in this fic. Massive thanks have to go to Magpie for letting me write this idea.
2) A fic dealing with Harry and Ginny's divorce and its aftermath. I've already discussed this a bit on Dreamwidth, but my general plan for this fic is to write both from Harry and James's POV, focusing on Harry rebuilding his life post-Ginny and post-Auror career and also on how James copes with his parents' divorce. Harry's arc is going to revolve around him setting up his new life (I have plans for him to essentially renovate a house by hand which I'm excited about) and I think he'll end up with Draco, but I still need to figure out what James's arc will be. This is a real 'write for yourself/write to process' story, and I think it's going to be really hard to write (I fully expect to cry while writing) but it's been rattling around my brain for a while and I'm looking forward to finally getting it on paper.
3) A Harry x Ginny fic, where they split up soon after the war. The fic is set ~10 years later, when Harry returns to the UK and they see each other again, starting up a casual friends with benefits relationship which quickly gets more complicated than they expected. I've not written a long H/G fic before, and the fandom culture is quite different to the Drarry one, so I think I'm most nervous about this one, but still keen to write it.
On top of those three fics I'll also be doing my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
daily_deviant fills, so it's looking like a busy year!
As I mentioned in my Snowflake Challenge post, one of my main goals this year is to do fewer fests. This is sort of going well - I've only signed up for Kinkfest so far, and I always knew I was going to do that fest. But apart from Kinkfest (and maybe Jeddy fest as I do want to support rare pair fests) I'm not going to let myself do anymore. This is going to be a big challenge for me, so if you see me wavering at any point, remind me of this and tell me not to even look at the prompts!
I'm not doing fests this year because I have three larger projects I want to work on, and my main goal for the year is to at least make a start on all three of them (and ideally finish them, but let's be realistic!). In the hopes that it helps me to actually write and publish the fics, I'm going to start sharing more about the ideas and the process, so to start with, here are the basic premises of each. I'll stick it under a cut to spare your dash.
1) A Harry/Draco fic inspired by
magpie_fngrl 's answer to my ask on Tumblr. I'm trying out a new tactic of not outlining, and the fic has already taken on a life of its own but, following Magpie's prompt, so far the basic plot is: Harry is sad and grieving after the war, and starts walking to fill the lonely evenings. He then ends up in various pubs, where (to all of our great shock) he bumps into Draco one evening. At some point they sleep together, but Draco has to go back to Paris where he is studying at the magical Sorbonne. There's plenty of pining, and letters, and post-war healing, and they end up in a long distance relationship, with trips to Paris and plenty of smut before somehow the plot all resolves itself and they end up happy and together.The plot is likely to change as I write, but I'm super excited about this one - I did long distance while I lived in Paris so I'm looking forward to revisiting that time in my life in this fic. Massive thanks have to go to Magpie for letting me write this idea.
2) A fic dealing with Harry and Ginny's divorce and its aftermath. I've already discussed this a bit on Dreamwidth, but my general plan for this fic is to write both from Harry and James's POV, focusing on Harry rebuilding his life post-Ginny and post-Auror career and also on how James copes with his parents' divorce. Harry's arc is going to revolve around him setting up his new life (I have plans for him to essentially renovate a house by hand which I'm excited about) and I think he'll end up with Draco, but I still need to figure out what James's arc will be. This is a real 'write for yourself/write to process' story, and I think it's going to be really hard to write (I fully expect to cry while writing) but it's been rattling around my brain for a while and I'm looking forward to finally getting it on paper.
3) A Harry x Ginny fic, where they split up soon after the war. The fic is set ~10 years later, when Harry returns to the UK and they see each other again, starting up a casual friends with benefits relationship which quickly gets more complicated than they expected. I've not written a long H/G fic before, and the fandom culture is quite different to the Drarry one, so I think I'm most nervous about this one, but still keen to write it.
On top of those three fics I'll also be doing my
daily_deviant fills, so it's looking like a busy year!