MalenkayaCherepakha

It feels like fest season is making a tentative start, and I'm getting fest envy already. This does not bode well.

I'm keen to do Cross Gen - I know which pairing I want to write, and I have an idea that I'll use if no prompts grab me, and I have a couple more to prompt for other people. 

I promised I wasn't going to do any Drarry fests, but god I'm tempted already. I love the theme for Fan Fair this year, and Hurt Fest sounds so good. I even have an idea for a potential fic...

And the Erised chatter has started already, and despite saying I wasn't going to do it again, I'm very intrigued to see how different it is as a regular participant rather than a pinch hitter. 

We'll see. A lot depends on the prompt lists, but I don't want to get completely sucked into fest season and stop work on my WIP. 

Also, should probably be a good mod and say: HP Inspired By is still open for claiming! Fics don't have to be smutty and you can self prompt too if nothing takes your fancy. I'm shocked but very pleased at the take up we've had so far, here's hoping for some great works! 


I've also managed to make a good start on my WIP, and it feels good to be getting stuck into it. The first draft of chapter 1 is done, and chapter 2 is about halfway through. It's early stages of course, and there's lots of writing and editing to be done, but I'm really enjoying the process so far. 

I thought I'd end on a question that my WIP has got me thinking about -- at what point in a long fic do you get another set of eyes on it? 

I'm changing up a bunch of stuff about the way I write when it comes to my new project, and one of the biggest is that I've shifted from writing in GDocs to OneNote. I think it was Quicksilvermaid who said they use it, and it got me intrigued.

So far, I'm loving it. I really love the way you can have different tabs in the notebook, which is proving really useful as I'm putting more effort into planning this fic than normal. I've got tabs for details about each character (no more forgetting those little details about who's taller!) and each location, as well as the main outline and then of course each chapter has its own tab. I can already tell it's going to be a lot easier to refer back to previous chapters or notes than it would be if I had to flick through multiple gdocs to find what I'm looking for. It sounds like it does some of what Scrivener does, but without me needing to pay for it. 

I've also found that so far at least, changing up my routine has made it easier for me to write. Maybe it's just because I'm excited about the story, but I'm finding myself a lot more willing to write and make mistakes and then go back and fix them later. The ability to have two blocks of text next to each other in the same doc is really helping with that editing (I realise this probably makes zero sense without seeing it in action, I have no idea how to describe it better!) - yesterday I realised I needed to switch round the order of my opening, and I could do that side by side without needing two different docs or needing to immediately delete things I'd moved. 

We'll see if it keeps working well - I already know it's going to be annoying to have to keep updating separate gdocs for betas - but so far so good! Over the past few days I've managed to get the main relationship outlined, a whole bunch of plot ideas noted down, and the first 2k of chapter one written, so fingers crossed that momentum keeps up. 

It's a bank holiday weekend here so I'm hoping to get a lot of words out in between a bit of sunbathing (if the weather cooperates anyway!). I hope you all have a lovely weekend too (and enjoy the long weekend if you have one!).