Hello everyone =) Hope you’re doing well? Anything you want to share about your writing? Your drawing? Maybe something you’ve read since the last round-up? Any plan for this weekend?
(For Federation Science, I’ll post my answers below with my mastodon account ^^)
Sounds good! I will be checking in with you next weekend to make sure you have started focusing on the fic. Be prepared, as next weekend I’ll probably be after you to get a certain amount of words done! (Though I’ll need to know about how long you think it’s going to be.)
File is currently 797 words long. It’s supposed to be a short PWP and skimming through it, it looks like I managed to squeeze the buildup in 800 words instead of my usual 1k+ x’D So I’d expect uh… I don’t know, how do people even guess at how long their stories are going to be? I suppose around 2k more? (no I won’t write 2k straight of smut, but I set up emotional stuff so it’ll probably be more than smut) But frankly I have no idea and I hope this will not turn into one of these “hey you thought it’d be short but now I’m 5 times your usual length for “short”, have fun” monstrosity x’)
(No, seriously, how do people estimate the length of their works before being close to finishing them? Genuine question.)
I have no idea. I never know how long anything is going to be. I’m used to asking people about it because somehow I’m around a lot of people who estimate their stories all the time. However, I have gone into projects knowing it has to be a minimum of X words. In which case, I can at least plan out my time for those.
If you want something around 2k more (or think that should be good enough to get it done, I can give you an assignment of 1k words a week. It would get you done with enough time to do whatever editing you want before sending it!
So by New Years Eve, I expect to hear that you are about 1.8k words in!
I physically cannot edit lol (not even joking, my brain empties entirely if I try editing, I just can’t), I just need time to spellcheck =')
Uh oh. This is getting serious. Welp, guess I’ll have to work on that then…