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2017 Weekly Writing Log, Part 34
Sep. 17th, 2017 09:04 am- I wrote the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth stories for my Ghost Stories zine.
- I finished the thirteenth chapter of The Legend of the Princess. I'll edit it and post it at some point during the next week. Since it helps me to see text in different formats and on different types of screens, I'm considering setting up another account here on Dreamwidth to post each new chapter as I edit it.
- I edited the eighth and ninth chapters of The Legend of the Princess for continuity. For example, I've decided that the library where a number of scenes take place has two doors and not just one, so I changed "door of the library" to "doors of the library" in the eighth chapter. I also decided (just this past week) that one of the previous Zeldas did not have any children, so I deleted two words from the ninth chapter that suggest that she did. Also, I tried to make some awkward phrasing slightly less awkward. These are small changes, but I'm doing my best, you know?
- The Legend of the Princess is a stupid shipfic that no one cares about, but the reason I'm keeping at it is because I want it to become the framework of my first novel. Turning this fic into a novel is going to involve more than filing off the serial numbers, especially since I'll have to introduce a lot of lore, geography, and fantasy taxonomies to the reader. I hate both exegetical infodumps and stories (especially science fiction stories) that throw out all sorts of nonsense terms without any explanation at all, so I've started taking notes on how I can better incorporate the worldbuilding into the plot. The fic is intensely focused on Zelda's point of view, but in the novel I'll have the opportunity to develop other characters, which is how I think I'm going to tackle issues related to what the hell is going on in this fictional world.
- I wrote about half (maybe?) of a short smutfic I intend to post on a separate account on AO3. I'm doing my best to employ all of the patterns and phrases from the Subclauses to Rule 34. It would be nice if producing smutfic were a skill I could develop. It's also possible that my efforts would be better directed elsewhere, but you don't know until you try.
- I spent more time cleaning up my art gallery and favorites gallery on DeviantArt. This could just be my imagination, but I'm getting the impression that people are starting to migrate back to DA from Tumblr.
- This was a hard week for me. Bad feelings were felt and many tears were shed, but I kept going anyway. I'm not entirely sure this is healthy? I've been watching myself shut down emotionally while I freeze people out of my life, but maybe that's just what needs to happen.
- I finished the thirteenth chapter of The Legend of the Princess. I'll edit it and post it at some point during the next week. Since it helps me to see text in different formats and on different types of screens, I'm considering setting up another account here on Dreamwidth to post each new chapter as I edit it.
- I edited the eighth and ninth chapters of The Legend of the Princess for continuity. For example, I've decided that the library where a number of scenes take place has two doors and not just one, so I changed "door of the library" to "doors of the library" in the eighth chapter. I also decided (just this past week) that one of the previous Zeldas did not have any children, so I deleted two words from the ninth chapter that suggest that she did. Also, I tried to make some awkward phrasing slightly less awkward. These are small changes, but I'm doing my best, you know?
- The Legend of the Princess is a stupid shipfic that no one cares about, but the reason I'm keeping at it is because I want it to become the framework of my first novel. Turning this fic into a novel is going to involve more than filing off the serial numbers, especially since I'll have to introduce a lot of lore, geography, and fantasy taxonomies to the reader. I hate both exegetical infodumps and stories (especially science fiction stories) that throw out all sorts of nonsense terms without any explanation at all, so I've started taking notes on how I can better incorporate the worldbuilding into the plot. The fic is intensely focused on Zelda's point of view, but in the novel I'll have the opportunity to develop other characters, which is how I think I'm going to tackle issues related to what the hell is going on in this fictional world.
- I wrote about half (maybe?) of a short smutfic I intend to post on a separate account on AO3. I'm doing my best to employ all of the patterns and phrases from the Subclauses to Rule 34. It would be nice if producing smutfic were a skill I could develop. It's also possible that my efforts would be better directed elsewhere, but you don't know until you try.
- I spent more time cleaning up my art gallery and favorites gallery on DeviantArt. This could just be my imagination, but I'm getting the impression that people are starting to migrate back to DA from Tumblr.
- This was a hard week for me. Bad feelings were felt and many tears were shed, but I kept going anyway. I'm not entirely sure this is healthy? I've been watching myself shut down emotionally while I freeze people out of my life, but maybe that's just what needs to happen.
