Post Pico December check in #3

[elmey.livejournal.com]

One more week has passed! Have you been writing, editing, hitting the panic button on your holiday stories?

Here's the post for your snippets, comments thoughts.

Check in any time during this week of busy schedules.

Comments

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I wrote about 1200 words of Yuletide fic, mostly in a mad rush on Saturday. Tonight I need to bravely look at it again and see if it makes sense!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Kudos! That's a lot of words in a short space! I am so looking forward to the Yuletide collection opening :)

[ylla.livejournal.com]

It really is for me - I know there are people who can happily churn out thousands of words in a day, but I've only once before written a story of 1000+ words!

It's been a hectic week, too - on Monday I finally came up with a fic idea, on Tuesday my uncle was rushed into emergency surgery and they weren't sure he would pull through, by Friday he was well enough to drink tea, but on Saturday morning our household started going down with a sickness bug at the rate of one a day (I'm tomorrow's, so we shall see...). Plus crazy work and other commitments through the week and 6 hours in a library that has stuff I'm researching on Saturday - I'm quite impressed the story got done at all, but no wonder I'm tired!

I'm definitely excited, and still in love with my requests, but I am a bit nervous about all sorts of people possibly reading my fic. Or not reading it... which is worse? :)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I can't churn out very much daily; if I write a lot one day I tend to write very little the next because I'm editing the previous day's words.

It sounds like the idea must have grabbed you very tightly indeed, to get written through such a hectic/emotional time -- it probably means it's a good one. Is this your first Yuletide? On the whole people are very generous in their comments & kudosing, at least compared with the desert that's writing in small fandoms the rest of the year. Beware that the number of hits is hugely variable dependent on fandom -- some very small fandoms tend to get only a handful of hits, even for stories that are totally brilliant.

I hope your uncle's health continues to improve.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

You did it! Finishing is always satisfying. And you've given yourself time to edit too, you're in great shape :)

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Well done on the words! Hope they turned out to be useful.