Wordy word

[icepixie]

I TOTALLY JUST HIT 10,000 WORDS ON MY FIC.

I know, I know. This is nothing to some of you, but my writing tends to come in stanzas, so you can see how big word counts haven't really been a part of my life up to this point.¹

I think I have about 3,000 words to go before I hit the end. Maybe 5,000. Close enough that I can taste it, anyway.


¹Well, except for this one unfinished DS9 fic that I got 40,000 words on when I was fourteen, but since that will never, ever be completed, because it is awful, I'm not counting it. This? This actually will be completed, even if every remaining word requires the equivalent of getting blood from a turnip.

Comments

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

40,000 words of DS9 teen badfic? Ow.

I eagerly await your Yukon hijinks!

[icepixie]

40,000 words of DS9 teen badfic? Ow.

A-yup. I think it was some kind of "What if Dax was transferred from Jadzia to Ezri, but Jadzia Not-Dax stuck around?" thing that just went on and on and was epic. And it involved Jadzia and Julian ending up together, because at the time I was a die-hard shipper and still bitter over the whole Worf thing. And...well, for the average 14-year-old it wasn't all that bad, but it was still very obviously written by a 14-year-old.

I eagerly await your Yukon hijinks!

Yay!

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

And it involved Jadzia and Julian ending up together, because at the time I was a die-hard shipper and still bitter over the whole Worf thing.

Bwah! Yeah, at a certain point in the show, you just had to admit, "Okay, no, Julian and Jadzia WOULD NEVER WORK." (I forget, didn't Julian and Ezri end up together? Because she was immature and spastic enough for that to actually work...)

And...well, for the average 14-year-old it wasn't all that bad, but it was still very obviously written by a 14-year-old.

Hehehe. O dearest delete button, please save us from ourselves...

Hijinks ahoy! (Where IS that, anyway? *taps foot*)

[icepixie]

Bwah! Yeah, at a certain point in the show, you just had to admit, "Okay, no, Julian and Jadzia WOULD NEVER WORK."

...I never admitted that. I still think it was a wasted opportunity. Bah, Paramount.

(I forget, didn't Julian and Ezri end up together? Because she was immature and spastic enough for that to actually work...)

They did, which I was against. But whatever. (I still can only see Nicole deBoer as Yuna from I Was a Teenage Clone...in Space! Mission Genesis, Skiffy's first original program. It lasted, unsurprisingly, all of thirteen half-hour episodes.)

Hijinks ahoy! (Where IS that, anyway? *taps foot*)

Meeehh! I have about two and a half scenes to go. I think I can get a draft done by Monday, and then spend part of next week revising before shipping it off.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Hey, I have one over three thousand words for the first time in three years. You are my hero!

[icepixie]

That was me for several years until last April, when I hit 8,000+ on an assignment for fiction class. That ended up basically being the bare bones of a novel that I will probably never finish.