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sleeplesspotato) wrote2022-04-27 03:06 pm
sleeplesspotato) wrote2022-04-27 03:06 pm
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Camp NaNo's almost over...also, plants
I hit my 15k goal yesterday, which means that I'm around halfway through my 30k estimate for the Castlevania OT3 fic. I managed to hit 500+ words a day every day except for that time I was writing before midnight and finished less than 400 words. (I made up for it after midnight, though that means I won't be getting the daily par badge.) This is the most words I've written with this much consistency; I ought to be happier about having gotten this far, except I know I have to keep this up for at least another month. (And then there's the editing...)
Initially I thought I could write and edit each chapter as I went along; maybe if my plot were shorter I could do that, but it's relatively long and complicated. I've also been surprising myself with how certain scenes have turned out -- though the plot points I've mapped out are still holding up, the scenes that fleshed them out have thrown me for a loop enough times that I'll have some significant retconning to do in previous chapters. For what it's worth, I'm enjoying the shape my villains have taken and will hopefully get back to writing more action-adventure after all these introspective scenes (which I apparently fall back on when it's hard to figure out what to write).
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So far there are only 5 dill seedlings; there would have been 6, except the initial 5th one was unable to grow its leaves because they were still stuck in its seed. For a while I thought it was growing upside-down, then it died. :( The current 5th one was able to grow its leaves long enough that it survived even after I plucked off the seed stuck to the tips of those leaves. Earlier I cut off a few of the topmost leaves of the bigger seedlings since they looked like they were yellowing -- I hope it's okay to cut them already, they're only around 3 inches long. ^^;;
The kale are down to the last 2 seedlings; one is clearly doing better than the other, so I'll probably keep that one. I'll have to find a bigger (at least 30cm in diameter) pot for it.
The ginger has finally put out a tiny green shoot after almost a month of me watering it and wondering if it hadn't yet died. Now I just have to wait another 9 months or so before harvesting it, though I've read that I can start slicing off bits of it after around 2-3 months.
Initially I thought I could write and edit each chapter as I went along; maybe if my plot were shorter I could do that, but it's relatively long and complicated. I've also been surprising myself with how certain scenes have turned out -- though the plot points I've mapped out are still holding up, the scenes that fleshed them out have thrown me for a loop enough times that I'll have some significant retconning to do in previous chapters. For what it's worth, I'm enjoying the shape my villains have taken and will hopefully get back to writing more action-adventure after all these introspective scenes (which I apparently fall back on when it's hard to figure out what to write).
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So far there are only 5 dill seedlings; there would have been 6, except the initial 5th one was unable to grow its leaves because they were still stuck in its seed. For a while I thought it was growing upside-down, then it died. :( The current 5th one was able to grow its leaves long enough that it survived even after I plucked off the seed stuck to the tips of those leaves. Earlier I cut off a few of the topmost leaves of the bigger seedlings since they looked like they were yellowing -- I hope it's okay to cut them already, they're only around 3 inches long. ^^;;
The kale are down to the last 2 seedlings; one is clearly doing better than the other, so I'll probably keep that one. I'll have to find a bigger (at least 30cm in diameter) pot for it.
The ginger has finally put out a tiny green shoot after almost a month of me watering it and wondering if it hadn't yet died. Now I just have to wait another 9 months or so before harvesting it, though I've read that I can start slicing off bits of it after around 2-3 months.
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I really dislike trying to post as I go with fic. I feel like I always end up with things I want to retcon or change in previous chapters. I had given in several times last year (including with the fic I was writing for Unconventional Courtship) and posted the first chapters before the rest of the fic was done. I regretted it with every single one, lol. So I promised myself that I won't do that anymore, even though it means I could wind up with more prolonged hiatuses as I get fics written.
(I have been okay with posting as I do second drafts of chapters - at that point the whole fic is at least DONE, so I mostly know what I was hoping to go back to change.)
I'm looking forward to the fic, even if it's only at the halfway point so far!
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Yay on the seedlings! Sounds like most of them are doing quite well.