Admin Announcement & Week 5 Word Count Check-In

[ariestess]

First things first... I'd like to say that the weekly mod posts that were originally going to alternate between your mods are being cut back some, due to RL health and surgery issues for havocthecat. thelittlebang is still going strong, she just might not have as visible a presence as initially planned for the next while.

This also means that the beta/cheerleader match-ups may take a little longer than initially planned. We are hoping to have that completed before the end of the month for all of you.

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In other news, we're 1/3 of the way through the initial creative phase, and it's time for a word count check. To go with the three months of creation idea, that' means everyone should be somewhere around 5k words completed at this point. If you're more than that, more power to ya! If you're less than that, it's not the end of the world.

I will freely admit that I haven't even started mine yet.

So, how's everyone doing on their projects? Are your muses cooperating? Getting a lot of words written? Hit a brick wall on the creativity front?

And for the check-in itself, I'm going to borrow a template from sentinelbigbang, because it works out really nicely, and turn it into a textarea box for you to c/p. You don't have to use the template if you don't want to. Feel free to modify as needed.

<b>Name:</b> <b>Your project:</b> <b>Current progress/word count:</b> <b>What I like about the project:</b> <b>What I don't like about the project:</b> <b>Anything else you want to say (e.g. Do you need any help? Lacking inspiration or need a sounding board? Want to rant a little?):</b>

Feel free to share some details about your project, maybe a summary or some hints, but please don't post actual extracts. We may have a post for that sort of thing later on down the line.

Comments

[damkianna]

Name: damkianna/damkianna
Your project: Avatar (2009 movie), Trudy/Grace; began as an "everybody thinks they're girlfriends" fic, but the plot has expanded, as it so often does to me. :D
Current progress/word count: ... 11,000. But only about 6k of that is consecutive scenes that are in order and complete! So really I'm right on track.
What I like about the project: Well, as evinced by the amount of stuff that isn't in order, I have a fairly good idea where the story is going to end up, because I've already written a bunch of chunks for the middle and the end. So that's good! And I do have an outline, haphazard as it is. Plus I am enjoying writing it, to a completely ridiculous degree.
What I don't like about the project: I may have begun to rewrite the movie. For the second time. /o\ Also, having most of it concurrent with the movie timeline means I have to keep watching chunks of the movie over and over again. :P
Anything else you want to say (e.g. Do you need any help? Lacking inspiration or need a sounding board? Want to rant a little?): I think I'm all set as far as inspiration goes. I do wish havocthecat well; I hope everything turns out all right health-wise!

[ariestess]

Wow! Nice word count!

[damkianna]

Thanks!

[oparu]

I am excited for this!! I loved both of their characters and would have adored seeing more of them (maybe having them live...)

[damkianna]

Yay! I hope you enjoy the end result. :) Oh, absolutely, they were two of my favorite parts of the movie. (Haha, I am wretched at both killing characters and writing unhappy endings, so in this case, that is pretty much guaranteed!)

[oparu]

no shame at being wretched at those counts!! :)