#wipvember

inspired by @ophelia5wims' spring wip cleaning event i did back in march, i've decided to do a similar thing this month! posting here for accountability (also everyone feel free to join if you like me have a tendency to keep starting new things instead of finishing stuff)

OBJECTIVE: focus on working on/finishing wips during the month of november! set goals and go for them

personal goals:

NO STARTING NEW THINGS

write 500 words/day (or 15k total for the month)

finish 90s/00s AU

finish/publish two chapters of Circus Nights

Day 1: Your oldest WIP

Day 2: Your favorite WIP

Day 3: A colorful WIP (if not applicable, then something you enjoy!)

Day 4: Your longest WIP (word count or time spent on it)

Day 5: A cute WIP (if not applicable, then something you enjoy!)

Day 6: A WIP with your best details (be it prose, art or other!)

Day 7: Your whumpiest WIP

Day 8: Something written (or, if not applicable, then something you enjoy!)

Day 9: A WIP that’s hard to work on

Day 10: A WIP for someone else (if not applicable, then something you enjoy!)

Day 11: A WIP with your favorite OCs (if not applicable, then something you enjoy!)

Day 12: A WIP that’s almost done

Day 13: Something drawn (or, if not applicable, then something you enjoy!)

Day 14: An AU WIP (if not applicable, then something you enjoy!)

Day 15: A WIP that is on brand

Day 16: A WIP that’s barely started

Day 17: Something digital (or, if not applicable, then something you enjoy!)

Day 18: Your most complex WIP

Day 19: The WIP you’re most excited to share

Day 20: A black and white/grayscale WIP (if not applicable, then something you enjoy!)

Day 21: A WIP that’s easy to work on

Day 22: A gorey WIP (if not applicable, then something you enjoy!)

Day 23: A WIP prompted by someone else (we see your inbox /j. If not applicable, then something you enjoy!)

Day 24: Something you’re proud of

Day 25: Your shortest WIP (either word count, or time spent on it)

Day 26: A NSFW WIP (if not applicable, then something you enjoy!)

Day 27: Something physical (or, if not applicable, then something you enjoy!)

Day 28: Your newest WIP

Day 29: A WIP inspired by something else (if not applicable, then something you enjoy!)

I’m not doing NaNoWriMo or anything official like that but our little band of misfits has collectively agreed to spend this month making progress, however small, on our existing WIPs. I’ve been really frustrated and discouraged lately about (well, a lot of things but this is the relevant one) losing a lot of my weekday writing to time to very important and necessary things that can’t be shoved aside. But, I’ve been trying to get a little bit done on something every day, and to that end I appropriated a NaNo word count tracker. I don’t really have a word count goal although I left the NaNo goal there just for kicks.

I’m managing by working on shorter things during the week like the sprint fics and the Here for You prompts, and saving the big emotionally intense stuff like Beautiful Dreams and the one I’ve been calling the angst bomb for the weekend when I can get longer stretches of time to work. It does slow everything down, and the emotional drain of real life isn’t helping, but we’ll get there.

I’ve got 3 more Here for You prompts left, and I hope to have one completed tonight or tomorrow. Beautiful Dreams still has a long way to go. I feel like the fic I’ve been calling “the angsty one” whose working title is now Indelible is about 75% there. I haven’t made a lot of progress on most of the other things on my list. I’ll still be doing the sprint fics; they’re a great little brain recharger for me and I enjoy them.

Okay, it's still Halloween on this side of the globe, but for parts of the world it's already November! Also I got excited. XD

@corelliaxdreaming @aphorisnt @starwarstheriseofskywalker @captaingondolin Lemme know if any of y'all do NOT want daily WIPvember pings, please! I won't be doing daily pings over in the Discord, because we're hoping the momentum of just having people doing daily check-ins will keep things rolling over there, but it's a lot easier for things to get buried here on the blue hellsite, so I was thinking daily pings might be good. Opinions?