Greetings, everyone! Hope 2026 is treating you all well so far (apart from the awful world news, of course). Have a few things I was musing on so figured I'd ramble here for those who're interested:
-Biggest announcement: I am going to be putting The Heralds of Blood on hold. I made it 21 chapters in (plus the prologue!) but fatigue, depression and more made it difficult for me to continue and now I've lost the thread of where I was hoping to go with the first draft. I do feel like I could get it back into play eventually but it'd take a lot of time, thought & energy to return to the ambitious aims I had before. So for now I'm going to shelve the story-I'll leave the chapters up for a while but it'll likely come down to make room for other writing at some point.
-I will instead be focusing on short stories for the time being to help me increase my story output & give me different POVs/genres/styles to work with. I am hoping to work both on individual short stories & also a series of interconnected stories/novellas that share a setting & cast of characters.
For the first set of stories, I already have one in planning with the tentative title "The Lure of The Word-Wraith." That one will have a setting somewhere in the real world in the mid-2000s-modern day but will be fantastical in nature, featuring a cursed text that holds a dark reverse-muse within its pages-for every twisted story idea it gives the would-be writer (likely a college-age student), it steals more and more of their own essence and imagination, slowly creating a dark nightmare beast from the harvested story-seeds while leaving the writer a drained & demoralized husk. There's more to it than that but that's hopefully an interesting enough hook. Looking forward to writing that one.
For the interconnected story, the premise is essentially as follows: in a sprawling empire of vaguely 18th-20th century tech/culture/fashion iconography with some medieval/Renaissance aspects, a party of adventurers split up after completing their five-year quest. The scholar of the group settles down in a quirky backwoods town ala Stardew Valley, hoping for a peaceful life taking over their aunt's manor, only to find the town has a dark, terrible secret of corrupted magic origin within its domain-and the rest of the old party has slowly found themselves drawn there as well...
-Writing ambitions aside, I am also hoping to be reading more in 2026. At present, I have begun a reread of The Raven Cycle & am also planning on a Dresden Files reread with hopefully a Realm of The Elderlings readthrough planned as well (I've only properly read the first trilogy). If anyone has any suggestions they think I should tackle, please let me know! I could use a few new books to go with the familiar.
All right, that's likely it for now. Hopefully I can have something ready to share by the end of the month!
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I've felt bad for the long delay on the next Roommate with the Vampire chapter. So here's a preview of the next chapter when Lestat sees Louis and Daniel's house for the first time.
Thanks for your patience. I got a new job so I'm figuring out when I can write again.
Spirits, the new chapter of Life is a Dream feels rambling. It really does feel like Aang is remembering raising his tiny soulmates rather than telling the story. I can’t wait to get to the “canon” timeline.Â
I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to do this or not, but I decided, why not? Even though this year was pretty wild for everyone in various ways, I want to celebrate my writing progress and accomplishments, and share with you what I wish for in 2021.
I’ve already posted a similar post on Reddit, although this one has a more detailed breakdown and includes my fic titles! I won’t link any of the fics mentioned, but you can visit my FFN or AO3 pages to find them. You can also click through my Welcome Post or find them all listed here (if you’re on desktop) (*every project I talk about can be found somewhere on my Tumblr :D)
Click below for some nice Fic Stats!! (mostly wordcounts and rambling!!)
Preview: I wrote a good amount of words, got some nice progress on some long fics, churned out dozens of ficlets!! Plus: What’s on my fic mind for 2021, and a short bit about other personal wins.
Before I ramble with numbers, I think we can all agree that we should say goodbye to 2020 this way:
Now, the numbers you’ll see are close approximations to how much I’ve written this year. I’m including works that I’ve published on AO3, FFN, Tumblr, and Reddit, and also works unpublished (and will post probably next year).
So, here it is:
Total Wordcount: 107,662 words!
Dang, I wrote a lot more than I thought. I think there was one year that I wrote 200,000 in a year and I’ve always set that number as my standard. But I’m still pretty happy with this year’s number! I think I’ll make 100K my “soft goal” for 2021 given how topsy-turvy life can go but it would be awesome to hit 200K again :)
And now, we break it down:
Completed Works (54,432 words)
2 Multi-Chaptered Fics (10,353 words)Â
Both happen to be Sorato! I posted the last chapter of The Sound of His Goodbye back in March (I started the fic late 2019), and I posted all of The Last One Wins towards the end of November. Both gave me reminders earlier and later on in the year that I can complete fics, haha! It’s possible!!! \o/
38 Ficlets/Scenes (19,667 words)Â
“Ficlets” don’t typically have a wordcount but are generally less than 1,000 words. I’d have to say that the impact of quitting my job, moving back home, and the pandemic brought on major changes and responsibilities that I had to adapt to. Simpler, smaller scale ideas were easier on my basket case of a mind and kept me writing, and that is most likely why for most of the year my inspiration was more drawn toward different little scenes. I got to write for and explore six new fandoms outside of Digimon which is cool!
When I say “scenes,” I mean those that either didn’t fit in the (slightly) larger works I’ve published, or those for future projects (which technically shouldn’t be counted as “complete” but I had to stick them somewhere :P).
9 One-Shots (24,412 words)
Day 6 Prompt of Takari Week just barely made it to be counted as a One-Shot, but the rest in this category are all Taiora: six for Taiora Week, as well as The Princess and the Dragon, and Colors in Distance. The Color Shot was actually sitting unfinished in my drafts for a few months so I’m glad I found the motivation to finish it before the year’s end. The other fics were inspired by prompts with deadlines - this was the first year I’ve participated and completed those and I’m happy I did them!Â
Works in Progress (53,230 words)
I’ve posted one new chapter each for Digital Recovery (4,770 words) and Tsukiakari (2,292 words) and I had the hope of working more on both of these this year! But you know, this year was tough (see also why I threw so many ficlets at my readers). I had three huge ongoing longfics and I made the decision to set these aside and put my main focus on one of those so as not to overwhelm myself. These fics are mostly planned out. They just need to be written more! We’ve got a long way to go with both of these.
Just One Drink (10,131 words) was.. probably my most popular fic this year, lol. I don’t see this one being too long (I would be surprised if it goes past 50K) but I see myself continue to update this next year. ;)Â
And let’s talk about The Spark of Dawn (DoreDore Adventure Part II) (24,316 words). This was my chosen longfic to focus on this year, as evidenced by the wordcount, and even the number of chapters I’ve posted - three with 10,659 words total. This fic also carried me through July’s Camp NaNoWriMo where I reached my word count goal of 12,000 words. I think two chapters from that event ended up being posted, and there are still 13,657 words’ worth of content yet to be published. Overall, I think half of this story has been written out (including the content I haven’t posted yet) but that being said, this fic remains as one of my priorities to finish before moving along to my other WIPs!
Here’s a list of the rest of my unpublished works:
Untitled Taiorato Fic (1,433 words)
More Taiora Snapshots (2,454 words)
The Girl Who Stands Out (7,834 words) - This one is a Mimato, and should show up really soon. ;)
2021 Wishes: My main wish is for me to *keep writing*!
I’m already making some pretty elaborate spreadsheets for myself to help track my personal writing and reader stats. Hopefully they help motivate me in my writing progress in 2021!Â
Toward the end of the year, I felt the need to “clear out” my plot bunnies folder and realized that fics from few ideas weren’t going to be as long as I initially thought. That’s where The Last One Wins came from, as well as The Girl Who Stands Out. I think once the latter is all written out, I will work more on DoreDore and see where it goes.
I want to tackle my “Write Your Melody” prompts, because since I’ve written them I feel obligated to. XD I’m sure there will be room for more ficlets and one-shots in next year’s endeavors; while it’s ideal to work on one big longfic until it’s done, I know for a fact that I’ll need writing breaks along the way.
Other Personal Wins (Not Writing-Related): This year, left a job and living situation that took a toll on my mental health. I also started to learn R and SQL programming languages. I was asked to be a moderator of one of my favorite communities! I made new friendships and a few of my friendships grew. And I found joy and comfort in things I hadn’t been able to in years’ past. I had a fair share of rough moments this year, but looking back at my small wins gave me reminders of the good I have. <3Â
If you made it to the end of this post, GO YOU. I’m optimistic that next year will bring more good things. I hope to continue remembering to take time to breathe and rest, and keep talking to my friends and loved ones. Many of my wishes are for long-term goals/projects in general, but rather than setting year-end deadlines, I want to focus on just working on them, my efforts varying between chipping away at them little by little, or hardcore-drop-everything-and-spend-the-weekend.
Anyway, thank you for reading! I wish you all the best as we head toward a new year. <3
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Colorless Land final chapter writing status so far:
Plot threads wrapped up (for this book): One.
Plot threads yet to wrap up: Three.
Of those, plot threads already partly dealt with: One.
Word count: 1.5k and counting.
it is my 100th day of writing this year and i have just hitÂ
50% OF MY YEAR-LONG WRITING GOAL !!!
that’s right kids, i have now written 75 thousand words since 1/1/19 and i am still going strong !!
The next story I’ll be publishing will be a multi-chapter Check Please! musicians AU -- currently around 13k ! I’m hoping to start publishing chapters in early June, so stay tuned there.
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thanks to everyone who reads, leaves kudos, comments, and otherwise supports my writing <3
Today was a very good day for writing! I added 3000 words to my WIP Salandrine, writing a rough draft for two chapters and revisiting the next chapter’s outline. Life has taken a turn for the worst for Salandrine, but not all is bad. She gets a geeky bubbly new friend, kisses from her love interest, and more fathering than she'd had during the last 1,5 decade or so. Happy moments indeed!
Aside from that I’ve also improved my magic system. I’d been unsatisfied with it for some time now and it’s been through many different versions, but I feel like I might have found the answers I was looking for! I made another attempt at understanding string theory, am a little less confused, and used that in combination with the original version of alchemy to produce my current magic system. Honestly, it’s perfect, explains everything, and makes it less common power. Actually, it could be classified as science the way it is and will have it be deemed as such by some people/countries/cultures.
