Taradactyls

28th of June update:

Trying to Tread Water chapter 47 is over 1,200 words now, and with everyone in the household well again I've got more free time and energy so progress is going faster! There is more written than that technically but I keep moving around the location of certain conversations to try get the best flow and tone and momentum for the chapter/each scene so they've been bumped out of the 'finished' bit of the chapter and into the bullet points I keep of my notes underneath it.

And I'm able to spend more time checking this tumblr now so I'll be working on the backlog here sometimes too :)

20th of June update:

Trying to Tread Water ch47 is sitting at 800 words now, which isn't too bad considering I had multiple rough nights with sick little boys (who seem to be on the mend, fingers crossed). Having fun with the writing though - Mrs Bennet is pleased, Lizzy and Darcy are mildly panicking, and I'm cackling like an evil mastermind.

Good things.

Might get a chance to check the messages and notifications on here and add things to queue over this coming week!

14th of June update:

I'm back! I live and I'm not actively dying.

(Which can be confirmed with far more certainty than usual thanks to all the scans and tests I've had to have over the last few weeks. We don't know what happened, but I seem to be fine again now, so yay?)

Anyway, yay that I'm feeling alright now and yay for a great healthcare system and yay that I have handed in my final assignment for uni and will soon be graduating!!!!

So I'll hopefully finally have the time/health to write again this week and be able to work more on ch47, and then I'll be able to give a proper progress report next week! I haven't had nearly enough creativity in my life lately.

(Hey guys it's the 30th of May but there's literally nothing to update because of some health issues, check back in a fortnight. So I'll leave the 16th May update here until then.)

What's changed as of the 16th May:

I have just uploaded the Beneath the Surface ch44 companion piece. Which is being published at 2:30am because there's a very mild case of the daycare plagues affecting some of the household so I've been extra busy and this is the only time I've been able to do so.

Enjoy your nearly-smut. I love these two.

Trying to Tread Water ch47 is beginning to leave the notes phase, and has 500 proper words written now. Which is less than I'd hoped for, but there's lots of 'invisible' work like scaffolding the chapter and arranging the notes which isn't apparent via the wordcount update and life also got busier a bit quicker than expected.

There's not going to be much else to update until the 5th of June, as I've got two essays due over the next fortnight. But then I'll be GRADUATING!! So aside from being a great cause for celebration should significantly free up my time for writing creatively instead of academically.

and my final essay is about Mrs Bennet. So we'll all benefit from that research one way or another, haha.

As of the 1st of May:

I've just created a new fic where I'll be putting the bonus (g-rated) scenes from Trying to Tread Water and uploaded the old one I wrote in response to an ask for chapter 16. I have another ask waiting to be answered which will create another chapter, so it was time for a place where I could compile them.

I've also made a series for all the T3W-verse stuff, but I'm not sure if it should be a collection instead?? I'm new to these ao3 features.

Speaking of bonus content... The Beneath the Surface ch44 companion piece is finally ready to be edited, and is sitting at about 2.5k words. With stuff being a little hectic for both myself and my beta reader I'm aiming to have that up in a fortnight.

Trying to Tread Water ch47 is still in the notes phase, which, for context, means my word document has 3536 words in bullet points. The characters have their own highlighted colours so I can see who's involved in what section, and the bullet points range from vague thoughts for me, to relevant quotes from the Pride and Prejudice novel, to multiple long bits of dialogue (some of 500+ words) which will get added to the story basically as-is with some more prose added in around the speech.

Writing is more like a puzzle than you could ever tell from looking at the finished product, lol.

Asks: The Mr Bennet and Mr Darcy unseen conversation will be getting its own little bonus scene (as mentioned above) at some point.

I have gotten my hands on Bride and Prejudice, and recently watched it! Even took some notes for you, so I'll try and reply this long-weekend :)

The other two are in queue at the moment and should be posted over the next 48hours.

Misc: I've been lucky enough to have my final uni assignment before I graduate (!!!!!) be a Pride and Prejudice one - so depending on how I pull that together it might be uploaded after grades are finalised. Naturally, I have plenty to say on the subject.

There's also that original fiction first chapter which I might upload just for the three people that were interested, haha.