[Check-In]

[kalloway]

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Comments

[the_rck]

I've been poking at a couple of things, trying to get to the point that I can finish something.

One thing I tried ended up grinding to a halt because I couldn't match the voice of the books (first person narrator) due to deciding to tweak the backstory for the main character in a way that doesn't counter canon but does counter the author's intentions/assumptions.

The other thing still might go forward, but I realized that it was going to run straight into a big DNW for me-- Bad things happening to kids. I might be able to work around that or to work my way through it, but I'm not sure I'm sufficiently interested in the story to go there. I have about 750 words that work as a ficlet even if I don't go further.

[gehayi]

Writing: I wrote a Chronicles of Narnia AU (no Shasta, and Rabadash is after Aravis, not Susan) about Aravis and Hwin entering Tashbaan. Aravis is telling her own story; I'm finding this pretty interesting.

Editing: I have managed to slog to page 235 of 500 (page 500 so far--the length keeps expanding as I keep editing, which is discouraging in itself) in a quest fantasy that is progressing at a glacial pace. (The characters just set off on their quest on page 220, if that gives you an idea.)

On top of this, I just got another manuscript back; the author changed the ending (this was needed, in my opinion, but I don't yet know what she changed it to) and added 8,000 words to it, which means that I can't just approve or reject edits with tracking changes. I have to read the whole thing AGAIN to see if the rewrites make sense and fit with the rest of the book.

[lassarina]

I successfully edited two chapters of the thing I'm trying to finish and send out this year, and pieces of plot are starting to hang onto a premise bunny I wrote down last year and shoved into a box because I didn't have time.