700 to 7k: Day 1
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worderlandsWelcome to the first day of Worderlands' 700 to 7k challenge!
We'll be doing the same thing as November 2024 - daily check-ins - as everyone aims to write either 100 words or 1k words a day for the next 7 days.
Feel free to join in for as much or as little as you'd like. :)
♦ Which daily goal are you working towards?
♦ Why do you write?
♦ Share a bit about your project
We'll be doing the same thing as November 2024 - daily check-ins - as everyone aims to write either 100 words or 1k words a day for the next 7 days.
Feel free to join in for as much or as little as you'd like. :)
♦ Which daily goal are you working towards?
♦ Why do you write?
♦ Share a bit about your project
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Date: 2025-03-16 08:42 pm (UTC)I’m gonna be working towards 100 words a day at most—because a) both of the projects I’m in the process of drafting (hopefully in time to finish off for my birthday) are pretty small in scope, and b) I write pretty slowly besides, to the point I wonder if I’ll even manage that much lmao
As for those projects, the larger one is a Kemono Friends fic inspired in large part by Paru Itagaki as per (this guy’s readings of) BEASTARS and BEAST COMPLEX—and largely filtered through my own psychosexual curiosities/fantasies/hangups in turn (for which I apologize in advance). The smaller one is a Pokémon one-shot partially meant as a tie-in to the aforementioned, taking its own cues from an absolute banger of a shitpost (and intersection of my interests besides)…
That being said, I write in a broader sense to pass that torch of inspiration forward—for folks to take my material on their own terms, each textured mind forming its own impressions and interpretations through which the art expands and iterates and thrives…ideally speaking. It’s precisely to that end, in fact, that I didn’t mention any specifics such as characters or plotlines; I’d rather not give any room for my ‘authority’ (in a Barthesian sense) to assert itself in that regard.
In any case, I at least hope this next week bears fruit for the rest of y’all!
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Date: 2025-03-17 02:11 am (UTC)I write mostly for joy and to share my ideas with others. As for my projects, I'm working on some fics for a ship week I'm hosting!
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Date: 2025-03-17 07:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-17 09:26 am (UTC)I'm working on book 3 in my series of novella-length retellings. This one is Alice in Wonderland. I was working on it for most of last year and somehow got absolutely nowhere, but I've made some changes and revamped the outline and I'm hoping I'll get to the end this time around.
I write mostly to entertain myself and others. Sometimes I approach slightly darker topics in my short fiction, but longer works tend to be pretty light-hearted.
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Date: 2025-03-17 06:49 pm (UTC)Writing trip with writer's group sounds like fun. Kind of like a retreat?
Can you remind me what the first in that series is? Was it the one I have a hard copy of? I'm not entirely awake and am blanking on the title, but I can picture the images on it...lots of purple and black and such?
That's really interesting that your short fiction tends to have more darker themes than the long.
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Date: 2025-03-17 06:55 pm (UTC)I'll be taking this one slow as well. This year, I've been focussing more on editing last year's words than writing much new stuff. Bit of housekeeping and the like.
What fandoms are you writing for? XD
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Date: 2025-03-17 06:58 pm (UTC)Sounds shiny. Feel free to share ship week details in the comments, if you've got a link! I can add it to affiliates...which I'll have to put in the sidebar at some point soon, cuz apparently I have not yet done that.
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Date: 2025-03-17 07:02 pm (UTC)Looking forward to hearing how you go with your goals!
That being said, I write in a broader sense to pass that torch of inspiration forward—for folks to take my material on their own terms, each textured mind forming its own impressions and interpretations through which the art expands and iterates and thrives…ideally speaking.
Love this!
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Date: 2025-03-17 07:36 pm (UTC)And it's honestly pretty niche ahaha, it's like a rapper RPF ship that I accidentally got very into but is slowly growing on AO3 so I figured I'd start a little event for it! The AO3 collection & info is here
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Date: 2025-03-18 06:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-18 10:22 am (UTC)Operation: Sugarplum is the first one in this series, followed by Enchanted Sleep. The one you won the copy of is A More Complicated Fairytale. XD
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Date: 2025-03-22 07:43 am (UTC)Anyway, I'll stop rambling.
Hmm, that does sound niche! "babygravy week" is what to list it as on affiliates? :)
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Date: 2025-03-22 07:43 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2025-03-22 07:44 am (UTC)Right...I remember that now! XD
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Date: 2025-03-23 03:18 am (UTC)And yes if you'd like! ❤️
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Date: 2025-03-24 03:20 pm (UTC)I've added it. Is it an annual thing, or anything like that?
https://worderlands.dreamwidth.org/2767.html
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Date: 2025-03-25 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-25 03:18 am (UTC)