Look at me, posting before the weekly tide of Shit I Have To Do(TM) kicks in! I am so proactive. Here we go with my weekly stuff, which continues to go quite well, and I met all my goals for last week (and exceeded them) despite making them quite late in the week:
- Exchanges due in May/June (
hurtcomfortex,
pickmeupexchange,
idproquo,
caseficexchange,
seasonsofdrabbles,
diegetic_exchange,
fandom5k + mystery pinch-hits and treats): As mentioned last week, I finally have time to pick up Pinch Hits and treats, which I have been doing. I had a nice little spurt of productivity Thursday/Friday and got a good amount of stuff written. Right now, I've completed 9/11 fics, and the 2 remaining are the 2 long fics that I've been plugging away on. I did make progress on both of these, too! I've completed 1.5 scenes in each, and both of them will at least be 5 scenes total when done. There are 2 new (short) fics I'd like to pick up and finish this week (due to exchange deadlines) to get to 11/13, and then I'd like to make more progress on the 2 WIPs. The goal for those is to be through Scene 4 in the first (which is as far as I have a clear outline - I have a line that says '??? Profit!' in the middle of my outline right now, and then the final scene 🤣) and then through Scene 3 of the other one (which does have a complete outline, and so I don't feel as much need to press on it). I also have a couple things that will probably (unless there are reveals delays) need editing this week, so I need to get that done too.
- Upcoming exchanges: I need to sign up for
narumitsuday this week. Also, I've already put in my nominations for
justmarriedexchange and
nonconex, at least the first of which I'm hoping to sign up for. I will keep an eye on
rarepairexchange, although I'm not sure I'll be able to swing that one.
- Femslash Salad Bar - Still nothing new, moving on...
- No more progress on My Hero Academia since last post, since I don't get time to watch things on the weekend. I'll watch some more this week, though, no doubt.
- I now have all 3 volumes of Guardian by priest! I've finished the 2nd volume and am 2 chapters into the 3rd (which is the final arc). I will say that I found the first 2 arcs better than the 3rd, which didn't seem to have as tight writing and meandered a bit. Also, I enjoyed Zhao Yunlan not knowing Shen Wei was the Soul-Executing Emissary more than their relationship post-reveal: Zhao Yunlan's persistent horniness now is interspersed by moments of doubt, plus they've gone domestic but without the profound levels of fucking needed? Ah well, I'm still enjoying it, just the first 2 arcs are my favorites so far, for sure. I'm hoping to finish this week!
Goals for this week: 1) Pick up 2 PHs/treats for things due this week and complete them. 2) Make progress on my 2 WIP long fics: 1 through Scene 4, and the other through Scene 3. 3) Complete any editing needed for reveals this week. 4) Sign up for
narumitsuday. 5) Finish Guardian.
May Stats: I'm now at 128k for the year, posted, which is not bad. With the WIPs I have, I'm definitely over 130k unofficially. At the rate I'm going, I might actually made 200k this year, maybe? I have been tracking at over 10k/month, so that
should work out, although I suspect I'll be slower in the summer. We'll see!