#inveterate whumper

[amblingandshambling]

94K, and I think the end is in sight. I'm mostly in the phase of my writing where I am expanding scenes, adding in character thoughts and descriptions, and dividing the story into chapters. I estimate that my final word count will be between 100K and 110K, probably closer to the upper end of that estimate.

Writing this has been wrecking, wrenching, and exhausting since I started writing it back in November. This is the first time that I have really written anything since my mom died two years ago, but I got seized by inspiration and ran with it.

I also plan on one-shots tying into the story upon request, so once I start posting, have at it.

To note, this fanfic is heavily AU, I am an inveterate whumper, so yeah, there's plenty of whump, physical hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, and heck, now featuring Major Character Death! (Which is something I almost never write, and rarely read.) I think readers will find the sense of closure in the end satisfying, though.

I am Team Everybody Kinda Sucked, so that type of hate is not welcome. I know how to block, and I'm not afraid to do it. In this story, everyone more or less ends their life at a good point, unless their death is a fixed point, unable to be changed in the canon of my AU.

One Hundred Years to Live is what I ultimately decided to call this fic. It fits the themes of the story. There's a lot of interconnection, coincidence, a few family secrets, a deus ex machina or two....

It's crazy when you're writing a scene in a fanfic and you reduce yourself to tears by the nature of the scene. I'm over 10K words in, and have written more in a week than I have in over two years.

Yes, I am writing again, after an almost two-year drought of inspiration. After my mom passed, I lost all ability to string words together to tell stories.

It's even related to one of my mom's favorite fandoms. She loved Game of Thrones, and I rather think that she would have liked House of the Dragon too.

It's MASSIVELY AU, and contains OCs. I love a good AU, though, because I love how a small series of decisions can completely alter the subsequent decisions of so many people.