#it's very fun to have as a fandom-versary lol

[bereft-of-frogs]

A Last Whumptober 2020 Update!

So I didn’t manage to complete all 31, but I’ve so far managed to finish 17, and when the month is done I should be up to 20. I’ve just got four in-progress that I’ll be able to finish fairly quickly, they’re all outlined and mostly filled in. (That’s 15. Into the Unknown (possession), 20. We’re Not in Kansas Anymore (medieval), 23. What’s a Man Gotta Do To Get Some Sleep Around Here? (exhaustion), and A3. Comfort.

ETA: I know the math doesn’t quite add up there lol, but it’s because 23 and A3 are combined into one. And also, you all know I’m terrible at math. There were too many numbers going on today. XD I’m posting for 20 days. There’s a different number of fics, and a different number of completed prompts and...w/e I’ll figure it out when I’m done posting. XD

One I made some significant progress on, but I really, really want to do it proper justice to I decided to put it off. [16. Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (hallucinations).] I want it to be a sequel/form a trilogy with two previous fics (spare me over and where is your sting) and I knew if I rushed it I would be disappointed in myself.

And then there were two I had had really vague ‘it’s an emotion not a plot’ type ideas [9. For the Greater Good (ritual sacrifice) and 28. Such Wow, Many Normal, Very Oops (hunting season)], that just never came together. I’m trying to figure out where I can fit them into my Bad Things Happen Bingo card, seeing if I can combine them with a prompt there to make it work. [I repurposed a BTH bingo square here! 26. If You Thought the Head Trauma Was Bad (migraine) was originally a bingo square (caught in a storm) but I had another idea for that square.]

Anyway, I’m pretty happy with what I got through this year. The doc is at 49,430 words, and 80 pages* though that does include the drafts of ‘hallucinations’ that I’m not actually going to use.

[*I always like seeing how many pages it is when I change it to the ‘academic standard’ format - 12p Times New Roman, double-spaced. It’s 195 pages.]

AND. I made a posting schedule:

(Notebook placement because I’d taken down personal information at the top of the page, foolishly. Well, I didn’t know I was going to do this at the time.)

So get ready for me to be really annoying in the tags for the next month, with my pretentious ass song-lyric fic titles. All titles are from Of Monsters and Men lyrics, because one of the prompts this year (13. Breathe In, Breathe Out) reminded me of their song ‘Human’ so it would get stuck in my head every time I looked at the prompt list.

Ok, so as you can see, posting the first fic today, as usual, on this my #fandom-versary, as I like to call it, so I have to go do final edits and figure out a standard post format. Excellent!