#maybe i'll end up writing some stuff for the zero draft only things too >:)

[zeawesomebirdie]

WIP Title Tag Game

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Thanks for the tag @tnc-n3cl !! These are always fun to do, and I actually have Real Writing to share and not just zero drafts this time!! (though most of these are still in zero draft stages, full disclosure)

I was going to split this up into DC and non-DC fics, except there's only a few non-DC fics that I am actively haunted by rn so. I am sorting these by ship instead lol

Bruce Wayne/Dick Grayson fics:

Bruise Your Lover [rated E] [fistfighting as foreplay, blood kink]

report card smut [rated E, underage] [zero draft]

5+1 Dick Fucks For Distraction [rated E]

brudick sex pollen [rated E, underage] [zero draft]

Dick Grayson/Clark Kent fics:

mid-air sex [rated E, underage]

5+1 Clark fills in for Bruce [rated M] [zero draft]

Barry Allen/Leonard Snart fics:

STAR Labs lounge [rated T] [zero draft]

injured!Barry >:) [rated M] [graphic injury] [zero draft]

Operation: Sleep [rated E] [zero draft]

Fics for other ships:

dickjay gameboy fic [Dick Grayson/Jason Todd, rated E] [canonical major character death, but he gets better] [zero draft]

6+1 times Riddler saves Robin [Dick Grayson/Edward Nygma, rated M] [underage]

batfam game fic (girl help?) [Jason Todd/Bruce Wayne, rated T] [in German]

6+1 courting fic [Perry/Heinz Doofenshmirtz, rated E] [zero draft]

Dear Radar [Hawkeye Pierce/Radar O'Reilly, rated M] [graphic surgery] [zero draft]

For the Old West!AU:

The Last of the Waynes [rated E] [major character death(s), graphic violence] [zero draft]

The Man Who Went Rogue [Barry Allen/Leonard Snart, rated E] [graphic violence] [zero draft]

No pressure tags: @astrophilic-soul @someguywriting @battybrownboo @ful-crum @theydjarin @etwlemons @ephhemeralite @camp-bruins @nixie-deangel @incorrectcoldflashblog @girlcalledwhatsername @aeriedwelling and anyone else who wants to do this!

[sleepyowlwrites]

Sleepy's 2021 writing wrap-up accompanied by a little salt but mostly cheerful exhaustion

this event was hosted by @ecwrenn thank you darling. I think I'm late but I only like being early to work. and this is not that.

I don't keep any kind of proper track of my word counts or progress, mostly because I don't really care - I know that I wrote this year and that's good enough for me, word counts are not a motivator - but also because I am disorganized and scramble around afterward of anything to clean stuff up.

here is a very general assessment of the writing that I did this year.

January - I wrote some poetry and meandered around in Youth Story (then temporarily titled Project: Black Rose) and Anxiety Story.

February - I existed, I think. it was around this time that I played (find the word) tag with Maybe Sorcery a lot. also somewhere in here I think we became soulmates but I'm not sure. that might've happened earlier.

March - I made a new wip intro for Anxiety Story (the title is Every Other Star is Silent) and promptly didn't work on it (the wip) for the rest of the year. this is fine. it's a heavy wip and I wasn't up for it. then I made a way-too-early-I-don't-know-what-I-was-thinking wip intro for Magick Story (the title is Spider Silk). I have worked on this wip but only in the worldbuilding department.

April - I did Camp Nano and wrote 21,079 words. it felt great. I tried to do the same in May.

May - I did not write 20K, 15K or even 10K. I started to suspect that I was experiencing some creative burnout. (not quite. I was, at the time, enjoying making doodle art of other writers' wip titles. that was fun and easy.) instead it turns out I was just having a WRITING BURNOUT and subsequently-

June - I didn't really do any writing until the very end of this month was I fell in love with a character and decided to write a study fic of him. and then I did that. after editing it's now at almost 8K. so that's cool.

July - finished that above fic, worked on Youth Story. at some point I made an intro that I worked very hard on. it's already not up-to-date so it's gone now, bye-bye. I have an informal one that works a lot better, and character intros! I worked on those in-

August - still loved that character so I wrote a sequel to my first fic, which is currently being slowly edited and sits at nearly 11K. the character intros were all created and gradually released in-

September - which was a funky month because my sister got married. this has nothing to do with my writing but it happened. by the way, I've been writing poetry all year. most of it is not up on tumblr, but I'll share almost anything in a find the word tag. seriously. I get a little crazy with those things.

October - it actually took me until this month to finish that sequel fic. by this time I have also created 200 wip title arts. also also I've been writing this ridiculously complicated crossover fic in my friend's dms and that makes it into find the word too. also also also I turned 28. hooray.

November - I was very busy at work and wrote poetry and did some tags and eventually realized that I would have to be on hiatus since I couldn't really write or post like I wanted to. oh right, at some point I decided I was finished with Youth Story draft 0. it's at like, 26K? I can't check right now because the docs are closed. I feel like my laptop just sneaky updated because why else would they be closed? unless a ghost did it.

December - I did almost zero writing because I worked overnights at work and just got more and more exhausted as the month went on. I wrote three? four? tiny flash fics and a tiny bit of poetry and then Christmas happened. and just finished happening, for me.

to sum up, I've written probably approximately 55K this year, which I believe is less than last year but whatever! I don't care. I wrote things, and they meant something to me, and also to some other (wonderful) people who said very nice things in tags and such and that's all I want, really. I just want to write things and enjoy it, and I did. so 2021 was not my favorite, but it had good in it. some of it I made by myself, some of it I shared with others, and some of it YOU - writeblr - gave to me. Thank You.

Love, Sleepy