#nanowrimo 2022

[stuntzthedude]

Chapters: 20/57 Fandom: Assassin's Creed - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Ezio Auditore da Firenze/Leonardo da Vinci, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Leonardo da Vinci, Ugo (Assassin's Creed), Teodora Contanto, Rosa (Assassin's Creed), Antonio (Assassin's Creed), Mario Auditore da Firenze, Original Assassin Character(s) (Assassin's Creed), Named Courtesans

Hey, I wrote a Lezio fanfic! You want drama? You want angst? You want whump? You want *anything* Lezio? This’s got you covered, my guy.

[tommydarlings]

EVERY. DAMN. TIME.

Always at 3 am

[itskellonearth]

A little digital painting I did last year of the protagonist from my NaNo '22 project, Calyx!

[goose-writing-and-art]

Short Stories from my daily prompt sprints for NaNoWriMo 2022. Yet again another project I didn't keep up with all month lmao Please do not provide criticism, these were all written in like a single day or two with little to no revision as writing exercises. They're all just for fun and to fuck around with prompts and my own OCs :)

To Respect Death TW: Death, ghosts, taxidermy.

Three pre-teen boys find themselves exploring an old haunted house. (I wanted to write a subtler but still very much real ghosts ghost story.)

Comforting the Restless TW: Death, ghosts, autopsy, pondering of the afterlife. 

A forensic pathologist has a conversation with the ghost of an unknown murdered girl.  (Non-canon to Leo's story, but what if he talked to a ghost maybe?)

Trying to Make Amends TW: Intoxication, alcohol.

Killian attempts to apologize to someone he’d hurt in the past on his path to redemption. (A fic to appease my melodrama needs.)

Breaking the Cycle TW: Break up, hints at emotional abuse.

Killian finally leaves his on again, off again partner of 10 years.  (More melodrama bc I eat that shit for breakfast.)

Old Dog, Same Trick TW: Drug mention, addiction mention, guns, pain, crime/theft.

The space captain of a bounty hunter ship reunites with her old crew for a casual night of vehicular theft. (Sillier writing to just have fun with some of my SciFi ocs.)

Despite the Bruises TW: Injury, physical abuse, parental abuse, anxiety.

Yancey finds solace yet again in his best friend’s house, and is accepted as part of the family. (100% just a short comfort fic.)

Selfish Love TW: Emotional abuse, abusive relationship, anxiety and paranoia.

Leo finds himself struggling to feel “normal” in his new, healthier relationship. (More melodrama, yet also personally relatable.)

Ruin Him TW: Mention of physical abuse and domestic violence.

A soon to be mother chooses to leave her violent partner to protect her baby.  (A quick bit of insight into an OC's past.)

Finding Where You Belong TW: Depression, intoxication, alcohol.

Duncan realizes that he’s developed a familial connection with a young musician he’s been housing. (More comfort, if a little bit cheesy.)

[nekohrine]

nanowrimo day thirty five: oh yes, it's the most wonderful time of the year when I'm tidying up my scrivener files

[dancingontheblades]

You know, I just can't with this draft. Some parts are great, I dare say brilliant (I feel super arrogant to say this about something I have written, but I really love them and right now they feel perfect to me), whereas others are just abysmally bad—just what you expect of an unedited draft. But it's so so hard to keep myself from editing these poorly written parts with all their redundant scenes, meaningless dialogues, and ooc characters. Because if I wanted to revise these first 165k, I should have started two months ago, but at that time, I was doing the final edits of "Did My Heart Love Til Now" (2nd instalment of my ADTLTBA-series). It's just so hard to switch off my inner editor and resort to writing comments in the margins and reading to get the hang of the story because NaNoWriMo is only 10 days away. Until then you might hear me complain more often.

I might also share a few more snippets, but I'm not comfortable with sharing all the gems of a story I won't post anytime soon as there are 1.5 instalments of this series waiting to be published before this one will even make it to AO3.

Just a cute snippet I came across while reading through my draft of "In Love and War". It's basically Viktor fanboying over Yuuri in silence while Yuuri is studying for a language test.

A smile crossed Yuuri’s face, and he bent over his studies again. Viktor watched him deciphering the Cyrillian text, noting the determined curve of his eyebrows. Yuuri typed another word into his laptop, scratched his scalp with his pencil, further mussing up his unruly hair, consulted the books, and scribbled another sentence into his notebook. He’s the most beautiful being in the universe.

Please note that this is a first draft I'm preparing to continue writing and the writing isn't polished or refined.

[midwrites]

(Belated) WIP Wednesday!

Offering the Tumblr folk some excerpts from the Werewolf!Tozer AU I'll be posting for Terrifying Terror Week that were posted on Twitter months ago :3

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[binx0r]

*hissing through my teeth as my digital pen shakes more than usual* art only improves if you keep doing art. art only improves if you keep doing art. DO THE FUCNING ART ITS FINE

[werewolfsmile]

Okay so this is happening. Fix-it fic for Cornelia and Eli, set post-canon. I have no idea how long this thing is gonna be but I'm sure as hell buckling in for the ride!

Man I'm such trash for this show 😭❤️

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

Rightly or wrongly, I'm going to assume you don't know anything about Taira's story, in which Paddy appears.

The story was originally a Narnia fanfic with largely original characters. (It's on AO3, titled A Rabbit's Trust.) It's around 13 or 14k from memory, excluding author's notes. Anyway, I really liked it - especially Paddy and Taira's dynamic - so I took a while of developing it before completely rewriting it as original fantasy.

I wrote the first draft during nanowrimo last year, excepting one small section I haven't written since because I haven't touched it since, for mental reasons; this is a wholesome, happy, strong book and one I do not want to spoil with depression. Apart from that scene (I estimate around three thousand words), the entire thing clocks in at just over ninety thousand words.

No, wait, I'm incorrect: I just checked and I have in fact skipped small parts of scenes all over the place, as well as two whole chapters I was struggling to fill because they're very much character-driven and about a conflict I was struggling to fill out properly, but which is vital for the story dynamic. Given that I'd forgot about them, I estimate the story as a whole, unedited, to clock in at about a hundred and ten thousand, though I usually write pretty loosely first time round and the word count drops by half. This, though, I did underwrite in some sections, so it may remain around sixty or seventy thousand when it's done, or even up to a hundred thousand still. I'm not sure; I haven't reread it. I intended to submit it to a competition, the first ten thousand words, but then that competition didn't run for this year, so I didn't. If it runs again next year I probably will, God willing.

Anyway, as to the story - I've expanded on it at length in other posts (#taira), so I'll just summarise it super quickly. Taira, a white rabbit, is forced to flee her home to escape the alyen (bad guys). In the process, she falls in with a fox, Paddy. He promises to take her to the tairen stronghold (the good guys), and so together they travel, taking their sweet time. The alyen capture Taira through Paddy's mistake. The catch here is that the entire motivation of the alyen is to raise a Dragon again, an evil spirit trapped in the earth. Due to the magic of it, she can be raised only by the use of a Speaking white rabbit. These are incredibly rare and Taira is the first for ages and ages. The tairen are diametrically opposed to this. Anyway, the lynx Sheba, who is the general of the tairen army, decides they will take a massive chance and try to break the ritual rather than capturing Taira before it can happen (because if the ritual is broken at a certain point the spirit will neither remain trapped nor be corporeal enough to wreak havoc, and hence dissipate forever). This causes a lot of tension between Paddy and Sheba. To skip over another chunk, they all end up living happily ever after, except the folks who don't. ;)

Paddy is a gorgeous fellow, a happy merry goofball who was heavily inspired by @stealingmyplaceinthesun in the best way. He makes mistakes, and they change the course of the story, but in the end - he survives, and he gets his happy ending after waiting for it all story. I don't know, I love him so much.

For the OC asks,

30, 21, 11, 9

30. How are you doing? <3

I'm doing alright! I should be studying instead of being on tumblr, though. Avoidance for the win- :P How are you?

21. When did you start considering yourself a writer/artist?

I was a writer from when I was very small. I have no memory of when I started considering myself such, but if no earlier, definitely when I was thirteen and first did nanowrimo.

I've never really considered myself an artist until I got an art program and discovered that digital art is actually possible for me to make something I'm vaguely happy with.

11. Sum up one or more of your wips!

I feel like doing a Bad Summary of a few, so here goes. Congrats if you guess which each one is. A sentence each.

Finds a book and has a mental breakdown as a result. Dad dies so MC shifts countries. Spouse diagnosed with terminal illness so they read books together. Exists and causes problems, not on purpose. Knits to cope with having a new sibling. Gets married and tries to get divorced so the other person doesn't have to cope with MC.

9. Favourite OC?

Ultimately I'd have to say Paddy, for a variety of reasons. I can elaborate if you want.

[tezerenotameiki]

my weird coping mechanism when i have migraines or cant sleep or have anxiety is to imagine fun little yandere CA scenarios (or just general hurt/comfort). if i can look at my phone ill maybe write some down. the problem is that in the past ~5 years my migraines have gotten so bad i have a lottt of time on my hands to plot and think. so what im getting that is after starting it on 12/29/19 ill finally be posting part of my 100k monster later today after work

[shittywriterbrain]

guess who just met a goal after 2 years that some crush in a fucking month. happy 50k to southwards 🥳

[biromanticwritergal]

Okay so I don't have any posts to reblog for Like The Moon Loves the Sun, because I didn't document it on here like I did for some of my other NaNoWriMos (2019 and 2022 are both documented on here, for example). Weird because I feel like 2021 would have done okay on here as well. I might post some of the clips up here after all.

[foxmulderautism]

this is the real representation of grief

[ca-highway49]

editing December

Day 1

2.5k words retyped

[honey-doggo]

Something I both hate and love is coming across creative events on the internet one day before they start. I love it because I find cool events to look forward to throughout the year. I hate it because these events require prep time, and I find out about them the day before they start. It started with Artfight 2022, and it continues with NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) 2023. However, unlike Artfight 2022, I learned the lesson of not preparing everything in one day. I have matured; I went through character growth. So instead of using one of my many story ideas as a sacrificial lamb to test the waters, I decided to use the story I was already working on, and by that, I mean working on the information needed to actually write the story. By doing this, not only will I cut down on the amount of work involved in preparing to write a story, but I will already have an outline and can expand on any information needed. I can also write a first draft of my story and edit it later.

See! I am doing much better than my first artfight! Now, I can learn more from trying to write said story and cry. However, it will be worth it.