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November 2024 Plans - Special Edition

New month! As always, still all Voltron, still Keith-focused!

Plans are light this month because I'm writing 50k even if I'm not technically participating in NaNoWriMo, so I really don't have the capacity to commit to other goals that will require my active effort. Hopefully, in exchange for you all getting nothing this month, you'll start getting a whole polished chapter fic in February.

General goals:

Additional words drafted for ILaD: 46,576/50,000

Have VLD WC surpass Spider-Man: 63,314/100,258

All-time AO3 word count: 189,500/200,000

Uncontrollable for funsies AO3 goal: 300 overall comment threads

Okay, "do what I want" month went so well that I'm adjusting my schedule going forward. But it wasn't super helpful taking the entire month off. Honestly, the first week or so handled all the burnout. I think if I take a break more often, it won't get to the point of needing a whole week off, though. Instead of waiting until I burn out again, every Monday is now "do what I want" day. Can be writing the same 3 fics as usual, can be writing one shots, can be dipping out completely to go ice skating. Every Monday is mine now.

Of course, I'm saying this in my one exception month because even if I refuse to officially do NaNo, I'll still be writing 50k this month toward my big project. So no days off this month, BUT also no normal daily par for these fics. I'll just be doing the daily par to hit 50k written in November, and I'm allowed to distribute those words across any combination of fics in the ILaD series. Word count toward other projects outside of this series does NOT count this year.

ILaD:

Yes, I nailed down a final title for the series and all the main fics. Perks of taking a month off, very exciting stuff! All the fics below are eligible for counting toward NotNaNo word count, and in the theoretical universe where I add yet another side story in this universe, that also counts.

Starting stats:

(With the very slight risk that I draft a little more tonight...)

All in, it comes out just under 135k written as of the end of October. Any fic on this list is fair game to count toward overall word count during NotNaNo, but...

Main goals:

Get fic 1 to 100k

Get fic 2 to 50k

Longer term:

Will depend on NotNaNo results, but this is the optimistic timeline!

November 2024: rough draft focus for ILaD

December 2024: final rough draft for ILaD fic 1 & ALL events are outlined for fic 2 and 3

January 2025: major continuity edit for ILaD, drafting fic 2 and 3

February 2025: technical edit for ILaD and begin publishing

March 2025: continue rough draft for fic 2 and 3

April 2025: final rough draft due for fic 2

As of right now, based on my average rate, all drafting for the entire series will be done by the end of July 2025, but that's making the big assumption that I can continue drafting 40k to 60k every single month, not including any short-term projects outside of this.