#which is like. the length of a chapter
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this is turning into quite a hefty epilogue. it's almost as long as the finale I swear
#kotlc wings au#document is at a little over 10k currently#not everything will make the final cut#so perhaps 8-9k?#which is like. the length of a chapter#i thought epilogues were supposed to be short and sweet#this is long and heartbreaking#<- not all of it I just wrote a particularly bittersweet scene#some knowledge I've had for over a year that no one else does#that completely changes some things#woof
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Since you're asking for requests... Maybe Ran from Case Closed?
YEAHHHH if no one else got me i know my one follower who likes the same bad japanese detective show as me got me ‼️
#IMPECCABLE timing too since i literally started rereading the manga like a month ago. im on chapter 398#which sounds like a lot but this shit is basically one piece in terms of length and plot insanity so#the amount of plot that i did not remember AT ALL is crazy to me but i KNOW i got further than this last time because there are still like#major characters missing from the story. which on chapter FOUR HUNDRED is insane but yk. theres 30 years worth of plot ig#anyway. wish me luck god willing im going to actually catch up this time#my little conan phone strap watching me draw this with that smug ass look on his face. im mentally ill#this show sucks btw don't watch it i just love detective shows
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this new finn pic is so acswy mike to me…look at the car…the new phone in hand…the button down and shorty shorts 😭😭
you are so correct
#asks#this is like exactly the length i imagined for chapter 1. which is to say: will is dramatic. these shorts aren’t short.#unreliable narrator etc etc
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I'm lazily plodding through writing this first chapter, largely because I know I'll have to pivot soon, but it's wild thinking about the difference between THIS first chapter and PREVIOUS first chapters I've written of other novels, something something skill improvement
#i can't do words today#but my first chapters of earlier novel-length WIPs used to be a tangled mess of “just get it on the page”#which worked for me then because it forced me to actually get something on the page#but now I can better tell when something is or isn't working?#like this chapter was supposed to end at a different point but i changed course while writing#because i could tell readers be grounded enough in this first POV narrator to manage pivoting to a second#something something improvement
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Each string was a life, each strand sectioning off into a what if, a splitting cable that led to endless possibilities. Different lives in different worlds. Better lives in better worlds.
The Way Time Twists (AO3)
Chapter 18: Kid
The strings pull. The strings snag.
The sun warmed her closed eyelids, tinting everything in a hazy, muted glow. She could hear the faint squalls of seagulls, the distant chatter of voices she didn’t recognize, and the waves crashing into the sea from what felt like a hundred miles away. Save for the smell of metal, faint underneath the sea salt in the air and the terrible rot wafting out from the dumpsters, everything was fine. She blinked open her eyes, slowly sitting up and taking in her surroundings. She recognized it. All of it. It was Mafia Town. It was... Mafia Town? But you’ve never been here before- a thought, murmured by an uncomfortably familiar voice, wormed its way into the forefront of her mind, unbidden. This is your first time away from home.
Chapter 19: The Way Time Twists
Kid's memories blur and blend together, but they're not just hers this time. (But they are, aren't they?)
Art by @nakakabaliw.
#do you know how hard it was to lie to literally everyone i know. ESPECIALLY TO GIGI. DO YOU.#and keep up the bit about the timeline introduced in chapter 9 just being a throwaway joke. which it kind of was but also i had this cookin#do you understand the lengths i go to for this fic#that was agonizing#but so so worth it#and with that? im gonna take nap#this was a bitch to format and im exhausted#nothing to get me in the mood for my daily nap like posting to ao3#fics#ahit#a hat in time#hat kid#mustache girl#hat adult#hatstache#moonjumper#the way time twists#twtt#twtt au#twtt posting#damn . lotta tags
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i'm churning this shit out like butter. eat up
#violent sun#icarus prime#you know the juices are flowing when a chapter releases the day after another one#i had a good chunk of this one written out already anyway as leftovers cut from chapter 2#because i like keeping my chapters at approximately the same length (which is about 4k words in this case)#gay little sparring session <3 they pin each other down it's very cool#but this aint even the extent of it. the next chapter is going to be insane. i have Plans. look forward to it. :]
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Summary: Ingo has a quiet evening with his family.
The continuation of last weeks chapter because I am apparently writing extremely long chapters for this fic
#submas#subway boss ingo#subway boss emmet#wing au#tracks through the clouds#i have so many thoughts and scenes i wanna write apparently for this fic#like my god i wasnt expecting the chapters to get this long#like the shortest chp i have currently written is 2.5k which is my usual chp length#maybe its cuz ive been writting more this last like year and a half to 2 years#oh well#hope you enjoy!
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where can i sponser a chapter :) just like give a tip on tumblr :) or like is there a site?
uhm. erm. well the erm. the 'sponsor' goal is:
its on my kofi. the link to which you can also find in my tumblr bio.
#my asks#imaginary#LOOK BEFORE ANYONE SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT THE PRICES. LET IT BE KNOWN MY LAST IMAGINARY CHAPTER WAS 27K WORDS LONG#THATS LIKE. A SMALL NOVEL. SO.!!!#ALSO BEFORE IT WAS 25 DOLLARS BUT THEN I GOT A 50 DOLLAR DONATION AND HAD TO WRITE TWO CHAPTERS. BOTH OF WHICH WERE LIKE SMALL NOVEL LENGTH#SO!!!#i basically spent like 20-40 hours on each chapter as well. so like. thats about an hour per dollar#which is def NAWT minimum wage besties (its okay id write for imaginary for free cause i love it) BUT please dont kill me over the prices o#even if you just donate a portion it will still light a fire under my ass the goal is mostly just for jokesies
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happy cicero saturday! :D
Happy Cicero Saturday!!!
Good news chat, there WILL be an update tomorrow!! Mostly because I know if I don't post it soon I'll probably rewrite the whole thing. Again. I can't promise it'll be any particular length (I'm trying to get it to the usual chapter length but like. the writer's block is hitting hard and I just got sick with like. a cold or something), but it'll be more than nothing which at this point is all I can hope for ;-;
On a lighter note, I just wanna say thanks for checking in to you and everyone else who's done so :D
#posts made by rae#posts made by bees#q&a#This cold came on literally a day ago its not whats been stealing all my fic writing time#i will talk about that in the notes section for anyone whos curious tho#bit upset that this chapter which is supposed to be a big moment is just#it feels so anticlimatic rn#working on that#hoping tonight i get possessed by the evil writing demon within me and it turns this 4k chapter into like a 20k one#/hj#no that would be crazy tho#im dead for like 2 weeks just to drop a full length fic as just another chapter#manifesting that to happen tonight chat
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i dont know why the running joke of this chapter is kakashi fearing for his kidneys. where did that come from. WHY did that come from.
i should probably cut that in editing it's a little ridiculous.
except it makes me giggle every time so maybe i should leave it there.
#girl's mind fanfic#clena's writing progress#just have to write ONE more conversation and the whole chapter is done. but DAMN if editing wont be a bitch#still wondering if i should cut jiraiya's 3-page infodump#because while most people dont mind#some people keep commenting saying that my fic is too wordy and i keep adding unnecessary things#and like. they're 1% of reviews but i have the emotional fragility of a china teacup#i cry when i get those sorts of reviews and they ruin my day even tho i get twenty comments who love my rambling#but like. also. i shouldnt delete stuff from my fic just for the 1% of assholes who will say mean things about it#but also i dont want to cry when someone inevitably says something mean about it.#most if not all of said assholes are on fanfiction dot net so technically i could just stop cross posting#except there are people on that site who DO like my rambles so#ugh. why am i such an emotionally sensitive crybaby. my life would be so much better#if i didnt have such thin skin#i'm 90% certain that jiraiya's 3-page infodump is going to get LONGER with editing cause i'm gonna turn it from infodump into#an actual conversation. so who knows how many pages it'll be by the end. the chapter's already 6500 words#which is double my average chapter length#and i DO like the info he presents even if it maybe ISNT strictly required for progressing the story. probably only the last paragraph is#ugh. i wish people would just never say mean things ever. then i wouldn't have a problem with anything xD
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hello i did a fun thing
TOTAL WORD COUNTS: 2020: 110311 2021: 273622 2022: 154134 2023: 142187 2024: 20248
estimated my total words posted to ao3 (had to go chapter by chapter for discacc bc ao3 shows the total word count for a fic under the year it's been last updated, and thus not helpful for this with my 500k words beast of a fic)
the fun thing about 2020 is that ALL of those words were between 11/21 and the end of the year. so it was actually my most productive time, just squished into a span of barely even a month and a half
you can see. that this year has not been very good for my writing.
#speculation nation#i say 'estimated' bc i used a website word counter to get the word counts for the discacc chapters#and subtracted an estimate amount to account for other words that were on the page.#based on the difference between noted chapter lengths and the website counts. which i then applied to every chapter within those years#in any case. yeah this has not been a good year for writing. who'd have thought that major grief would do that to a person.#still getting myself back on track with it. i did manage to write some more today. so that's nice !#and i'll have a whole fic to post in a few weeks. which will basically double this year's writing count lol#and after that... well. we'll hope that im able to get drawn back into ITNL in the way i was when i first started writing it.#or something like it at least. i miss being productive with my writing.#the year's only halfway through. well. a bit over halfway now. but still. i got time. there are still a few more months.#we'll see what i can do with them !
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Chapter 21 is FINISHED we are one hundred SIXTY pages in, y'all
#zombie thoughts#writing fanfic like...#this chapter didn't want to be written for some reason and i thought it was awful#so i was like i'll just write a different version and splice 'em together#but i went back today and reread it and it didn't? suck???#so i wrote the last four pages of it today and a big chonky chapter with a bunch of fun scenes is up next#this chapter was like... 9 pages i think which is just about my average#is that too short? too long? what's the normal page length / word count for a chapter#whatever#d&h is chugging right along
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Gave my fic a re-read after leaving it alone for almost a week and I'm so glad that I left it be.
#don't think i'm gonna add anything to it#just gonna finish typing up what I've already outlined.#then I think It'll be done#which sounds like not a lot but theres whole chapters that need to be written lmao#also I'm feeling better about the length of it???#only bc I was in the Sefikura tag and saw a fic with 350k words and 25k individual reads#SO CLEARLY#people don't mind a long fic#this is not a dig at that writer I'm so happy for them thats amazing#and if people dont feel like reading my whole fic#thats okay too#at least i'll be satisfied that its done
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now here's a question do i do a super short chapter quicker or a super long chapter slower
#normally i would always go for long rather than short#but because it's already been over a month since i've update there's a part of me that just wants to get that initial update out of the way#and i could probably do it within the next few days if that was the case#but it would be significantly shorter than all the other chapters i've writter#i don't really care about length overall but for the sake of pacing i don't like making chapters too different in length#esp if it's been consistent more or less throughout#on the other hand if i go long then i will go really long#and it will maybe take two weeks or so to get it out#which feels really bad#and the next two chapters have some stuff in them that i really really want to get right#so i don't want to rush it#but also i don't want to split it up anyway!#because it's supposed to be contiguous and i don't want to lose that flow of this 'chunk' of plot by arbitrarily splitting up the chapter#but if i do split it up then i can flesh out both parts of it to a greater extent#and maybe that would even improve the flow???#god i don't know#the thing is though usually when i finish a chapter#i finish it at let's say 2300 words#and then by the time i've gone over it and fixed all the things i want to fix (usually flow/transitions/choppy writing)#it ends up being like 2800#so maybe i should just assume the super short chapters will become only regular short chapters if i run them through my brain a couple time#blah blah blah#nonsense
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I love that I'll be writing a super serious scene in my fic, & it's analogous place in my notes will just say some shit like "the girls are fighting"
#personal#fic: sins of the father#reaching...i wanna say the halfway point of chapter 13 as a whole#only 5.3k words deep#which is even shorter than chapter 3?????#granted i'm not done with the first half yet#so it may reach the 6k i feel like is a good ''short chapter'' length#but also i have a very SKEWED sense of what is short & what is long because short for me is still approaching 10k#i'll probably still release 13 in two halves though#unless separately they just feel INCREDIBLY short (like in an unbalanced way)#but yeah. apparently what it takes for me to not write a novel in-and-of-itself as a chapter is to write the pov of a small child again
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Working on a fic still and laughing at these absolutely absurd conversations Bro and Dave have. But also lmao, Dennis from Game Bro with his broken thumb.
They're so fucking dramatic, and oh my god I just realized this probably makes zero sense at all, out of context. Idk how to convey how hilarious this moment is to me, without the miles of words written beforehand. I just need to laugh about it publically lol.
#basically theyre pretending that dave is married with kids and cheating on them with bro at this theme park#but there is no wife and kids theyre just saying that to fuck with someone next to them#bro/dennis is unrequited unfortunately#man this fic is taking forever to write#if u saw the hohohomewrecker comic panel i did on xmas this is still the same fic#wip#homestuck#stridercest#i have no idea what my wordcount is at right now and honestly im scared to find out#the page numbers are for samsung notes not actual page lengths#i wish i had the courage to start posting chapters but i keep going back to edit singular words so its not practical to post anything..#..until the entire story is complete#Cori.exe#Post.exe#suggestive#also disclaimer this is subject to change lmao i am indecisive as fuck#just wanted to laugh about dave teasing bro about having a thing for the game bro dudes#god i already see like 3 things im gonna change but i need a break lmao#also since the subject is stridercest its already written into the intro that the thing dave jerks off to in privacy is bros live action p..#..orn which bro has pointedly kept away from dave but when u live with a ninja u learn to be sneaky and dave definitely dug it up#like the smuppets were fair game but bro made an actual effort to keep the irl stuff hidden and has no idea what daves actually seen
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