Status.

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Hello all you peoples in LJ land!

I'm procrastinating from writing, even though today is a good day to do so. It's cool outside, overcast, I have the full day off from work (the first in nearly two weeks) and most importantly...internet!

On the writing front... at first, and I cannot lie, I was a tad disappointed by the NBB extension. Deadlines! Must need deadlines! But the past two weeks, I've been locked in a dark, internetless box full of distractions left and right. And though I'm in supervisory mode and can check out to write as needed, it just didn't happen. So, in short... yay, extension! THANK GOODNESS!

Things have eased up a bit this week, so daytimes are again available to tap-tap-tap away on my little keyboard. And I really do want to finish this first pass of the story by the end of the month. However, my story keeps inching longer and longer... I've been "12K more to go!" for the past 3K words, it seems! Blrgh.

I've had a few back-and-forths off-and-on with wingedflight21 about NBB Special Extended Edition Appendices and Extras and Whatnots. I've collected a bit of information that I would love to share with readers, but am unsure what the best way of doing so would be!

snacky had mentioned a Commenting Challenge of some sort after the fact, which sounds like a lot of fun... but with my story already being kinda longish, and not everyone's cup of tea, I'm not sure anyone would have much interest in one. Don't get me wrong, I could talk for HOURS about the NBB, but have a fear of boring people to death!

But I'm still trying to think of a best way to present some supplement material I would like released at the same time my story is posted. I have a map which would make things incredibly useful for readers. There are a couple of songs in the story, one of which I fully composed on Noteflight that I'd like to share. And a chart or two, too... then again, I have no idea what an artist would want to do with it either, so maybe it all could be integrated together? Who knows! I'm anxious to get to the stage of working with an artist, actually!

In other news.... because of its length and somewhat complicated-ness of plot threads, I am interested in bringing in a second beta (thanks to lady_songsmith for being my first!) There are just a few listed on the official sign-up, and it seems like a lot already have a plateful of beta-ing to do, so I don't want to pressure anyone into taking another on. Let alone a 60K one.

I'm particularly interested in someone strong at plot logic and thread tracking, and to tell me of there are enough laughs and cries sprinkled throughout. I'm thinking the story will end up to be T+, borderline M, but nothing explicit. Anyone out there interested? Maybe an exchange of services?

OK. Enough... I need to get writing...

Comments

[wingedflight21.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I think that idea works well for the extras. It would actually be pretty neat to have that stuff embeded into the story, actually. I hadn't realized you could do that on A03, either. Neat! And then to have two separate posts, one for supplemental and one for process organizes it pretty well.

And awesome! It shouldn't be a problem if there's one chapter of that stuff. I really only mentioned it on the beta post because I didn't want to do a fic that is /all/ or /most/ smut etc. But if it's only one chapter, only borderline - pfft, you say it's comic relief and I came /this close/ to sticking a comic relief chapter of that sort into my own story. So that should be just fine.

And sounds good. I /think/ I'll still be a bit before sending anything off to you for opinion - I'm doing this weird thing where I'm going through and editing everything I wrote in November before I write the last third (don't ask me why, I don't really know why) and so I may shoot some stuff off to you once I'm finished that phase for opinion. And same goes for anything you want to send off - I'm good for however you want me to look at it. :)