Happy New Year, and stuff

My mum gets back from Montana today, so I'm gonna be going round picking up the house and stuff, here in a bit. I also need to do something about my laundry, since it's taken over again.

After that, I'm gonna get working on some fic, and see if I can squeeze out a few more words for my final word count for the year. It was at like, 204k when I last added it up, but it may be closer to 220k with everything I did the last two days, reworking Tarbell to fix the ending that I decided didn't work, and fixing next chapter of Trickster God to make it a little less violent, but still messed up. Now I want to actually move forward, and maybe see if I can get some progress on Midgard Legends as well. Update day for that is Friday, and I'll be so glad to see the end of France. I don't know why France irritated me so badly. I think it's because I'd only plotted to be there for a single chapter, and it wound up drawing out to like, four or five. At least I expect Norway to take a bit of time. There's a lot I want to do in Norway, that I couldn't do in France because it was just too early and would have become a game-changer for some of the characters.

France was awful for me. Norway will be awful for them.

Bit of looking back

Like several other people, despite the general crapness of 2014, I did have a pretty good year of it fandom and writing wise. Unfortunately, the general crapness did affect some of my fandom participation, and there was a period of time where I had almost zero creative output for several months. But even so, I wound up doing better than expected.

I made a personal pledge to write 365,000 words for the year. I managed 246,662 , after getting some serious haul on the last few days, and double-checking my junk folder and finding a few things I forgot to count. I wrote (and posted) 15 stories total, three of which for exchanges (with many more half-started projects written and unposted). I signed up for four exchanges, and did artwork for one. I intended to participate in a few more, and even had to drop out of modding a few unexpectedly, which is something I still regret.

This year was also a fairly high output year for artwork. Unusually high, actually. I'm not the sort of artist who can just sketch something out and be happy with it, so my output is always bleak. This year, I completed ten pieces, and branched into acrylic paint as a primary medium.

Compared to 2013, and despite everything, I somehow managed this year to double the amount of fics posted, and triple my word count. I also finished eight more pieces of artwork over 2013.


Three of my fics are still in WIP purgatory, though one is more or less complete, and just needs a good thrashing about with the editing stick before I post the remaining four chapters. The other two are going to remain in WIP purgatory forever, at the rate they keep going. For anybody who just can't wait, or mostly for me, because I want to at least put it down somewhere, here are my plans for these three fics:

( Tarbell Course in Magic, vol 1 )

( How to Train your Norse Trickster God )

( Midgard Legends )

I have so much planned for this AU universe, and part of my goal for 2015 is to finish this fic and get at least the next one up as well. Originally, this AU was intended to see how much I could have Loki meddle with the MCU, but I don't think I can get much farther than maybe the Avengers before too much changes and it stops being able to follow along. And the Avengers is a big maybe, considering Loki's role in it. I have an idea for how it might be done, but we'll see how that goes.