::collapses::

[foxinthestars]

OMG you guys. I have a draft. An actual complete draft of the epic Natsume Yuujinchou fic. It came in around 28,000 words, and I want to go over it once before posting, but I should be able to show it off within a few days. Could still use work in some places, but that's why it's called a draft, and I'm giving myself a month to revise it...


Also, today's Unlimited episode, because it vexed me.

They needed another episode for that timeskip, or at least to budget the time better, or something. Seriously, loaded milieu aside you have this whole happy story about transcending what holds you back and being true to yourself and finding your people, and then in THE LAST THREE FREAKING MINUTES you remember you were supposed to shoot the protagonist in the head, turn him into an edgy anti-villain, and explain a brain in a tank. ::headdesk::

Hyoubu offing one guy under extreme duress was seriously not what we were promised. I also love a good self-fulfilling prophecy as much as the next gal, but it's such a well-worn trope that I was sitting there like "That's it? Come on, there's gotta be more to it than that!" and they did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING with it. ::headdesk more::

Other than that, it was awesome as usual.

Comments

28,000 words...

[basedeltazero]

Ah, 28k words. How long did it take you? I have an unfortunate tendency to write long things... I have 28,000 word chapters, and the overall fic is 156k... yeah, that's a lot of work.

The episode you mention in the second half sounds pretty headdesky, that's for sure. Gotta love out-of nowhere twists?

Re: 28,000 words...

[foxinthestars]

I've been at it since about New Years, so two months. For me, chapters are usually 5-10k, but you get an overall fic over about 50k and I become a Dead Fic Queen. -_-;;

Re: Unlimited, the thing is it wasn't a twist! The last couple of episodes were a flashback, and the headshot-villainize was what we went into it on the promise of explanations for, but (after giving us something otherwise good) they just timeskipped to the heavy lifting at the last minute and dashed it off haphazardly before previewing the next episode back to present time.

Other than this moment I do really like the show, and I can hold out some hope they'll revisit the rushed stuff later. (Word is that it's getting a manga adaptation, maybe that'll do it better, at least.)

Re: 28,000 words...

[basedeltazero]

That is a pretty impressive amount of writing in two months, I wish I could manage that kind of productivity... I have the opposite problem as you, where I can't come up with any idea that isn't a multiple-hundred-thousand-word epic.

As for the Unlimited thing, I didn't really know how to phrase it... I think it was sort of 'ending?' I dunno.