NaFauxWriMo

[michelel72]

I'm not doing NaNoWriMo, not formally or properly. I've got too many WIPs as it is, and I'm too addicted to both editing as I go and jumping between stories to really feel motivated by the standard formula.

But I figure I might as well see if I can use the month many others are using for writing to see how much progress I can make. So I'm noting my current counts here, and I'll try to check back at the end of the month to see where I've gotten.

(I should note that I was inspired by a similar idea from bratfarrar over at writers_lair.)

Counts according to MSWord for entire files. (*) entries include partial headers. (**) entries include summaries and placeholder notes.
SGA Fanfic:
Antigonish: 11,281
Erase and Rewind: 17,108
Headhunters: 10,878
Interface: 5,323
Power: 9,492
Relationship: 5,969 (*)
Resolve/Reprise: 30,382(*)(**)
The Mad Mechanic: 23,477
Untitled SGA/DW Donnaverse sequel: 3570
Original Fiction ("JonChron"): (Which isn't going anywhere)
Untitled prequels, age 16 ("Mall", "Dayroom", "School"): 1232, 941, 2023
Untitled prequel ("Trust"): 11,396
Untitled prequel ("Andy"): 3,317
Near Point: 149,783(**)
Sequel content: Not bothering to count

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Comments

Duuude...

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of words hanging in "progress" (read: limbo). Your a serial starter! Not that I can talk. From this glass house, I can see the 42,344 words of my only half-ish of the Great American Novel... Wow. I will never find the time to write the other half of that... :'/

Re: Duuude...

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

I will mention that five of those have real prospects of completion in the near future (you know, within a year or so — glares at "Near Point", started in 1995). One will either turn into something real or end up as a brief bit o' fluff, and the other three fanfictions are deeply flawed but have a lot I want to rescue, whether by finding a way to patch them or by gutting them for later works. So, yeah, I'm all butterfly approach, but I'm actually getting somewhere with it, so I'm happy. (I'm not very good at concentrating on a single thing start to finish. You're shocked, I know.)

It's a real shame that you don't have time on yours. I want you to finish it!