WIP Wednesday
Oct. 8th, 2025 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firethesoundIt's been kind of a fucking week. Car issues continue, I've been just sick enough to be annoyed by it but not sick enough to justify any kind of rest, and I've had about zero downtime. I did get the Halloween stuff out and decorated, and my daily mental health walk for my stupid mental health now comes with crunchy leaves, so that's nice. Trying to focus on the positives here.
New words this week : 6494 words which is right back on target and I remain delighted that my wordcount has stayed so consistent overall. Unfortunately it was one of those weeks where I couldn't find my focus and ended up throwing words at a bunch of different stuff with no significant progress made on any of them.
WIPs worked on this week : 6, with no new WIPs (yay!)
The Old Guard
☆ food truck au : 3239 words which brings the total to 28,425 words and I'm still chipping away at the third chapter. Chapter two came back from beta which was helpful as always, so I don't know why this one is being so stubborn. I'm trying really hard to get it finished by this weekend, so we'll see. I'm also pretty sure the finished wordcount is going to be closer to 40k and I'm having something of a crisis over it. This was supposed to be a stupid silly 5k oneshot, and instead it's practically a novel but I'm still not sure that the idea/plot really justifies a novel? I don't know. I guess we'll find out together if it flops when I finally post it.
☆ werewolf au : 1872 words which brings the total to 10,599 words and we're into five digits!! I am still obsessed with this one.
☆ ordinary objects : 531 words which brings the total to 4316 words and I'm just keeping the cockwarming thing and its sequels in the same doc for convenience so it's all getting counted together even though the first part is done and posted. It's going to be a trilogy now, but all the parts should be short. So, probably around 15-20k total for the three of them. Still hoping to get the second part finished and posted by the end of the month.
☆ old kingdom au : 463 words which brings the total to 15,689 words and I'm still pretty obsessed with this one as well, even though it's a little farther down the writing queue. Currently poking at some ideas for the sequel, because of course it's going to have a sequel.
☆ canon divergent identity porn au : 262 words which brings the total to 4262 words and I'd only opened the doc in the first place to jot down a potential title for it, and then read over it and added some more words. It's basically if Joe and Nicky had parted ways post-Crusades and then ended up meeting each other later without realizing who they really were. It's going to be a lot of fun when I finally get around to it.
☆ ghost!joe au : 127 words which brings the total to 12,197 words and the same thing happened with this one, opened it up to jot down a potential title and ended up throwing some words at it. I'm thinking of trying to wrap this one up maybe while working on the werewolf one? It's about half done and because it's a retelling of the first movie the plot doesn't really have much space to spiral so I think I can get it done in about 20-25k.
New words this week : 6494 words which is right back on target and I remain delighted that my wordcount has stayed so consistent overall. Unfortunately it was one of those weeks where I couldn't find my focus and ended up throwing words at a bunch of different stuff with no significant progress made on any of them.
WIPs worked on this week : 6, with no new WIPs (yay!)
The Old Guard
☆ food truck au : 3239 words which brings the total to 28,425 words and I'm still chipping away at the third chapter. Chapter two came back from beta which was helpful as always, so I don't know why this one is being so stubborn. I'm trying really hard to get it finished by this weekend, so we'll see. I'm also pretty sure the finished wordcount is going to be closer to 40k and I'm having something of a crisis over it. This was supposed to be a stupid silly 5k oneshot, and instead it's practically a novel but I'm still not sure that the idea/plot really justifies a novel? I don't know. I guess we'll find out together if it flops when I finally post it.
☆ werewolf au : 1872 words which brings the total to 10,599 words and we're into five digits!! I am still obsessed with this one.
☆ ordinary objects : 531 words which brings the total to 4316 words and I'm just keeping the cockwarming thing and its sequels in the same doc for convenience so it's all getting counted together even though the first part is done and posted. It's going to be a trilogy now, but all the parts should be short. So, probably around 15-20k total for the three of them. Still hoping to get the second part finished and posted by the end of the month.
☆ old kingdom au : 463 words which brings the total to 15,689 words and I'm still pretty obsessed with this one as well, even though it's a little farther down the writing queue. Currently poking at some ideas for the sequel, because of course it's going to have a sequel.
☆ canon divergent identity porn au : 262 words which brings the total to 4262 words and I'd only opened the doc in the first place to jot down a potential title for it, and then read over it and added some more words. It's basically if Joe and Nicky had parted ways post-Crusades and then ended up meeting each other later without realizing who they really were. It's going to be a lot of fun when I finally get around to it.
☆ ghost!joe au : 127 words which brings the total to 12,197 words and the same thing happened with this one, opened it up to jot down a potential title and ended up throwing some words at it. I'm thinking of trying to wrap this one up maybe while working on the werewolf one? It's about half done and because it's a retelling of the first movie the plot doesn't really have much space to spiral so I think I can get it done in about 20-25k.
