Finally!

[tiggymalvern]

I finished a fic - wow! For the first time in over 18 months, I have something basically done, and I'm almost too surprised to be suitably excited by it. It had been making me feel like I would never finish stitching it together, hanging over me like the big black vulture of doom. But it's more than finishing a fic, because this is finishing a world, wrapping up the plot that's been ever-evolving in my head for the last three years, and while I'm more than glad to have got it finished, it's also slightly sad in a way.

Of course, I still have to edit the crap out of this thing, especially the later parts, because the earlier stuff was edited muchly as I went along, but that painful process can wait until another day!

Comments

[jo-lasalle.livejournal.com]

Hey, congratulations! I bet it feels odd, finishing something after spending so much time in a particular universe, but yay for finishing!

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

It'll feel more odd, I suspect, when I really finish it than it does when I know I've still got so much editing to do! But it's going to be strange to leave these guys behind and not have them in my head any more....

[moonriddler-mim.livejournal.com]

yay for fic! ^_^

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I feel so accomplished, yay!

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

Letting go is hard...

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

It's funny, you spend so much time with these people in your head, and they eat such a big chunk of your life. And they're not even real....

Reading LJ backwards

[solo.livejournal.com]

Um, congratulations.

And can I also say, because that occurred to me after my last reply, that that... suddenly went very fast? Like, blink, what, you're done?

How did it happen???

Re: Reading LJ backwards

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Actually, it was deathly slow. I've been so close to finishing it for so long, with just a couple of completely inspiration-lacking scenes to pull together that were holding me up. The ending section was almost completely written a while back, but I wanted to finish the ones before it first! Filling in the gaps took far longer than it should have....

Don't suppose there's any chance I've inspired you?

[mac-lynn.livejournal.com]

Hooray for you! ^_^

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It'll be an even bigger load off when the editing's all done, and I can scratch it from the To Do list :-)

[tameiki.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the finished fic! How many words did it wind up to be? :)

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

85,000. I thought it was going to be around 65, then 75, but it kept growing on me!

[imre-nico.livejournal.com]

*cough*

We can assume it's not the MPREG fic, then?

...XD

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Nope, no mpreg fic XD I don't think that's ever going to see the light of day - it was supposed to be a humorous pastiche, but the ending just wants to descend into very sick and rather brutal, and probably way beyond the bounds of most people's good taste.

Though not beyond mine, of course....

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Thank you! But you know, you could always skim through it in confusion to pick out the Brit-words for me if you're keen ;-)

[orangewinters.livejournal.com]

Woo! Congrats!

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-)

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Thank you!