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2020-08-01 01:54 pm
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The "How Many Times Can I Rewrite This Summary Challenge" X-D

I've started trying to write summaries before I write the story. It's kind of nice, I can keep the approximate summary within view as to what the ultimate goal of the fic is, a nice little synopsis of what was in my head at the start.

They change, of course. Maybe small edits, or maybe big ones. But that's okay too.

For my newest Johnlock:

When John Watson first moves into 221B, he brings with him a strange family heirloom.

Sherlock Holmes is a logical person; he's not particularly bothered by old dolls with flaked varnishes and cracked teeth. "Rosie" is a toddler-sized approximation of a human with a yellowed apron and dusty old parts. He can tolerate her presence in the flat for John's sake. Normal people have such strange sentiments, and Sherlock does his best not to judge John's.

Until that sentiment leads them down a crooked path of obscured truths, a family haunting, and a deluded personal narrative. But whose?
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2020-07-12 09:38 pm
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I was not expecting to be writing a second long fic this year. I wrote The Killing Principle March thru May (ending at around 80,000 words), and told myself to write short fics for the rest of the year. Now here I am, 11 chapters & 33,000 words in, and halfway through the outline. We’ll see how the rest goes! Even if it’s just 65,000, I’m still counting it as a long fic. 😆
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2020-06-29 10:15 am
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The Ghost in the Graphite

It keeps coming to me in first person, so first person it shall be.
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2020-06-21 02:01 pm
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An Ending

I've been struggling with a good way to end this story (that got way bigger than it should be, of course), and my SO says, "Why not just kill off Greg?"

As a joke.

But I'm gonna do it. X-D
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2020-06-14 01:19 pm
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A New Story with Consequences

I’m preparing to begin the first chapter of Into the Gloaming, which deals with a very serious situation wherein young teen Sherlock is dying of cancer. The viewpoint is shared between Sherlock and his mother.

I watched my mother lose her sixteen year old son, so this is a type of grief I am unfortunately intimate with. I am a mother myself now, and a story like this would have been easier to tell just a few years ago, before I understood how profoundly a child wraps itself in the center of your heart.

So why am I writing this story when I’m risking a glut of emotional disturbance? It was borne out of a personal experience, another grief, another death, of a young boy who loved crows. As I was processing the event, this story came to me. Sherlock, a brilliant, inquisitive teen, is diagnosed with an inoperable tumor. His mother is caring for him along with some aunts and a hospice worker. As he drifts in out of a morphine-induced sleep, he’s visited by a black bird. He calls the bird John, and as he and John travel through his dreams, he discovers the truth and meaning behind his brief life.

I’ve had it outlined for a number of months, and have been writing other fics for prompts and themed months. I’m happy to finally begin this one. I hope to finish it by the end of the month. In my spare time, I will be giving my own child a lot of hugs, and indulging in multiple self-care activities. There likely won’t be a large audience, but i write it for the sake of writing it. Anyone who does read it and can appreciate it will have my eternal gratitude anyway. ❤️
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2019-01-04 11:56 am
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Writing Goals

I'm trying really hard to keep to achievable writing goals this year. I work full time at a job I mostly love, and I have a seven month old baby girl who is so deserving of my time and attention. It's difficult to find time for my hobbies, but not impossible. I also paint (or I try to) in my spare time (which I currently seem to have nearly none of), and I have other interests: music, crochet/knitting, beekeeping, cooking, gardening, hiking, and hanging with friends.

I've made my writing a priority because it fits well with my current lifestyle. Painting is messy, and it's sometimes unsafe to have around small children and babies. (I paint with hot wax and oils, neither of which is conducive to tiny child-rearing, particularly when I have to use a blowtorch to keep the wax hot.) I can still have my music, and beekeeping doesn't take up too much time, and I plan to have baby out with me when I garden (and hopefully that works), and I still do some cooking, hiking, and hanging with friends. But as for truly creative work, I can really only write after baby girl goes to sleep, or during lunch at work. I only need my laptop, whereas with painting there is decidedly more prep and cleanup.

So, in thinking about what I truly have time for, here goes:

1. I will write 1,000 words per weekday in my Mystrade in Space AU. I plan to be finished with the first draft by May, and I will use the summer to edit. Perhaps find a beta or two in August, and begin posting in September.

2. I will work on one short story every two months.

Of course, I have other works on the back burner, but I will keep those at a low simmer, and work on them on weekends, and only if I have the time.

Good luck to me.

And good luck to all of you and your goals and desires! Happy New Year.
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2018-12-14 01:45 pm

To Capture Light

I finally submitted my first fanfic.


"Mycroft Holmes has sequestered himself in a desolate part of the world as he struggles with the consequences of the events at Sherrinford. He is confronted with the unexpected when a visitor appears on his doorstep."

To Capture Light on Ao3.
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2018-12-11 02:48 pm

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I have no idea how this website works, and I am on mobile. I’m guessing I should wait until I’m on a computer.

Anyway, I’m here to sail with the Mystrade ship! Hi! Just about to post my first contribution on Ao3. Yay!