I...I think I can wrap up before I hit 60k?

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[shiny-glor-chan.livejournal.com]

Haha, your Big Bang wants to be a NaNo. XD

[iesika.livejournal.com]

My big bang will be bigger than a nano. There's about 18 hours of in story time left, and that time includes a school dance, a super-fight, and some very confused make-outs. And other things!

[shiny-glor-chan.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm in awe that you have it so planned out. Plans for my own fics make me twitch. My muses seem to like chaos. XD

[iesika.livejournal.com]

If one invests several months and 50000 words into something, one ought to know how it will end.

[shiny-glor-chan.livejournal.com]

>>;; Not how my mind works, but I'm rather weird that way. XD

[iesika.livejournal.com]

This is not meant to sound condescending, but didn't you tell me you hadn't really finished anything NaNo length? This may be why.

I've been writing for kind of a while, and I've learned my lesson the hard way about not having clear progression to an end point in mind. I've left behind many an abandoned WIP, and several epic-length things with dreadfully unsatisfying endings.

[shiny-glor-chan.livejournal.com]

Well, usually I had an ending in mind, but no bits to get to said ending, then I usually fell out of fandom before I gave much of a damn.

...okay, sorry, but the first part wasn't condescending, but the 'I've been writing for kind of a while' really was. I've been writing fic for seven years. I just haven't had a fandom I stuck with long enough for something too long to happen.

[iesika.livejournal.com]

I really didn't want to sound that way, so I apologize. I was just trying to share a bit of my own writing experience (15 years or so of it, which makes me feel older and wiser than I am, sometimes). I know everyone does everything a bit differently, so please don't mind me.