July to early September: Worked on the writing commission, which helped me afford a CPU upgrade.
September & October: Drafted the second book in the series I mentioned in the previous entry. Might make use of the resurrected NaNoWriMo to revise that mess. I won't be a municipal liaison again this time around, if there's still such a thing, and just be a content old fossil instead.
June: Dragged myself through this month, not just writing-wise. Wrote and edited a couple of short stories to keep the fire going.
July & August: Suddenly a writing commission? & Editor wants me to start developing a series. On it.
Spent all three months contentedly soaking in KPop Demon Hunters content. The Saja Boys are so unabashedly honest in their songs www
Not a progress report per se: I've been having sort of a writer burnout since the end tail of May. While I know what to do, the drive and motivation is just not there. I'm not even too keen on watching movies or series, despite them being good.
The good news is, I have new books (bought, borrowed, and legally free) to read.
March & April:
Finished the first draft of a novel set in 1982. I rely a lot on my memories, while there are also details that I take liberty with.
Currently rewriting a draft from last year. Now that I know what to do with the plot, the writing flows more easily.
ETA: Achieved my ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
getyourowordsout goal, 75k words.
In February, I finished the first draft of the fake dating story. It's a MESS but at least it exists.
Finished a chapter of an ongoing fanfic ahahahaaaa
March will proceed leisurely unless I have to revise a novel or sth.
The other account is for noting down writing accomplishments, and this one is for tracking my progress.
January begins with me developing outlines, rather sluggishly, and an attempt to start a horror novel. Then I re-acquired the rights to my debut novel, so I worked on editing it. Mostly it's correcting the word uses, shaving off parts that don't directly relate to the plot, and updating the technologies and cultural references. That book was written during the Gen 2 Kpop era, btw. After that, I restarted the fake dating novel, and that's what I'm working on right now.
After four (!) years, I'm resurrecting this account to participate in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
getyourwordsout. I wrote 205k words in 2024 so the pledge should be doable.
Them: Hi, can I commission you to write a fanfic?
Me: Yes, sure, go ahead.
Them: What's your bank account number?
Me: ...What's your request?
Not that I'm not grateful that they were willing to pay up front but I was caught off guard. ^^
When I was being noisy about local K-pop fans' willingness to spend money on fanfic, the only way to shut me up would have been to bring up the doujinshi culture. Like I didn't see the parallel! Slow as usual.
