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Jul. 8th, 2026 11:13 pm
WIP Wednesday
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firethesoundNew words this week : 3,431 words which is decent, considering.
WIPs worked on this week : 1, with no new WIPs (yay!)
It's still Wednesday for 46 more minutes, so here we are! This week has been all right. Lot of little things, but sometimes it's just like that. At least the heat wave has broken, so I'm grateful for that.
The Old Guard
☆ food truck au : 3,431 words which brings the total to 175,064 words and we're still trucking along through Chapter 14. How long is too long for a chapter? Because I'm afraid we might be approaching it. I already cut this one in half and now the half I'm working on is at 14k. My longest two chapters so far are around 16k so I'd love to not go over that, but I'm afraid that I might. Ugh. This one was supposed to be short. Also made the appalling discovery that I managed to fuck up my timeline by getting the day they started dating and the day they met confused and agonized over how to fix that because pulling on that thread started to unravel a whole bunch of other stuff and I would've had to rip so many other chapters apart to make it work again. But then I realized, fuck it, Joe is probably mushy enough to want to celebrate both days so we'll just go with that, and I ended up only needing to change like half a line to make it work. So yay for that \o/
WIPs worked on this week : 1, with no new WIPs (yay!)
It's still Wednesday for 46 more minutes, so here we are! This week has been all right. Lot of little things, but sometimes it's just like that. At least the heat wave has broken, so I'm grateful for that.
The Old Guard
☆ food truck au : 3,431 words which brings the total to 175,064 words and we're still trucking along through Chapter 14. How long is too long for a chapter? Because I'm afraid we might be approaching it. I already cut this one in half and now the half I'm working on is at 14k. My longest two chapters so far are around 16k so I'd love to not go over that, but I'm afraid that I might. Ugh. This one was supposed to be short. Also made the appalling discovery that I managed to fuck up my timeline by getting the day they started dating and the day they met confused and agonized over how to fix that because pulling on that thread started to unravel a whole bunch of other stuff and I would've had to rip so many other chapters apart to make it work again. But then I realized, fuck it, Joe is probably mushy enough to want to celebrate both days so we'll just go with that, and I ended up only needing to change like half a line to make it work. So yay for that \o/
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Jul. 1st, 2026 03:01 pm
WIP Wednesday
firethesoundNew words this week : 4,021 words which is okay.
WIPs worked on this week : 3, with no new WIPs (yay!)
I've really fallen off doing these posts recently, but writing has been hard, everything has been hard, and here we are. For a while I was getting about 40 min of uninterrupted writing time per day which was amazing, and then I stopped getting that so writing became pecking out a few words here and there in between doing other things which, surprise, isn't nearly as productive.
The Old Guard
☆ food truck au : 2,641 words which brings the total to 171,633 words and there is no way this fucking thing won't be breaking 200k goddamnit. I'm still stuck on Chapter 14, trying to get all the other little subplots I've been neglecting in favor of all the smut rolling again, and then it turned out it was too much for one chapter so it got split in two, but with two I thought certain bits of it needed a bit more build-up so it got longer, and I don't even know what I'm doing anymore. (Me: this fic is too long. Also Me: Quynh and Nicky are going to go spend a thousand words and counting in Costco together.) I'm also in the loop of non-productivity, where I find feedback very motivating, except I haven't finished a chapter in so long that it's worn off from the last one, so I'm not writing much, so I don't have anything new to send to my beta, so I don't get any more feedback, which means no motivation, etc etc. Trying to push through it but life is hard, writing is hard, woe is me.
☆ misc : 598 words and these are mostly for the series of little extras I have that will be set post-food truck au + some other little snippets of scenes that don't work with food truck au. Like, a little bit of dialogue that doesn't fit at all but I had floating around my brain and so I jotted it down anyhow even though I know it won't go anywhere.
☆ werewolf au : 189 words which brings the total to 16,996 words and this was just writing down a little bit of worldbuilding so I wouldn't forget it. Uggggh this fic is going to be so fucking good when I get around to writing it.
WIPs worked on this week : 3, with no new WIPs (yay!)
I've really fallen off doing these posts recently, but writing has been hard, everything has been hard, and here we are. For a while I was getting about 40 min of uninterrupted writing time per day which was amazing, and then I stopped getting that so writing became pecking out a few words here and there in between doing other things which, surprise, isn't nearly as productive.
The Old Guard
☆ food truck au : 2,641 words which brings the total to 171,633 words and there is no way this fucking thing won't be breaking 200k goddamnit. I'm still stuck on Chapter 14, trying to get all the other little subplots I've been neglecting in favor of all the smut rolling again, and then it turned out it was too much for one chapter so it got split in two, but with two I thought certain bits of it needed a bit more build-up so it got longer, and I don't even know what I'm doing anymore. (Me: this fic is too long. Also Me: Quynh and Nicky are going to go spend a thousand words and counting in Costco together.) I'm also in the loop of non-productivity, where I find feedback very motivating, except I haven't finished a chapter in so long that it's worn off from the last one, so I'm not writing much, so I don't have anything new to send to my beta, so I don't get any more feedback, which means no motivation, etc etc. Trying to push through it but life is hard, writing is hard, woe is me.
☆ misc : 598 words and these are mostly for the series of little extras I have that will be set post-food truck au + some other little snippets of scenes that don't work with food truck au. Like, a little bit of dialogue that doesn't fit at all but I had floating around my brain and so I jotted it down anyhow even though I know it won't go anywhere.
☆ werewolf au : 189 words which brings the total to 16,996 words and this was just writing down a little bit of worldbuilding so I wouldn't forget it. Uggggh this fic is going to be so fucking good when I get around to writing it.
Jun. 30th, 2026 06:21 pm
June Wrap-Up / July Goals
firethesound2026 GOALS
2026 Total Wordcount Goal : 144,389 / 150,000
2026 Total Writing Days : 157 / 365
JUNE
Another busy month, not much writing time, not many words. I was really hoping to turn it around on the writing front after a bust end of May, but alas. We're all doing our best.
June Wrap-Up : I finished the month with 14,964 words which is less than I would have liked. A total of 4 WIPs got words, with all words going into 4 Old Guard fics. I fell well shy of my goal of 25k, alas.
JULY
I don't feel particularly optimistic about how things will go in July, but let's see where it goes.
July Wordcount Goal : 20k which should be doable if I can get at all back on track with writing.
July Fics to Focus On
☆ food truck au : and I don't even know. I've been stuck on Chapter 14 since the middle of May and here we are at the beginning of July. It's at 172k by now, with six chapter still to be finished off. I am almost certain it's going to be over 200k fucccckk. Estimated wordcount, 210k.
2026 Total Wordcount Goal : 144,389 / 150,000
2026 Total Writing Days : 157 / 365
JUNE
Another busy month, not much writing time, not many words. I was really hoping to turn it around on the writing front after a bust end of May, but alas. We're all doing our best.
June Wrap-Up : I finished the month with 14,964 words which is less than I would have liked. A total of 4 WIPs got words, with all words going into 4 Old Guard fics. I fell well shy of my goal of 25k, alas.
JULY
I don't feel particularly optimistic about how things will go in July, but let's see where it goes.
July Wordcount Goal : 20k which should be doable if I can get at all back on track with writing.
July Fics to Focus On
☆ food truck au : and I don't even know. I've been stuck on Chapter 14 since the middle of May and here we are at the beginning of July. It's at 172k by now, with six chapter still to be finished off. I am almost certain it's going to be over 200k fucccckk. Estimated wordcount, 210k.
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