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I've been making great progress on Salvage lately, especially in terms of plotting my way forward through the next arc of the story. This part of the fic is a bit "squishy"--there are multiple plot threads running simultaneously, and while they influence each other there's less of a strong sense of cause and effect between them, so it can be hard for me to order my scenes. But! Recently I was actually able to sit down and lay out the next ten chapters or so in a pretty satisfactory way.
And it's exciting! Another thing I've come to recognize recently is that past a certain point, this fic really just goes hard, all the way to the end--every single chapter has something I really like about it, and most of my favorite chapters fall into the last ~15 chapters in the entire story. Laying everything out on the table, we're really not that far from them! Chapter 54 is where I think the current arc really starts to pick up, and then Chapter 59 is the last chapter before we get to the run of "Negrek's favorites." (Although I like the plan for 59 quite a lot as well.)
I really am getting close to my favorite part of the fic now; it's really just three chapters or so more before I'm on more solid ground, and then only another five or so before things really get going. Finally! I'm super excited to finally reach some of the big moments I've been building to over the entire fic.
I've definitely been chewing on the current chapter for too long. Time to spit it out and move on already! I decided on Sunday to swap the last scene of this chapter and the opening scene of the next, so that needs a little more work done on it, but the rest is ready for its final read-through and polish. I feel very confident that it'll be ready to go in the next week.
It's been a long time since I published a chapter! And summer, in general, has just been a lot, especially August. Not in a bad way! I was, if anything, having too much fun. But after August with the Zoroark Games, exquisite corpses, fanfic contest results, the Tarot card event, two out-of-state-trips, and I guess also my job (which has been unusually turbulent the last four months or so) going on somewhere in there, I'm definitely ready for a break. In September I'm not taking on any new projects, I'm not going anywhere, and I'm focusing as much as possible on wrapping up prior commitments and generally relaxing. Clearing some video games. Hard to complain about having too many good things going on, but I'm looking forward to a quieter fall and making some serious progress on Salvage. I'm so close! And we're nearly at the most fun stretch of the fic. I intend to enjoy it to the utmost.
And it's exciting! Another thing I've come to recognize recently is that past a certain point, this fic really just goes hard, all the way to the end--every single chapter has something I really like about it, and most of my favorite chapters fall into the last ~15 chapters in the entire story. Laying everything out on the table, we're really not that far from them! Chapter 54 is where I think the current arc really starts to pick up, and then Chapter 59 is the last chapter before we get to the run of "Negrek's favorites." (Although I like the plan for 59 quite a lot as well.)
I really am getting close to my favorite part of the fic now; it's really just three chapters or so more before I'm on more solid ground, and then only another five or so before things really get going. Finally! I'm super excited to finally reach some of the big moments I've been building to over the entire fic.
I've definitely been chewing on the current chapter for too long. Time to spit it out and move on already! I decided on Sunday to swap the last scene of this chapter and the opening scene of the next, so that needs a little more work done on it, but the rest is ready for its final read-through and polish. I feel very confident that it'll be ready to go in the next week.
It's been a long time since I published a chapter! And summer, in general, has just been a lot, especially August. Not in a bad way! I was, if anything, having too much fun. But after August with the Zoroark Games, exquisite corpses, fanfic contest results, the Tarot card event, two out-of-state-trips, and I guess also my job (which has been unusually turbulent the last four months or so) going on somewhere in there, I'm definitely ready for a break. In September I'm not taking on any new projects, I'm not going anywhere, and I'm focusing as much as possible on wrapping up prior commitments and generally relaxing. Clearing some video games. Hard to complain about having too many good things going on, but I'm looking forward to a quieter fall and making some serious progress on Salvage. I'm so close! And we're nearly at the most fun stretch of the fic. I intend to enjoy it to the utmost.
