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I'm gonna take you to my garden of screams
I've been watching so many Overwatch videos that I... kind of want to try playing it again. I can't quite tell yet if this urge is just another type of self-sabotage, so I haven't taken any action yet. My tentative plan, should I actually choose to touch the game again, is to play lots & lots of Ana.
Camp NaNo is well underway & it's making me so happy. It's excellent for my fluctuating mental health to have something to focus my creative energies on, especially when such a lovely community is involved. My local writing group is meeting up tomorrow & I'm ridiculously excited!
I'm working on two projects this month, and though I'm trying to split my time equally, I've been gravitating strongly towards the shorter one. ("Shorter," I say, as it approaches the 60k mark.)
Project #1 is Seven Magpies, a prequel to the first Dishonored game. IT IS THE FIC OF MY HEART, OKAY. It's the long-winded, as-medically-realistic-as-I-can-make-it pregnancy fic that I've always wanted to write, but could never quite find the right fandom for, until I decided in 2016 to take the plunge and try it with Dishonored. It is very long & very involved by now & I haven't worked on it since November, so I've had to reread and summarize all my existing material to get back into the swing of this fic.
The rereading/summarizing is a little tedious, ngl, but absolutely necessary. My hope is that once the synopses of each existing chapter are done, it'll be easier for me to pick this project up again after taking breaks. Because if there's one thing I've learned from working on the same long-ass fic for 4 years, it's that I definitely need to put it on hold from time to time to work on shorter things.
Project #2 is The Butterfly Effect, another Dishonored fic, but this one goes AU right at the beginning of the game: when everything's about to go to shit, a version of Corvo from another dimension drops out of the sky & saves Jessamine's life. Cue lots of confusion and regular!Corvo being like:
They recover Emily, shenanigans happen, and they all get sucked into new!Corvo's dimension & have to figure out a way to get back home. Also new!Corvo is in a relationship with his world's version of Geoff Curnow. (I'm already planning to write a short spin-off about the two of them.)
This fic feels a little less self-indulgent than 7M. The plot bunny basically punched me in the face in April & would not leave me alone until I started writing. It's wonderfully satisfying to finally implement (some of) my headcanons about what Corvo's life was like pre-Dunwall (while ignoring DH2). This fic also has given me the chance to explore a side of Corvo's character that I haven't really looked at yet--the side of him that's... not calm and collected, but angry and in pain and wracked with guilt.
Also, full disclosure, this fic is filled to the brim with Corvo-and-Emily father-daughter bonding, a theme that I can never, ever get enough of. I'm pretty excited about how it's turning out & if at all possible, I would like to finish the first draft by the end of July!
Camp NaNo is well underway & it's making me so happy. It's excellent for my fluctuating mental health to have something to focus my creative energies on, especially when such a lovely community is involved. My local writing group is meeting up tomorrow & I'm ridiculously excited!
I'm working on two projects this month, and though I'm trying to split my time equally, I've been gravitating strongly towards the shorter one. ("Shorter," I say, as it approaches the 60k mark.)
Project #1 is Seven Magpies, a prequel to the first Dishonored game. IT IS THE FIC OF MY HEART, OKAY. It's the long-winded, as-medically-realistic-as-I-can-make-it pregnancy fic that I've always wanted to write, but could never quite find the right fandom for, until I decided in 2016 to take the plunge and try it with Dishonored. It is very long & very involved by now & I haven't worked on it since November, so I've had to reread and summarize all my existing material to get back into the swing of this fic.
The rereading/summarizing is a little tedious, ngl, but absolutely necessary. My hope is that once the synopses of each existing chapter are done, it'll be easier for me to pick this project up again after taking breaks. Because if there's one thing I've learned from working on the same long-ass fic for 4 years, it's that I definitely need to put it on hold from time to time to work on shorter things.
Project #2 is The Butterfly Effect, another Dishonored fic, but this one goes AU right at the beginning of the game: when everything's about to go to shit, a version of Corvo from another dimension drops out of the sky & saves Jessamine's life. Cue lots of confusion and regular!Corvo being like:
They recover Emily, shenanigans happen, and they all get sucked into new!Corvo's dimension & have to figure out a way to get back home. Also new!Corvo is in a relationship with his world's version of Geoff Curnow. (I'm already planning to write a short spin-off about the two of them.)
This fic feels a little less self-indulgent than 7M. The plot bunny basically punched me in the face in April & would not leave me alone until I started writing. It's wonderfully satisfying to finally implement (some of) my headcanons about what Corvo's life was like pre-Dunwall (while ignoring DH2). This fic also has given me the chance to explore a side of Corvo's character that I haven't really looked at yet--the side of him that's... not calm and collected, but angry and in pain and wracked with guilt.
Also, full disclosure, this fic is filled to the brim with Corvo-and-Emily father-daughter bonding, a theme that I can never, ever get enough of. I'm pretty excited about how it's turning out & if at all possible, I would like to finish the first draft by the end of July!