Big Bang!

[lilacsigil]

For the past 8 weeks, I've been working away on my second ever Big Bang, for xmenbigbang, and finally the first draft is complete! It's the longest thing I've ever written: 79,000 words of genderchange femslash X-Men First Class fic. (I say "genderchange" because "genderswap" implies to me that there's only two genders and the author swaps them over, but if anyone's got a better term, bring it on!)

I am very proud of myself, not the least for limiting myself to a maximum of 3000 words a day so that my poor arthritic wrists hang in there. Now...the editing!

Comments

[kindkit]

Congratulations! That is many many words.

[st_aurafina]

not the least for limiting myself to a maximum of 3000 words a day so that my poor arthritic wrists hang in there.

Oh, lies! What about those 4K+ days when you had mittens for hands afterwards? How quickly you forget.

But yay! Because I love all of these people to bits, and I can't wait until you post it.

[lilacsigil]

I was quite surprised - I thought it would be about 30,000 words when I planned it!

[lilacsigil]

La la la, wiped them from my memory, only remember good things!

[wordsatourbacks]

Yaaaaay! You should be proud!

[nixwilliams]

go you!

[senmut]

I love you a little bit now. You just helped me see one of the unconscious resistance factors I had to 'genderswap'.

[lilacsigil]

I was proud! Then I had to edit it all!

[lilacsigil]

Thanks! I hope the move is going well!

[lilacsigil]

I actually saw someone on my flist posting that they were uncomfortable with "genderswap", then I thought about it for aaaaages and this is what popped up. It's still not really right, but I like "genderchange" better.

[nixwilliams]

we leave tonight! i think we're going to make it!