Okay, I'm completely blown away that you wrote 33K words in 5 days. Wow!
I finished a draft on Jan. 2, which meant I had time for my beta to do a quick and dirty first edit (because she is amazing), which was a very good thing, because I kept changing things mid-stream and forgetting to make retroactive changes, including the gender and age of the last patient. Oops!
That being said, I've done a lot of editing already on certain sections, because I when I'm stuck in a long story, I go back over the parts I've already written and obsess about them for a while. So some paragraphs are polished, while others are barely coherent. And it's all very annoying when you have to go back and actually work out the logistics and -- even worse! -- the medicine. And this whole plot thing is very annoying. So I'm very glad we have another month to edit/rewrite, because I started editing last night and I already hate my fourth paragraph. Oh exposition, how you destroy me.
Ended up with ~25,500 words, which is kind of insane, because the original idea started out as a "Come As You Aren't" fic, and then spiraled out of control, so perhaps it is sort of what I am. It is my first cross-over, in a fandom I've never written in before, though, so I really have no idea what readers will make of it.
Congratulations to everybody who made it past the first hurdle!
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Date: 2009-01-08 05:22 pm (UTC)I finished a draft on Jan. 2, which meant I had time for my beta to do a quick and dirty first edit (because she is amazing), which was a very good thing, because I kept changing things mid-stream and forgetting to make retroactive changes, including the gender and age of the last patient. Oops!
That being said, I've done a lot of editing already on certain sections, because I when I'm stuck in a long story, I go back over the parts I've already written and obsess about them for a while. So some paragraphs are polished, while others are barely coherent. And it's all very annoying when you have to go back and actually work out the logistics and -- even worse! -- the medicine. And this whole plot thing is very annoying. So I'm very glad we have another month to edit/rewrite, because I started editing last night and I already hate my fourth paragraph. Oh exposition, how you destroy me.
Ended up with ~25,500 words, which is kind of insane, because the original idea started out as a "Come As You Aren't" fic, and then spiraled out of control, so perhaps it is sort of what I am. It is my first cross-over, in a fandom I've never written in before, though, so I really have no idea what readers will make of it.
Congratulations to everybody who made it past the first hurdle!