what is wrong with me?

[raspberryhunter]

I thought my not_primetime fic was going to be, you know, 1000-3000 words. Maybe 4000, pushing it.

Then I decided to go with the more complicated prompt, because without doing so I couldn't figure out how to make the simple prompt to work, and... 19k and counting (although nearly done). AUGH!

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[ollipop]

Mwa-ha-ha! Awesome. I bet they'll love it, though. AND you're way early, so you have lots of time for beta!

[scaramouche]

It's wonderful and terrifying when that happens.

[raspberryhunter]

I hope so! :)

Yeah, my worry about my poor beta(s) (I think I'm going to have two for this one, because I feel bad sticking one person with 20k... so... I'll stick two people with it, wait I guess that makes no sense, does it?) was part of what drove me to finish it so soon. (I've done the 45k-beta-in-six-days-while-finishing-my-own-fic thing, thank goodness work was nonexistent that week, and while it seems to have gone okay I did kind of wish I'd had more time to mull over it :) )

[raspberryhunter]

YES. I didn't even know I could write 20k words about anything! (Well, except physics, but that's different.)

Though honestly, it would be more wonderful if I had more TIME (I know it's not_primetime's first year, and I don't want to be too critical, but I do wish that one of the things they hadn't lifted from yuletide was the short writing time... 1.5 months is NOT ENOUGH for me). As it is I feel like there's no way I can put the polish on it I want to, and there are whole subplots I had to cut. Oh well :)

[ollipop]

I think timing is everything for a beta like this, and having two actually makes a lot of sense, in case one gets busy and defaults. It happens to the best of us.

However, I'm still in the stage with my NPT that I feel like I have soooo much time, I wouldn't want to get on it too early. (This may be my fatal flaw in life.) I sort of want to do the big complicated prompt, in the fandom I know less well, because it's so obviously the fandom that my recipient spends the most time in. Please feel free to chime in--early and often--about how NICE it is to get out of your main fandom once in a while and try new things!

[raspberryhunter]

Heh. Now I'm feeling guilty about my poor writer, because my NPT letter was very slanted towards OUAT and I've certainly written more fics for that than any other fandom -- but it would not at all be accurate to say it's the fandom for which I most want fic! It just so happens that I have very strong Feelings about things I dislike about OUAT that need to be Fixed (and therefore needed to be spelled out in the letter) whereas for the other fandoms I listed I just want fic with those characters, period, and possibly i want it more because I can't myself write in this fandoms. So maybe something like that is going on with your recipient?

But I can also say, it's nice to try new things! :)

[ollipop]

Yes, you can tell me both of those things, every couple days starting about now. :)