January 2021 in Review

This year I pledged to write 200,000 words as part of the GYWO community. Last year I put more than 200k on AO3, and given that GYWO counts revisions and outlines, I’m sure I’ll reach this goal.

 

It’s cool to have a very fancy official spreadsheet, and my progress is so much clearer than last year’s spreadsheet.

 

·      I started off the year translating a fic from Russian (2,500 words), had many zero days and returned to outlining and co-drafting the Snarry mystery. We started thinking about this in November (somehow we’ve managed 12k of notes? NOT including the outline haha) but my brain was fixed on H/D Erised. We hope to finish this for Snarry a Thon. Somehow I’ve clocked 7k of this (outlines and draft chapters). The outline “feels” like it’s going to be a 40k but we shall see. I’ve never co-written anything before. It’s nice to wake up and see a chapter you’ve not written – like somehow I am now twice the speed haha.

 

·      I read Likelightinglass’s Snarry Choose Your Own Adventure and immediately my brain went down the “What if I did this for Drarry” route. It’s great fun and I’ve got 4.5k into that.

 

·      My time travel Snarry has been brewing since approx. June. It’s Snape POV, Harry is in Slytherin. I’ve added 6.5k to that. (18k total). Doesn’t sound like a lot but I am happy with the outline. All the OCs are listed here 
 

·      I also did a ficlet for the Drarry Discord Drabble Challenge and I was thrilled to have this podficced. In podfic news, I did one of my own for the Babble Challenge, and finished off Waiting to Divide for the Snarry Bday Exchange. I also podficced a lovely ficlet, Wabi-Sabi, chapters 1 and 2 of Unrestrained and first 3 chapters of Heaven Through a Window.
 

·      I beta read some chapters for puddle_wonderful, another time travel Snarry, very excited for this one! No small task because I’m an incredibly slow beta reader.

 

My goal for January, according to my handy spreadsheet, was to write 16,986 words. I met this a week before the deadline and I’m kinda tempted to up my pledge from 200k to 250k, but I know that there will be quieter months and podfics and deadlines later this year, so perhaps this is a bad idea.