August WIP challenge - day 1 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

How's the fic going today? Are you writing/editing/sending to beta? Researching? Resting on your laurels? Procrastinating? Did you post something?

To start off the month, tell us about the fic(s) you'll be working on! Some of you did that a little bit yesterday, but feel free to go into more detail: What do you think will be trickiest to work on? What are you looking forward to? Scared of?

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[lacerta]

I was hoping to finish off the first version of a kink bingo fill that that came out of nowhere last night, but I'm not really sure yet where to go with it. On the one hand, a short pwp is perfectly fine for that kind of challenge, though on the other hand, the kink could have so much more impact if there was a little more back story and a longer intro and the like.

Instead of working on that, though, I did a few little tweaks on two fills from the last kink meme round and re-posted them to my journal. It makes me feel incredibly accomplished.

What I'd love to finish this month is a Supernatural fic based on the Binding of Isaac. I've been watching lots of exciting lectures that pick apart every single word in the rather short text (yes, I find that incredibly exciting ♥♥♥), so the motivation is definitely there. I'm about halfway through with it as well and the missing parts are planned out. All that's lacking are the actual words.

The really difficult aspect for me in writing this is getting the headspace right. There's so much going on emotionally - a father who loves his son so much and still plans on sacrificing him, a son (a child, really) who doesn't fully understand what's going on, only that something is terribly wrong and he can help fix it, and the strangest part is that I can see a certain, terrifying kind of comfort in that too. It's very intimate at least, that's for sure.

So yeah. I'm excited :D (which should be obvious from my ramblings)

[littlebutfierce]

Yay for posting the revised fills to your journal! & good luck figuring out what you want to do w/the kink bingo one.

Also, that's great that you're enjoying the research for your Issac fic so much -- both b/c it's nice to be so enthralled & also all your work will obviously pay off in the finished fic. It definitely sounds like a challenge to get the emotional tone right -- but also like it will be SUPER SATISFYING when you're finally able to do it!!