Writing Update
Sep. 22nd, 2011 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morgynleriFinished.
50k+ words written, almost 35k of which is actually in the story as it was sent to my beta. Eleven months. One major overhaul, one book purchased, one DVD purchased. Several watches of Branagh's film of Henry V, one re-read of the play, lots of scrounging across the internet for every scrap of information I can get. Four other AUs spawned, two sequels titled and vaguely prodded at. More crossovers spawned than I care to count. A rekindled fondness for Shakespeare, mythology, and history. Editing, editing, and more editing. Several late nights, and 2k+ writing days.
All of this over the course of finishing Admit Me, Chorus to This History. The final chapter is off to beta, the full story file is off to the beta for the final re-read of the whole thing. Once the final chapter is back, I finish editing it, and post the last two chapters, and wait for the final full-story re-read by my beta before unlocking the posts, posting the full story to AO3, and posting to coms.
But the bulk of the writing is done. I am. Tired, gleeful, and almost sad. It's the first story I've finished on my own that's this long. That it has sequels to be written is a given, but they're concerning different people, and this finishes Henry's story for this particular AU. Now the stage is for his children, and their exploits.
Also, now maybe I can get Henry's attention turned to the Crowns Imperial alternate history, where he lives through the illness in 1422. For which I have some of the history loosely sketched, and need to get a story written in that framework.
Anyway. Have to get going and head off to the day-job that keeps the bills paid.
50k+ words written, almost 35k of which is actually in the story as it was sent to my beta. Eleven months. One major overhaul, one book purchased, one DVD purchased. Several watches of Branagh's film of Henry V, one re-read of the play, lots of scrounging across the internet for every scrap of information I can get. Four other AUs spawned, two sequels titled and vaguely prodded at. More crossovers spawned than I care to count. A rekindled fondness for Shakespeare, mythology, and history. Editing, editing, and more editing. Several late nights, and 2k+ writing days.
All of this over the course of finishing Admit Me, Chorus to This History. The final chapter is off to beta, the full story file is off to the beta for the final re-read of the whole thing. Once the final chapter is back, I finish editing it, and post the last two chapters, and wait for the final full-story re-read by my beta before unlocking the posts, posting the full story to AO3, and posting to coms.
But the bulk of the writing is done. I am. Tired, gleeful, and almost sad. It's the first story I've finished on my own that's this long. That it has sequels to be written is a given, but they're concerning different people, and this finishes Henry's story for this particular AU. Now the stage is for his children, and their exploits.
Also, now maybe I can get Henry's attention turned to the Crowns Imperial alternate history, where he lives through the illness in 1422. For which I have some of the history loosely sketched, and need to get a story written in that framework.
Anyway. Have to get going and head off to the day-job that keeps the bills paid.