Write Every Day: 15 November 02019

[silveradept]

Greetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-In Post for 15 November 02019.

How about that! We're halfway home, if you're on the NaNo train. That's still plenty of time to get everything done on the schedule that you want, naturally.

Today, I ended up playing Stunt Professional by doing programming in a different location on nearly zero preparation or warning. The nice thing about being a mid-career professional is this particular kind of stunt work is really easy to do so long as you have the space and access to a couple of resources, which I did. Much appreciation from the location where I was Stunt Professional, and from there it was mostly just meetings. I didn't quite get everything I wanted done, but that's because I went and was a Stunt Professional, and that work will keep until I get back into the office next.

Writing-wise, I put another chapter into the backburnered project, since an ending for the assignment project hasn't materialized yet, and I'm probably going to think about how the next chapter of that will go. I also continued to dither about whether or not to post the next installment of a series, because while the plot works entirely, it gives a fairly significant characterization shift to someone compared to canon, and it moves the tone of the entire series from somewhere fluffy-ish to something decidedly not. Then again, I have a work where someone has explicitly said they found the characterization dark, but they enjoyed the work all the same. So I think I'm just getting nervous about it for no reason. Some people will like it, some people won't, and maybe some people will stop reading it, if there are any further installments that show up (there haven't been so far, so, *shrug*)

My writing projects seem to be taking a turn toward the darker recently. That's not bad or wrong, just interesting to observe. Half the fun of posting work is posting stuff that comes into your head and that you put effort into. And then seeing that there are people who like it all the same.

I also poked at my stats for the year so far, and this year is turning out to be prolific, in terms of words produced in fiction efforts, and also the year where a single work is responsible for about 10% of my total kudos count. (There's your one-hit wonder, right?) And also, the year I went out into a megafandom and came back okay, with lots of people apparently enjoying things enough to leave a kudo, a comment, or a bookmark that just says "perfect". (It's not marked as a Rec on that bookmark, though. Which seems oddly charming.)

Here's the tally so far:

Day One: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ofmonstrouswords, sanguinity, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Two: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ofmonstrouswords, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, teigh_corvus, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Three: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Four: alexcat, alexseanchai, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, redsixwing, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Five: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Six: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, treonb, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Seven: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Eight: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, treonb, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Nine: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, treonb, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Ten: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, treonb, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Eleven: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, treonb, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Twelve: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, treonb, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Thirteen: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, treonb, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Fourteen: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Fifteen: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, sanguinity, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Comments

[silveradept]

I'm always up for tactical advantages that end happily, but I think the advantage has to be a good one, and I'm not sure "advance knowledge of the identity of your greatest foe" qualifies high enough.

[alexseanchai]

except it does bc Chat Blanc was bc slammed with that knowledge, a couple of related revelations, and Hawkmoth's cane, possibly while still reeling from the emotional whiplash of the love of his life trying to break up with him and not saying why. definitely while in butterfly range and without time to process. if Ladybug found Hawkmoth out first, all the circumstances in which Chat finds out could be changed.

though honestly I was thinking something more like incoming akuma, let's fight it off together (or get simultaneously akumatized and then go storm Hawkmoth's lair) with kissing in.

[silveradept]

I like that last option. Good potential for chaos of the fun kind.

[alexseanchai]

plausible deniability on identities, emphatically not dating, Adrien subsequently tells Alya to stop matchmaking. (thinking diptych for fan_flashworks if I can write fast enough. this comment is all the second fic.)

either Akumanette (Princess Justice) and she's a minion type who grabs Adrien as her knight, or Akumadrienette (Princess Verity and Sir Justice), not sure yet. in either event, need to watch end of season first probably, but Marinette resists akumatization long enough for Adrien to get their Miraculouses to Rose and Juleka. (Chat Blanc can't destroy the world if Chat Noir doesn't get akumatized. nor Miss Fortune or whoever if Ladybug doesn't.)

Akumanette and Akumadrien-or-Akumanette!minion then round on Lila, who is the obvious spark point for Marinette's akumatization, then Gabriel, because Lila confesses enough they realize Gabriel was trying to devastate Marinette. somewhere in there Carmine and Sable (Ladybug!Jukeka and Cat!Rose, I think; maybe vice versa) show up and are really competent for newbies. then Hawkmoth keeps trying to use the akuma's tell-the-truth ray on the akuma, but he can't control phrasing and can only sort of control subjects of questions, so when he tries to get Akumanette to command Akumadrien to say whether he's Chat Noir, she asks her partner where he was when Adrien jumped off Tour Montparnasse. ("Falling off Tour Montparnasse" is both the actual truth and, given her phrasing, an admission of being Chat Noir that he's phrasing to tell Hawkmoth fuck-all.)

Sable ends up delivering the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculouses to the safest place she can think of under pressure (given she knows she's wearing Marinette's earrings), Marinette's diary lockbox, while Carmine cleanses the akuma. since Akumanette and Akumadrien decided to kiss before the cleansing made them (like other akuma victims) forget, Marinette and Adrien are a little startled when they come to.

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there, now I have written stuff for Nov 16. can my brain go back to operational now pls?

[silveradept]

That sounds like a very lovely plot.