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Hit 7,200 on the gunter slowburn fic in the last 48 hours, and will probably get another 5k this weekend through this initial spurt. May have been seriously slacking off on work and personal life stuff for that to happen (but I don't feel too guilty considering I put in more work hours than normal last week.) The final fic will likely be in the 60k-80k range. Close to twenty percent on a single weekend ain't too shabby.

Been very pleased with trying out manuskript as a free open-sourced version of scrivner, since I needed a program that could quickly and efficiently outline small scenes as I'm writing this somewhat out of order. Manuskript has its open source quirks (don't let typos on its site scare you off), but dang if its auto-word count tracker isn't useful. Here's what it looks like: 



Realistically, I have always (since the college days) written my best work in textedit as a quasi stream of consciousness that blends notes into actual short dialogue exchanges and actual scenes, once when I "talk myself into" character's heads. Here, i copypaste those bits into Manuskript. Once when the individual chapters are reasonably complete, I start archiving them into a .doc file to prep for eventual Ao3 upload (and because I don't quite trust Manuskript yet not to delete things. paranoid to a fault ok).

( other woo writer shit stuff )