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And today in the wonderful world of Narnia AUs, I will knock up the High Queen of Narnia and give her morning sickness.

Clearly I'm talking about Water and not Dust here. At least, one would hope.

Brain, when I said I wanted to finish Water before the New Year, I meant over the course of December, not in the last two days. *throws things* Especially since the scene I want to put in now is actually handwritten and in my Japanese notebook, which happens to be a cool two thousand miles away in my dorm room. In New Orleans. I mean, I know precisely what happens -- it's one of the earliest plot-related scenes I knew about, the one where Doctor Cornelius tries to break into the How -- but still. It's the principle of the matter.

Also, I am wildly skipping over vast swaths of time. It's like, "battle, shortly followed by sex," and then "in the following weeks."

It has been so long since I worked on Water that I think I may have contradicted certain things established previously. Like the fact that Edmund is supposed to currently have a broken arm, and thus cannot rush off into battle. *facepalms immensely* Perhaps it healed? No, probably easier just to write him out of the battle and have Susan save Caspian's life instead.

Although. On the bright side, I do not actually think I have 30K -- well, 25K now -- worth of story left. Occasionally I forget that Water is a great deal more straightforward than Dust. (I mean, I could have have 30K worth of story left, it just depends how long it takes for Cornelius and the duel and the battle and where exactly I decide to end the story. And then at some point we hit part two and Peter/Peta.)

*cough* I think there's a strong possibility I'm working on Water right now because I'm going to have to drop the 3K I have of Dust 9 and switch it over to Eustace's POV. Because when I figure out a POV's not working, the best thing to do is generally to figure out who knows the least about what the hell is going on and give them the POV. And hey, Eustace is probably overdue for a POV anyway.

Fic Roundup 2008

( Fic Roundup 2008 )

Usually I would not go into so much detail, but I wanted to hunt down everything (and I know I didn't) because I wanted to get a pretty close guess at exactly how much fic I'd written this year, counting deleted scenes and WIPs. (And I also didn't get everything, because some of it's handwritten and back at Tulane, and some of it's handwritten and here, and some of it is lost in the depths of the Internet.)

Total fic wordcount: 349,842

And if I wanted to add in my original fic -- that was what I was writing for the first five months of the year, thank you very much, senior project novel -- about 50K of which was written this year, the other 50K last NaNo -- that gives me a total wordcount of somewhere just over 400K.

If y'all will excuse me, I'm going to go...not write...now.