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in the spirit of unwrapped (or replay. i am an apple music user unfortunately) i thought i would do a little nanowrimo breakdown of what my experience was like for the past month 

to start: i have been doing nanowrimo on and off for about a decade. this is the fourth time i’ve won (prev most recent win was 2019, but i did compete in 2020 and stopped at 40k). 

this year i decided to write two different projects. i’ve found when i’m doing original writing, it’s a lot easier for me to ramble and hit the 50k, but i don’t really want those unnecessary scenes for fic. more than that, i’ve consistently been writing ~20k this year so i knew aiming for two ~25k was reasonable! 

i had major ups and downs while writing this year. i was so excited to get started that when i did i struggled my way through. i managed to stay ahead consistently for the first 10 days, but i think that’s just because those parts of my plan were more concrete. i didn’t write on day 10, and then after that my word count was all over the place. i was pretty much a day behind until day 29 LOL. funnily enough i found it easier to write once i had fallen behind. it was like the pressure eased up. 

my two projects this year actually turned into a handful of projects lol. as i said, i really struggled to get started for some reason, so here i’ll just focus on the significant ones. 

🐉 aka minbin dragon fic. if anyone knows me i am a dragon girl through and through. i was literally thinking this summer about how i’ve written a dragon fic for literally every fandom i’ve written for so far, so skz needs one too! definitely incredibly self indulgent. i used my rarepair bingo card for this, namely bodyguard + inspired by other media. this is the fic i virtually finished. there are a few scenes which need wrapping up but other than that, it’s done! totals around 23k rn. 

🥀 aka seungin angst au. i don’t really know how to talk about this one without spoiling it majorly. but it’s still fantasy, that’s almost a given at this point. squares are seascape and secrets. i’m at 15k with it rn, but i think it’ll probably hit around 20k when i’m finished with it. 

it was a little slower writing this one, because there was a heavier element to it. i think that’s part of the reason i wrote other stuff instead. i’m really happy with how it’s progressed so far though considering the lack of plan i had compared to my minbin fic 

then there is ruby red aka minchan bingo fic! i wrote this in 2 days straight lol. i remembered i had barely looked at my minchan bingo card since i got it and was really drawn to the partners in crime square. it ended up being something i really enjoyed writing! totals in at just over 6k. it was a nice break from my other fics, and i found it easier to go back to them afterwards. 

if you’re doing maths, you’ll know that doesn’t total 50k. the rest of the stuff i worked on were a potential ggroup fic, another potentional rarepair bingo fic (which, depending on how long it takes me to finish up with these two, i’m hoping to get written by the deadline at the end of the month) and a potential sequel to another fic i wrote this year. 

something else i did whilst writing was try and add every wordle word for nov into my wips. fjdjsjs. i actually was pretty successful.. there are only two i ruled out including: 1) axiom, bc i literally have never used that word in my entire life, 2) valet, bc my wips were fantasy but looking back, i’m going to count it as included bc 3racha are implied stealing cars at a fancy event and so pretending to be valet drivers is kinda a given… i still have about 10 other words i’m going to try and squeeze in so that's my post-nov goal

planning to take a brief break now: very slowly will edit the minbin, and then replan what i need to for the last of the seungin. whether that other rarepair fic will get written is a mystery yet to be solved - i kinda hope so though. i’m excited about it. if i don’t finish in time, i’ll probably still write it anyway.