Over the course of eight months (from October 2022 to May 2023), I published 172,296 words of House of the Dragon fanfiction. Which I have now crossposted the entirety of to this journal!
This is a totally insane accomplishment for me, usually a very slow writer. (By comparison my fanfic for The Magicians, which I will also crosspost, probably comes out to a similar or greater but not by TOO much word count, happened over the course of three years). I keep reminding myself of this, because my ability to write suddenly dried up and I haven't written anything for a month in a half. Maybe it's because I'm on summer break, and I wrote that insane amount over the course of the first year of this second BA I'm doing and writing for me happens when there's something else I don't want to be doing. It all works out, because I wrote all that and also have a 4.0 GPA. First go round I wrote like nothing and had a [GPA redacted, which is why I'm having to do this again]. SOMETHING TO IT.
It is also because I was possessed by a demon. I’ve never experienced anything quite like the writing of rūs riña, where I like HAD to write it and finish it and get my deranged Daemon Targaryen CSA survivor trauma manifesto out of me. And now I have, things are going back to normal - it makes sense there would be a fallow period after that energy, so I’m trying to not feel too bad about it. Easier said than done, because it did consume my life and now there’s a vacuum.
Still, there is yet more HOTD fic I want to write. And I want to use Dreamwidth more. So a fic State of the Union when my writing returns, hopefully, with my last semester:
( CW for topics typical to my HOTD fic: incest (obvs), csa, rape )![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
