It's like I'm made of solid procrastination these days.
I need to take a break after I finish this piece I'm working on. I am determined to finish it today--the scene I'm currently procrastinating on is the epilogue!--but it's currently over 132k words long, and I started it on January 5th...so, yeah, a lot of words in not all that long a time. (Though I did once clock over 211k during NaNoWriMo. But that only happened the once. And I suspect that if I went back and reread I would find that they were very badly assembled words. 😅 However, due to life stuff, that work is now permanently off-limits.)
Anyway.
I'm writing up another post because I'm not sure how to handle the epilogue. Or rather that I can't actually think of much to put in it? In this scene of it, that is. Technically, there's already been like two or three scenes that could qualify as epilogue in some sense of the word. (The "sex" scene I was having so much trouble with yesterday was the first of them, in fact.) In this particular scene, the final one, I need the hero and his family to attend the one month celebration for his sister's second child. Major problem with that is that I have zero clue what a one month celebration would consist of and really don't want to have to go researching it for half a scene's worth of text. (Even if I did, the information would only exist for modern China, not the unspecified period in which the original novel takes place, which the author actually admitted is based on the customs of several different time periods anyway...) Especially since the main point of the scene is just to show that life is settling down again, and to describe what the hero made as a gift for the baby. (Basically the same thing he made for her first child in the original novel, only in a different shape. Of course, he never got to give the first child that gift in the novel, because horrible things happened and soon both the child's parents were dead, but that's why this is an alternate universe fan fiction in which most of the horrible stuff never happened and a lot of characters who died tragically get to live. 😁 ) So I'm sort of not sure what else to put in the scene and I am thus procrastinating from writing it by doing something else. Which is obviously not productive (I mean, that's the point of procrastinating, being unproductive is) but maybe it will clear my brain a little.
Doing something physically creative like working on the fine details for my boxed rooms will do a better job of that, of course, but I want to wait and do that after I've completely finished the scene. (Also after the new flooring and the unfinished new furniture arrives that I ordered from a miniatures shop on Etsy yesterday...)
Anyway!
I did want to share a bit I wrote earlier today because I really liked it, and it will be a very long time before it gets posted on AO3 for anyone to see it in context.
Who these characters are doesn't really matter much to this little snippet of the scene, except that they're a married couple (both men) with their adopted son.
“Don’t carry me around! I’m not a little kid anymore!” claimed the five-year-old child.
“I’ll carry you around until you’re too big for me to lift!” Wei Wuxian insisted.
“No fair! Father, make him put me down!”
Lan Zhan reached out and stroked A-Yuan’s hair. “A-Yuan is still very portable,” he said, making the boy complain even as he smiled happily.
Maybe it's just me. But I loved the idea of describing him as "still very portable." 😊 (The one is "Father" because the other is "Daddy," btw. In case anyone was thinking "Father" sounded a bit formal coming from a kid who's only five.)
Aaaaaand I should stop procrastinating and just write that last scene.
(Also, what I reported yesterday remains the case: Goodsmile wants all my money. Today they dropped the pre-order for a Nendoroid of the lead from Bocchi the Rock...)
EDIT: just finished that fanfic I've been working on. 133,158 words long. 😅 Not the longest fan fiction I've ever written, but the longest in quite some time.
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