IWSG: Last (IWSG) post of 2025

    So, I've figured out how to add pictures to blog posts on my phone, as long as they're pictures I've used before.  😅

Uh.

More pertinently.

Once again, the suggested question for this month's post doesn't speak to me, so I'll be posting about something else instead...

But my writing life has been pretty stagnant lately, so I guess I'll write about that stagnancy?  (Wait, is that a word?)

I'm not totally sure what the problem is that's making it hard for me to write lately.  Lack of motivation, definitely lack of ideas (except for fanfic ideas), those are factors for sure, but are they the only factors?

I don't even know, nor am I sure how to figure it out.

It's making me feel like more of a failure than usual, though.

Without knowing quite what the problem is, it's hard to fix it.

In looking over my posts for the year, I realize I've been failing to get any significant progress made on the rewrite of book four of the Atalanta and Ariadne books for the entire year.  😭  I really need to get off my backside and get that rewrite finished.  If I can just power through into the climactic confrontation, it should be...um...possible?  I dunno.  I don't even know if anyone would care about it even being released.  I had one comment on one of the AO3 versions of the earlier books in the series that indicated someone had genuinely read it all the way through and liked it, but... 🤷🏻‍♀️

November writing challenge over

 So.

Yup.

It's December 1st, and my not-NaNoWriMo is over for another year.

It felt like a big old mess, if I'm being honest.  (Well, that's perhaps the most suitable-to-be-said-in-public version of an honest summation, anyway.)

As much as I want to blame having a tooth break off, leading to many hours lost to pain and dental work, that didn't realistically cause most of the problems.

The main thing was just that my main project petered out into insanity that was not really feasible to continue working on...or, not that exactly, more that it meandered off into a direction that does not appeal to me so that even though I had a solid outline of the next chunk of the story, I just didn't feel any appeal in continuing to work on it.  😭  Not sure how that will play out in the long run.  Maybe a short while off from writing will recharge me to keep plowing ahead on it?

Anyway.

Final numbers!

Words written in November previously:  86,535 (or 91,430)

Thursday's word count:  1,851

Friday's word count:  1,450

Saturday's word count:  856 (or 2,402)

Sunday's word count:  104

Total word count in November:  90,796 (or 97,237)

Projects, with starting and final word counts:

Untitled MDZS fanfic w/time-travel elements

Starting word count:  21,100

Word count as of previous post:  98,194

Thursday's word count:  98,534

Friday's word count:  98,604

Saturday's word count:  99,460

Sunday's word count:  99,564

Words added to the planning document:  4,796

The Tablet of Destinies, Atalanta and Ariadne book 4

Ended up untouched.  😭

Untitled sci-fi VN

Total word count previously: 8,649

Thursday's word count:  9,555

Friday's word count:  10,935

Opening section of a future MDZS fanfic (NHS-centric, canon compliant) that I'm nowhere near ready to write:

Thursday word count:  605

Words added to the planning document for a My Time in Sandrock fanfic that who knows when I'll actually write it:

Saturday word count:  1,546

(In my own defense here, I just finished replaying My Time in Portia, the first game in the series, so the sequel (which is the better game) has been on my mind a lot lately.)