WIP status, September edition

[extrapenguin]

I have 38k so far of the RotS canon divergence fic. Another 2k and it'll officially be novel-length! (The third one I've completed, hopefully. I have one Guardian drawerfic WIP that's at a bit over 40k but I'd need to do a lot more to actually finish it, so it'll never see the light of day.) I have about 11 scenes left in the outline. Count about 1k per scene and an equal amount for transitions, and I think I'll break 60k with this. Not enough to dethrone For No Cradle Lasts Forver (Guardian) at 75k, but easily sliding into second place. And the RotS fic will have sequels, too, so the series will easily be the longest thing I've written. (Part 1 I estimated at 60k, Part 2a will probably be up to 5k, Part 2b I have yet to outline but 20k+, I think. And while Part 3 needs to exist to wrap up some plot threads, I need an actual plot for it as its own installment.)

The ETA for the finished fic? Well, I'm currently furiously typing up my fffx assignment, and the next weeks I expect to be writing a bunch of ficinabox fic, but I expect to be ready this year and hopefully start posting, too. Completion will be 2023, though – I am not going through more than 5k of copyediting a week, lol.

As for what it'll be called, well, for once, I have a title without crying and pulling teeth: All That is Solid Melts into Air. The series will probably be called Comes After the Bitter Glory. I even have chapter titles!!! (For chapters 1, 7, penultimate, and final. I'll need at least eight more before publication.)

But have a snippet as a reward for reading all that:

The Force was alive and vibrant here, nocturnal animals settling down for the day and diurnal ones just waking up as the plantlife woke up to the rays of the sun. Crepuscular creatures ran about, the height of their activity here at the junction of night and day. The vast roots of the bellcup flowers were at work, pumping products of photosynthesis from the edge that was already touched by the light to the mass still covered by the dark.

It was easy to be one with the Force here. Anakin sank down deeper and let himself be unmoored from his body.

From a myriad eyes, perhaps including his own, he saw the sky grow red, pink, and gold. The plants and ground were washed with soft colors and glowed in the dawn light. Scents rose from the earth and flora both, filling the jungle with a song that said *wake up, wake up, wake up*.

Then the sun crested over the trees. The Force pulled Anakin's attention up, up, above the sun and beyond the skies.

Comments

[sewn]

A really beautiful description of the Force.

Congrats on the progress, and good luck with the exchanges.

[extrapenguin]

Thank you! I try to include a variety of things in my fics, descriptions of the Force included.

[nnozomi]

Oh, that's a lovely dawn scene. <3

[extrapenguin]

Thank you! I find description stuff like that makes for nice pacing changes in between the action/plotty stuff.