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an??? update???? for atc???? // back to the phd grind
in which i wrote a bunch of ‘snow globe’, said “okay that’s enough fandom, back to work now,” accidentally wrote two chapters of ‘at the center’ and posted an update for the first time in nearly six years (and now i’m really going back to work now, i promise) + two utterly gorgeous pieces of freshly-discovered fic fanart for at the center by @neimykanani
in which i wrote a bunch of snow globe, said “okay that’s enough fandom back to work now,” accidentally wrote two chapters of at the center and posted an update for the first time in nearly six years (and now i’m really going back to work now, i promise) + two utterly gorgeous pieces of freshly-discovered fic fanart for at the center by @neimykanani
written december 28, 2023 @ 1:43pm
my fandom writing flurry was short-lived 🥹
i finished grading all my students’ final papers on the 20th, so i cranked them all out in a week-ish, which is not bad, because i spent 2-3 hours grading each 40+-page paper 🥲👍 so from the 18th to the 23rd, i cranked out thousands and thousands of words for fic, they literally just flew out of me 😂 i NEEDED that creative writing outlet!
but then of course christmas eve and christmas day were quite busy, and then… i immediately and completely felt the compulsion to start getting ahead on the spring semester workload 😅😅😅
this semester, i will be teaching at two institutions (which i have not done since the spring of 2021!!!), so i would rather get a jumpstart on preparing all of my LMS course sites and syllabi now so that way i can look forward to the first day of classes with a clear head 🤞✨
january through march will be a really wild and hectic time, what with my dissertation proposal defense, my submission of my revised QP2 as my (second) master’s thesis paper, preparing for the big national conference, assisting with the prospective student day for our potential candidates for next year’s cohort of incoming phd students, and simultaneously teaching two classes at two different universities. 🫠👍💕✨ (but ya girl is trying to buy a second house, and publish a non-fiction book, and get her doctorate, so it is worth the packed schedule for a few months!!)
but, needless to say, i don’t foresee any chapter updates over the next few months, unless they’re drabbles or itty-bitty microfics, or if some writing just EXPLODES out of me amidst the hundreds of research articles. 🥹🤞
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*saved blog post to drafts, fully intending to post it later that evening*
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*instead proceeds to write 12,362 words in total over the weekend!
all for at the center! 😭😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏💖💖*
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written january 2, 2024 @ 6:44pm
yes, that is correct, i physically said, “welp, i guess that’s it for the rest of the year!” and then wrote:
3,911 words on new year's eve eve
8,451 words on new year's eve!
= 12,362 words written in total for atc
(p.s. see the full interactive word counter here!)
WHICH MEANS that since i started vacation on december 20th (12 days in total), i have written 21,841 words for fandom-related projects!
(12,362 for atc and 9,479 for snow globe!)
I AM VERY PLEASED VERY CONTENT
and now i am done with data coding and cleaning for a bit, i have received my grant money.... I CAN ACTUALLY WRITE THE DISSERTATION ITSELF NOW
(AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH)
VERY PLEASED VERY CONTENT
and once more, because i CANNOT BELIEVE:
fic update → at the center
Legends and fairy tales, magic and myths, and—at the center of it all—a story of a young, future-Queen and her young, ageless-Guardian; a girl cursed with fear and a god frozen in time, and all of the reasons why seeing isn’t always at the heart of believing. { banner cosplay: (x) (x) }
{ start here }
{ start with the latest updates }
12.31.2023 | chapter 222: - mirrors -
01.02.2024 | chapter 223: - hans christian anderson -
#gasp i did it again #therentyoupay at the center #therentyoupay updates
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fic fanart → at the center
i found these gorgeous pieces a few weeks ago but haven’t had time to properly add them to ao3/share them yet! 😭😭😭😭 they are too beautiful!! this is your friendly reminder to always occasionally google your pseuds and story titles, because you never know what you’ll find 😭😭😭😭💖💖💖💖 TOO BEAUTIFUL I TELL YOU
i hope everyone has a glorious marvelous new year! 😭😭😭😭💖💖 thank you all for your continued love, understanding, patience, and support!! ✨✨ WISHING YOU ALL A GREAT JANUARY AND BEYOND 💖
happy writing!
love,
kris 💕✨
speeches, meetings, emails (oh my)
when the onslaught of emails is so much that you project the experience onto fictional characters
when the onslaught of emails is so much that you project the experience onto fictional characters
(specifically, the newest chapter of that one night)
the initial start-of-semester race has… calmed?
part of me almost wishes i were actually keeping a word count of the emails i’m sending for academic + work purposes. i wouldn’t be able to sustainably track that kind of data, but i would love to know very seriously how many words i am sending out into the email universe—particularly because i work really hard to make my emails as clear and concise as possible. BUT OH WELL. i don’t dare track that data, so other data points (e.g., papers, book manuscripts, dissertation proposal) will have to do.
dissertation status:
still waiting for feedback on the most recent paper i wrote! once that comes back to me, i can incorporate that feedback and submit a shorter version for publication (e.g., research journals)
trained my new research assistant!
doing a deep, close read of the literature to know everything inside and out (and to catch up on any new articles that dropped in august while i was taking a bit of a break)
started my manuscript for the non-fiction book (based on my dissertation research but for a mainstream audience!)
had my first meeting of the year with my advisor and potentially have my official shortlist for the other two members of my academic committee 👀
currently ✨on track✨ to defend my dissertation proposal in november 2023
website & fic updates!
had a very inspiring conversation with @sunshinemellow-fic over the weekend about writing and revising one’s writing vs. yeeting unbeta’d word vomit out into the tumblr- and ao3-wilderness, which resulted in the opening of 1-sentence fic requests!
after i fulfilled a few prompts, i was like, “oh shit, this moment is probs a good opportunity to start transferring old 1-sentence fic over here.” lo and behold:
added a new (non-linked) page for 1-sentence fic
added a button for the 1-sentence fic page to the fanfiction page
added this week’s newest additions of 1-sentence fics [butterfly, acupuncture] — although you can see i still need to fix the dates
started adding a few older 1-sentence fics from Olden Times but then once i felt like i got to a good stopping point, i decided to leave the older ones for Later™ (i have to clean up that fic-only tumblr tagging system anyway!). therefore, i will leave this project for a Later™ treat when i need to engage in mindless organization and order 🔥✨
x-posted a tumblr-prompted drabble into ao3 (because we can’t trust tumblr 🥲🫠🙃)
find the woman in white on ao3!
in other news —
🍺 many adventures this labor day weekend (many cocktails, many lagers, though not necessarily together)
🦋 PURCHASED AMC TICKETS TO SEE THE ERAS TOUR IN THEATERS; this has, clearly, moved up our plans to create 1989-inspired flower crowns and friendship bracelets, i must PREPARE
🍇 i picked fresh grapes straight from the vine on vast farmland (and later made homemade grape juice) and now i can never go back to grocery store grapes, what have i done
thanks, all! ♡ and good luck with the rest of your week!!
in a shocking (SHOCKING) turn of events, i have yet again extended snow globe, and, as it turns out, i wrote 29,134 total words within 13 days (across a span of 133 days)… including writing 11,987 of those words solely on june 6th.