WIP Wednesday

Apr. 29th, 2026 05:59 pm
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New words this week : 5,314 words which is down a bit.

WIPs worked on this week : 1, with no new WIPs (yay!)

Writing has been hard. Everything has been hard. I am very tired.

The Old Guard

food truck au : 5,314 words which brings the total to 138,960 words and progress slowed a little bit. I got through the first smutty part, and then I've been hacking my way through the same conversation for like three days now. I think I've mostly got it today, I hope. I've at least got all the bits connected and will take another look at it in a couple of days to see if anything needs to be adjusted.

Having a hard time with writing in general, and particularly feeling like this story is worth it. Idk, a smaller and quieter fandom has been a real adjustment but lately it really feels like it's not just quiet but it's dying, and I've just been feeling like, what's the point, you know? What's the point in finishing if there's no one there to read it when it's done? What's the point in all the others I've been working on if they're just going to be shouting into the void?

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Apr. 23rd, 2026 09:29 am
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New words this week : 9,949 words which is a little surprising. I thought it was going to be another slow week, and I guess it was not!

WIPs worked on this week : 2, with 1 new WIP

I thought this was going to be another week with lower wordcount because I did not feel like I had much writing time, thought looking back I did have one big day (2.4k) that I think helped boost my total quite a bit. I'm so blindingly exhausted that my memory is garbage right now.

The Old Guard

food truck au : 7,611 words which brings the total to 133,418 words and we're still going on the smut. I originally had it planned as a single chapter and figured it'd be on the longer side, but it would still be fine to post as one. We're at 22.5k and I think I've got another 1-2k to finish it off. Whew. ALSO. I think I finally have a title for it, which I have been worrying about because I usually have a title by this point.

au of food truck au : 2,511 words which brings the total to 2,511 words and it's inspired by something from food truck au that I really want to write and doesn't fit in that fic. So, I've just been throwing words at it in a separate doc, first to try to get it out of my head, and then because I think (and my beta agreed!) that it might be fun to post as a little "extra" for food truck au. The way it's written now is shaping up to be a whole new fic of its own, which I do not want to write, but I think that I am going to reshape it as a pwp so that'll keep the wordcount fairly constrained.

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Apr. 22nd, 2026 09:19 am
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Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

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