MarNoWriMo

So, as I said in the previous entry, in March I'll be working on "The First, Fourth, and Last Mistakes I'll Make With You" (which won't be the final title, I'm sure, though I kind of like it).

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The only stuff I have lined up writing-wise for March is atomic_fiction, which is due 3/4-11, and I want to get mine done on the early end of that cause Helens is going to be on vacation after the 9th and I don't want to be scrambling to find another beta. Then on the 20th I have remixredux, which I've finally picked my fic for, huzzah.

Aside from those two things, though, I plan to concentrate pretty exclusively on this fic. I'm giving myself a tentative goal of 12,000 words, which would be ~400 words a day. That's about the max that's manageable for me as I just don't have that much free time. However, I'm not really holding myself to a word count so much as trying to get it done. There's no point in padding out a story just to make a certain word count.

So right now I'm going with the 400 words a day thing, but I may adjust the total once I get started and have a better idea of how long I think it might be.

So would anyone be interested in me posting the parts as they're written, sans beta? I may make a filter for that if people are, and then I'll post the full thing publically when it's done.

His Dark Materials

Well, I'm halfway through The Amber Spyglass. Despite the first book being a slow starter, I've really been enjoying this series once I finally got into it. (Also I like Will a lot more than Lyra, so when it stopped being entirely her POV, I think that helped, too.)

Anyway! I looked around a bit just now to see what there was in the way of fic, and on the yuletide website, there are two Will/Lyra fics and one Serafina Pekkala/Lee Scoresby. What there is a complete lack of, though, is Balthamos/Baruch. I have looked around and fic seems to be pretty scarce all 'round for any pairing or even gen (can't find an LJ comm or anything), but hello? Canon gay pairing here. Why no interest? I realize there would be some difficulty in writing about angels, but there's all sorts of interesting backstory possibilities what with Baruch having been a man before he became an angel.

Nnngh.

*puts on list of things to write*