NaNoWriMo 2019 Part 5/5

So here's the final post for this year's NaNoWriMo.  The big question is did I win?  The answer - No.  I finished with 15,145 words and that's it.  While most of that was for my Assassination Classroom and Yu-Gi-Oh crossover, I also did a small bit of work on my Percy Weasley of Harry Potter is Skull de Mort of Katekyo Hitman Reborn! crossover and one of my Gundam Wing and Harry Potter crossovers.  While I didn't succeed in reaching 50k, it doesn't mean I'll stop working on my stories.  Between my fanfiction and original works I likely have close to 200 stories being worked on with more ideas niggling into my brain on a regular basis.  Now if I could just get one to the point I would feel comfortable trying to get it published...

Anyway, I won't explain why I kept getting side-tracked from my writing this year as it would probably just feel like excuses, so instead congratulations to everyone who got some words written down this past month!  If you reached the 50K goal, extra congrats are definitely in order for you!  For those who tried but didn't reach the 50k goal, better luck next time.  At least you got something written, right?  Maybe set a lesser goal for the camps?  The first camp is usually in April.  It's also National Poetry Month, so if you're a poet, maybe you can focus on them? 

NaNoWriMo 2019 Part 4/5

So when typing this I'm at 14,303 words out of the 50K goal.  I haven't utilized a single one of the virtual write-ins on YouTube, but will likely do so this week at some point.  For those who've managed to reach the 50K, congratulations.  For those that haven't yet, keep trying.  I once filled an entire notebook - 5 subject - in only a few hours.

When a person gets struck with the inspiration they need for a story, the words can and will flow beyond anything one might realize.  I can't tell you the number of partial works I have because I get struck with inspiration for a short period of time then have it die out.  With all the computer issues I've had in the past, I'm surprised I'm still working on them and on this blog.  It doesn't mean I'm not trying to keep going with my blog.  I do have several ideas for blogs and there are blogs that I didn't take the time to put together back when they would have been relevant.

There may be a lot of words left for me to write to "win" NaNoWriMo, but that's not how I win.  The goal is typically a 50K word story that one has to go back and edit.  My personal goal is to write.  If I manage to write anything at all, I've won.  So I'm still working through the dinner for my crossover which is definitely taking its own life.  Why do they make you think it's going to make a zig but then have you write three zags instead?

So good luck and keep writing for those of us who are still not at the 50K goal and for those who have reached it?  Please refer to the first paragraph.

NaNoWriMo 2019 Part 3/5

At the time I started typing this I had 9337 words, not including the words in this blog post.  Part of this has been me trying to find out what shows are on Disney+ for a post I had started and will likely turn into a four-part blog with links to one hundred reviews, but that would be a future post, most assuredly.  In my Assassination Classroom Yu-Gi-Oh crossover, I have gotten them to the restaurant and they were last discussing the condiments that Karma brought. Joey was assuring Tristan that the condiments wouldn't actually hurt any of them.  I know male pregnancy has occurred in the past of when this fic takes place, but it isn't common and they keep it a secret just like they do about Korosensei.  I have a feeling though that this could bring forth a large number of secrets during the dinner.  After all, the children don't have to keep a filter on their mouths at family dinners which is what this is despite two outsiders joining and Joey was one of the pregnant males.  Like I said though, this doesn't focus on that time period nor is male pregnancy a common thing.  He was not pregnant because he went through a gender transformation either.  The lore behind why he was able to get pregnant will likely be explained, possibly in bits and pieces, but it will be explained in the fic.  All I'm going to put about it is that it's unique to only a few of the Yu-Gi-Oh males.  No one else is able to so far as anyone knows and if there are others, they aren't going to come forth in this fic.  I also don't plan to keep this fic going with sequels and a huge number of chapters. 

So if I manage to finish this and get it posted maybe I can return to some of my past works.  I do have another where male pregnancy is possible and Harry ends up with a miscarriage, but there is so much more to it than that and male pregnancy is something that I personally am unlikely to make the main point of my stories.  The miscarriage alerts Professor Snape and Madame Pomfrey aware of Harry being abused/tortured depending on how a person looks at things.  Personally, I feel Umbridge's treatment of Harry and the other students is torture, but that's not what this post is supposed to be about.  This supposed to be about my current WIP(work in progress) and how I'm doing in NaNo working on said WIP.  So, just a small heads up, I still don't have a title for the thing.  I have it labeled as YGO AC under my works on the new NaNoWriMo website.  There's a really good chance I'll finish the story but still need an appropriate title and yes I do want to continue working on Caged and A New Time, but I've had computer issues that lost parts of each work and trying to figure out where those particular stories were going has been a little harder.  Caged will be much harder because the inspiration for that was a dream and the dream that started has already been recorded into the story, while A New Time was my take on a crossover between Harry Potter and D. Grayman.

I also plan to eventually get back to my original works especially those set in Rock Falls though the Eerie Estates setting could be fun to delve into again...  For those who are on track or ahead in their writing, congrats on keeping up or completing the goal early.  For those like me who are still struggling along and eking out a few words here and there, just keep plugging along.  If it weren't for blog posts and various posts and other writings, I wouldn't have even hit 5K, but words are words and who knows what will be needed for that story when you're done with the editing and revision! 

NaNoWriMo 2019 Part 2/5

So now that there's a whole 'nother week under our writer's belts, I've got to admit I haven't done much.  At the time I'm typing this, I've only reached 5436 words.  Saturday, Nov 9 was supposed "Double Donation Day" but I didn't even realize until rather late in the day (just before typing the majority of this post!)  Still, it doesn't mean I won't attempt to get my word count up there and reach that 50K word goal.  Thankfully I have the first chapter of my story - my fanfiction - written, though editing is likely to change it in some ways.  It may add words, remove them or alter in other ways.  I've had to rework an entire chapter before and currently, I have several stories that are requiring me to remember various things.  Maybe one day I'll remember how the train ride chapter of my Winding Circle Harry Potter crossover and figure out how the circle alters the final confrontation and how the changes they've already made are going to affect the future.

For those who are still attempting to get to that lofty goal - good luck; keep writing!  For those who've reached it - congratulations!

NaNoWriMo 2019 Part 1/5

NaNoWriMo has begun again and other than a large number of fanfictions that I want to finish as well as a large number of originals that I want to either start/restart or finish I don't know what I want to work on.  Most likely I will be working on fanfics which I've got three that I think I'll be working on.

The first is a crossover I've been working on for quite some time.  Harry Potter instead of being taken into the Dursley household was put up for adoption through an orphanage the police ended up putting him in.  He was adopted by a foreign couple who would later divorce and separate him from his sister.  He would find friends and go through a lot of weird stuff before being found once again by the British Wizarding World.  His friends would not let him go alone when he gets told about how he's expected to be someone who is said to have been targeted by a serial killer and been the killer's only survivor.  With Seto Kaiba funding the trip, wizarding Britain is definitely going to get a wake-up call as they keep trying to say that Katsuya Jonouchi is Harry Potter and that despite having never met the boy or talked to him, they know everything about him.  Obviously, this one is a Harry Potter and Yu-Gi-Oh crossover.

The second is a Harry Potter Gundam Wing crossover I started recently.  This one is set at the end of fourth year when the students get off the train and instead of going straight home, Harry and many other muggleborn and raised are taken to a government building to be registered in accordance with a new law that was introduced to help locate families that have been separated.  I haven't yet decided exactly what gets discovered but I do know that a paternal family member for Harry is found.  I don't know if it'll be a sibling, cousin, or even his own father, I'm still trying to figure that out.  Hell, it might be both a sibling and his father, after all, he can't be sure what he saw in the graveyard, can he?  

Finally, on the fanfic scene, I have the idea for a crossover between Assassination Classroom and Yu-Gi-Oh.  It's set after all the students have finished school and are well established in their careers and for some families.  After having been told that they had to find a new school for the Kaiba and Moto children, Joey goes to check out a school meeting an old classmate as the teacher for the children placed in the most problematic class - Nagisa.  In my mind, there is a lot more going on and the issue is the secrets that Tristan and Joey are keeping puts the friends from both sets against each other.  Other than that I don't know how long I'll make this story or if it'll be a one-shot capture of that specific instance. 

I'm likely to work on other stories as well.  Some are likely to be original pieces, but there will also be other fanfics included.  After all, these are only three fanfics and I can guarantee that I have a minimum of twenty that have been started either on a computer or on paper and I'm constantly finding more ideas for fanfics.

As for my progress for NaNoWriMo, I've managed 3861 words in the first two full days.  Hope you guys are getting some writing done!