Personal milestones and an apology to all my friends

First of all let me just say to you all, I AM SO SORRY for being such a crappy friend, reviewer, detention-girl etc lately. As some of you perhaps read in one of my more recent posts (if you haven't deleted me from your f-list already XD), RLx2 have been keeping me busy.

I signed up for the Lupin Big Bang and they demanded a minimum 20000 word fic. I had almost forgotten about this fest because of all the other things that have been happening, but decided to give it a try. I would write like crazy for the three weeks I had before the first draft was due, and if I had 20k by then I would go for it.

Thursday January 14th I started writing and Wednesday February 3rd I reached 20k. I was so proud! I had used 16 of those days writing and I reached my goal.

The problem about me having to write such a long fic was that I just wrote whatever came into my head. I had a plot and a rough draft in my head, but because I was worried that I wouldn't have enough ideas to fill the fic I wrote whatever popped in. I can always edit it out later was my main plan ;)

Sunday February 7th I handed in my first draft, but the fic still wasn't finished. I still had a lot to write and I was no longer worried that I would fall below 20k even with editing. So since then I have been writing whenever I've had the time. And earlier today I think I wrote the last sentence. yay me!

Just a couple of days ago I was in doubt about the whole fic. I just didn't seem to get to the things I wanted to. Everytime I wanted to write I got completely blank. I was about to give up on the whole thing. But then one day it suddenly things started going really well and I wrote over 6000 words in one day, and I finally got to the part I'd had in my head for so long. After that things went pretty well and I finally finished.

But during all this time and all the ups and downs I somehow managed to write 40 000 words!!!! 40K in one month and 2 days. Holy cow! That's some achievement for me! Now I just hope it doesn't suck...lol

I'm spending tonight reading through it and fixing things and getting it ready to be betaed. I just hope valkyriekat  hasn't been too scared by reading this... I'm forever grateful that you will do this, Kat! I owe you bigtime! I will get right back to commenting after this :D

Another awesome thing that happened this week was that I suddenly one day realized that I had a 1 year anniversary as a ficcer. yaay! (I'm slow, I know) I started writing Miss Invisible February 11th, 2009! The chapter was published the 19th so I still have a couple of days before I'm celebrating a year as a public ficcer...lol

So during this last week I've celebrated an anniversary and written a 40k fic :D wooooohoooo

Just so you know ;)