The Quest for the Legends

I didn't feel nearly enough like writing today, and it didn't help that for part of it I was feeling kind of dizzy for some reason (possibly sleep deprivation) and then spent a couple of hours sleeping it off.

So I'm at 339,866 words right now, which is 1526 words since yesterday, leaving me ever so slightly more behind. But I still fully expect to make it up in the weekend.

I decided to move a large chunk of chapter 73 into chapter 74, so I'm now on the fifth page of that. It's going to be several more pages in my estimation, but at least while chapter 73 was kind of hard to write since it was all emotional turmoil and I had no idea where it was actually going so I had to process it at a more reasonable non-NaNo writing speed, I'm now getting to the OH MY GOD PLANNING THIS FOR YEARS bits for real.

Unfortunately, chapter 74 has been in the planning for a bit too long - which is to say that as I'm writing it the holes in twelve-year-old me's vision of it are suddenly becoming a lot more apparent than they seemed when I was just putting together the planning. (Blessingly, this is also the final plot point in the fic that is quite that old, so I should not have this problem with chapters 75/76.) I may do some last-minute shuffling around of things; I have some ideas on getting it to work better, but I'm going to sleep on it.

Also. Ahem.

GUYS THIS IS THE THIRD TO LAST CHAPTER. WHEN I FINISH IT I WILL BE WRITING CHAPTER 75 WHICH IS GOING TO START WITH WHAT I USED TO CALL ONE-SHOT A. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT. AND IT HAS ALL THE PLOT.

I still desperately want a "making of" document after the fic is over

OMGOMGOMG I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE ALMOST AFTER SO MANY YEARS I CAN'T WAIT TO FIND OUT WHO THE DESTROYER IS I'M STARTING TO GO CRAZY I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHO IT IS OMGOMGOMG THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡¡¡!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!

There is a plot point still in tqftl that you came up with when you were 12? How in the…what? I thought it didn't have any plot back then!

I really do envy your ability to take the ridiculous ideas you have ten years ago and work them into something useable. As opposed to some people, who just redo all the plot ten million times.

Polymetric: More of one than the commentary (which I definitely am going to make)?

There is a plot point still in tqftl that you came up with when you were 12? How in the…what? I thought it didn't have any plot back then!

Well, maybe I was thirteen by that point, but I don't think so - this particular plot point was part of the original ending I envisioned first after thinking up the War of the Legends, and I'd thought up the War of the Legends at least before I wrote chapter twelve of the original, because that's when Mark has ridiculously foreshadowy dreams about it. Granted, a lot of things have been tweaked about it since, but the basic idea was there. Kind of like with Tyranitar killing Taylor - May was originally supposed to win the League and it was supposed to have an Elite Four-like system, but Tyranitar still ended up killing Taylor because he was obsessed with not being weak; it just had a different, more sensible context around it.

Well I somehow missed the memo about the commentary so :p perhaps not haha