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One Wank After Another

A blank assignment is a funny thing, isn't it? When you have it, you don't appreciate it, and when you miss it, it's gone.

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Thursday 1 January: Author reveals, end of event (9pm UTC)

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This will be the second weekend with our Yuletide assignments!

What Yuletide-things do you plan to do or get done by the end of this Sunday or earlier?

("Nothing" is a perfectly acceptable answer, and so is scrolling past. If you're doing other fandom or non-fandom things, coalies may be interested in hearing about those instead.)

Start canon review, and track down the missing volume somewhere on my bookshelves.

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I will write my CuppaJoe pinch hit. Though this does involve canon review for a potential Yuletide treat, so it isn't nothing.

Stretch goal: brainstorm for my Yuletide assignment and 2 treats.

None, I have other assignments to do before I even think about Yuletide. I'll circle back in December sometime.

Stop endlessly reworking my draft, and actually start writing.

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I'm busy with FIAB although I almost ended up writing my Yuletide assignment while procrastinating for FIAB.

I'm not really feeling the assignment. But last time that happened, I ended up writing it early to get it out of the way.

Complete canon review and get at least a few words down.

Consume the canon I will be writing for and haven't actually consumed :')

Review other canon I'm writing for by watching small clips to remind myself of character voices.

I don't like my assignment. I'm considering picking up a new-to-me canon that my recipient requested instead of the one I matched on. So I'm going to decide if I want to do that this weekend and either start consuming the alternative canon or canon review for the original canon if I pass on the new canon.

Start canon review, maybe finish new series that I'm about halfway through that I definitely want to treat in.

I've re-read the book and sequel and am writing. It's very rough, and it won't be very long, but I have a clear vision of the beginning, middle and end, and am happy with that. My goal is to have a slightly less rough draft by the end of the weekend.

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I have a very busy work weekend, but I might try and do some more canon review in between .Finished the main book, but these characters also show up in some spin-offs so will reread those too.
I have a week of vacation a week from now so hope to be finished with canon review by then.

Posting one more work for FIAB and then updating the dates posted on all of the works I made for that (made many things via main assignment, swaps, pinch hits, and treats) and then I hope to be all done that so I can perhaps canon review for Yuletide

In non-fandom, Halloween is on Friday and I'm the one who hands out candy at my house so, that.

Stare at my library app hoping the Yuletide research materials I put holds on come in. Weather my kids’ Halloween candy hangover.

I’m hoping to knock out my assignment this weekend. My recip has a very bare-bones request for a canon I don’t need to review before writing, so I’ll be aiming to write something short, sweet and safe and then move on to treats.

A certain amount of research into how one goes about importing live animals.

0. I *will* finish my outstanding FIAB extension. Or I'll be defaulted!
1. start canon review.

Continue canon review and writing my FIAB fic. I'm not even trying to start my Yuletide fic until I finish this fic I have an extension on.

I will be done with my story. It's short but valid. So then some editing. And then looking towards treats.

Download the game and start playing it.

Spend a solid day mourning the fact that my recipient doesn’t like f/f, and then attempt to write them the m/f of their dreams.

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I'm currently without access to my regular computer, so plotting out story flow on paper.

I already finished my canon review so I need to start thinking about what like... my story is. As well as some of the logistics of my nonsense.

getting covid and flu jabs tomorrow so i hope to spend the weekend re-reading my canon and drinking warm drinks

start canon review!

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