Here is a milestone which may only have meaning to me.

[magistrate]

A while ago, I accidentally* started on a Detroit: Become Human reboot-style AU (which I cleverly titled Detroit: Reboot), which project I think only rionaleonhart actually knows anything about, and storyinmypocket and sholio may have heard me mention off and on. Anyway, it ballooned to ridiculous size in ways I don't fully understand, and then I got distracted by other things.

*I accidentally 2.9 MB of fanfiction... is this dangerous?

Primary among those other things was a Red Dead Redemption 2 fic which I thought I could knock out in 30-40k (HA... HA HA... Ha ha hah haaaaaaaugh... •sob•), which, as you may have guessed if you know me, I was not able to complete in 30-40k.

Anyway, I didn't notice this last night when I was finishing up my writing and heading for bed, but my unfinished RDR2 fic finally exceeded the length of my unfinished D:BH fic! I wasn't actually sure that would ever happen. Also: what the fuck.

(For the record, the "of 300,000" is not an actual aspirational goal. 300,000 words was a placeholder I put in because I like seeing the progress bar go up, and if you meet the goal, it just stays full and green and there's no visible progress. I figured that 300,000 was a nice, safe, high number that I would not actually ever reach. I am now figuring that I'm probably going to have to change it on one or both of these projects if I want to keep watching the bar move.)

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[magistrate]

I do all my writing these days in Scrivener, which is a program I just absolutely adore for its ability to organize things in a detailed and granular fashion. Its wordcount feature also keeps track of how much I've written total versus how much I've written in a day (or in a session, defined as "until I hit the reset button", which is usually "between when I wake up and when I go to sleep" and often overlaps one calendar day), which I find really nice.

Thank you!

[dialecticdreamer]

I'm going to look for a linux alternative to it, then. I've finally got a reason to switch from a plain word processor.