A real update. What?

Yeah! No really! On that whole 'goal for the million!' thing.  You know, the reason I made this blog? It's also on the title, and in the info. 

So, yeah. 

But this time it's not just me rambling!

Okay, there's going to be me rambling. That was a given. But I do have progress to mention!

I'm at 488,807 words as of today! Wohoo! Almost halfway there folks! 

March was a really productive month, I ended up beating both my more realistic goal that spread the task out over 15 or so months, and the goal that has to be finished over 12 months. So I was feeling pretty awesome about that.

April? April is a god damn train wreck. The excel graph is hideous, it's a bunch of zig zag lines that mostly are flying beneath where they need to be. I'm not sure if four months of serious writing has made me retarded or what, but it's been a real struggle. However, I am back on track, at least until tomorrow. So I'm enjoying my time floating above the bare minimum line. For now. I work all night, and there's a wedding tomorrow. So I might end up totally screwed and back in the red.

Bah. Boo April. Boo.

So yeah. There's a real proper update. Aren't you pleased?

Now onto what I'm actually excited about.

Collaborating on a DW story! I've been trying to convince my ff.net buddy for AGES to get into DW so we could write a story together, and she's been trying for ages to get me into Supernatural...even though she doesn't write Supernatural fic. I think she's just trying to trick me into watching the show. 

Regardless! 

The opportunity has presented itself with my new internet bestie to co-write (I see you you stalker) and I'm irrationally  super excited about it. 

Which is crazy. 

Especially since I know that working with people is hard. Maybe you have some ideas that you love, and bleed and sweat over, and your co-pilot says. "Meh. I've heard better." Or maybe they have thoughts that they bring up and you're not really on the same page so you send a tactful email suggesting that no, maybe unicorns shouldn't have pink manes. In fact, maybe including unicorns is a bit...excessive. (I'm totally down with unicorns by the way.) 

And then after days and days of being super excessively polite to the point that you finally go crazy, and one more suggestions of magical rainbows and GOD DAMMIT. LET'S THROW DOWN!

So you have to have a fist fight, a scuffle, and possibly some dancers in the background choreographing around your confrontation in a precise way.

Granted, none of this has happened (yet) and maybe we're both capable of being adults for the whole thing (hahahahahaha. At least on my end anyway) and we'll both manage to make our way to the end of it respecting each other and our ideas, and it'll come out super awesome.

To be fair, it is going to be wicked fantastic even if we do end up bleeding a little over it, because we're both awesome.

And on top of getting excited about collaborating on a project with someone, it's just a lot of fun to brainstorm new and different ideas. 

Not because I don't love my current stories, but because it's always easier to get started with crazy bouts of inspiration, coming up with all kinds of random wild and crazy scenes in your head that you get super pumped about.

But it's much harder to then sit down and make them happen. Harder still when you have someone else that you have to come to an agreement on things with. So it remains to be seen if I suddenly have very serious regrets about this endeavor once the real work starts.

I tried to find a gif of Gob saying "I've made a huge mistake." But in addition to not finding one I really liked, I also have no idea if any of you are AD fans. So there's that.

Anyway.

LET'S DO THIS!