So! I'm not dead!

I'm not! I swear!  I've just been.... flying under most radars for the past couple of weeks.  (On here, it might honestly be longer.)  

I basically went from spending November and December in a frantic spree to rewrite my novel for publishing to spending the first half of January getting it peer-reviewed... and realizing that I'm going to have to do ANOTHER rewrite. 

It's not NEARLY as massive... but... I've got some plot things that I'd like to change, and some character development that I think I can flesh out some more.  (I'm trying not to put spoilers up here, because I've sent the thing to four of you :P).  Cookie and KKBeckett both know some of the things that I *really* want to work on.  Flightfoot knows there's work to be done as well.

So... where does that leave my fanfics.

As rar knows... I split my novel in-half.  (Not exactly halfway through, but... I split it in-two, nonetheless.  (Honestly, this is where some of the plot-arc problems stem from... but... I'm aware of this...) She wanted to know if I was going to write the second half (now book 2) as soon as I finished with putting all the touches on Book 1.  

I told her I probably would.  But, honestly, it really depends on how I feel.  The current stage I'm in for editing Book 1 (title undecided at this point) is something that I'm hopefully going to wrap up by mid-February.  I'll probably start the rewrites of THAT shortly after.  That could take anywhere between one month... and three.  (Probably not more than three.  Honestly, probably not more than two.)  That puts me somewhere in April after all those rewrites are through.  Then goes another round of editing.  Then, I need to determine if I need ANOTHER major overhaul, or if I can just tidy things up and put it up for publishing.  That's something I don't know yet.

The one thing I do know, is that I want to get this thing published within this year.  It will pain me greatly if I don't.  

So... where does that leave my fanfics? (since I didn't actually answer this question the last time I wrote it up there...)

I don't know.  I want to get back to them.  But my priorities are falling alongside my novel.  However, there will probably come a time in the next month or so where I need a break from that writing project and I'll start working on another.  (I already took a small break in order to write my story for my Creative Writing Workshop class, but THAT has nothing to do with my fanfics.  I couldn't write fanfiction for CW anyway.)  

Regardless, my next fanfic project is going to be a prequel of sorts.  I may have already told some of you this.  I may have already posted it and I'm just having a stupid and can't remember if I did or not.  

But, it's going to detail the events of our favorite FF characters as they grow up and meet each other.  (And it gives me an excuse to write ZackxAerith fluff.)  I may write some stuff with TAV as well, but I'm not sure at the present moment.  *shrug*

But yeah... when I start writing fanfic again, that's where I'm picking up.

And... now I'm going to end this terribly long post.  Thanks for reading! And keeping up with me.  (If you all still do that.) 

~magik