coley_merrin | Almost Until You (Reply)

It has nearly come to that time again, where I am neurotic and checking files, and bemoaning transitions, and continuity, and whoosits and whatsits, and dialogue and characterization. And there are people staring at me with narrowed eyes and pursed lips (and no, I am not paranoid) after each chapter, waiting for the next, wondering if I'm going to move to Jamaica in the middle, or perhaps do the unthinkable and, uh...end a fic that way. You know what I'm talking about.

The Ending That Shall Not Be Named. Mmhmm. (Okay, there's a few of those. But none of them from me.)

And I'm trying not to put the cart ahead of the horse here, because I'm not done yet. Close, but not quite. But I can see the glimmer of sun on the horizon, the fresh breeze against my face. The trials and adorations of one person trying to corral as-of-right-now 65,000 words of, well. People with pointy teeth.

Or at least a Mi with pointy teeth. Now there's a hint. ^__^

Fic will be titled "Until You" and if I say how many chapters it will be, I will jinx myself and end up writing this fic until I'm 93. And I really would prefer not to, because though it has been relatively painless - unless you count chapter 11, and I do not - there are always 193460136401374018374 other things waiting to be written and adored. This is what you get when you leave an idea to ferment since, uh. Last March.

But the icon is appropriate. ^__^ Sometimes I forget to stick on her name, or people forget that this writing deal isn't just a mad person stuck in a corner with a laptop and a crazed look (only half the time, I promise). It takes a village to...raise a fic, as it were. And this has been a particularly satisfying ride on my end. So 'tis appropriate on the first day of the lunar new year to give a shout-out to beta par excellence,