I'm a teacher. I HAD to learn something from this.

With a great deal of pacing and some serious marathon typing sessions, I finished my fic draft on Sunday. (I think I started typing around 10 AM and finished around 6 PM.) I had taken Saturday off to go to the annual pirate faire that’s within driving distance of my house, and Friday night we had some guests over (which was a whole load of fun…), so I didn’t get to work on it then. So… Sunday was it. I think I wrote upwards of 3,000 words that day, and when I was done I ran around the house telling everyone who would listen to me that I had finished, and then I promptly went to do anything other than stare at a computer screen for a while before I got down to grading the twenty essays I still had lying around that needed to be looked at before 7:30 Monday morning.

I know I have some work to do on my draft, but on the whole I’m very happy. I’ve learned (or been reminded of) quite a bit about myself as a writer as I’ve gone through this process. And because I internalize by writing, here’s my list. (I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging here… I’m just astonished that any of this worked at all, and I’m trying to figure out exactly what I did for the future.)

( What I learned from writing my BigBangHood fic )

I can't wait to read what everyone else on the challenge came up with, and to see the artwork! I've never participated in something this BIG before, and the idea of having such an influx of long work into the fandom makes me ridiculously happy.