Work in Progress Wednesday!

[tjs_whatnot]

Hello!

How are you?

Just when I'd gotten over the high of finally fuckin' finishing something--and even submitting it--I got a even bigger high when I opened my email from the editor of the collection I submitted to. If you remember from last week, I was worried that it wasn't haha funny and that I hoped it would still be acceptable and fit into what they were putting out. This was their response:

"Oh, it most definitely does! This is excellent. I really, really like
it... so much so that I have no notes whatsoever. (This almost
never happens.)

Thanks for making my job easy :-)"

♥♥♥

And I can totally attest to the fact that usually he has many, many notes as that was how my last essay with them went with their Doctor Who book. So that's pretty awesome, yeah?

So, I thought I'd do a little something this week--though, do feel free to drop your WiPs if you'd rather--to celebrate our awesome. Share with us something that someone has said about your work or yourself. A comment left on a fic, a compliment paid to you at work, a confidence boost you received when you needed it most.

I've shared mine, now you share yours. ♥♥

Comments

[silveradept]

The comments I've gotten on fic that are worth keeping are the ones that sometimes strain the comment limits on AO3, but one that I got in a bookmark description was for a fic I wrote about Harry Potter students suffering under the Once Upon A Time curse said "not!Luna is still perfectly, effortlessly Luna." Which was really nice, and pretty compact.

I also found it nice that I got a compliment on crowd management on a survey for a program I helped wrangle people for, considering I had, earlier on in my career, been complained at by others for lacking classroom management skills.

So the good stuff is sometimes long and sometimes small, but it adds up, and I've learned to build a hoard of it because my brain likes to believe the idea that I'm not good at anything or that the bad things people say about me are more true than the good ones.

(And, it turns out, my WIPs that I can talk about didn't get any progress for this week, so this is timely.)

[therealsnape]

Congratulations! How wonderful, and no notes whatsoever is amazing.

I finished the syllabi for next year yesterday, so I'm basking in the glow of that achievement. It's always quite a lot of work, and I'm looking forward to a few weeks with lots of time off before the lessons start again in September.

[cornerofmadness]

THat's great, congrats. I'm back from the UK and my research trip.

Here's more of Like Stone picking up from a few weeks back.

She nodded her head, struggling to rein in her emotions. “There’s an open missing person’s file but that’s it. No one’s looking into it anymore. I’ve done so much work, found so many leads but I’m not a detective. I can’t do any more. Please, help me.”

She pushed the file folder to me. I opened it up and saw bundles of work inside; tablets filled with who knew what, phone bills, cards from all sorts of women’s shelters and people locators, all arranged meticulously by month and year. Obsession didn’t cover it.

I looked into her eyes and saw she expected rejection. “I don’t know what you expect me to do. We don’t know there’s been a murder or even one that’s in my jurisdiction. The best I can do is hand this right over to Kate, here. She’s a private detective.” I felt I was more than fair with that. Kate was a good detective even if this was more normal than she was used to dealing with at Angel Investigations. Empathetic sadness bubbled up in me for Ms. Nyhammer. Her story was all too common but no less tragic.

[elrhiarhodan]

I've gotten some lovely comments on the fics I've posted this year, notes of appreciation that keep me moving forward. I'm honestly too tired to pull up any to share, but there was one reader who gave me the sweetest feedback on every single chapter of a fic and that so rarely happens. I almost froze and couldn't reply back.

On another note, finished the fic for Just Married (what I'd posted last week), and damn, it's a good thing words don't cost anything. It was almost 21k, and I wrote it in 10 days.

Working on Pining now, which feels a lot easier. It's just shippy, not a lot of plot. Which is just what I need.