EOM Writing Stats - October 2019

End of Month (EOM) Stats

Target/Day	Average/Day	Total Words/Month	Target/Month	Difference
1,667	1,871	57,988	50,000	+7,988

Fic I Finished in October
Synthesis - Part of AU Yeah AUgust, specifically the 'bookstore' AU. Just a cute little thing where student!Prowl has a one-nighter with bookseller!Jazz.

AU Yeah AUgust 2019 chapters seven and eight (days sixteen and seventeen, respectively.) Megatron summoning Soundwave as a supernatural servant didn't quite work out the way I wanted but who says I can only write one version of something?

Prowl x Jazz Hallowe'en Challenge 2019 - Five separate fills as part of prowlxjazz Hallowe'en Bingo 2019:

• Replay - Prowl just wants a quiet summer but it's not to be.
• Ghost Stories - I had fun making up the ghost stories for this one, and I guess I genuinely creeped people out with them, so, good job, me!
• Homework - Me: What can I do for the cursed prompt? Brain: Let's combine Macbeth and The King in Yellow! Me: ....sure.
• Working Magic - Apparently women over 25 reading/writing smut "threatens the very foundations of the patriarchy." [Source] So, here's a couple blows from me.
• Ritual - The general idea of this - Prowl goes back to Praxus for college and Jazz goes with him - was in play from the very beginning but the overall plot didn't come until I was trying to figure out what Prowl and Jazz could do with the info from the grimoire. That didn't fit in Working Magic but came in useful here.

The prowlxjazz fills again account for the vast majority of the words written and posted last month, just over 25K in the raw doc (which includes the AO3 metadata, footnotes, research notes, commentary, and any cut scenes) and around 21K in the published series.

Experimental Chemistry - Another AU Yeah AUgust 2019 fill, this time for the Bartender prompt and also used for Trope Bingo's Love Triangle prompt. I don't plan to do anything else with this one but I might go back and play with the Perceptor/Jazz/Wheeljack idea somewhere else.

TF Rare Pairing - Trick or Treat Challenge 2019 Edition - Six fills for tf_rare_pairing's Hallowe'en challenge:

• Storytime - Again, had a lot of fun adapting/creating stories for Bluestreak and Hound to tell each other in the forest.
• The Fog - Fog is wonderful and spooky. Writing this, I learned there are a surprising number of stock photos of abandoned cars.
• Distraction - Knock Out/Dreadwing fluff.
• Mutual Comfort - Mirage and Bluestreak snuggling each other after reliving trauma, basically.
• Skyfrost - The phantom hitchhiker is my favorite urban legend so of course I had to do something with it for this. :)
• Anomalous - This wound up shorter than I expected but wanting to talk to and help ghosts requires more sympathy than I see TF:P Megatron having so he just got right to the heart of the problem and blew it up instead.

WIPs

AU Yeah AUgust 2019 - Still going! I will get it done. Not during August, clearly (unless it's next August :p), but they will get done. Current project is the Roadtrip prompt.

Rendezvous (working title), an expansion of the fill by the same name for Prowl x Jazz Anniversary Challenge 2019. War-weary Autobots Jazz, Prowl, Bluestreak, Inferno, and Red Alert show up on Earth in response to Prime's transmission. I don't know what all's going to happen but I do know it goes AU sometime during S2.

Assassin AU pt 7 (working title: Interconnected References) - Assassin!Prowl is being difficult.

Wizard AU pt 8 (working title: The Mentor) - I keep trying to make this too complex. This is actually half of the original draft of The Party, until I realized that I was trying to tell two A stories at once - which I'm still trying to do. *sigh* I'll get it sorted.