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This is another old meme that I find particularly interesting because it's a lot harder than it can seem at first. I mean, I could rattle off dozens of characters I love off the top of my head, but listing 3 that are similar to me in some ways is not so straightforward. At least to me.

Anyway, here's my current choice (and it's interesting to see how different they are from the ones I chose the first time around, 10 years ago - Hermione Granger, Elinor Dash wood from Sense&Sensibility and Jaye from Wonderfalls):

Margaret Hale from North&South. A strong-willed woman who's really not a good judge of character. Generous but proud, her family is very important to her. She's also generous and compassionate and I think I am too.
Tami Taylor from Friday Night Lights. Isn't it a bit sad that I could come up only with her as an example of a grown woman who is a wife and mother but is not only defined by these two roles? She also had a career in education (she was a guidance counselor and then a vice principal or something along those lines). Of course, I wish I was half as cool as her.
Mirabel from Encanto. This is because quite a few of my students said I remind them of her. Lol. I think they meant physically what with my short curly hair and the glasses, buy I must say the bubbly personality, the tendency to people-pleasing and her love for her family are something else we have in common.

Which characters do you think are similar to you in some ways and why?

I was thinking about it mostly in the context of NaNoWriMo (because it is November, and yes, NaNoWriMo is dead and dead for good reason, but, nevertheless...) — and I realized how much I have written this year.

Specifically.

The origfic that ate my brain and which was completely posted to AO3 as of Thursday is 131913 words.

The sequel (which is fully written and in the process of being posted) is 230909 words.

The enemies-to-lovers AU-of-an-AU is 24,769 words.

So, uh, all together, since May 30, I have written —

387,591 words of original fiction.

Good lord.

So it's been, er, roughly 5.5 months since May 30th.

Averages out to about 71k words per month.

...well then.

I haven't talked about it on here mostly because it is rated E and how the fuck do I go, "hey you should read my thing, yes it's rated E, no, it's mostly plot and not porn!", and also because multiple people I love dearly have read the tags list and gone, "you know what, I'm good, glad you're having fun though!" (The tags make it sound like it's far more explicit than it is; it's a Regency-adjacent romance first and foremost.)

Like. Hey! I wrote it. I'm proud of it. But also: oh my lord.

Am mostly just like, "Huh, that's just those three things, that's not everything I've written for Idol or other fic that I'm working on" — like.

Well then?

I might actually break 500k this year, which is just — really odd to think about, mostly!

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