A writing project that I'd been working on for over a year (which is basically shaping up into a very long novel) is finally starting to turn into a real physical thing. This is still only preliminary work for it - notes, research and outlines rather than the actual thing, but it's still very satisfying to actually hold something that actually has weight and feel after wrestling with it in your head for months and spending many nights typing it into a computer. And goddamn, 140,000 words of printed text when it's just "preliminary work" and "outlines" is nothing to shake a stick at D:

(kinda hard to tell, but that is indeed a stack of a couple of hundred printed pages)
Now to sit on it for a couple of months, work out the kinks, and flesh out the actual thing. Will probably take me the better part of the next couple of years at least, but hey, this is a pretty good place to be already. This probably also partially explains my relative inactivity as far as AMVs lately >__>
Creatively satisfied Oto is creatively satisfied
