Current fannish projects

Well, now that the busyness of hosting WED is over, I'm taking a review of the other fannish things I have going on and trying to do some sorting out. So! At the moment I am working on:

• My Flight of the Heron/Kidnapped crossover longfic! I'm on chapter 17 at the moment and the total wordcount has just passed 90,000; I think I've got another four or five chapters to go, give or take a little epiloguing, which suggests a final wordcount somewhere in the 110-120k range. This is exciting! There are definitely plot difficulties, but I am making steady progress working through them and keeping going (very much thanks to beta feedback from the excellent sanguinity and luzula). If all continues well, I'm fairly comfortably on track for my goal of getting to 'only final edits needed' stage within this year.
• Another meta post resulting from the FotH Wikipedia research. This one has been fully written up for months, I just haven't got round to posting it; I will soon.
• A meta post about the textual history of Kidnapped. Also mostly written, needs a bit more polishing.
• The Flight of the Heron ebook! This has slowed to a crawl due to various technological problems, but I'm now three-quarters of the way through scanning and OCR-ing the text and hoping to make a final push on the last quarter soon. And then will follow the pleasant text-corrections stage in which I get to read FotH again. :D
• A Wikipedia article on NTS Kidnapped. ♥
• A vague plan to make my own fansite, probably over on Neocities. This is an idea I've had for some time, resulting from a convergence of 'I love all this cool HTML and CSS I'm learning for ebooking, what else can I do with it?', 'I want to archive my Flight of the Heron and Kidnapped fic somewhere where no one can tell me they know better than I do what the fandom is called' and 'hmm, it'd be nice to have some kind of permanent place to put all this stuff I'm digging up about FotH and D. K. Broster', and the recent Things happening to do with AO3 have lent it further impetus. I've got a collection of disorganised and half-finished HTML files, which need a lot more organisation before I can do anything with them, and I need to make a decision about the scope of such a site ('everything I'm interested in' is all very well for Dreamwidth, but I feel a proper website ought to be a bit better-defined; but it needs to include at least both FotH and Kidnapped, and fic, meta and general canon/history info; perhaps a broad 'old books about Jacobites' theme?). But it's progressing, somewhat.

So that's enough to keep me busy for a while, and who knows how long any of it will take. But it's good fun :D