Fic progress

Chapter 18 of Arctic Raoul typed up: 2500 words, one of the shortest (but it still seemed to take forever). I did abridge it slightly as I went through, because it is so obviously infodump/filler -- this is the middle of the 'drifting north' section, so it's the point at which I'm basically trying to explain how they managed to lose a month and end up in the wrong place instead of simply abandoning ship.

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AO3 stats:

One side-effect of the extremely sketchy viewing statistics provided by AO3 is that it has at least broken me of the habit of checking frequently to see which stories have been viewed (since you only get 'lifetime' figures over all chapters of a story, rather than a monthly per-chapter per-story breakdown).

However, most recently I uploaded Chapters 1 and 2 of "The Sons of Éléonore", since somebody actually requested that. Chapter 1 staggered up to 26 page views in the space of a couple of weeks. When I uploaded Chapter 2, the total went up to 51 (and I'm honestly not sure whether that implies that 13 people reread chapter 1 and then read chapter 2, or whether the fresh upload meant that a number of people read chapter 1 but decided it wasn't what they were looking for, and a few went on to read the new chapter -- which is the normal FFnet pattern -- or whether 25 people jumped straight to the latest update using the fandom page link. With AO3 you just can't tell.)

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DrabbleWriMo 13: Penumbra

This one is going to have to be metaphor, because the literal meanings of the word 'penumbra' are far too specific to apply...

There could be no forgiveness for what he had done. He did not want forgiveness... only oblivion.

Let it be over, and quickly. There was only one shadow deep enough to cover him now, and perhaps — after the thing was done — his remains would not be found. He could keep that satisfaction, at least, from the victor.

In the depths of the spinney, he knelt and lifted the pistol. Fought helplessly to pull the trigger, with shaking hands and shattered will.

Death's outer shadow had touched him, but his courage would not obey. That knowledge broke him utterly at last.