Fic Writing Behind the Scenes (BTS) 2021
Mar. 4th, 2021 10:56 pm the lost get found
you are the magic in me - DVD commentary
hand covers bruise (reprise)
fandom 5k
tog birthday fic #1
- god this was supposed to be 10k. I'm now at 24k??? and it's still going in editing??? I don't even know if it makes sense but oh my god
- first time I ever managed to create a multichapter that was supposed to be a one-shot via structure cuz plot
- speaking of which, plot hard and how do you tag plot??? maybe this is why i don't write AUs/worldbuild...
- min 300 words, me: LOL, time to put all the prompts together b/c I'm indecisive as fuck
- Never wrote for Ran/Anaak before but why not? It's a fun journey to reference canon and make up fun shit along the way just because
- actually ended up liking the end result quite a bit! it was super fun to integrate them all together and felt really me
- I wrote short and sweet! I hope the characterization is ok, didn't flesh it out too much but I wanted to write it and I guess this is the simplest way to dip my feet into a new fandom :)
- and honestly i love kagehina dumbasses so this was very on point
crash and burn (with me)
- okay I have the sk8 kink meme to blame for this and you have no idea how much i've missed kink memes holy crap and this prompt stirred my brainworms like NOTHING else
- that i was like ok i'll reward myself by writing this tonight! and the words came so easily that i was like fuck it's "Eclipsed Sun" all over again but I got so little sleep b/c of it but i regret nothing!!! this is my jam. 2 hrs of pure writing adrenaline.
- this fic just keeps getting longer and honestly i'm having an ish tough time keeping the slow burn from spiraling out and the little moments from adding up. i remember just adding a scene in chapter 2 that i didn't plan on at all just b/c Killua got impatient and wanted to do something more so I was like AIGHT and 5k later i'm like oops.
- this is super fun though even though I'm baaaaad at describing settings and i just hope that my artist is okay and likes it!
- really hope this draft is done by beg of April so i can edit it like crazy and my beta doesn't get a heart attack at the insane word count, good thing there are other crazies with me in this bb writing juuuuuust as much
- seriously why are all my longfics AUs i can't
- update: the draft was done by beginning of april at around ~57k and you know it's just gonna get longer bc it's me BUT fun fact, i finished it solely bc of one song - Only Love (Acoustic) by PVRIS and god that song is SO GOOD FOR THIS ENTIRE FIC'S MOOD and bunch of other ones too, freaking savior
- editing. is. pain. editing 60k at once, not even at once, but slowly, it's like ... what is english and what is grammar? i'm also shocked at how i dont even care about the plot. it just feels right to me now bc it's so long it has to be... right? i'm not redoing the damn plot.
- idk if i wanna de-anon this yet b/c i guess i don't necessarily want to come out with it full blown nor do i want to title/summary/tag it. actually the summary would be pretty easy. oh. and editing. it's incredibly freeing to just post sections as I go knowing it won't get thaaat long (false, it's already so long wtf) and not having to read back at it either.
- thinking about it, it's like all my prior experiences with kink memes have shaped my preferences? like there are certain things I just jump up at as yes PLEASE and it's so weird and enlightening to be on the flip side and actually ... filling these based off the stuff my mind has churned out for the past x years?
- anyway, quite an experience!!! god how did it get so fucking long i'm still in disbelief
you are the magic in me - DVD commentary
- i wrote this to procrastinate in 1.5 hrs and whipped out 4k words of word vomit and it may be the proudest thing i've done all year
hand covers bruise (reprise)
- i literally couldn't keep writing this bc i started near the end and it made me too sad and introspective...i wrote so much of it too and im pretty sure im not gonna keep most of it since it drove me crazy. so i started again from the beginning and now i have 4.5k of leadup before the prompt even begins and for what???
- seriously then i looked at the prompt and went OH BOY this is not what they wanted but like, Langa had a mind of his own okay, it just got really sad really fast. also uh, can't write anything w/o adam huh.
- idk one day i will finish and post this and feel less awful about how much fucking introspection is in this and how stupid it starts. this is not the pining while fucking i wanted. god. please resolve this someone who isn't me.
- i still don't know what this is but at least i have a title now; it was tentatively called 'if we don't bend / then this might break' from "Only Love" by PVRIS, but idk this soundtrack title from TSN feels nice and i have that obnoxious bracket in the end SO. YAY.
fandom 5k
- me: idk what to do with this assignment cuz i tend to want to mix a bunch of prompts likes together
- an hr later: 400 words of outline/dialogue. ok i guess this will be easy.
- realizes the DNW: oh boy an exchange first to email the mod about this as i am toeing the line i think
- so it's 3k in and nothing has happened. figures.
- will this be my first non explicit sk8 fic? and first fic w/o mentioning adam? stay tuned and find out!
tog birthday fic #1
- aight time to read the webtoon again!
- no idea how i'm actually gonna make this a fic and not just ... me recounting the canon
- once again, i cannot make up my mind SO i am now trying to fit all their likes into one fic... welp me this is SO not gonna be 400 words
- 2.5k later, nope def not 400 words. and i'm still vaguing at shit lol which seems to be ... on brand for me.