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noyabeansafter 2 months and some (I started in April) I'VE FINALLY FINISHED DRAFT ONE OF TIMELESS 8.
really uncertain about a lot of things from plot to characterisation to relationship dynamics, but you have no idea how big a relief it is to finally get it off my hands (and into my beta's). funny how it started off easy and just spiraled into hell. I wrote it pretty blindly too, with only the main plot points but not the events along the way, so for a good 60% of the fic I was just winging it... which is probably how I ended up... with a fic that is 9.4k words long when I was expecting it to be 6-7k at most.
oh crap
I think I know why I suffered so much. I wrote the whole thing in full chronological order.........................? which doesn't usually happen for my long fics.
towards the end (aka the last scene, which I wrote today) I literally threw my hands up and went, yknow what, anything goes. and I found something really useful on Wikipedia! the things I've bookmarked for this fic are pretty amusing tbh. but there was something that fit incredibly smoothly into the whole story and I was super happy about that.
I'm just happy that I'm done.
except my beta is now done reading, which means editing comes soon. sob
on a side note, me @ me: why can't you spare yourself the pain and stop shipping so many rarepairs??????? this fic ended up with a strange mess of dynamics also, what's up with that
me @ me: new phone who dis
it's not possible for me tbh, almost every single one of my fandom ships are rare............
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update [12.18am]: so I was looking through my old Kuroyaku drafts to see if there's anything I can work with, and I have this 10-paragraph fic that reads like a ritzfic.
really uncertain about a lot of things from plot to characterisation to relationship dynamics, but you have no idea how big a relief it is to finally get it off my hands (and into my beta's). funny how it started off easy and just spiraled into hell. I wrote it pretty blindly too, with only the main plot points but not the events along the way, so for a good 60% of the fic I was just winging it... which is probably how I ended up... with a fic that is 9.4k words long when I was expecting it to be 6-7k at most.
oh crap
I think I know why I suffered so much. I wrote the whole thing in full chronological order.........................? which doesn't usually happen for my long fics.
towards the end (aka the last scene, which I wrote today) I literally threw my hands up and went, yknow what, anything goes. and I found something really useful on Wikipedia! the things I've bookmarked for this fic are pretty amusing tbh. but there was something that fit incredibly smoothly into the whole story and I was super happy about that.
I'm just happy that I'm done.
except my beta is now done reading, which means editing comes soon. sob
on a side note, me @ me: why can't you spare yourself the pain and stop shipping so many rarepairs??????? this fic ended up with a strange mess of dynamics also, what's up with that
me @ me: new phone who dis
it's not possible for me tbh, almost every single one of my fandom ships are rare............
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update [12.18am]: so I was looking through my old Kuroyaku drafts to see if there's anything I can work with, and I have this 10-paragraph fic that reads like a ritzfic.
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Date: 2017-07-09 11:48 pm (UTC)and lol what is this linn-ritzfic