five past midnight

wheeeeeew this journal has been collecting dust for almost a year. well, in my defense, with the exception of a few attempts at tsurune fic in the earlier half of the year, I haven't been writing at all.

...since I'm writing this now, I'm back, of course. whether or not I will stay is a matter of contention, but for now, I am here... and an appalling 37k words into a fic that was intended to max out at... 10k.

clearly something went wrong somewhere huh LOL. 

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 I'VE FINALLY INTRODUCED THE CHARACTER orz after two full months of agony... 

Current word count: 6.3k

Apparently the introduction of this particular character brought out the sassy side of Noya. Two lines after he gets introduced to the character, he basically insults+compliments the character in the span of a sentence. The character is, predictably, embarrassed and charmed (and offended?). 

This character's also a pain in the ass to write. I don't know if I'm writing him too soft, or too rude, or too everything. He's in quite a pickle though, so he has no choice but to work with Konoha and Noya anyway. 

update [6.05pm]: 

Current word count: 7.3k 

After 1k words of Konoha and Noya being ridiculous, the plot is moving -_-

:v what are you saying I missed my daily post.

to be fair, I didn't have time at all today to write, but I did get three paragraphs written while I was sitting in the hair salon (speaking of which, I've finally fulfilled my dream of having burgundy hair). they're sketchy though - my writing has been really choppy recently,  and everything is flowing awkwardly :\ it's almost like my Kyousaku all over again. speaking of which, I really need to get around to editing that fic, it's already complete but a few sections need to be totally rewritten. rewriting is the worst.

I'm now thinking about making Rental Boyfriend AU a multichapter instead of a oneshot, because I've thought of a number of conflicts that I want to write, which will prolong the story... but somehow I think most fake dating fics are oneshots... then again, I can always break that trend, as I always like to. ...but then again, I'm Not Consistent (looks guiltily at Journalism AU, which I really need to go back to...).

hoping to incorporate The Incident into this scene I'm writing, I wonder how many people will catch it lolol since it was making the news.

the good part about this fic I'm writing now (working title Timeless #8 for lack of creativity) is that I can feel my writing muse coming back. it's not as strong as when I was writing Across the Ages, but then again I had the luxury of it being the holidays when I wrote Ages. I literally ate-breathed-slept-dreamt Ages for the better part of December, and the final product shows (to me, at least, since I wrote it) the amount of changes and edits that I made from start to finish.

anyway, Ages is not the point.

Timeless #8 has been surprisingly... easy to write and edit, unlike At Sunrise, where I struggled with identifying flaws in the story, much less edit them.

where Ages went through several rounds of revisions (and plot hole fixes lmao, time travel really messes with the mind), I'd say 90% of my original version of Sunrise ended up in the final product. I'm not entirely sure why I feel odd about that, but I guess it was partially because of how much I changed Ages over the course of writing it...? I kind of subconsciously expect myself to put that much effort into every instalment of Timeless now, I guess.

personally I'm not that satisfied with Sunrise, because where I can easily say that I wrote part of my heart and soul into Ages, I know I didn't for Sunrise. not as much, at least. it's strange.

I wonder if it's because of the timing at which I was writing Sunrise - I wrote it alongside a bunch of other stories, and it took me a full month to finish but yet, I'm not as emotionally attached to it... - or because of the nature of the story itself. I'm not a big fan of character death (I say, as I plan out Timeless' instalments) and that might be a possible reason why I tried to disengage from Sunrise.

in any case, so far Timeless #8 has the luxury of 1) being the only fic I'm working on at the moment, although I really do feel like writing the Nekoma third years fic that I've been wanting to write 2) not having any heavy, heavy themes and 3) having a lot of worldbuilding opportunities, which I do enjoy writing much more.

...sometimes I look back at my notes and I wonder: how did a 1000 word Nanowrimo story... end up spawning an entire universe?

I just went to look at my earliest, earliest notes, when I was first inspired by the prompt 'A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed' and I found this:

Yaku is a time traveller and Kuroo an immortal warlock.
They never explicitly said “I love you”, but they knew. It was just a given - a love that reached beyond space and time. No matter when, no matter which time period he ended up, Morisuke knew that he would always be able to find Kuroo.
One day, Kuroo disappeared.

how far we've come since then :'D I've lost the original Nanowrimo story (overwrote it when I really decided on writing Ages) but... it's been a journey.

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anyhow, Timeless #8 marks more unchartered territory for me.

writing Konoha, whom I've never written before, as a main character is really nervewracking tbh, although it should get better as the fic progresses. I've also added a character I've never written before, and even though he's just a minor character here, I'm excited that I finally can add him into the story. :D I hope it will mark the entrance of more people from that particular team! 

it's almost 1am so I'm just gonna write for 15 minutes today and call it a day.