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wow rosekiller

need a little spray bottle like I've heard of some people using with cats (I suppose I understand the theory behind it) to deter myself from working on one shots and au ideas instead of the thing i should be working on

#whenever I take a bit of time off from it I feel dangerously like grrm #in a 'should be locked in a cabin with nothing but the manuscript' way

imeonasy

wolfstar to match the jegulus

horror of writing multiple pov is when this is not my french/rather northeastern slavic miserable protagonist but I forget there are clumsy ways in english to refer to a matryoshka and so. it must briefly be a """"nesting doll"""

#matryoshka just sounds better #I suppose nesting doll sounds nice in its own way

peckedpolaris

regulus will say 'so i fucked up a bit' and sirius will have to brace himself for something like 'i wore mixed metals in public' or 'i actively killed someone' and there is never anything in between

abyssal-ilk

you ever get so into the whole "it would have been good if it was good" thing that it gets kind of embarrassing. it would have been good if it was good but it's Not and in fact it's maybe worse than anything else but unfortunately. it still could have been good. if it was go

bellatryst

the mortifying ordeal (it was fine i'm just lightly embarrassed to be doing this again) of needing to post an update that I am rewriting six chapters of this series because I did not adequately think things through...

bellatryst

BUT! the satisfying ordeal of organising my notes and outline and drafts again...

#joyous organization #to be honest. I think a huge part of the issue is that I switched laptops and stopped being as dedicated to notes

the mortifying ordeal (it was fine i'm just lightly embarrassed to be doing this again) of needing to post an update that I am rewriting six chapters of this series because I did not adequately think things through...

#but I was putting this off in a very avoidant way and it had me avoiding the actual drafts and notes for the fic so.#this is for the best

imeonasy

bellatryst

contemplating rewrites as if holding some immensely tempting evil artefact but I think its probably better to fix what I do not like so I can move forward because........ while I could proceed from here I feel that I could improve the pacing etc so much with just one rather severe edit of the last chapter of part 1 / what I have so far of part two. and if I do that now 🤔 I will not have to deal with as many issues going forward. hate to do this to people who have already read what is published but at the same time I was going through some sort of episode when I finished part one (easier to recognize that now) and....... 🤔 it could be better............ BUT it's also. the fact that I changed the outline and that actually does necessitate edits. in future I need to make sure I have everything heavily outlined before I publish... so I avoid this problem in future.

bellatryst

also I need to redo all my notes + outlines because I think part of why I am in this mess is. I was not adhering to the actual detailed notes and timetables while writing this pre-school section

#I need a system or the long covid brain fog will destroy this story's potential to be halfway decent #silver lining is that when this happened last time... I was further along and had so much more to do #I'll start work on that when I next have a brain though

praenomer

The Lovers is a card of choice

#drarry

contemplating rewrites as if holding some immensely tempting evil artefact but I think its probably better to fix what I do not like so I can move forward because........ while I could proceed from here I feel that I could improve the pacing etc so much with just one rather severe edit of the last chapter of part 1 / what I have so far of part two. and if I do that now 🤔 I will not have to deal with as many issues going forward. hate to do this to people who have already read what is published but at the same time I was going through some sort of episode when I finished part one (easier to recognize that now) and....... 🤔 it could be better............ BUT it's also. the fact that I changed the outline and that actually does necessitate edits. in future I need to make sure I have everything heavily outlined before I publish... so I avoid this problem in future.

#feels very cheap to publish and THEN edit again but they shouldn't be too extensive...#everything is still going to be more or less the same plot wise...?#<- person in the bargaining stage of grief

peachrtistic

in the come and go room

#jegulus

ourstarman

Pandora teaching Lily how to crochet because it's a cute couples activity they can do together only to find out Lily has never been relaxed once in her life and won't have fun unless her project comes out perfect

4lilyofthevalley4

I love fics when they add in Sirius's casual cruelty like YES he lowkey got that black family madness and theres no way he isn't fucked up from everything that happened to him

might indulge myself while working on this next chapter and go back to fix everything that bothers me about the very last chapter of part one...

#I don't take issue with the events of that chapter but when I wrote it I was sleep deprived in the worst way #and I do take issue with their presentation #at least after a point...#maybe as a little side project I'll work on an edit that gives things more breathing room #because that chapter has a lot of my writing pet peeves in it. feels lazy.

Regulus in your fic says the most insane shit and Sirius is just there… too bewildered to react 🧍🏻🧍🏻🧍🏻

True! And Reg isn't even trying to be evil about it, he's just... Well, I suppose it comes naturally to him. I swear Remus warned Sirius this was going to happen, too, and so did Andromeda (and Narcissa, in her own way) and yet...

I just think Remus and Sirius are living in a horror film, now that they've successfully taken in two possessed orphans.

#sirius is reacting by going mad off screen though I promise ❤️#trouble with writing him only as viewed by a 12 year old unreliable narrator is that he is not performing his breakdowns to camera

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