plz continue your fic I really like it :(
Hello, I come with an update! I'm sorry for the late response: In short I have been kicked in the ass over the last many moons by what I can only describe as the AO3 Author Curse From Hell. It's like Satan himself saw me on a roll and was like, "Naaaaaaah. Here's the total collapse of everything in your life. Enjoy!" It's been hard to write, hard to focus, and I randomly developed this anxious phobia of partaking in the online world and fandom culture/fic for a while which I'm still kinda battling internally (I know in my soul it's unwarranted but it's been actively fucking my shit up in regards to my creativity and enjoyment of the media I love). I won't go into what my variation of the fic writer's curse has entailed, but I can say that things have gotten better (kind of. It's a "fix a big thing and then the other big things fall apart" situation) and I have my creative spark back.
So, what is the future of Daisy Bell? And to a lesser extent, my Fallout fanfiction What Happened In New Vegas? Future works? Read on.
So, Daisy Bell. My golden goose, if you will. I want to finish it out because we are literally at the point where The Plot kicks off and I have ideas. My hangup that's made it a harder egg to crack is that I've come to realize I HATE writing in second-person reader POV, and I feel like the story is about to mutate in a way that I feel keeping it in that perspective would be a disservice. I'm still planning on keeping the FMC undescribed and nameless, but I feel that shifting to a more omniscient third-person POV is in order for the sake of the quality of the story going forward. However, that makes me super nervous because we're 12 chapters in on the reader POV, and I don't want to alienate readers who would come in expecting that. Yadayada just write and post the damn thing, I know. Daisy Bell WILL be continued and finished, it just may be one of those fics where you'll need to subscribe to it because I have zero clue when it will happen, just that it will.
Now, for my other WIP, What Happened In New Vegas:
Massive. Fucking. Rewrites. I'm rebuilding that bitch from the ground up because I posted the first two chapters as a fun lil thing to prove I could put something out there but I feel I owe the Fallout fandom something better. Stay tuned, but it's at the bottom of my three WIP fic priorities right now.
Three, I said? What's the other?
Well in my Author's Curse era I've been reading more books and watching more movies and somehow Cormac McCarthy has grabbed my brain and I have been eating his work up. Burned through No Country For Old Men after watching the movie, made a good dent into Blood Meridian before I lost the book somewhere (!!!!), and now I'm piddling through The Road. Anyways, I feel like I can say a lot about the evils of men on the eve of Reagan's presidency and I have an idea for an Anton Chighur x female original character fic that's stupid fun but also has some teeth. So why the hell not? I've been a bit lazer focused on developing that and using it as sort of a testing grounds.
Fun fact: What I post to AO3 is almost always a first draft with minimal clean-up. So I want to write this NCFOM fic in the roughest first draft imaginable, all the way to the end (it won't be long at all yet still multiple chapters), and dedicate myself to posting on a schedule where I do proper edits/drafting as I post weekly. If I can keep myself to that, I will translate that method to the rest of Daisy Bell. Joining a local writing community has been good for teaching me better habits, and I want to put those into motion.
In short, stay tuned! It will be continued. Life's just been messy and I've been too scared of turning to this coping mechanism (writing fun lil fanfics). Anxiety, gotta love it! Thank you for the message, sorry for the late response. Cheers, y'all!
