Hello my loves and welcome to this new project of mine!🫶🏻
Here I will be giving you some insights on finished stories: how I came up with certain ideas, the meanings behind song recs and titles etc.
I hope my train of thought is interesting for you :)
Episode 1: "The Line" Series - Logan Sargeant
Title:
The title was the last thing I added when the story was already finished and I knew I was going to split it into 3 parts. Since I suck at coming up with titles I wanted to do something creative where the 3 titles have a continuous theme kind of like the „You“ series with Dennis Hauger.
Now I was on the search for a connecting theme and the only thing I could come up with was a line since I kept thinking about a finish line bc Logan and y/n are both racing drivers.
So what can you do with a line? Cross it.
Whether it‘s the finish line in a race or the line between being friends and lovers/ the line between a friendship and a relationship.
But before you cross that line, it usually gets a bit blurry until you don‘t know what side you‘re on anymore. That‘s what happens in Part 1 (blur the line): the line between them gets increasingly blurry as they grow closer.
Ultimately in Part 2 (across the line), the inevitable happens and they cross the line: The morning after their drunk night, they are across the line, but they have not made it yet. It is not: When you're across the line the race is over. No, it is: When you're across the line, everything gets harder (bc I'm a dramatic writer lol)
Once you‘ve crossed the line there‘s no turning back. You can't exactly go back to just being friends, and the future is very fucking scary, especially when you're two young, up and coming F2 drivers.
It‘s all or nothing so Logan puts it all on the line (Part 3) when he finally confronts y/n in Spa.
Storyline / Plot ideas / Process of Writing:
At first you must know that I primarily started writing this fic bc someone requested a Logan fic. It was literally never my plan to write such a huge Logan story but it kind of evolved on its own 😂
„Keep talking, y/n. I‘m listening.“ // „At least he listens to me when I talk.“
I started with a „prompt“ I saw on TikTok where a girl was counting down things guys do that are attractive and this was one of them: Listening to you when you think nobody's listening.
Originally this fic was supposed to be way shorter than it turned out to be and I thought I’d only be writing that one scene (of them in the restaurant) + maybe a scene before and after that.
Idk if you noticed but I like adding little things like taglines and callbacks, so I added the "See you when I overtake you" in the beginning and wanted to kind of make it Logan and y/n's thing.
They also make 2 deals in the story:
The first deal is made in part 2, where they kiss for the first time to determine Logan's drunk talent. It sparks their relationship/ makes them cross the line and kicks off their relationship as lovers.
The second deal is made at the very end of part 3, where they decide to forgive each other for their wrong doings. This deal also sort of kicks off their relationship, but in a healthy, communicative way. It resolves the last issues between them.
Then there are little things like the special coffee blend, the champagne scene, drunk Dennis etc. I can't really explain where they came from. They only came along as I was writing and I went with the flow and my imagination :)
Onto the crash in part 3. I feel like I have to explain it a bit further bc I feel like I cannot for the life of me describe/ come up with realistic crashes. This crash was 100% inspired by/ copied from the collision of Hamilton and Alonso at Spa I think it was, where Hamilton's whole rear end of the car went up in the air. Maybe this helps your imagination a little bit 😅
Song recs:
Song recs, my favorite part of writing stories lol
To be honest with you, I wrote almost the whole thing listening to "The Monster" over and over again, but the other songs fit the vibe of the parts better.
Part 1: blur the line
Electric Love - BØRNS
This song is the definition of young, easy love for me. It's so upbeat and makes you feel like nothing can go wrong. It's the excitement of falling in love, the feeling of your heart beating faster whenever you see that one specific person. This is exactly what Part 1 is all about: pure fluff and crushing on each other 🥰
Part 2: across the line
High For This - The Weeknd
Who writes better songs to set the mood for smut than The Weeknd??? The build of tension, the chorus, the lyrics, everything just fits so well ugh 😫 No further explanation needed tbh
The Monster - Eminem feat. Rihanna
Literally none of the message of the song has anything to do with this story I guess, I just like the way it makes me think of a couple kind of singing to each other. Crisis, drama, tension, uneasiness.
Also look at this phrase in the song: "Well that's not fair."
- Both Y/n and Logan have a moment where they've probably thought: That's not fair.
For y/n it was directly after their night together where Logan asks her to forget about it. For Logan it was at breakfast when y/n tells Dennis that Logan's not her type. They're both disappointed in the other and don't think it's fair that they're being treated that way but they don't realize how much they've hurt the other.
Part 3: all on the line
The Heart Wants What It Wants - Selena Gomez
Logan and y/n in this story are the DEFINITION of "the heart wants what it wants"! This is also almost all part 3 is about: That they're trying to go against their hearts, trying to do the rational thing and move on.... but their hearts won't stop beating for the other ;)
Also this is a very modern fairytale... at least kind of... these two kids get a happy ending lol 🤭
Pictures of You - The Last Goodnight
Again, the message of this song doesn't technically fit with the story but I like this song a lot and it's just such an "ending the story" kind of song for me? Like, good vibes, everything has turned out good?
This song is also talking about pictures a lot (I know, in a different sense but still, pictures are pictures), and I can only imagine how many pictures were made when Logan and y/n kissed on the track in the end :)
Also just imagine them staring at each other, then they crash into each other as the chorus starts, oml
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I guess in the end this whole story was simply all about letting yourself fall in love. About taking the risk of following your heart. 🫶🏻
I hope you liked the story and this very first episode of Work in Progress :)
Episode 2 will hopefully be all about how the "You" series (Dennis Hauger) was created, I'll see you guys soon and stay healthy❤️
The predicted line up next year (supposedly from inside sources) is Fredrick Vesti and Ollie Bearman in f2 for Prema, Jak Crawford to F2 Hitech, Arthur Leclerc to F2 Dams and Dennis and Jehan to MP x
Okay well I clearly have not been keeping up to date🫣
Someone please let me know if there are any more news lol!!!
Also fuck a normal breakup….a Prema breakup is way worse 🥲🥲🥲
Out of all the F2/3 boys we started the season with we might only get one of them in future Prema videos I‘m gonna cry 🫠
HI!!! HELLO!!! I HAVENT BEEN THAT ACTIVE ON TUMBLR LATELY SO I HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO TELL U HOW GOOD THE LOGAN FIC IS SO HERE'S MY MF THOUGHTS‼️
omg. ok. first of all. the way you write logan??? it's so good???? i cant remember which scene but the one where he laughs and like smacks his hand to his chest? YES. YES YES YES. HE DOES THAT AND ITS SUCH A SMALL DETAIL IM SO HAPPY YOU PICKED IT UP AND PUT IN I LITERALLY SAW IT AND WENT "OMG SHE PAYS ATTENTION TO LITTLE SHIT YESSS😭🥹"
also just like the way you write him is so. like. idk how to explain it. for some people on here when they write stories about drivers ur like "yeah this is fantasy this will never happen." BUT I READ YOUR STORY AND WAS LIKE "THIS FEELS REAL. I FEEL LIKE I'M RECALLING LAST NIGHT AS IM IN LOGANS BED." ITS SO GOOD AND REALISTIC. omg you just write so good and it makes me so happy and 🥹🥹🥹 i hope you're doing amazing because that story was actually so fucking good i love part two with all of my fucking heart. also i think at one point logan drops a little like "pretty girl" in there and— lord have mercy. i went feral bc he 10000% would call you pretty girl and i secretly have a little soft spot for it so the fact that you just kinda put that in there i wanted to just die🥹🥹
LITERALLY THINK UR SO COOL AND I LOVE U SO MUCH🙏🏼🥹 HOPE UR DOING WELL!!!!!🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
also dennis left prema and i'm crying 😐
Hello my love, I am so sorry for not answering your ask sooner, but just know you made my heart SOB!!!!
LITERALLY, this is one of the best asks I've ever gotten and I cannot tell you how happy it made me! Was reading this with the biggest smile on my face 😫🫶🏻
Lmao I guess the little things like the smacking his hand to his chest were put in there naturally bc I have like a degree in binging Prema videos by now... after a while you get a pretty good idea of how the drivers react to certain things 😅🥰
I love love love and appreciate that you find my writing realistic bc it's always one of my top priorities that my fics are as realistic as possible but sometimes I read them and think wtf have you done lol
And OHHHH YESS, I 100% agree, I can definitely hear him saying "pretty girl" with his American accent and all :)
I love you too and hope I can make you as happy with my fics as you made me with your ask again soon🫶🏻
And girlll: stay strong, we're all crying bc of Dennis :(
Didn't they move Ollie to Prema cause Dennis is going to MP?
That could be the case/ would be the logical explanation but my gut feeling is just somehow telling me that Prema is not gonna have Ollie and Jehan be teammates… ? Maybe Jak or Arthur are going to take Jehan‘s place? Who knows 🫣
Idk why but seeing that Prema‘s switching Ollie to F2 makes me believe they won‘t continue with Jehan… I really don‘t know what makes me think that but I just can‘t imagine them being teammates?
I just realized I‘m going to have to switch the drivers in my Masterlist/ Request list at the end of the season and I‘m not ready to know where I have to put Arthur 🥲🥲💀
Like… I‘m happy for Dino and Paul that they‘re getting into F3 but not at the cost of the F3 Prema boys switching teams :(
