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Today I will be following the prompt:
For your current WIP: What motivates you to write this specific story? What makes this story special for you? Is there a special twist/trope/setting you want to explore? What got you started on this particular story?
And this time I will be talking about And They Lived: A Sleeping Beauty AU because it’s as current as WIPs go.
Embarrassingly, I started this story because it was requested. By an anon in 2017 so... they’re probably not interested anymore. The request was just for Bellarke and Sleeping Beauty, and then I made it ambitious (as one does) and then got overwhelmed (as I do).
What’s motivating me to work on it now and to try to finish it is a combination of stubbornness, a sense of obligation, and the sunk cost fallacy tbqh. I wrote 4 1/2 out of 6 chapters. I posted 2 chapters. I just can’t justify doing all that work and NOT finishing, even though the work that remains is not insignificant--I’m bad at predicting word counts but there could easily be another 20k between where I left off in 2019 and the as-yet-unwritten end.
I also feel bad about posting part of a story and abandoning it. Only so bad, but bad.
I think the concept of the story is interesting and ambitious--a fairy tale merged with a modern AU merged with a canon-verse story, mixing in fantastical and sci fi elements in a completely unhinged way--and if I can finish it and post it all, I’ll be really proud that I did it. I see all the story’s flaws and I am, at least right now, very critical of it, but it’s one of those fics that... at least I tried.
I had this idea in 2020 that I would write more “weird stuff,” that I’d push myself more to do creative concepts instead of sappy relationship vignettes (NOTHING wrong with those, I had just done a lot of them, for various reasons, and was getting bored) and then I kinda didn’t do that because... 2020. But actually the Sleeping Beauty AU IS one of those fics, I just haven’t given it enough credit for its weirdness or its ambition.
My favorite part of it is still and probably will always be the first chapter though. I don’t even know why... it’s a terrible way to start a fanfic because it focuses on characters who disappear entirely by the middle of the second chapter, is not overly shippy, takes place before either of the two parts of the main (and very popular ship) are even BORN, and doesn’t even represent the main setting(s) of the rest of the story. But I think I did a decent job of mixing the ordinary with the foreboding, and the last scene with Kane and Abby is awesome imho. Definite Mood. Exactly what I wanted.
Getting OT now so I’m just gonna wrap this up! The end!
Hai! Kembali lagi bikin satu paragraf untuk orang-orang yang bikin Nahda bahagia :)
Namanya Khairina Zahra. Biasa dipanggil bocil atau khai. Karena emang tingkah dan perilaku nya kayak anak kecil wkwk. Tapi Khai pemikiran dan sikapnya dewasa. Nahda bertahan temenan sama Khai karena sifat dewasa dan pedulinya ini. Selama kuliah, Khai kayaknya ga bisa hidup tanpa Nahda wkwk. Tidur maunya dikamar Nahda, makan bareng, ngerjain tugas bareng, belajar bareng, dan lainnya. Kita udah ngelaluin banyak hal, selalu bareng. Kalo ga bareng, berkabar posisi dimana dan lagi apa. Sampai sekarang, walau jauh tetep berkabar. Entahlah sama Khai ga bisa didefinisikan wkwk. Perjalanan kuliah Nahda, dari cuma jadi ketua pelaksana proyek pas mahasiswa baru sampai bisa diposisi tinggi legislatif, dari yang suka bingung ngambil keputusan sampai jadi penguat untuk orang lain, dan segala macam perubahan, mungkin Khai yang paling banyak lihat (termasuk perubahan berat badan kita ya Khai wkwk) . Terimakasih Khai, buat kebaikan selama inii!
"mak, Jalan yuk"
"mak, lu dimana? Gue laper"
"mak, gue nginep kamar lu ya"
"mak masa gue pengen makan sushi deh"
"huhuhu, mak bangunin gue jam 2 pagi ya, telponin gue, ngantuk banget nih"
ok so i struggled today, migraines and too hot and didn’t get a lot accomplished. even my moment of happiness was a bit tainted by a near miss with some neighbourhood dogs, and my forgetting my camera. but that’s okay. life isn’t perfect. I love evening walks with the dogs, under moonlight, the sound of waves crashing on the shore and wildlife all around us. i don’t need a gorgeous shot of the moment to remember it. this one works fine.
This week was a blur - so here are my #day21 #day22 and #day23 posts. 21 goes out to my bestie Nico. I miss you so much every day and I know you’re singing and dancing on the other side. Thanks for looking out for me. 22 goes out to my alma mater - Purdue. That place really made me who I am today and I am completely grateful for my developmental years spent there. 23 goes out to Ecuador. I landed in Quito a year ago and I would give anything to go back and explore some more. Here’s to more adventures!! #100daysofhappiness #100happydays #100dayproject #bestie #purdue #boilerup #btfu #ecuador #studyabroad #quito #happy (at Quito, Ecuador)
Monday, May 20 and Tuesday, May 21 ~ 20/21/100 Days of Happiness
Woops forgot again! This week hasn’t been super busy, on Monday the pretty much everyone finished their exams so it was a day spent celebrating. Then yesterday was just a quiet day. We both slept late and while the boyf went off to do a bit of work, I took a walk. Then we went shopping for suits (for his job this fall!) and went to a lovely tapas bar. As we were eating, we noticed this giant, fluffy cat jump on top of one of the nearby cars and start watching everyone. After a while, Chris noticed the painting right above me - apparently he’s an icon! It was a few days that I finally got to spend with people I care about.
Day 76: I love to see the colour changes is a gradient yarn as my knitting grows #100daysofhappiness #100days #selanaishappy #knitstagram #instaknit #laceknitting #gradientyarn #strickenmachtglücklich
