fortnight, september, minutes💛
fortnight: what wip do you plan on posting next, if at all?
“if at all” - so ominious!!! i guess maybe i might have no WIP. but anyway - i do have a WIP. i have two.
the next WIP will be.... my anon fest fic, so i can tell you nothing about it. apart from that i think it’s good! i think people will like it - i think you will like it. (it’s also quite self indulgent 😂)
the other one is the monster under the bed porn, which should also be fun. i think the anon fic should be revealed (as well as posted) before that, though, so it’s definitely next in all the ways that matter.
september: share a comment or review which still warms your heart?
ALL COMMENTS!!! seriously. and i am a sucker for a long comment.
off the top of my head and perhaps because i’m ‘talking to’ you right now, i’m thinking... i loved that a lot of people who commented on Norma Jean were talking about how attractive Simon was.
and i got some really really lovely comments on Greener Grass - which is a fic i really needed those good comments on, because i was struggling to write it, and as a numbers game... it’s not anywhere near my most popular. but people who liked it really liked it, and that made me super happy. loads of people i respect and love wrote me great comments, but here’s a particularly excellent comment from @scone-lover
The idea is absolutely ingenious ... Because the essence of what they're struggling with in Wayward Son is exactly this. (But I'd never have thought of this AU - and I am oh so glad that you've written it.) How to fit into their bodies, how to reconcile the discomfort and the fear with wanting to be close to each other. How to let someone else love something that repulses you so utterly. Seeing each other through each others' eyes - living as each other. It's the fast track to understanding. It's what I desperately, desperately want for them. To know each other, to allow each other to be known.
minutes: how long does it normally take you to complete a fic?
definitely not minutes!! well - not a small number of them, anyway.
a smut fic of about 6k will probably take me a few weekends (2-3?) ... assuming that i know what i want to write, i WANT to write it, and i have time. this is quick for me, and is only possible because smut of about this length is usually one scene and will have a pretty obvious shape. the good thing about get together smut as well is that it has two obvious narrative shapes - the get together and the orgasms. so.... that’s why i write a lot of those.
otherwise i guess i tend to average something like... 1k a day on a weekend/other non work day, where i mostly write. this can higher if i really know what i’m doing with a fic and really want to write it/have thought about most of what’s in the fic beforehand. i am a slow writer. like - it’s not 1k in a weekend, that i did in an hour. that’s several hours of.... sitting at the computer, looking at tumblr, reading other people’s fics, reading my own fics.... and occasionally putting some words down.
i don’t usually write in the evenings because my brain is too tired from thinking about work all day. i took time off this month and last month to write..... Silk & Velvet and my anon fic. and then i was so inspired about my Monster Under the Bed fic that i started writing that and now have 3k (one day’s work!!) but then i had to stop that, and go back to my anon fic.... because that’s the deadline that’s actually important!
i like the anon fic too, but... it’s not nearly as easy as ‘simon finds a weird dildo and they shag’ aka - one of the greatest premises of this fandom ;) ;)
