#aus writing

[leviplease]

hey! just wanna say thanks for the update on the fic! keep up the great work, cant wait to read more soon!

Thank you for letting me know!

I cannot say how soon you'll get to read more, but I intend to get this chapter done at some point.

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Time for me to scream about writing chapter 36 of An Unbearable Sight, I hope you don’t mind.

Annie is getting emotional this chapter and I didn’t plan for it, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like it. (Lots of cursive words for the sake of emphasis.)

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fanfic writing stuff///

I haven’t been able to write recently because of depression, but I’m planning to get back to AUS once I’ve worked through some of it.

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some AUS update rambles//

First draft of chapter 35 is done. Aside from the required editing to fix the mistakes and improve some wording, I'm also undecided about a few details still. So I'm leaving it be for now and started working on chapter 36 instead. Maybe I can get a bit ahead with my writing which might help me with the planning of the story as well as with updating more frequently again. I'm still debating a few plot developments and maybe writing some planned scenes out will help me to decide how exactly to go about this.

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I think being nosy is fine here @lunarcrystals, I don’t mind talking about it. Because I went on a bit of a ramble there, I put it under a cut. Read on for some ereani fic ideas and a bit about AUS.

I didn’t have anything concrete in mind when making that post, I was just vaguely thinking it could be a one-shot. It was just spur of the moment with me wanting something where I didn’t have to worry about stuff I wrote years ago when I still felt I had to give in to the seemingly very common demand for smut in fandom (despite having no real interest in it). It’s complicated and anyway, I digress.

I’ve been playing with the idea of a modern AU for quite some time now which would be focused on the development of the relationship between Eren and Annie of course. But I don’t have many concrete ideas for that yet aside from Annie and Levi being roommates because I do love they idea of Annie and Levi getting along due to their similarities — which is way easier to explore when they aren’t, you know, enemies. I love me some Annie/Eren/Levi, because I’m too weak to not ship my fave characters in supportive relationship dynamics with each other.

There’s another story idea I’m sitting on which is based on canon but diverges from it early on. It would be plot heavy and I have a lot of it planned out aka pretty much the whole damn plot. I do want to write that some day but I haven’t decided on the pacing yet and it does look long. It would be more Annie-centric though I have a lot of ideas for what’s going on with some other characters.

Basically it started out as a “what if Annie was uncovered to be a shifter in Trost instead of Eren and then was forced to work together with the Scouting Legion” scenario and then I just went wild with it. (Can you imagine Eren giving Annie the benefit of the doubt and defending her from the garrison because damn.) I think I’ve made it pretty solid by now and I’m really excited for it (which I’m remembering now that I’m talking about it).

Considering it’s length I’m also a little intimidated by it though. It’s kinda daunting to me to start a story when I know it’s going to be long. With AUS I had basically no idea what I was in for and now look at it almost 4 years later, haha. Still not finished.

Speaking of AUS, I do want to finish that first before I start another multi-chapter for snk and who knows how long that’s gonna take. I mean, I basically gotta wrap up the [Sasuke voice] revolution plot, but who knows how many chapters that means in the end, considering how I keep thinking about character interactions and such I want to explore or scenes. There’s also always the chance that a scene will take longer on paper than I figured it would when I was planning it out in my head.

On top of that an unexpected plot point came up in my planning and I need to figure out how or if I’m gonna include it at all. Cue me screaming, because sometimes I feel like the end is still so far off and then this fic literally becomes an unbearable sight for me.

But me being dramatic aside, it is the final arc so I won’t give up. I want to see this story through even though I’ve accumulated some other projects and ideas I want to work on aside that aren’t snk and time management is hard for me.

I’m glad you’re liking the plot focus in AUS. The other day I was worried about me getting too caught up in plot development and forgetting to include enough ereani content, so it’s good to be reminded that I’m not the only one caring about the plot. I try to give both the ereani relationship and the bigger events the necessary attention and I’m glad if the mix seems to be working for my readers (or at least some).

[levipleasearchive]

me: I got this

my brain: how about we introduce this plot point to resolve this thing you hadn't really thought through yet?

me: okay, sounds good

my brain: if we follow through with this, it leaves us with at least 10 other issues that will need resolving

me:

me: I don't got this

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7k words for the next AUS chapter and the final scene is far from done…