Happy Sunday to you! Below the cut: a little bit about writing hey beautiful :) my text fic for 10 Days to 1K; an ode to betas; and six sentences from my CORB fic, which is wildly overdue but thankfully, thankfully, beginning to move.
Guys! I'm so happy I managed to post every day for 10 Days to 1k and complete my fic! I started this fic last summer with the main kernel being the twist in Day 9, but I got completely stuck on getting there. How much back-and-forth should I give them? Should it be completely texting or should it be prose, too? Were my text exchanges serving a purpose or just rambling? What's the point of anything anyway? Hair clutching, despair, and closing the doc always followed that one. I even thought about trying to post it during COC to try to get it out in the world, but it didn't fit well and 30 days would have been way too many.
@10daysto1k gave me the vehicle to move the plot forward and some external structure to get myself to the end. I really don't think I would have ever managed to get this posted without this writing challenge! Very grateful for that push.
This fic was so short and simple that I almost didn't ask anyone to beta it but I'm so glad I failed at that. Beta readers, y'all! People who will read your fic for free and put their finger on exactly the thing that wasn't working that you couldn't quite nail down??? Over and over sometimes? I don't think I'd love writing the same way I do if I was doing it by myself, and I'm so grateful to have people who will tell me they like what I write and also help me be better. It's one of my favorite things, both having people beta my work and reading other people's. If you've trusted me with your writing, know that it meant a lot to me and I loved doing it. And thank you to @monbons, @facewithoutheart, and @raeny-day for helping me bring Simon's chaotic text-base flirting over the finish line. ur no wrong number 2 me :):):)
CORB: it's coming!! A little bit at a time!!!! I was massively stuck on this but I think with a lot of rest and a super gracious partner to support me in reducing the pressure on myself, some things are shaking loose. Below, six sentences exactly, Baz POV, and I'm telling you nothing else for the moment:
“I still think you should have me on a call and leave your phone in your shirt pocket so I can listen in,” Bunce grumbles.
“Absolutely not,” I hiss. “That’s weird and creepy.”
“It’s research! You’re data-gathering.”
“No, that’s spying."
I love when I can bring in canon details and twist them around. We'll see if these survive to the final draft!
Tagging everyone I mention above and you guys too; hope you get to do something today that makes you feel recharged:
Nothing amuses me more than the DA fandom, unironically! You have the kindest most talented people who organise and encourage, artists, lore fiends (my beloved), you have mormon tradwives, you have people who projected their entire identity onto DA to the point they say broodmothers are feminism actually and if you think they're edgelord shit you hate victims of sexual exploitation...never change
