3, 12, 16, 20, 23 for the writing year in review!!
thank you so much my friend!! 🥰🫶
3. What's something NEW that you tried in a fic?
i think it was writing more light-hearted smut and writing longer smut in general lmao it was a challenge sometimes but i learned a lot!!
12. What fic was the most challenging to work on?
without a doubt my fengqing fic from the ashes of home. i think it's very telling i haven't updated it since march lmao. usually, i only start posting when i've finished the whole thing, but since i was struggling so much i started posting it in the hopes it would motivate me to work on it, but alas! i still hope i'll finish it one day though lol
16. Where did you write? Was there a favorite spot?
just in my couch mostly, it's so cozy 🥰 though sometimes i was writing smut on the tram at 7 am which was fun too lmao
23. If you had to choose one, what was THE most satisfying writing moment of your year?
definitely shen qingqiu's and liu qingge's first kiss in the duties of a virtuous shixiong!! it was one of the first scenes i had in mind for this fic and it's what the whole fic led up to, so it was very satisfying to write!
20. Share your favorite piece of dialogue
oddly enough an excerpt of from the ashes of home, an exchange between feng xin and white no face! Adding it under a read more!
“You want me to betray my Prince?” Feng Xin spat the words out like poison.
“Do you want to betray your love?”
With a cry of pure rage, Feng Xin attacked. But once again, White No-Face was uncannily fast. Feng Xin’s fist swung wide, only meeting air, and he almost lost his balance.
“I have seen you through the years of the war,” White No-Face said from somewhere behind him. “Ever the brave soldier. Ever the loyal guard.”
Feng Xin turned around. How could White No-Face stand there, undisturbed, as if he’d never moved at all?
“But tell me, Feng Xin of Xianle, how come you are standing here, in front of me? If you’re so loyal, where is your Prince?”
Feng Xin’s face twisted in a grimace before he could school his expression. Of course White No-Face noticed. He cocked his head.
“Or was it your Prince who hasn’t been loyal to you?”
“Fucking shut your mouth and fight me!”
“Ah,” White No-Face said in understanding. Almost in pity. He shook his head ruefully. “I will not fight you. You’re no use to me dead. Not yet, at least.”
“You fucking-” Feng Xin wanted to charge forward again, but there was a sizzling sound, followed by a sting in the back of his neck.
He fell forward. He couldn’t even break his fall. Why weren’t his muscles obeying him anymore? What the fuck was happening?
“He didn’t come for his concubine. Let’s see if he’ll come for you.”
time loop? (wasn't sure if the all caps was part of the title or just out of excitement lol)
TIME LOOP is the actual document name... a throwback to the time I had a dream about a time loop and woke myself up in the middle of the night yelling "TIME LOOP" (not my finest moment)
anyway that's one of my upcoming fxweek fics in which Feng Xin gets stuck in a Xianle War time loop and has to watch Mu Qing die over and over again : D
I'll share an extra tidbit that it was originally going to be a xianle3 ship fic, but having to kill both Mu Qing and Xie Lian was a little more writing than I felt I could do before the event, so I narrowed it down to just Mu Qing. So now Mu Qing gets all the horrific deaths to himself!
