newslang06 said: I don’t read WIPs, but I’ve read DD9. It’s just so good.
Oh, thank you! That's really sweet and very flattering! :D
The funny thing about it is that I never really look at it as a work in progress, it's just sort of "There is as much of it as there is at that time", if that makes sense. It's just like a foundation for the existence of a world. I know where I want the Julian/Elim story to go and be and I have a lot of it planned out, but there will be a point where I sort of end the big thing I'm posting (for the people who won't read anything they think is a WIP regardless) and then just tell the rest of their story in little vignettes or blips for a while.
It is kind of weird to me that there are people who have read all this other stuff based on my work, but not my actual work because it's not 'complete' in a traditional way. Really weird.
That all said, I'm looking forward to getting to Julian much more comfortable so he and Elim can be properly ridiculously odd couple at each other, but it was really important for me to let Julian awkwardly and cautiously approach "oh shit I think I am not heterosexual" (for the sake of younger me and everyone else who had a real long weird consideration period when a sudden non-straight inclination struck) so it's a slow burn sort of thing. He lacks some of the situations that made his DS9 counterpart so confident and arrogant at the start, though he still has kernels of it in him somewhere, and the confidence will be out a bit stronger once he's not so weirded out about considering his identity and is comfortable with his thing with Garak.
SO many future plans, augh. I always do this. I can't ever just write a little thing and walk away, I have to make a whole fucking world.
