yoooo it’s finally here 🙌 had to post this before i drove myself crazy editing the same phrase six times.
under the exit light
Pairing: Macklin Celebrini/Will Smith
Rating: Explicit
Tags: Underage Sex, 2023 NHL Entry Draft, the inherent existential angst of sport injuries, is it possible to have a summer fling(?) with your ex-situationship(?) when you only kinda broke up? asking for a friend, bad sex experienced as good sex
Word Count: 8K (ch 1 of 2)
Summary:
Barely three months had passed since Will said no in that parking lot, said that they couldn’t be them. Mack had sort of accepted that Will had a line he didn't cross. Except this crossed it, pretty much obliterated it. Was there even a line anymore?
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Or, Mack spends the summer figuring things out (badly)
update on my fic progress for all the lovely people patiently waiting for the next part and wondering why the hell it is taking so long (my paraphrasing, not what you guys said because you're all so sweet)
long story short, i wrote ~5k of the next part in will's POV but felt super uninspired about it. then very recently came to the conclusion that the fundamental issue is that it needs to be mack's POV. so now it's being rewritten...
just rambling now, but it look me a couple of iterations to realize that the story i want to tell at this point in the series is mack's: the progression of his character and his resolve that will become a driving force in the college arc. while there's lots of interesting potential with will's POV and his first experience playing with the sharks, it doesn’t ultimately contribute the right way to core narrative of this relatively short interlude. so yeah, scrapping that and starting over.
this interlude as a whole has been hard for me to write because i didn't initially plan for it nor have a clear vision from the start on what it needs to be. for me, if i have clarity on the objectives / essence of the fic before i start, the writing goes smoothly; otherwise, it quickly spirals into a mess of "what the hell am i doing?"
byline was probably the fastest i've ever written because it just flowed, like i knew exactly what i wanted it to become and so there was less self-doubt along the way. i also have a solid idea of what i want the college arc to be. but getting this summer interlude done has been like pulling teeth :'(
all this to say, i think i know what i'm doing now and so hopefully it won't take another month to finish it! /cope
