[11 May 2025] finally writing the fantasy adventure wbk idea after a few weeks of brainstorming and it's been very enlightening and humbling. The brainstorming sessions mainly consist of lots trial and error, me muttering fervently alone in my room in intersperses, and a lot of guttural noises and forehead slapping.
Anyway! (did not finish writing the rest of the post LMAO)
[20 August 2025] but if I had to summarise it: about a week after I made this post (I think on the 30th of April?), I word-vomited so hard on world building, lore, the canon timeline and side stories I wanted to include, the whole shebang, for like 10 days straight and then wrote the prologue for the first fic of the entire series. (this time, not only did I not finish writing the rest of the post (again), I also did not have a proper intro to the post sksks)
[31 August 2025] ALRIGHT FINALLY A PROPER FULLY FLESHED UPDATE. I'm not going to get up until I finish this damn post. I am also laughing to myself as I'm writing this because I am faced again with the issue of "god where do I even begin" (I swear this is going to be a running theme throughout this whole series).
Alright, the very first fic of the series, aka the story of how Sakura met Suo and Nirei. I'll say this now: for those of you who have read/watched Frieren, yes, I was inspired by Stark's introduction. Plus, with how Sakura was introduced in Wind Breaker, it seemed fitting to me that he'd somehow find himself helping people out without realising it, and being the responsible and kind-hearted person he is, he'd stick around to see it through.
I also had way too much fun weaving parts of canon into this fic and playing around with how asshole-y Suo is in Sakura's eyes when they meet for the first time. Also, fight scenes. Can you hear me screaming into the void? I was not prepared for them and though I'm very good at biting the bullet and improvising, adapting and overcoming, it was really tough writing the last two chapters because my god was there so much fighting.
A short, one against five, is still okay. Fun even. But three against a whole nest of monsters? And those three having very different fighting styles? I'm giving myself two pats on the back for pulling through.
Seeing as how I am now writing the epilogue chapter, I can safely say that the fic is standing at a total of six chapters— unless I decide to split the fifth chapter into two because it's LONG —inclusive of the prologue and epilogue. Somehow, with each chapter, the word count increases because what is consistency and restraint.
(I mean, I knew I wanted this series to really test my writing capabilities, and it's always been a secret dream of mine to be one of those authors with insane chonky word counts for their long running fully fledged au's/series, but as I'm finishing this fic, I am wishing my future self good luck, you are strongly encouraged to pace yourself and take breaks.)
I'm excited to write and finish the epilogue because it's going to be setting up the rest of the series, and the direction of how I want that to happen is bouncing around in my head like a puppy that hasn't been walked for a week. I also can't tell if I'm looking forward to fixing all my previous chapters because I'm a chronic tweaker and I have extremely high expectations on myself especially for this series, so hopefully I don't crash and burn in the final stretch of this. I'm looking forward to posting this bad boy, I have an idea of a posting schedule in my head already, so please bear with me and stick around until then!
