I’m cool with spoilers if you really need someone to talk to about your story 🙂
Hmmm. It’s tempting. If I’m still stuck on it after a day or two you’ll find me in your inbox angsting lol
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If you ever want to try for one, come to my inbox and talk to me about your fic while you’re writing it, or any time you get stuck. I have a tendency to be like “oh y’know you could add this thing for an extra layer” and “hey y’know what else you should explore” and the wordcount shoots way up lol
lol. You know, I just might have to do that. It’s kind of tempting right now, honestly. I’m playing with Bound and Tide right now, but I know you wanna read it so I don’t wanna spoil it lol.
I too am impatient. That’s why I melt down at roughly the 80k mark of all my longfics lol
How you manage to write longfics is so beyond me. The longest I’ve ever gotten was 60k and that was because I had three different PoVs to work with. I honestly don’t know how you manage to write over 100k fics. It’s frightening and impressive.
ltleflrt replied to your post “ltleflrt replied to your post “I usually don’t use outlines. This…”
I mean, sometimes people wanna know about the soup….
True, but I’m impatient and if I’m impatient I assume my audience might be, too.
ltleflrt replied to your post “I usually don’t use outlines. This time I tried because I might as…”
I also don’t outline. Either this same thing happens, or else my brain goes DONE and I no longer want to write the story.
I have the same problem. It’s great for when I have plot bunnies I’m not interested in but need to get out of my head, but not so great when I actually wanna write it.
Lately my memory has been crap so I figured it’d be a good way to keep track of what the hell I wanted to do in this fic but now it’s looking like I’m gonna have to trash three whole chapters. It’s probably for the best, though. It’s a slow burn but if I don’t start getting these two idiots to interact and fall in love I become the asshole who spends five thousand words describing soup instead of plot.
ltleflrt replied to your post “So just because I’m curious…
How many of the folks who follow me…”
Even tho I have never read a Star Wars fic, ever, I plan on reading your Reylo one when it’s finished!
*nervous face* I am both thrilled and anxious about this. I definitely hope you like it when I finish it.
ltleflrt replied to your post “Scenes that are hard to write:
Sex
Fighting
Dancing”
I totally agree. Anything where they’re not sitting around talking is hard to write lol
So hard. I’m still hoping for some miracle of science where I can wear something on my head and it just translates the thoughts into beautiful words.
I was a werewolf lover as a teen lol
Really? lol. I dunno why but I wasn’t expecting that.
I never used to write in present tense. Never. I didn’t even like it that much. But I did it once or twice and now past tense looks weird and feels wrong. I call it the @ltleflrt curse beacuse I remeber reading something where she said she *never* did present tense… until that was all she did and I thought to myself “well it couldn’t be that hard to switch back and forth, could it?”. Yeah no, it is.
@rosemoonweaver I switched because I like writing Dean in present tense better than past tense. It fits his personality in the narration from his POV better (imho). And it was SO HARD to get in the groove (
Kiss the Baker was my first present tense fic, and I still catch places where I slipped tenses when I re-read it even all these years later :D), and now that I’m there, I don’t like writing or reading past tense anymore lol
I do read things in past tense, quite often. Since it was my original preference, it’s easier for me to slip back into being comfortable reading it. But writing? A few sentences in and I’m like NOPE. It’s super hard to alternate.
Lol. It’s funny you started doing it for Dean because I started doing it with Sam in Strength Enough to Build a Home. I was constantly slipping back into past tense there, too. It was a huge pain in the butt. But present tense just got the tone I was going for better. But now I can’t not do it. I can read past tense just fine but I have to really focus to write it.
I also enjoy a/b/o, but like any trope it’s gotta be done to my precise tastes, y’know lol… It took me years to write my own because I wanted to address the things that bugged me. I think I did ok. I don’t think I could do another long fic, but I suppose “never say never” will bite me in the ass eventually ��
I feel that. I keep trying to play with certain aspects of A/B/O that I find most interesting but there’s only so much a person can do in one fic without it getting bogged down, ya know? I guess that’s why I keep writing them lol.
But yeah I also get the need to have tropes done to your precise standards. I’m kind of like that with certain AUs, too.
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