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Ready to Love writing debrief
Jul. 18th, 2023 09:09 pmWanted to say a little something about writing Ready to Love! Because it was a big deal to me lol. It's finally done. I can hardly believe it. It's been about a month since I started writing it, and I don't really know how I managed to become a person who writes every single day (bar one or two evenings off when needed). I can only think it's because I've been working up my writing stamina since last year when I got back into fic writing through skz fic. I do think the other major factor is like, I have an actual writing community now. I have lots of people I talk to about all the different parts of writing, and it's like. the best thing in my life. I haven't had the kind of writing community like I do in kpop rpf before, and that's wild because I've been in kpop rpf since 2017, and in fandom spaces forever. I think I've finally wised up to what it means to nurture my online friends and communities, lol.
20k is technically not the longest fic I've ever written. I have an unfinished yuri on ice fic that is sitting at 30k, which I updated sporadically since 2016. but that was powered more by the need to Vent capital Vee than anything like writing discipline. But Ready to Love is 100% my longest finished fic. I look at the writers in fandom that I admire and think, 20k is not that much, but then I fight the thought, because the worth of a piece of writing is not determined by it's length, short pieces are incredible too, and that's 20K I'm proud of, and it's 20k I would not have been able to write before. So, rah rah, own race own pace, etc etc, y'know.
To get back to the fic. I do love it with all my heart. I tried really hard on it, and even though there are places I think are weaker than others, I arrived at the point where I needed it done more than I needed it perfect (that is huge personal progress, by the way). I have the ability now to say that I'd rather take the lessons from this fic into the next one. And I have the capacity to say that there will be a next one, wow.
Anyway, I hope everyone loves the fic, haha. Maybe I'll say more about the behind-the-scenes of the fic itself another time. I will also post the fic on here!
20k is technically not the longest fic I've ever written. I have an unfinished yuri on ice fic that is sitting at 30k, which I updated sporadically since 2016. but that was powered more by the need to Vent capital Vee than anything like writing discipline. But Ready to Love is 100% my longest finished fic. I look at the writers in fandom that I admire and think, 20k is not that much, but then I fight the thought, because the worth of a piece of writing is not determined by it's length, short pieces are incredible too, and that's 20K I'm proud of, and it's 20k I would not have been able to write before. So, rah rah, own race own pace, etc etc, y'know.
To get back to the fic. I do love it with all my heart. I tried really hard on it, and even though there are places I think are weaker than others, I arrived at the point where I needed it done more than I needed it perfect (that is huge personal progress, by the way). I have the ability now to say that I'd rather take the lessons from this fic into the next one. And I have the capacity to say that there will be a next one, wow.
Anyway, I hope everyone loves the fic, haha. Maybe I'll say more about the behind-the-scenes of the fic itself another time. I will also post the fic on here!
