WRITING RECAP 2019

Monday, December 30th, 2019 03:11 pm
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total number of completed stories: 6 lmao (▼7)

total word count: 19991 (▼10k)

fandoms written in:

SVT (▼1)

SVT + PRISTIN (▼2)

KEYAKI (-)

OH MY GIRL + WEKI MEKI (▲1)

TWICE (▲1)

(no sole omg or pristin fics this year, ▼6)


wips:

i have no wips, i only have sprout ideas that i have not committed to actually writing

  • svt/pristin/omg diner au
  • nayoung/jeonghan idolverse cruel summer fic
  • netteflix bl defect au moment fic

incidentally from last year i gave up on the juncheol p101 au (because i have already written a juncheol fic) and the binho amusement park fic (because i never want to write binho thinking it’s the last time i’ll ever write binho) so i think my wip list is just cursed


looking back, did you expect to write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected?

more for sure, because i haven’t written this little since 2016 when i started writing rpf... i mean, i have been recuperating from “i cannot write” disease all year long, so it doesn’t entirely surprise me but i have historically pulled through and written anyway, and that just didn’t happen this year for the most part. i think as a trade off what i did write was pretty good, and that standard is why i was reluctant to write pieces i felt were capped in potential.


what pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?

umm i certainly could not have predicted writing 5k of 2yeon LOL i guess to be fair i did make a tweet in february that was like yes haha what if i write 2yeon even though i don’t know twice like that but what i did not know was how much time i would invest into researching and writing an actually good narrative. my intention was to just swoop into the ao3 tag with something i had written quickly and get it out of my system and instead i really let the wip marinate for 8 months. long payoff. 8 months... isn’t even the longest i sat on material, tettbf was 13 months, siam was 10 months but it felt particularly painful because it was really like i was waiting on writing something i felt compelled to tell, whereas the other two i had already published something for the ships and so i had already put out my interpretation of those dynamics in some form.


did you take any writing risks this year? what did you learn from them?

i never take any risks because i will never change i will never improve that is a promise. i think i’ve always been doing what i’ve been doing so there’s nothing to lose really


what’s your own favorite story of the year?

ugh..... tough choices!

my favorite story is lights out (nayoung/jeonghan modern au). i think it’s such a refreshing dynamic in that it’s not straightforward and it has a lot of nuance to it. of course it is based heavily on sapphy’s fic and my brief discussion with her after we became friends :D but a lot of it comes from my own personal experiences with other people, so it’s close to my heart, grounded and real. and it’s not bogged down by angst either, i feel like it’s just a nice take on relationships. so i always enjoy rereading that one.


best story of the year?

i have been mulling this ranking over for the past month and still am not sure but i think it looks like this.

  1. the weight of being loved (2yeon)
  2. rewritehistory (nysc)
  3. lights out (nyjh)
  4. the walk is longer than i remember (juncheol)
  5. changing behind closed doors (suyeonbinho)
  6. what is love? (odamon)

and i know, this is like, risa! why are you agonizing over something the meme doesn’t even ask you! but i think given the quantity of work i put out this year i should be able to at least do this. the reasoning is because i think twobl is the most complete AND emotionally engaging story out of this list. twiltir is weak in the first half although i like the ending. lights out feels incomplete because the ending isn’t well thought out. rewritehistory is kinda funny because it made so much sense to me when i wrote it but i think you have to be in a certain mindset to understand it? like, thanks to the timing, that fest was fueled by anti-pledis sentiment and in my case a desire to give nayoung autonomy in a world that had denied her of so much that was promised to her. it made sense to me for her to reject sc because of those circumstances but i don’t think it clicks so easily to the typical reader. i think siam is the story that makes more sense to people because it’s just a responsibility/pining narrative instead of a gender based disparity sob story, and i kind of regret that because i hate seeing the peak of my nysc unintentional trilogy not be at the end. feel free to disagree with me though :’)


most popular story of the year?

the weight of being loved has more hits but the walk is longer than i remember still has more kudos, though i expect that to change soon!! very grateful for the love for both fics... i still dont know why twiltir has so many kudos because it’s a svt rarepair and not a particularly shippy fic but i’m grateful nonetheless!


story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion:

i don’t really think what is love was underappreciated because it’s so short that it doesn’t have much substance and it’s that One fic this year that i posted without really trying hard on it. and my other three stories are each hovering around the same amt of kudos and comments so i guess i really lucked out this year! i know twobl was well appreciated bc twitter but it has way less comments than my less popular fics (because my friends who comment most regularly on my writing are not into twice LOL) so those things kind of make up for each other!


most fun story to write:

lights out!! i love writing banter and since it was modern au it was so easy to draw from personal experiences


most sweet story:

ur not going to find many sweet stories from me... would be hardpressed to call either lights out or twiltir sweet but they have elements of that


story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:

skip because i don’t have a good answer


most unintentionally telling story:

nothing i write is unintentionally telling. i’m pretty good at being intentional. besides juncheol which was actually a very heavily researched fic in terms of dynamic between the two focused members everything’s projecting something different about my relationships with other people and i think that gives it so much more meaning. that or i’m just giving excuses for not being very versatile in my writing lol


hardest story to write:

twilwir was a lot of /effort/ but the hardest story to write was the weight of being loved because as much as i wanted to write i couldn’t pin down the story i wanted to tell. and it really is hard for me to write groups i don’t ult because my writing style is extremely character-based. 


biggest disappointment:

disappointed by my low output and general writing frustration this year LOL it would have been more tolerable if i just lost interest for a while but i really did want to be writing all the time it just didn’t come easily to me


biggest surprise:

i guess it’s not really a surprise but i didn’t think i would write another nayoung/seungcheol and i did, you know what i could not have predicted was running the whole nysc day6 fest with my friends (crying emoji) AND EVERY ONE OF THE FOUR FICS IN IT WAS SO GOOD... SO POTENT... SO WELL THOUGHT OUT and a real consolation during the saddest part of the year (pristin post-disbandment)


favourite opening line(s):

what is love?

The first time Suzumoto thought about it was a little ironic. She was in one of those plastic folding chairs at the 2nd round of auditions, just one in a long line. And that long line was part of a series of rows.


favourite closing line(s):

the walk is longer than i remember

Wen Junhui functions in distant admiration and not really asking for more than simple pleasures. And that's the best, or maybe even the worst part of him. He never asks.

Choi Seungcheol looks at everyone like they’re the first person he’s ever loved. Like he’ll never care for someone else more.

The best part of Seungcheol is he gives anyway.
 

what is love?

•      wish it’d work between us but I don’t think it ever can so it’s just easier

Suzumoto takes the sheet of paper and walks over to Moriya’s furnace, opens the door, tosses it in.
 

rewritehistory

“But Nayoung,” he asks, “for once, can we not think about the future?”

“You want to think about now?” Her hair, tied back low and long, flies back behind her again. 

Nayoung wraps her arms around his neck, kisses him and doesn’t let go.
 

ok wait let me take a minute to praise what is love. this fic was my one (1) realization of my idolization of shortfic (reaching one hundred, burning bridges) and i don’t think it’s that good overall but it’s still good???? i can die satisfied that i didn’t publish anything bad this year
 

favourite 5 line(s) from anywhere:

the walk is longer than i remember

“I think it’s for the best,” Seungcheol said. He never said it, but Jeonghan stood beside him in the middle of the room, silent and strangely somber. What he meant is: imagine a Seventeen, who has always been thirteen, without Seungcheol and Jeonghan all at once. And then Junhui saw Joshua staring at the wall clock.


lights out

Jeonghan has a kind laugh. When they were kids she thought he didn’t care enough about other people’s feelings for her to ever think he was a good person. When you grow up a lot of things change.


what is love?

“Oh, you don’t have to say that, Miyu,” Oda says, and because she’s a living contradiction, vexatious and enchanting, it stops right there like a broken, smooth record: Miyu. Miyu. Miyu---


rewritehistory

Seungcheol has always been awful at expressing things directly. So it gives her even more shivers to think about the look in his eye on the spring evening when he told her to her face: Yeah, I’ve liked you for a long time.

Nayoung can hardly sleep at night.


the weight of being loved

“I missed you like hell, you know.” 

Nayeon clings uncomfortably to her back and Jeongyeon wishes more than anything that there was someone else in the house.


i actually think my dialogue was stronger this year, and u can see that more in lights out/changing behind closed doors/the weight of being loved


top 5 scenes from anywhere you would choose to have illustrated:

  • jun and seungcheol on the couch in jun’s dorm scrolling weibo from the walk is longer than i remember
  • nayoung and jeonghan on the park swings in lights out
  • jeonghan and seungcheol at jh’s cubicle and the coffee cup with the lip product on the rim from lights out
  • fantasy nayoung sitting on the countertop and seungcheol peeling an apple from rewritehistory
  • real life nayoung and seungcheol sitting on a stone wall next to the han river at night, a light breeze blowing from rewritehistory 


do you have any fanfic goals for the new year?

  • write wonhui................... i’ve never written standalone wonhui which is really funny, there’s a small scene in a jun-focused fic and it’s intertwined with gyuhao in tettbf but it’s by far my fave svt pairing right now and i would love to give it another spin when i figure out how
  • i want to write nct dream, that’s the one group that i really like the dynamics of but have never tried to write, and to be fair that’s because they have such a huge ficdom that i have no place but like JAEMIN IS RIGHT THERE!!! 
  • i really liked this year’s mix of idolverse/au so i think i’d like to maintain that. idolverse i felt like was my strength and it does require a lot of effort so i hope i don’t get lazy 
  • write pieces that are so good they overcome the lack of readership! make them good for the people who do read and leave it at that! 
  • i talked about this with one of my friends but i think it would be so much fun to do a minifest where you each write a fic based on a movie... (inspired by this svt eternal sunshine au)


while we are here i will plug my dvd commentary box set again, it’s just a list of fics whose google docs i comment annotated. please dm for a specific link!

 

also while we are here i am going to plug the 3 gift fics i got <3

TY FOR READING <3

 
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