2024 writing review
Dec. 22nd, 2024 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yallakinda didn't write much this year... actually that's not even true bc i know i wrote at least 5k words from scratch for arakao pacrim and i'm also not counting other pieces rotting in my notesapp. it's just the published wc that looks wimpy.. orz. but pacrim fresh blood would bring me to a sneaky little 18k or so which rlly isn't bad..!!
total word count: 13,227
total completed works: 3
the coast of azure - enstars, reikao
just realized i didn't even do a commentary for this one. bc i hated it when i wrote it hafsjkfhjfdahfjsf like every time i thought about it i was putting my fist in my mouth and biting like ough.... why would ao3 user jazzclub even publish this? i asked myself... perhaps the lowest point of my career.... currently i don't think it's a particularly bad piece of writing like looking at it again i'm like wait this is kinda good. like at least even at its most mid my prose isn't jinjja shit. but tcoa doesn't put anything on the table at allfsdhakfjafbdfnafb. i'm not one of god's fluff writers. something has to die literally or figuratively before i'm satisfied (not even true) and i only really wrote it bc 1) i told the bestie that i would and 2) i needed a bridge between opl (perhaps the highest height of my career) and the final entry in the series which will be rk futurefic established r/s loveandpeace......... tcoa is like my unloved middle child. but it did teach me that sometimes... writer's block... is bc you're approaching it from the wrong pov... literally did reikaoists know that you can write from rei's perspective? life-changing stuff.... it also taught me that sometimes you really have to be a hater to get your wc up like man FUCK WHOEVER REMODELED THE PACIFICA TACO BELL SERIOUSLY!!!!! and that i'm not a real fujoshi except when i am. aside from triangulation agendas, gift fics, and that chaeya oneshot from 2021, i really don't think it's my fate to be in the m/m mines........ SAD!! well there is no small number of slash enthusiasts on ao3
next to you it's already begun - all-guy's mixer, fujisuo
commentary
won't rehash everything i already said but i DID have fun with this one seriously.. toiling for the sake of yuri is so important to me... i love when there are women..... on the low my tokiwa haterisms were peeking out so bad in this omfg. i don't even actually hate him i just think that he's so ridiculously go girl give us nothing like at least lately he's stepping it up but it's soooooo SUO NEEDS TO DROP TOKIWA AND GET WITH A REAL MAN LIKE FUJI!!!! uhhhhh i researched (went down wikipedia rabbitholes and the bartender reddit) way too much about bars for this which. well i do love research but i'm 90% sure that no one who reads it will gaf about ICE BURNING. one day i really will write rose bar fic with karahashi characteristics... not much more to say. i do like coworkers! the fic itself flopped severely which isn't me clout chasing it is objectively true. due to goukon being both somewhat niche as well as m/f endgame... and fujiasa is THEEEEE fan-favored couple so ofc any other fuji pair isn't going to be a chart-topper like i expected this. with that said it's kinda killing meeeee HAVE WE CONSIDERED... YURI? (these are the words of a guy who is not well).. in terms of process idk what's come over me lately but i never thought i was capable of writing more than 300 words in a sitting so it comes as a pleasant surprise that lately even 1k doesn't trouble me the way it used to (provided we're talking literary one-takes). this may prove problematic to my career if ever i forget strunk&white OMIT NEEDLESS WORDS but for the time being i shan't complain! the real question is just why tcoa took so damn long...
secret fic that i will not be linking but that i will still be commenting on bc where else am i going to put this?
well i wrote smut for real. i have written smut before but it was obm and my oc was a touch-me-not super seme with hangups about everything in the world so it was only ever really blowjobs and handjobs. no one in that game was penetrating shit like i was kinda soooo on that castration wave even before i was on that wave.. i think i tried to venture into pegging but reading about prep and straps and all that tired me so much i gave upfaohfkafhjffbhan ONE DAY... uhhh the main thing about ttl is that i got scared. but then i was like man whatever let me write this shit and so i banged (lol) away at it and eventually got something on the table. it's kinda not sexy at all and it suffers from #expository paragraphs in the beginning even tho it's supposed to be pwp LIKE IT REALLY HAS THE EXACT SAME FORMATTING AS MHSAW TTTTTTT. but i did make my stance on transfem receiving sex clear EYEEEE THINK. arashi doesn't suffer nearly as badly from huge cock syndrome super seme isms in fic as she could but even so I KNOW EVERYTHING. EVEN WHEN I DON'T. i think that love is power
last year i said i wanted to keep my m/m fic count down which i diddddd so i'm fine. i did also have fun with it... although i kinda uhhhh didn't publish much at all. but there's always 2025..... i think i still have a ways to go wrt polish but we're slowly getting there.... not to pigeonhole myself but i do think content-wise i've probably figured out what i'm really about. which is waffling about nothing! :point_up: miraculously didn't fall into my non-linear habits so i will count that as a blessing! and i wrote yuri! idk this year was just kinda a year to me i think ntyiab is my fave from 2024 just on principle but my profile looks so nothingburger. that doesn't mean this year was Bad just that it was simply there.. but i think most of the growth took place offscreen so maybe 2025 will bear the fruit <3
no promises on wips... but my sights are set on pacrim arakao, rk series third and final entry, nijiryo teengirl divorce (again)... not necessarily in that order!! happy 2025!!!!
total word count: 13,227
total completed works: 3
the coast of azure - enstars, reikao
just realized i didn't even do a commentary for this one. bc i hated it when i wrote it hafsjkfhjfdahfjsf like every time i thought about it i was putting my fist in my mouth and biting like ough.... why would ao3 user jazzclub even publish this? i asked myself... perhaps the lowest point of my career.... currently i don't think it's a particularly bad piece of writing like looking at it again i'm like wait this is kinda good. like at least even at its most mid my prose isn't jinjja shit. but tcoa doesn't put anything on the table at allfsdhakfjafbdfnafb. i'm not one of god's fluff writers. something has to die literally or figuratively before i'm satisfied (not even true) and i only really wrote it bc 1) i told the bestie that i would and 2) i needed a bridge between opl (perhaps the highest height of my career) and the final entry in the series which will be rk futurefic established r/s loveandpeace......... tcoa is like my unloved middle child. but it did teach me that sometimes... writer's block... is bc you're approaching it from the wrong pov... literally did reikaoists know that you can write from rei's perspective? life-changing stuff.... it also taught me that sometimes you really have to be a hater to get your wc up like man FUCK WHOEVER REMODELED THE PACIFICA TACO BELL SERIOUSLY!!!!! and that i'm not a real fujoshi except when i am. aside from triangulation agendas, gift fics, and that chaeya oneshot from 2021, i really don't think it's my fate to be in the m/m mines........ SAD!! well there is no small number of slash enthusiasts on ao3
He wants to say something sentimental, something honest, caution thrown to the strong coastal wind, I like you.
- • i liked this one actually. didn't actually delve into the idea as much as i could have but i rlly like "words are not quite enough but saying nothing is infinitely worse" isms. and what he says instead of "i like you" is "you don't have to continue with the honorifics" which is the same thingggggg to me!
next to you it's already begun - all-guy's mixer, fujisuo
commentary
won't rehash everything i already said but i DID have fun with this one seriously.. toiling for the sake of yuri is so important to me... i love when there are women..... on the low my tokiwa haterisms were peeking out so bad in this omfg. i don't even actually hate him i just think that he's so ridiculously go girl give us nothing like at least lately he's stepping it up but it's soooooo SUO NEEDS TO DROP TOKIWA AND GET WITH A REAL MAN LIKE FUJI!!!! uhhhhh i researched (went down wikipedia rabbitholes and the bartender reddit) way too much about bars for this which. well i do love research but i'm 90% sure that no one who reads it will gaf about ICE BURNING. one day i really will write rose bar fic with karahashi characteristics... not much more to say. i do like coworkers! the fic itself flopped severely which isn't me clout chasing it is objectively true. due to goukon being both somewhat niche as well as m/f endgame... and fujiasa is THEEEEE fan-favored couple so ofc any other fuji pair isn't going to be a chart-topper like i expected this. with that said it's kinda killing meeeee HAVE WE CONSIDERED... YURI? (these are the words of a guy who is not well).. in terms of process idk what's come over me lately but i never thought i was capable of writing more than 300 words in a sitting so it comes as a pleasant surprise that lately even 1k doesn't trouble me the way it used to (provided we're talking literary one-takes). this may prove problematic to my career if ever i forget strunk&white OMIT NEEDLESS WORDS but for the time being i shan't complain! the real question is just why tcoa took so damn long...
secret fic that i will not be linking but that i will still be commenting on bc where else am i going to put this?
well i wrote smut for real. i have written smut before but it was obm and my oc was a touch-me-not super seme with hangups about everything in the world so it was only ever really blowjobs and handjobs. no one in that game was penetrating shit like i was kinda soooo on that castration wave even before i was on that wave.. i think i tried to venture into pegging but reading about prep and straps and all that tired me so much i gave upfaohfkafhjffbhan ONE DAY... uhhh the main thing about ttl is that i got scared. but then i was like man whatever let me write this shit and so i banged (lol) away at it and eventually got something on the table. it's kinda not sexy at all and it suffers from #expository paragraphs in the beginning even tho it's supposed to be pwp LIKE IT REALLY HAS THE EXACT SAME FORMATTING AS MHSAW TTTTTTT. but i did make my stance on transfem receiving sex clear EYEEEE THINK. arashi doesn't suffer nearly as badly from huge cock syndrome super seme isms in fic as she could but even so I KNOW EVERYTHING. EVEN WHEN I DON'T. i think that love is power
Izumi reaches out, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. He’s struck with the old urge to touch her anywhere, everywhere. He traces the shape of her lips delicately, the dip in her cupid’s bow down to the full swell of her lower lip.
- • i liked this..
last year i said i wanted to keep my m/m fic count down which i diddddd so i'm fine. i did also have fun with it... although i kinda uhhhh didn't publish much at all. but there's always 2025..... i think i still have a ways to go wrt polish but we're slowly getting there.... not to pigeonhole myself but i do think content-wise i've probably figured out what i'm really about. which is waffling about nothing! :point_up: miraculously didn't fall into my non-linear habits so i will count that as a blessing! and i wrote yuri! idk this year was just kinda a year to me i think ntyiab is my fave from 2024 just on principle but my profile looks so nothingburger. that doesn't mean this year was Bad just that it was simply there.. but i think most of the growth took place offscreen so maybe 2025 will bear the fruit <3
no promises on wips... but my sights are set on pacrim arakao, rk series third and final entry, nijiryo teengirl divorce (again)... not necessarily in that order!! happy 2025!!!!
