When I write Proper Fics, I'm like, "What tense am I using? What tone, what register? Whose POV am I in? What's the narrative distance? Close third, distant third?"
"Is it consistent throughout the story? Is everything cohesive and polished? How's the pacing? Have I proofread this at least three times?!"
With threadfics, I just channel my little gremlin thoughts into my gremlin fingers. Then I hit send, and make my thoughts everyone else's problem.
Quality control WHOMST.
Anyway, I know that my most recent threadfic is riddled with typos. But I am literally typing it up in some kind of deranged, delirious fugue state. I am obsessed with omega!LWJ, and now all of you must suffer with me.😭
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Today is a special anniversary for me, so excuse me while I do some self-indulgent rambling!
On February 10th, 2020, I was coming out of a major writing drought. It had been 2.5 years since I’d done any creative writing whatsoever, and 7.5 years since I wrote fanfiction.
You read that right: Seven. Point. Five. Years.
I thought my writing days were done.
But I’d recently fallen in love with CQL. For the first time in ages, I actually WANTED to write. I felt like I had a story inside of me, a story that was struggling to get out.
So I sat down, without any outline or plans. I pulled up a fresh document.
And I wrote the opening scene to ‘so take my hand (take my whole life too)’.
This is a very silly thing for me to worry about. But in the wake of my omega!LWJ threadfic, I need to get this off my chest. Just for the sake of my own conscience.
So let's talk about contraception for a hot minute!
Here's the thing: I am a former schoolteacher and a current medical writer.
Teen pregnancy is a subject that concerns me greatly! This issue is near and dear to my heart!
And I am writing a dumb little AU that handles the matter very lightly. But it's a serious issue that has a profound impact on teen parents' lives.
And I'm here to threadfic a Certain Concept I actually got 15k into writing.
Then I realized I was in over my head, and I dropped it.
In order to do this concept justice, I would need to:
a) Commit to writing another fic that's at least 100k
b) Have way more knowledge of stan culture than I do
c) Have way more knowledge about Chinese media and culture than I do
So I shelved this one.
But I'm still very attached to the concept and I just...want to talk about it for a while? Can y'all humor me for a minute?