Onto the next fic
Mar. 18th, 2023 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jajalalaI recently finished up my latest multichapter, the BNHA Villain!Momo fic. It's one I was really vibing with, I love raging women on a downward spiral, but I covered all the things I wanted to so it was time to wrap it up.
Sometimes I worry I leave fics too open-ended at the end, like for this one I resolved an essential plot about her father that I considered the driving force, but I also ended it with her love interest and her still technically being at odds (altho the love interest helped with at least one important thing at the end, implying some reconciliation of sorts despite still being enemies). In theory I could go on, cover future arcs of the canon with this character among the villains, try and work out the contentious relationship with her love interest again and again despite their differing ideals.... but all the key scenes I wanted to write were finished, so trying to just go on and on would kind of be like dragging it around with no further end goal in mind. I find it hard to stop sometimes, and I worry about endings, but I think there is value in declaring "I am done! I will not add new loose plot threads or just keep writing the character getting into the same situations day-to-day." The readers can imagine an open future for them if they would like.
Especially since new things I want to write crop up every day! I did my usual "start posting a new once the previous end's in sight" so now I'm chugging away at a kind of fucked up/angsty Fuyumi & Touya-centric BNHA fic. Unlike most of my fics this one is PURELY gen, no love interest at all, and I've already noticed a somewhat different readership than is typical for me. It's also got less of a clear ending in mind, which worries me, but right now I'm having fun...
In the WIP tho, I've gotten to a point where I need to go back to canon and review a certain arc/set of characters that I don't really like at all. That arc was one where I was just kinda glad it was over and didn't want to pay attention to all the new characters who got introduced and then became irrelevant as soon as the arc was over. HOWEVER for the particular concept I'm writing, I think certain parts I remember/care about would be PERFECT to use, but to get there and really feel enmeshed with canon I feel as though I need to do a more thoughtful review of the canon arc. I'm also considering trying to find a good fanfic or two that centers around that arc/those characters, maybe seeing the passion someone else has found in it will inspire me (tho I also fear a fanfic with too much fanon may lean me too far from canon when I love to primary-source where I can).
So to procrastinate, I've been poking at another draft, a BNHA fic but set in and using the broad arcs of Revolutionary Girl Utena... I'm absolutely obsessed with Utena but it's such a perfect story already that there's not much I feel compelled to fan-create, BUT I am so filled with thoughts and I think it'd be really fun to shove certain BNHA characters into that sort of setting and seeing how certain themes/arcs can interact with those characters. It's a purely self-indulgent fest but it also comes so clearly to me that I already have a p full outline (13-14 chapters depending on a decision)
But really right now the only reason I'm back at it instead of focusing on my current work is to procrastinate on reviewing that arc in canon that I'm not a huge fan of... Oh well! I have a buffer for posting that other work, let's dig into this for a little bit... but I won't be able to post for a long while XD.
Sometimes I worry I leave fics too open-ended at the end, like for this one I resolved an essential plot about her father that I considered the driving force, but I also ended it with her love interest and her still technically being at odds (altho the love interest helped with at least one important thing at the end, implying some reconciliation of sorts despite still being enemies). In theory I could go on, cover future arcs of the canon with this character among the villains, try and work out the contentious relationship with her love interest again and again despite their differing ideals.... but all the key scenes I wanted to write were finished, so trying to just go on and on would kind of be like dragging it around with no further end goal in mind. I find it hard to stop sometimes, and I worry about endings, but I think there is value in declaring "I am done! I will not add new loose plot threads or just keep writing the character getting into the same situations day-to-day." The readers can imagine an open future for them if they would like.
Especially since new things I want to write crop up every day! I did my usual "start posting a new once the previous end's in sight" so now I'm chugging away at a kind of fucked up/angsty Fuyumi & Touya-centric BNHA fic. Unlike most of my fics this one is PURELY gen, no love interest at all, and I've already noticed a somewhat different readership than is typical for me. It's also got less of a clear ending in mind, which worries me, but right now I'm having fun...
In the WIP tho, I've gotten to a point where I need to go back to canon and review a certain arc/set of characters that I don't really like at all. That arc was one where I was just kinda glad it was over and didn't want to pay attention to all the new characters who got introduced and then became irrelevant as soon as the arc was over. HOWEVER for the particular concept I'm writing, I think certain parts I remember/care about would be PERFECT to use, but to get there and really feel enmeshed with canon I feel as though I need to do a more thoughtful review of the canon arc. I'm also considering trying to find a good fanfic or two that centers around that arc/those characters, maybe seeing the passion someone else has found in it will inspire me (tho I also fear a fanfic with too much fanon may lean me too far from canon when I love to primary-source where I can).
So to procrastinate, I've been poking at another draft, a BNHA fic but set in and using the broad arcs of Revolutionary Girl Utena... I'm absolutely obsessed with Utena but it's such a perfect story already that there's not much I feel compelled to fan-create, BUT I am so filled with thoughts and I think it'd be really fun to shove certain BNHA characters into that sort of setting and seeing how certain themes/arcs can interact with those characters. It's a purely self-indulgent fest but it also comes so clearly to me that I already have a p full outline (13-14 chapters depending on a decision)
But really right now the only reason I'm back at it instead of focusing on my current work is to procrastinate on reviewing that arc in canon that I'm not a huge fan of... Oh well! I have a buffer for posting that other work, let's dig into this for a little bit... but I won't be able to post for a long while XD.
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Date: 2023-03-18 08:49 pm (UTC)Good luck with your other projects, procrastinated on and otherwise :D Genfic seems to be really well received in BNHA in general, I was surprised at first but then again, considering the richness of canon and all that it leaves open to explore, I'm not too surprised either!! Have fun with it and good luck :D (I'm curious about which arc you're talking about, haha)
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Date: 2023-03-19 03:22 pm (UTC)Ahahaha it's the Shie Hassaikai arc... I think I stopped watching the anime right before it properly started up?? (as in the episodes hadn't been released yet). So I did not keep a close eye on it (as IRL got busy and I didn't have time to keep up), and at that time the manga had finished the arc, so I just read to the end of the manga and kind of sped through reading that arc... I think the heaviness with the Eri stuff and Nighteye's fate depressed me so I didn't really want to watch it animated, and the villains did not feel particularly sympathetic/interesting/engaging to me (especially compared to the League who had much more screentime+development)
I know there's a solid contingent of Chisaki simps out there??? but personally I simply cannot relate. Maybe I'll feel a little more sympathetic when I sit down to take it in properly (I haven't decided if I'll re-read those manga chapters which will likely be faster, or watch the anime which will take longer but might let me retain more and help catch me up with the anime anyway). I really do think a more thorough understanding of the arc will be very beneficial to this fic, but I am also looking at it like "hmmm I'd like to procrastinate on this actually" XD.
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Date: 2023-03-20 11:37 am (UTC)The only villains that I can still remember clearly from the Shie Hassaikai arc are Chisaki and Rappa. It really does feel like a very ... self-contained? arc 🤔
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Date: 2023-03-22 02:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-03-22 08:55 pm (UTC)And good luck with the procrastina-decisions XD
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Date: 2023-03-24 12:47 pm (UTC)