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TBH, I think this is a good scene to dissect as the inaugural ONBB director’s cut. It has delicate and precarious RenLe (my favourite flavour of them), 7Dream, people’s princess Daegal, and the works. The assessment of RenLe being the most distant from each other here out of the whole fic is definitely accurate, because all three major story arc points (the engagement lie, Renjun’s struggle with adult stability, and Chenle’s fear of commitment) coalesce in the messiest way possible. In my outline, it’s the scene in the direct middle of the fic, and the brickwork path for the ending are all set in place here: let’s walk down it!
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I genuinely belive Out of the Bag is the best fic I've written so far. Despite the fact that I was racing the 323fest calendar and my own teetering burnout, I genuinely had so much fun putting this together, and it showcases a lot of what I think are the best aspects of my writing: ridiculous and longwinded metaphors, literature references, Chenle being stupidly sexy, et cetera et cetera. Out of the Bag is sort of like my entire personality put on a plate and served warm, and it means the world to me that it was so well received :,) This scene in particular has got to be one of my favourite things I've ever written, and here's why.( Read more... )

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Genuinely, I didn't start liking The Confession until after I published it and comments kept saying how much they enjoyed it. I thought it was too monologue-y, with random humour that detracted from the tone, and it didn't balance the plot elements of interest well, and no matter how much Rose, my beta, gassed it up, I couldn't help but despise this scene. I was like, three days away from the fest deadline, though, so I submitted it and rolled with the punches. Confession scenes have always been hard for me because it involves a level of intimacy with the characters I don't always feel like I have, especially with something so close to IRL like idolverse. After seeing the warm reception though, I'm glad I kept it the way I did. ( Read more... )

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The reason why The Cargument, as I've lovingly dubbed it, is one of my favourite scenes in Understanding Astrophysics is because one of my biggest weaknesses when it comes to writing is intensity. If you're even vaguely familiar with anything I write, you know that it's all low stakes, low tension, low angst stuff, so scaling it up for this fic was for sure one of the most challenging things I've ever written. The first draft of this scene was done all in one night, the first half furiously scrawled out on a sheet of 1/16 in grid paper, the rest typed up in an OhWrite room at the speed of light (150 wpm). I had 10 assignments looming over me, I'd been ghosting Rose, my beta, for over a week, and Mercury had just entered retrograde. The fact that I managed to crank this out, and the fact that the next day, I leaned back in my desk and thought, "Well shit. This isn't half bad." was a miracle on Earth. ( Read more... )

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Entries tagged with renle

old, new, borrowed, blue - the engagement party

inhale, exhale: jacket cover

out of the bag: the confession

understanding astrophysics: the confession

understanding astrophysics: the cargument

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