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Monalisa approves.

For the whole of last year, I continued writing longer stories (10k words and above) but stopped printing them out for re-reading and editing. I had to get rid of my stash of printouts while moving and thought twice about amassing a new pile at my new home.

Reviewing the posted versions of last year's longer stories allowed me to see the advantages of getting a hard copy of my draft. Reading on paper feels slower since there are more words over a larger surface area, yet it allows me to finish editing faster since I could see from the number of physical pages how much story I have. After only editing with a computer, I spotted months after posting some parts of my story that called for refining, bringing up the total rounds of editing for the same story.

Currently I live further away from a shop where I can get my draft printed cheaply, but it's worth it even with some nervousness over someone else glimpsing at the bits of smut in the print preview 😵 My writing appears formal and official when printed out, which is kind of hilarious when I get to the parts that are smutty and in general of a nature commonly seen only in fanfic.

Yesterday, I finished editing and marking up the printout of my latest draft. It took me a month to write and a lot less time to re-read. That's a very good sign! Also I very much cherish the moments when I paused re-reading to laugh or just sit with delightful thoughts about my OTP 😌

Current Mood: bouncy

I crave fanworks of my OTP kissing and doing more. That seems typical, right? But not the case for two of my favourite ships.

The lack of outright romantic fanworks for these ships can be explained by the nature of the canon they're from, since one is K-Pop RPF and the other is an anime for kids released in the early 2000s. Outstripping straightforwardly romantic shipfics about them are more than one angsty fics involving the death of one half of the ship. So it seems that those intrigued by the relationship prefer to see one of them die and leave the other to grieve, rather than have them make out.

I had a new thought recently, that death allows the author to really have one guy wallow in his intense feelings about another guy. We get to feel closer to the character who lives at the expense of depriving a pair from achieving a greater degree of emotional and physical intimacy. The peak of the relationship is set at striving for intimacy with no hope for fulfillment.

I'll just leave these off-the-cuff thoughts here before going off to cook lunch.

A compilation of updates and reflections about my writing for the week. Some or all have been posted as comments for the posts for writethisfanfic.