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Of masks and dances
Chapter 17: Silent starlit nights
Words unsaid and plans unrevealed, stretching through so many nights.
The one which I almost called enjoy the silence, because I was literally fishing for a title at the last minute before posting (while listening to my obviously old goth Of masks and dances playlist). Honestly, next time I'll leave it at numbers.
After I posted it with no more notes than that reminder that No One Dies Everyone Lives, I remembered I could have warned people there is some NSFW front-loaded into this chapter.
Ooops.
I've revised that thing so many times over it stopped even meaning anything besides the narrative beat it was there to fulfill.
Does that means I should have left it to stew for a few days before I gave the whole chapter another pass and posted it? Possibly! I do not, however, possess this much patience and/or attention span.
This chapter was interesting to write in the sense that, once again, I just went "ok, but what if I made a chapter that is another person's whole fic*?".
I had a couple things I needed to put there: Diluc's plan and his reasoning, the slow evolution of his and Lumine's relationship, how each one of them felt about what was going on, how their thinking about their relationship drifted through those weeks. The choice to timestamp was exactly because I needed things to happen over time.
Did it work? I mean, can another human understand what I was doing there? Is it confusing? Do the romantic bits work? I have no idea.
Maybe I should really get a beta reader.
* At 12k and a whole tiny arc in it, I get to say this. No judgement at all on people that write less, on the contrary, I know at least one fanfic author that could do what I did in 7k and it kills me that I can't. *sighs* I'll learn it eventually.
** I mean it's obvious from the fic's over 200k that my wordcounts run long rather then short. 12k for a chapter is pretty ok in my brain. I'm really sorry.
Chapter 17: Silent starlit nights
Words unsaid and plans unrevealed, stretching through so many nights.
The one which I almost called enjoy the silence, because I was literally fishing for a title at the last minute before posting (while listening to my obviously old goth Of masks and dances playlist). Honestly, next time I'll leave it at numbers.
After I posted it with no more notes than that reminder that No One Dies Everyone Lives, I remembered I could have warned people there is some NSFW front-loaded into this chapter.
Ooops.
I've revised that thing so many times over it stopped even meaning anything besides the narrative beat it was there to fulfill.
Does that means I should have left it to stew for a few days before I gave the whole chapter another pass and posted it? Possibly! I do not, however, possess this much patience and/or attention span.
This chapter was interesting to write in the sense that, once again, I just went "ok, but what if I made a chapter that is another person's whole fic*?".
I had a couple things I needed to put there: Diluc's plan and his reasoning, the slow evolution of his and Lumine's relationship, how each one of them felt about what was going on, how their thinking about their relationship drifted through those weeks. The choice to timestamp was exactly because I needed things to happen over time.
Did it work? I mean, can another human understand what I was doing there? Is it confusing? Do the romantic bits work? I have no idea.
Maybe I should really get a beta reader.
* At 12k and a whole tiny arc in it, I get to say this. No judgement at all on people that write less, on the contrary, I know at least one fanfic author that could do what I did in 7k and it kills me that I can't. *sighs* I'll learn it eventually.
** I mean it's obvious from the fic's over 200k that my wordcounts run long rather then short. 12k for a chapter is pretty ok in my brain. I'm really sorry.
