Sesa Reveal Post! Delayed like a boss.
Oh man, thank you thank you thank you for all your well-wishes yesterday. I'm still walking around in a stupor where communication still mostly consists of me staring blankly at people and coming up with maybe two or three coherent words, but I'll reply to you all soon! Feeling thoroughly loved though, and highly undeserving. ♥
Let's cross off a thing from my check list! Sesa reveals happened as I was knee-deep in BA writing, so I didn't have energy to talk about my story at all. This will be relevant to absolutely no one, but ah well. It's tradition for me. :D
I wrote This Will Destroy You for
call_me_loca, and let me tell you, when I opened up that email and it said that I would get to write AJ/Brian of all freaking things, I had to do a double check. AJ/BRIAN. I adore MTYG, but it tends to give me pairings I find super tricky to write, which is a challenge in itself and one I really appreciate, but. Yeah, I was just really happy.
So I had huge plans for this story, about three or four different plot ideas and just all-around excitement to get started. But then the BA came along and ate my soul, and when I looked around next it was a week before the deadline and I still didn't have a thing. Also really wouldn't have time for the things I had planned. (Priest AJ, you are forever scorned by me, I'm sorry. /o\)
When I looked around my computer I found the beginning paragraphs of a story about AJ and Brian breaking up. And it all just clicked. Really, I love writing about boys pining for each other, which people seem to know, askikiduck seemed to guess me on that basis. :D It was a bit of a high-pressure situation, as I had to write it alongside my BA and had to make sure my groupmates wouldn't ask why I hadn't written my alotted sections of the paper on time, but I really enjoyed writing this story nonetheless.
I definitely felt rusty in the beginning, but parts of this thing just came out with me typing so fast that my fingers could hardly keep up, which never happens. I don't know, I just felt like I was being transported. I kept only instrumental music on and sat around just staring out my window a lot, trying to get into a detached frame of mind that in actuality wasn't detached at all.
Reading it back now parts of it definitely feel rushed to me as I was in a bit of a time-crunch, and I'm really unhappy with how I executed the final scene, because I've had that in my head forever and it wasn't meant to have been written as quickly as I wrote it. But the feedback I've gotten has been beyond lovely, some of the most heartfelt feedback I've gotten in the years I've been a part of MTYG. I can't wait to reply to it all, but just until then, thank you thank you for all the incredibly nice things you had to say about the story, and about my writing, and about the characters. Both AJ and Brian felt so different to me from how I usually write them, but then I put them in a different situation and you all seemed to really feel for them. Such a high compliment, I really can't be anything but humbled and grateful. ♥
Let's cross off a thing from my check list! Sesa reveals happened as I was knee-deep in BA writing, so I didn't have energy to talk about my story at all. This will be relevant to absolutely no one, but ah well. It's tradition for me. :D
I wrote This Will Destroy You for
call_me_loca, and let me tell you, when I opened up that email and it said that I would get to write AJ/Brian of all freaking things, I had to do a double check. AJ/BRIAN. I adore MTYG, but it tends to give me pairings I find super tricky to write, which is a challenge in itself and one I really appreciate, but. Yeah, I was just really happy.So I had huge plans for this story, about three or four different plot ideas and just all-around excitement to get started. But then the BA came along and ate my soul, and when I looked around next it was a week before the deadline and I still didn't have a thing. Also really wouldn't have time for the things I had planned. (Priest AJ, you are forever scorned by me, I'm sorry. /o\)
When I looked around my computer I found the beginning paragraphs of a story about AJ and Brian breaking up. And it all just clicked. Really, I love writing about boys pining for each other, which people seem to know, as
kikiduck seemed to guess me on that basis. :D It was a bit of a high-pressure situation, as I had to write it alongside my BA and had to make sure my groupmates wouldn't ask why I hadn't written my alotted sections of the paper on time, but I really enjoyed writing this story nonetheless.I definitely felt rusty in the beginning, but parts of this thing just came out with me typing so fast that my fingers could hardly keep up, which never happens. I don't know, I just felt like I was being transported. I kept only instrumental music on and sat around just staring out my window a lot, trying to get into a detached frame of mind that in actuality wasn't detached at all.
Reading it back now parts of it definitely feel rushed to me as I was in a bit of a time-crunch, and I'm really unhappy with how I executed the final scene, because I've had that in my head forever and it wasn't meant to have been written as quickly as I wrote it. But the feedback I've gotten has been beyond lovely, some of the most heartfelt feedback I've gotten in the years I've been a part of MTYG. I can't wait to reply to it all, but just until then, thank you thank you for all the incredibly nice things you had to say about the story, and about my writing, and about the characters. Both AJ and Brian felt so different to me from how I usually write them, but then I put them in a different situation and you all seemed to really feel for them. Such a high compliment, I really can't be anything but humbled and grateful. ♥