yk it’s very funny to me that nearly 10 years ago I started posting an (at the time) unfinished multichapter wip and then found the pressure and process of continuing to write and update out of some like bizarre obligation to be so excruciating that I basically resolved to never do that again (the exception being the amy fic but like… that’s different) which means over the years I’ve posted WAY less fic tbh but it has also prevented my ao3 from being littered with unfinished works or works that I painstakingly finished like it was a chore and thus like generally much worse writing. my google drive on the other hand…….
#the amy fic is different btw because I think I had written like 200k before posting anything and I did post part 1 in its entirety…#would LOVE to finish part 2 someday I cannot return to tww hyperfixation so idk how that’s gonna happen… I mean I could probably edit it#as it stands into something with an actual end but I think it would be a very different end than the one I originally planned on#hey also. do NOT go to my ao3 and look for that fic it’s bad (I can’t stop you bc I don’t wanna take it down but…)#anyways this is also bc I like to be able to edit as I go like if I decide something should happen in ch8 but it should be hinted at before#it’s easier to edit like. say chapter 6. if it isn’t already posted#this is mostly brought to you by the tiny part of my brain that’s like hey post the first few chapters of your great lie fic.#also for the record I’m NOT saying you shouldn’t post your wips as you go I’m saying that I personally hated that experience for myself#and that it’s a little bit counter to my writing process.#but! if I wasn’t like this… my ao3 would probably have like 1-2 chapters posted of the shirshus which was a lok fic abt kya lin and izumi#the biggest loss of this I feel is the shirshus which was my lok kya lin izumi probending au where they were all involved in the early days#of probending but like as an underground semi legal sport as a way of venting their issues in their early 20s or something#I had soooo much lore and soooo many ideas and like a full outline and I wrote. like a prologue chapter. and maybe a first chapter. lol#my post#I will say I also may be overestimating the impact of this bc a larger majority of my fanfic folder in drive is probably unfinished#long one shots or honestly like disjointed scene collections without enough connective tissue or editing… alas