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Oh God, action fight scenes are so hard to write. *whines* Why can't I just go with 'And then they fought and the Maou won'

It's lazy, but it gets the idea across...right? Right?

I'm feeling so awesomely accomplished tonight, I've finished a 28,000 words KKM story which is still in beta, but practically done and just finished and sent off my new Balance story for beta.

Plus I have another story in reserve for a little later. Yay! Next I'll be writing the Shori story.

I got half way through the latest volume before I had to put it down in disgust. Do all the villains have to explain their super-power, awesome weapons with lines like 'Let me tell you why you're losing, it's simple I have this super sword/technique that (insert boring explanation) and then the hero pulls some stunt at the end and has to explain to the villain why they lost.

Seriously, stop. People do not exchange long explanations of how awesome they are in the middle of battles, they generally try to kill each other instead. The annoying dialogue is doing my last nerve and is pointless filler.

This is an option now. Awesome.

I wrote this ages ago, it was to be the beginning of a series and I toyed with it for a bit and then came to the realisation that it was too much of an ambitious story for me at that time.

At the time I was tired of all the 'Yuuri and Wolfram are forced into marriage and they have sex and everything is wonderful, the end.' and I wanted to explore a situation where they are forced into marriage, Yuuri is barely 16 and at that stage he's just not ready and somewhat young for his age and Wolfram is like 'I finally get what I want' but really, he's not what he wants and he's so many decades older than Yuuri and that's an issue. That thought swam around in my head...I wrote this but even then I realised it wasn't going to the happy place that other fans would like (or even I'd like). And that's what led to "Marriage of Convenience" the story that is still driving me insane as a WIP.


Anyway, this is this beginning, I don't know if I'll ever continue it, but the beginning is a story in itself, I also posted it on A03:

( Innocence 200 words )

Look a post! This year I promised myself I'd write more in the DW account, but I'm afraid it's all going to be writing related, and since KKM is a niche fandom (and a fandom in decline) I know I'm going to be writing more for me than for anyone else *crickets chirp*

I've been tossing about the idea of opening a polyamory collection on A03. Will have to think on it because it's much more high profile than I'm used to in fandom but since most of my stories feature poly relationships...and I do hope to write an Anissina/Gwendal/Gunter story as well.

Right now I'm re-editing my Yuuri/Wolfram WIP with the help of gkeeper91 from ff.net, and it's been fantastic. I wrote that story with very little technical knowledge. I'm glad I threw myself into writing without worrying about these things, if I'd known how much I had to learn I'd be paralysed into doing nothing and then I'd miss out on all the fun, but now I know more I've realised how badly my old writing needs a going over. I've still got a long way to go, but I'm refusing to get too stressed about it because it's fun.