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marycrawfordI posted the final chapter of my Guardian AU today:
It was a whole new thing to me, posting a story in chapters, and I enjoyed it (people yelled at me about the cliffhangers, which was delightful).
Except for my dilly-dallying over the final chapters, which I started rewriting back in October as I posted the first chapters, and then...kept going. Or rather, not so much going as opening the file and closing it again before running away in a complete collapse of confidence. Without adorinda to gently poke me into actually Doing the Thing, it might never have gotten there. But now it's done, happy sigh, and I can start poking at other ideas that have been lying fallow (and the other AU that I wrote 20K of in the before times, do I even remember where I was going?)
Close Your Eyes and See Me (88053 words) by marycrawford
Chapters: 17/17
Fandom: ้้ญ | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Summary:It seemed like a good idea to Zhao Yunlan at the time. Take a job as a life drawing model, observe the students, try to figure out if one of them murdered the previous art professor.
Get paid to sit on a chair, basically. Piece of cake, right?
It was a whole new thing to me, posting a story in chapters, and I enjoyed it (people yelled at me about the cliffhangers, which was delightful).
Except for my dilly-dallying over the final chapters, which I started rewriting back in October as I posted the first chapters, and then...kept going. Or rather, not so much going as opening the file and closing it again before running away in a complete collapse of confidence. Without a
dorinda to gently poke me into actually Doing the Thing, it might never have gotten there. But now it's done, happy sigh, and I can start poking at other ideas that have been lying fallow (and the other AU that I wrote 20K of in the before times, do I even remember where I was going?)
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Date: 2023-03-19 12:27 am (UTC)Bwahahaha! Yay for posting stuff!
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Date: 2023-03-19 01:53 pm (UTC)Also, because of course I'm curious, the other AU?
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Date: 2023-03-19 02:34 pm (UTC)...the other AU is the one where Shen Wei is a version of the Grim Reaper who keeps meeting Zhao Yunlan over dead bodies, in some wild hybrid of Chinese and western myth, and I am mad about how much I still love the idea.
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Date: 2023-03-27 08:10 pm (UTC)Anyway, something shorter sounds like a good idea :)
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Date: 2023-03-21 05:05 pm (UTC)So so good!
I can imagine the stress of posting a WIP. I'm glad it all worked out! <3
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