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idea

i came up w this idea a few weeks after finishing dream of me ! i really just wanted to write one hunhee fic and be done w it bc clearly no one ships them and i would rather focus on writing all my tbz ideas but i came up w the idea of yearly summer trips and in the shower one day i just got attached to the idea of hunhee going on this summer trip each year and getting closer and closer and just having it being like a peek of their lives each year ? obviously i enjoyed the idea lol and once i thought of it i couldn’t stop thinking about it. the estimated wc was supposed to be 8-11k but it ended up being 26k ? it did span 16 years so it makes sense, but it took just under 2 months for me to write.

writing process

i started writing this back in april, though i didn’t make much progress on it that month bc the last week of april was my finals week. so i really only added like 5k to the doc in all of april. i did the bulk of the writing towards the end of may, though i wrote pretty consistently the whole month. i wrote about 14k during may ! i finished writing fytc during the first week of june!

may/june were actually really good writing months for me since i was out of school and had like no plans bc of… circumstances. so yeah, i stayed pretty inspired and found myself writing >500 words nearly everyday, which is good for me !

i didn’t really have too many problems writing this fic ? im definitely someone who needs an outline for works longer than like 7k, so i outlined a good portion of the fic (up to year 10 at least) before i started writing.

something i do a lot is just outline until the climax of the fic and then go right into writing, without coming up w an ending, bc endings are Really hard for me to write, but i always hate myself for doing that so i’m reying to improve. i knew i wanted the ending to be in the study, so i figured that out earlier than i have for other fics, but it was still after starting to write. it’s something that i need to work on still, but it’s nice to see that they’re getting a Little easier ?

i think the biggest problem i had was finding a believable reason for seunghun and yonghee to stop talking as adults. like i obviously couldn’t have them just fight one day and have that ruin 7 years of friendship, esp bc they were out of college by that point. at first, i was thinking of just some type of miscommunication that results in yonghee getting the dates of the trip wrong for that year, but im me and i need to include pressuring parents in some form. so i had yonghee’s mom threaten yonghee w tuition bc that’s something that’s definitely realistic esp bc yonghee was going to med school and yeah he’s not 24 paying off all his med school tuition.

after i figured out the inital conflict, i decided to have them just drift apart ? bc that’s something that does happen when you’re busy and its more realistic than yonghee and seunghun having one disagreement and refusing to talk to each other ever again. esp bc i could never see seunghun giving up on any of his friendships without at least Trying to fix them ?

and yeah, from there i knew how i wanted them to see each other again, when yonghee’s figured himself out and made the conscious effort to reconnect w seunghun. and the rest is fluff :D

music

ok i never really listen to specific music when im writing lol. sometimes i’ll just dive right in and wont even put any music on, or i’ll listen to this playlist ! it’s full of more chill music that i can turn down and just focus on writing while listening ! in addition to this playlist, i also played my monthly playlists, especially my june playlist ! here are a few songs i listened to a lot:

> gemini - ab6ix

> starlight - jeong hyo bean

> ocean - wei

> happen - heize

> snooze - lucy

conclusion

basically this fic was a lot easier to write for me than certain other fics i’ve been working on (oats) and i think that’s mostly bc before late 2020 i would never work on more than one wip at a time. i would add new ideas to my wip list and then go through them each one by one, chronologically… and like. it sucked the fun out of writing bc some ideas i would get bored of and some that i really wanted to write were at the bottom of the list. but i was too stubborn to just work on whatever at any point in time. and now ive gotten used to asking myself if this is a wip i really want to work on and if it’s something im inspired enough to write, and if the answer is yes, i’ll just let myself write it ! it’s done wonders for my productivity and doesn’t make me wanna push off writing as much so <3 thats a win to me.

neither hunhee fic i wrote this year was in my writing plans for the year, but like who fucking cares ? i wrote 37k of hunhee fic and really enjoyed it so <3 but still i don’t think i’ll be writing another hunhee fic soon lol.

anyway yes this post was kinda fun to write but i think i was all over the place w my thoughts so sorry lol :D