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Quick Hits

Posted Word Count: 102,840
Unposted WIP Word Count: ~20,000

Fics Completed: 5
Fics in Progress: 1 on AO3, 5 in drafts

Longest Fic Posted: 54,202 (Maybe the Truth)
Shortest Fic Posted: 5,143 (One More Time)

Fandoms: SHINee (2), SuperM (1), NCT/Seventeen (1), Ateez (1), OnlyOneOf (1)
Ships: Minho/Key (2), Taemin/Kai, Xiaojun/Jun (1), gen fic (1), KB/Yoojung

Events: XXL X-over Xtravaganza (2), Summer of SHINee (1), Trans Choi Jongho Tag Flood (1), Yuletide (1)

Favorite Opening Line: If Dejun time traveled and told his 2015 self that in five years he would be riding a taxi through Seoul wearing a Princess Jasmine costume to hook up with a guy, his 2015 self would’ve thought he was insane. (Jasmine, Deflowered)

Favorite Ending Line: He sets himself on fire, and he doesn’t burn. (On Fire)

Year Overview

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Fic by Fic Notes

Maybe the Truth
SHINee, Minho/Key, Minho POV, 54,202 words
One sentence summary: Minho grows up, grows into his idol career, and grows increasingly aware that he might have been lying to himself about some things.

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Remember What You Told Me
SuperM, Taemin/Kai, Kai POV, 6,202 words
One sentence summary: Kai panics when he wakes up after a drunk Vegas marriage to Taemin.

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Jasmine, Deflowered
NCT/Seventeen, Jun/Xiaojun, Xiaojun POV, 7,945 words
One sentence summary: Xiaojun goes over to Jun’s dorm for a hookup…dressed as Princess Jasmine.

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On Fire
SHINee, Minho/Key, Key POV, 11,297 words
One sentence summary: Key struggles with self-esteem and also struggles to realize he’s crushing on alleged straight boy Minho.

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Self Made
Ateez, gen fic, Jongho POV, 18,051+ (WIP)
One sentence summary: Jongho confronts the narrow scope of masculinity he operates in at the same time someone tries to expose his transgender identity to the public.

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One More Time
OnlyOneOf, KB/Yoojung, KB POV, 5143 words
One sentence summary: KB and Yoojung fail to kiss twice, but the third time is the charm.

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I made it!!!! Whew!!! This month has been busy, but 30,000 words is a good combination of ambitious but comfortable.

trans!Ateez: 16249 words this month
Yuletide: 3425 words this month
Ateez Bingo: 3452 words this month
johnmark fest: 2543 words this month
minkey OFD: 4558 words this month
TOTAL: 30227 words this month

I wasn't able to finish a full rough draft of the Yuletide fic, so that will be my priority going into December (along with another fic for a non-kpop gift exchange.) But I was able to make progress on my trans!Ateez WIP and get a solid start on my other projects. Really happy with that!

Brief status updates for each fic:

trans!Ateez: I should be able to publish the third chapter within the week! After that, I might take a break for it to focus on my exchange fics with deadlines in December. I'm kinda stuck on where to take the back half of the story, so some time away might help me fit pieces together and figure out how to get to the ending I want.

Yuletide: Ahhh, this is a tricky one. New fandoms are hard! But I'm roughly two-thirds through, and I'm confident I'll be able to post something I'm content with by the deadline.

Ateez Bingo: Of this set, this body swap fic has been the weirdest and most fun. It's gonna require a lot of revision, but I have plenty of time to work on it. Main challenge is going to be keeping it under 10K. (Please, me...no more than 15K, at least.)

johnmark fest: This is another one that is gonna need a lot of revision, but again, I have plenty of time. It's been tricky to get into the right headspace for this one...I might have to take a month to spend focusing only on it.

minkey OFD: Probably the most challenging fic on my current roster due to the difficulties of writing time travel premises. But I'm enjoying it! I've decided to go with a chaptered approach. Ideally, I'd like to post the first chapter before the year ends, but we'll see...it's depends on how much I'm panicking as the two December deadlines approach.

Anyway, that's the end of my fic writing updates for a while. (Probably.) To anyone else who was writing this month, I hope things went well for you, and you're satisfied!

Ahahahaha...progress was made but not much.

trans!Ateez: 12080 words this month
Yuletide: 2715 words this month
Ateez Bingo: 2827 words this month
johnmark fest: 2014 words this month
minkey OFD: 3969 words this month
TOTAL: 23605 words this month

I've managed to keep adding a lot to the trans!Ateez fic since I know well what I want happening in the third chapter, plus I could reuse bits from an earlier rough draft. And I added a tiny bit to the Yuletide fic. Otherwise, no movement. TT

I'd say this is usually the worst section of the month for me (nearing the end so I'm tired, American Thanksgiving disrupts my rhythm, etc.) so I'm not surprised that I fell farther behind. The good news is that there are still five days left, and I only need another 6395 words to hit my goal. Since I have Saturday, Sunday, and Monday off from work, I'm going to try my best to knock out those remaining words then so I can relax the final two days of the month. And if I don't knock them all out by Monday, I'll still have Tuesday and Wednesday. I can do it! Just gotta go go go for the final countdown.

If you're also doing NaNoWriMo, I hope you are in good shape (or already done!) If you're not where you want to be, I hope you can find the time and energy to get some more words out before the month ends. Something is better than nothing!

Ahhh, the last 10 days approach. I'm not ahead like I wish I was at this point of the month, but I'm managing to stay right on track.

trans!Ateez: 9436 words this month
Yuletide: 2542 words this month
Ateez Bingo: 2827 words this month
johnmark fest: 2014 words this month
minkey OFD: 3969 words this month
TOTAL: 20788 words this month

I managed to post a new chapter of the trans!Ateez fic, which was one of my sub-goals for the month, so that's one thing I can check off. Ideally, I'd like to post another by the end of the month, but we will see.

At this point, I want to try focusing more on the Yuletide fic so that I can have a full rough draft complete by the end of the month. I don't know if I can stop myself from tinkering with the other three projects though lol. Again, we'll see.

Current debate is whether to handle the minkey One Fine (Groundhog) Day as a long oneshot or split it into chapters. And if I split it into chapters, should I wait until the draft is complete to start posting it? Quality wise, it would probably be better to wait until the entire story is done so that I can ensure all the details work perfectly--especially since it's a time loop story. Realistically, I am feedback driven creature, and I am hungry!!! Once again, we'll see.

How is the month already halfway over?

trans!Ateez: 6714 words this month
Yuletide: 2190 words this month
Ateez Bingo: 2452 words this month
johnmark fest: 1635 words this month
minkey OFD: 3137 words this month
TOTAL: 16128 words this month

I've finally pulled ahead after being behind for so long! Whoo! This is mostly thanks to revising the trans!Ateez chapter over the last three days since I count rewriting it as raw word count. But I will take it! Initially, I was really unhappy with the draft for this chapter, but as I've been rewriting it, I've found that it wasn't as bad as I thought. (Still needs a lot of work though lol.)

Besides getting a chapter or two of trans!Ateez completed this month, my other core goal is to complete a rough draft of the Yuletide fic. (Everything else either has a much later deadline or no deadline at all.) The Yuletide fic has been coming along in bits, but I am (generously) halfway through the rough draft? I will try to shift more attention to it in the later half of this month to better my chances of actually reaching the end of this (terrible, terrible) draft.

If you're also doing NaNo or another writing challenge this month, I hope you've reached halfway point feeling good! If you're less than satisfied, there is plenty of time left to get a lot done! Keep chugging along!

In other news, I've been watching the Starship Entertainment x Game Caterers collab, and it's been really fun! I don't know anyone in it particularly well (especially the actors), but it's still really entertaining for me. It's neat to see entertainers from such a range of ages all working together.

We're 10 days in! One third through! AHHHHH

I'm still finishing up work before I go on a mini vacation, so I'll (try to) keep this check-in brief.

trans!Ateez: 1935 words this month
Yuletide: 1818 words this month
Ateez Bingo: 1889 words this month
johnmark fest: 1310 words this month
minkey OFD: 2683 words this month
TOTAL: 9635 words this month

I'm still a little bit behind, but I'm not stressing over it. I'm taking Friday, Monday, and Tuesday off from work for a five-day weekend, and I'm hoping to push and get away of my word count finally.

Tiny progress report: trans!Ateez has been surprisingly difficult, but maybe it's just the slump talking. Determined to at least get the second chapter posted by the end of the month. Yuletide has turned out to be easier than anticipated despite being a new fandom??? Maybe because thematically it's familiar ground for me, even if the characters are new? For Ateez bingo, I continue to have no idea where I'm going with it but it's fun. johnmark fest has come up against a wall as I figured I would, but the scene I just finished was so much fun for me that I don't care. And finally, minkey OFD...I have no business pouring as much words into this as I have been since it is the one fic that has zero deadline, but I've been enjoying myself too much. Oh well.

In other news, I finished Seventeen in the SOOP! It was a delight! Gonna be thinking about it for the next half year probably. And I watched the new Johnny's Communication Center today. They made surfing look like so much fun, even though I have negative interest in doing it myself.

The first five days have passed, and I am behind already! :o But only slightly! I'm not worried.

I'm really glad that I decided to aim for 30K instead of 50K because I truly don't have much energy. Usually, at this stage of NaNo, I'm excited and eager. I sit down to write first thing in the morning to knock out a bunch of words and then knock out the rest at night.

But what's been happening is that I get NO writing done in the morning and do my best to meet my word goals in the evening, staying up late. :/ The last few months at work have been busier than usual, so I think it's partly due to that. Hopefully, I will gather more energy as the month goes on. I scheduled a bunch of PTO to help revitalize me--and ideally, get a lot of writing done on those days off too.

Anyway, this is the current status of everything:

trans!Ateez: 982 words this month
Yuletide: 496 words this month
Ateez Bingo: 1555 words this month
johnmark fest: 868 words this month
minkey OFD: 905 words this month
TOTAL: 4806 words this month

None of the fics are giving me too much trouble, although the Yuletide one has definitely been the slowest so far. I expected that though since it's the newest fandom for me. I fully expect to hit a wall soon on the johnmark one and the minkey one since I'm running out of pre-planned scenes. I'll probably go for a drive tomorrow and see if I can have some creative breakthroughs on where to take those fics before I come up against that wall.

To anyone else who is doing NaNo, I hope things are starting off well for you!

In other news, I've been watching Seventeen in the SOOP and having a very relaxing time with it. I wanna go with some friends to a cabin in the woods and write...

I'm not going for a traditional NaNoWriMo this year. Instead, I'm aiming to write at least 30,000 words across five different projects. The lower word count is because I don't want to push too hard, and the five different projects is because I am committed to too many different fic fests and personal WIPs and want to try making at least a little progress on everything.

Since most of them won't be shared any time soon, I figured I'd give a little sneak peak here to satisfy my urge to talk about them.

1) The trans!Ateez fic (Ateez)

OK, it's mostly a transgender Jongho fic, but that's what I've been calling it in my head for ages. This is the only project that's currently accessible since I posted chapter 1 last month. My goal is to write a realistic-as-I-can-make-it kpop trans man fic because I'm always hunting for trans canonverse kpop fic and disappointed by how little I find. I decided to do Jongho for it because of talks I've had with my friend kmac about how his fashion style is very Straight Trans Man. Since I'm not interested in writing a coming out narrative, the fic mostly concerns Jongho working towards a healthier sense of masculinity instead of staying boxed into the narrow scope of masculinity he thought he had to adhere to in order to "pass" as male. And meanwhile, other plot stuff happens lol. Working out what masculinity means to you as a trans masc person is a topic that's near and dear to my heart, so I'm eager to explore it in this fic.

2) One Fine (Groundhog) Day (SHINee)

Working title. I've been wanting to work on another minkey fic, and I was drawn to setting one during the filming of SHINee's One Fine Day back in 2012 since I never touched on it in my long canonverse minkey fic. But I didn't know WHAT to write... until I recalled how much I enjoy time loop or "Groundhog Day" fics. Thus, One Fine (Groundhog) Day was born. This fic is very much in the rough draft stages, and I'm not entirely sure where it's going yet, but I'm having fun.

3) johnmark fest fic (NCT)

This is something I've claimed a fest prompt for and I THINK I'm supposed to stay anonymous? So I won't say much. But! Johnny is one of my favorite NCT guys, and it's hard to like Johnny without also liking Mark lol. This fic is going to be "canon divergent" and (hopefully) smutty... and that's all I'll say for now. I wasn't even going to claim anything for this fest, but the prompt wouldn't leave my head after I saw it.

4) seongjoong body swap fic (Ateez)

I'm writing this for an Ateez fic bingo thing. I'll need to incorporate everything in the row to get a proper "bingo," but the key element in that row (to me) is body swap. It's still early stages for this fic, but I'm planning something canon divergent in which Seonghwa is an idol and has a little crush on the clerk who works at the convenience store near the dorm aka Hongjoong. And then body swap shenanigans??? We'll see where this goes lol.

5) Secret Yuletide Treat (secret)

I'm not actually signed up for Yuletide because I couldn't fully commit to writing anything. But I did see that a kpop group I'm interested in was among the fandom nominees... and someone posted a public letter requesting that group with a prompt that interested me... so I'm gonna try my best to write a little something in time for Yuletide posting as a "treat" fic. All I'll say is that it is canonverse and sorta about "missed connections" in the sense of how rare it is to like someone who also likes you at the same time, when you really think about it. There's a happy ending though!