#TWWWBAATTA 4

[orchidyoonkook]

Also, now that my life has calmed down a bit and UTWT is out I can finally get ready to post chapter 4 of TWWWBAATTA.

All I gotta do is edit!

[orchidyoonkook]

[TWWWBAATTA 4]: 

currently at 8.5k! but I’m pretty happy with it overall, just gramatical changes to be made now, so it’ll probably hover around there!

[orchidyoonkook]

[TWWWBAATTA 4]: 

get ready :)

[orchidyoonkook]

[TWWWBAATTA 4]:

I keep forgetting how much I love chapter 4. I’m so excited to get it to you all <3

love, yoon

[orchidyoonkook]

[TWWWBAATTA 3]:

not chapter 3 being 10.4k after this editing session....

[orchidyoonkook]

I love them too 🥺.

I have a bit to say so it’ll be under! ❤❤

And gahhhh!!! Yay!!! I’m always worried when I uh.. let’s say ‘nerd out’ with the art and photo stuff. But I took photography (like dark room and everything) in high school, film for my college degree and I’ve been a painter my whole life so I have the ability too. But I worry it gets a little lost in translation so I try not to over or under explain. So you saying these wonderful things about my imagery gives me immense relief

It thrills me that everyone is seeing her overthinking and her reasons as valid. It’s SO much to think about and this is why we trust the greenhouse cafe. It is wise and all knowing.

And Nel. My darling sweet Nel. That’s all I’ll say about that.

JKs trying best!! He’s never had to work for a friend before and I think that’s adorable.

Thank you for being so wonderful and I’m so happy you’re looking forward to chapter 4!

To What We Were Before, And All The Things After | JJK | Ch. 3

Title: Greenhouse Muses and Surprise Guests   

Pairing: Prince!College Student!JK x Fine Arts Major!(F)!Reader

Series Rating//Genre: (M) | College AU, Mild Royalty AU, Smut, Angst, Fluff, S2F2L, Indiffernce to lovers, sloooowwww ass burn

Summary: You need to think out this whole situation, and where better than your favourite place on campus? The one place where no one ever goes and where you can truly do your best problem solvi—wait who the hell is sitting in your supposed place of undisturbed tranquility? 

Warnings: PG18, heavy swearing, photography jargon (hopefully nothing tooooo confusing, I intentionally over explained a bit for those unfamiliar but a quick google search should clear up anything), euc=short form for eucalyptus “Youke”, art jargon but less, 1 (one) mention of metaphorical murder, and a bit of angst and fluff. I think that’s all?? Hella internal dialogue 

Word Count: 10,804

Release Date: March 2, 4:00PM

A/N 1: she somehow went from 8k to 10.8k???? Hope you enjoy!!

A/N 1.5: I’m literally so tired of looking at this, I’ve read it at least 10 times in three days. 

Series: Chapter One | Chapter Two

Jungkook’s sitting at a table outside what he considers to be his new safe haven, making a mental note to thank Yuri for showing him the greenhouse cafe—is that its name? He should’ve asked.

He can see himself coming here all the time for quiet morning work sessions. The coffee is great, the snacks are delicious, and there aren’t a lot of people around either—zero—to be precise. So he really considers this a win in his book.

The cafe is just southwest of a medium sized greenhouse, not even a minute’s walking distance between the two. He could clearly see all the flowers and plants within from his seat outside. And behind the greenhouse was nothing but a small grass field followed by thick, dense forest.

It doesn’t even feel like he’s on campus. Just free about the world, grabbing a coffee and sitting down to work on a project like anyone else would. Like anyone else could. Another face in the crowd instead of the one on magazines in every corner store, book shop and grocer.

He can dream about it. Take in these small moments, but it will never be his reality. Not really. Even in this little corner of blissful nowhere the barista who served him his coffee knew who he was, addressed him properly, albeit a bit stuttered.

And he can’t blame her. It’s what she’s supposed to do. How she’s ‘supposed’ to react to him. 

He’s someone big and important. Someone people look to and see their future in his hands. Someone who merits reactions when in the presence of others. 

Someone who…

Someone…

So he dreams. And is thankful for what little normalcy he can get.

Taking a deep breath in, he holds it and he shakes his head, dismissing the thoughts before releasing a steady, controlled exhale.

Reset.

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[orchidyoonkook]

I adore your stories. I literally keep going back to them, they're that good! You're easily one of my favorite fic writers on Tumblr.

I was wondering if I could ask for some writing advice?

I used to write fics, and I have a ton of ideas that I'm wanting to write out. I'm even wanting to pick up and re-write an old fic. My issue is I have no clue where to start again.

How do you get motivated to write?

And do you ever look at your work and feel blah about it, like it doesn't seem to be good to you?

I am so happy this ask caught me on a catch up day. I've literally spent all day catching up on missed asks I can asnwer and reviews and messages. It's honestly like a little reward and for that I wanna say such a big thank you.

Onto!:

(note from future yoon: omg this is so long im so sorry)

I adore your stories. I literally keep going back to them, they're that good! You're easily one of my favorite fic writers on Tumblr.

Well I guess I'm starting this off in tears?? This is the sweetest thing literally ever and I cannot thank you enough for giving my stories a chance. I'm sure you know as a writer yourself but this is the most any writer could ask for in terms of feedback and I literally just wanna hug you.

Thank you so much for reading.

And the fact that I'm one of literally anyone's favourite fic writers is actually insane. Take that highschool english teacher! But in all seriousness I will actually cry this is so kind thank you thank you thank you. 😭😭😭♥♥♥♥♥

I was wondering if I could ask for some writing advice?

Absolutely, always. But idk how good it'll be XD

I used to write fics, and I have a ton of ideas that I'm wanting to write out. I'm even wanting to pick up and re-write an old fic. My issue is I have no clue where to start again.

literal story of my life my god how i relate to this.

How do you get motivated to write?

I don't. That's the thing. When I'm motivated it's like a fluke. (jsyk this is gunna be long because I cant shut up)

TWWWBAATTA was a complete and total fluke. I'd had a dream, it was the first act of the story. I loved the idea so much that when I woke up I wrote the spark notes of it in my notes app. And then I sat on it for two weeks. I hadn't written anything in maybe 4 years, let alone fic, let alone a BTS fic. I'd only ever written one thing prior that wasn't for my education so I had no idea what the hell I was going to do.

The idea kept pounding at the door of my brain, begging to be let in and explore every freaking nook and crany it could. So i let it. and after two weeks, I had a very VERY rough plot. I kept the ideas in either my notes app or a google doc, and i just let them flow. Anything and everything. And soon enough TWWWBAATTA was born.

UTWT came from a writing prompts list. I saw a prompt for "First kiss" and then thought "wouldn't it be cool if it was under a willow tree like the one in my hometown?" and literally 2 days later UTWT was written. -> Rainfall Brings Tomorrow came from an ask, it hit me out of freaking nowhere. I just wanted something short and sweet and ask fulfilling and RBT worked perfectly for that.

TDWV was the first thing I actively sat down and told myself to write. Halloween is my favourite holiday, and I wanted to do something for it last year. I'd had the title written down in my idea's note, and built it up from there. I went to pinterest, I looked at old and new "story ideas" on there and on tumblr lists. I essentially just pick and chose pieces of prompts and stuff from my own ideas and built it up from there. I had a general goal: spooky, yoongi, first attempt at writing smut -> because I always put a challenge in the stories for myself, whether that be writing something I never have or exploring a new topic or following specific tropes <- and then I chose a setting. And literally just built up the story as I went.

Most recently with PG, I'd been in such a writing rut, still am. But I wanted to write SOMETHING. and PG -> Pretty Girl was another thing I'd had in my ideas note. So I took that and then decided in order to just write, I'd write something easy and took a lot of my favourite tropes and decided to write off those. In this case it was older brothers best friend, age gap, forbidden love, yearning, possessive male lead, overprotective older brother and head strong female lead. And went wild with it. I didn't know the member I was writing at first, but then when I went to go write the vibe of the male lead, I realised it was Tae.

Once I have a general idea of the overall story I can usually just channel the rest. As in I can just write the story as it plays out. But sometimes it doesnt work like that and I get stuck, like with a Joon fic I've half started. I have the overall vibe, and I can feel what I want to happen, but I'm missing some key points or I can't see them yet so it's still vibing in my drafts.

So you can see I don't really get motivation so more of a it finds me and then I work on it. Sometimes I have to just make it from thin air. The thing that helps me most tho is I have to remember that I enjoy writing. I like doing it. I like telling stories even if no one else will like them. I like experiencing them with the characters, as the characters, as the settings and their props, i enjoy character creation and giving them their quirks and hobbies and backstories. It's not a chore to write their stories, it's a priviledge they chose me to tell it.

It's so hard to explain, but if you're having a tough time with the stories you're wanting to tell, it probably means they need just a touch more shelf time, or at least so is the case for me.

My advice would be to weave a fic into something you love. My female characters are often in the arts because I love art and creating it. I wove PG from tropes I'm a sucker for. I wove UTWT from a single idea and a tree from my hometown I've always adored. Little itty bitty things like this can drive story ideas and motivation because you can always go back and realise why you were writing it in the first place.

One of the most important things for me is to remember that somebody else has already done your idea. But you haven't. It's never been done your way. And idk about you, but I can absolutely say I've never said "Oh no! not ANOTHER forbidden romance fic! there's just too many of them" because there's not. I will happily read the same exact fic with slight variations a hundred times over. And so will other people, so don't worry about it being like others.

Motivation is something people think they need in order to to the big overall arcing task. But you dont. All you have to do is set aside an hour or three (I use 9pm-midnight) for the thing you want to do. If i write or plot or idea come up with for three hours a night, seven days a week, thats 21 hours of writing time. I could get out 2 sentences or 20k words in that time. But all that matters is that I did SOMETHING.

You don't have to do it all in one go. You don't even have to do it over the course of a set period of time. I started TWWWBAATTA in August of 2022 and I only have 8(?) chapters out. I work on it when I can, but I don't push it because writing is meant to be a hobby I enjoy.

As for where to start. Start somewhere new or somewhere familiar. Pick an idea or a previously written scene and write it or update it to match your current writing style. I cannot begin to tell you the amount of times I've picked up and put down a chapter of TWWWBAATTA because it wasn't what I wanted or I hated the direction it was going. But I always came back and either added or edited, and sooner or later an idea would strike or I'd figure it out through the repitition. Having multiple stories to bounce between has also helped me when I'm stuck. I try to keep three on hand, but two works just as well. Just to get a variation. Like I had PG going at the same time as the previously mentioned Joon fic another Yoongi fic on the go. All differernt genres, all wildly different plots and directions, and just being able to go between the three when one wasn't working to give my brain a breather helped a lot.

is that sufficient? I feel like I've just been ranting about my process versus answering the question, but it's through my process that I answer the question, does that make sense? If not, feel free to ask again or more specifically in exactly what you'd like to know, I'm literally always happy to talk anyones ear off.

And do you ever look at your work and feel blah about it, like it doesn't seem to be good to you?

A L W A Y S. alwayssss. All of the goddamn time. But I see it as a good thing because that means I'm improving.

Writing is one of those things that you will never reach the top skill level off because it doesn't exist. You can always get better, be better, write more, write better, write differently. It's a constantly evolving internal staircase that you will never reach the top of. Which is both extremely relieving because that means you can always improve, and yet incredibly frustrating because you will constantly be looking back on previous works like "what the hell was I thinking' because your style has evolved with the progress you've made.

I used to be so goddamn proud of the first chapter of TWWWBAATTA. I loved it. I thought it was the perfect opening chapter to this huge story in my head. It set up everything, I was just really pleased with it and excited to post it. But I reread it a while ago and my literal thoughts were "This, THIS, is what I was so proud of?? It needs literally so much work oh my god"

And then I remember that I wrote that two years ago, I have two years more of experience than I did before I wrote it. So of course it's not going to be as good as I could do now. But it was as good as I could do then. And that's okay. I'm still proud of 2 years ago me, and I'm happy she was really pleased with her work. She was excited and eager and happy to write. That's the feeling I try to chase with writing, not how good the writing is, but the feeling I get when I do it.

okay rant over, thank you for sending this ask in it was so much fun to talk shop!! I barely do it nowadays with new folks and all my friends are probably sick to death of me talking process XD.

I hope your writing goals are met and your ideas flow. But even if they dont, try writing something completely different. Try to describe a colour without using it's name, or a season without using it's key descriptive points. My favourite is taking cliche lines and reworking them into something different and more creative (ex: "My heart was racing" into something like "My heart threatened to break free from it's prison with nothing more than it's quick thundering beats" you get the gist). Or set a goal for yourself. Write four sentences everyday. They could all be one word. They could all be filled with commas and semi colons and take up half the page when your done.

My point, I guess, is to just write. Whether it's good or bad, doesnt matter, you can always fix it later. Editing is the easy part, you just gotta get the ideas down first, and then refine from there.

[orchidyoonkook]

[TWWWBAATTA 8]: Yall this chapter is fighting me tooth and nail, I'm trying for you. I really am, but it's a technical chapter so it also makes me wanna pull my hair out every 4 seconds

[orchidyoonkook]

Yoons kicking ass right now and I’m really proud of myself.

1. Will have finished the final draft UTWT book with all of the fixings today!

2. Which means I can finally figure out price

3. Which means I can post the sign up form soon!!

4. I have a new writing project with another wonderful writer on here! It’s my first collab and we have the base plot down. Writing will be stating soon!

5. I can FINALLY start editing chapter 5 of TWWWBAATTA and post it!

Yeah. I’m just proud and wanted a record to look back on 😁😁

[orchidyoonkook]

Katy!! You read that so fast! Thank you ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️.

We do have some butterflies soaring about!

To What We Were Before, And All The Things After | JJK | Ch. 4

Title: Sunday Nights and Lost Memories

Pairing: Prince!College Student!JK x Fine Arts Major!(F)!Reader

Series Rating//Genre: (M) | College AU, Mild Royalty AU, Smut, Angst, Fluff, S2F2L, Indiffernce to lovers, sloooowwww ass burn

Summary: Yuri’s mad at you, you agreed to be friends with the prince and now it’s…movie night?

Warnings: PG18, fluff, swearing, touch of angst, banter, lots of texting!!, nothing too drastic, just them <3, mentions of nudes, reader eats cheese - up to you whether or not it’s dairy cheese or not, same goes for the meat. I didn’t specify if it’s veg or animal based | * there is a part where JK lifts reader. For all you readers out there,  big, little, small, tall, cute, beautiful, handsome, adorable, wonderful, perfect the way you are readers. I say my JK can lift you, okay? He’s strong and able enough to because I say so *

Word Count: 9062

Release Date: May 19, 2023, 8:00pm

A/N 1: she’s heeeereeee

Series: Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three

Three weeks.

Yuri’d given you the cold shoulder for the better part of three weeks.

And you’d let her, more impressed than anything she stuck to it. She’d never been mad at you for that long before and it made for a few awkward encounters—but it’s nothing you wouldn’t survive knowing what was coming.

Jungkook telling her to back off.

He’d asked you a few times, about ways to create some boundaries with her. Light ones, like not always walking with her on his arm or not discussing very personal topics such as grooming habits.  

But no matter what you suggested, no matter what he tried or said, Yuri was always somehow able to make it into something else.

Every new ‘boundary’ of his became a way for him to keep her closer instead of pushing her away.

Not walking on his arm was his way of letting her keep her independence. Not discussing grooming habits was his way of keeping the spark and mystery alive.

You don’t know how she did it. How she kept doing it to herself, finding ways to spin things in her favour, completely ignoring the rationality and reality of the situation.

Therefore, you decided that it was just going to have to be a hard lesson she’d learn in time. 

And in time did she ever.

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[orchidyoonkook]

[TWWWBAATTA 4]:

Title:

Sunday Nights and Lost Memories

[orchidyoonkook]

Writer's ask game!

4, 5, 43, and 97!

😘😘😘

Hi Violet!! I love you.

As always, I talk to much so: ⬇️⬇️

4. What is the plot bunny you've been carrying for the longest? optional bonus question: do you ever wonder why you haven't written it yet and experience deep existential dread?

TWWWBAATTA was the only one that REALLLLLLY wouldn’t leave me alone. But besides that I don’t really get plot bunnies. More one liners or super vague ideas in the form of beats that I keep circling back to.

So like one of the ones that’s always in my head as a title is “Arrival of the Last”. But I don’t know what to do with it yet.

Or one of the ones that’s a beats one is:

“Cool, could I get her number then?”

“Does your face enjoy meeting concrete?”

“Uh .. no?”

“Well then there’s your answer”

But again. I don’t know what to do with it yet.

As for the bonus question. I work in cycles due to my adhd. So all of these ideas came from an ON cycle for writing. And right now I’m in an off cycle so writing is much much harder for me. Which is why I started the book thing. To try and bump writing and reignite my passion for it.

5. Have you ever made a playlist about something you were writing as an elaborate means to proerastinate when you could have been aetually writing and if yes drop a link, son

Yes! But also no? Back when I was 19 I was writing this grandeur story that is buried somewhere on an old hard drive. And I couldn’t work on it unless I was listening to non album twenty one pilots songs. So I made a private YouTube playlist, but I can take pics:

43. How did writing change you?

If I say it hasn’t does that count?

I’m one of those people whose really creative in a bunch of things. Like I can look at a crafts project and just figure out how to do it, hence how I made the book. But writing was always one of those things that I was never any good at. I sucked at it in school and it wasn’t a hobby for me. I didn’t even write anything for myself until my previously mentioned grandeur story. And then I stopped that for two years because I got sick of it. And then and then I had the TWWWBAATTA dream and here I am now.

So it hasn’t changed me, but I definitely feel better about it. I still have a long long long ways to go before I’m anywhere near decent (not that I don’t like my writing now. I’m just new. And that’s okay)

The only thing that has changed about me is I wrote the word fuck for the first time. IRL I don’t really swear. Like. Ever. I’ve never even given anyone the finger. And the worst I say is shit or ass.

So writing swear words has been a fun little experiment.

97. Abstract or detailed romance scenes?

Both. Because neither is better than the other. I like abstract when I know a love scene isn’t needed. It just has to be implied. I grew up on YA so I was and am very used to it.

But I also love detailed and nitty gritty. I’m a smut lover so I don’t mind all the gorey details. Plus so many people have a talent for writing them so who am I to not indulge in their talents.

[orchidyoonkook]

[TWWWBAATTA 4]:

Okay so I’m trying the best I can (the best my ADHD brain is allowing) to get out chapter 4. I read and edit parts every night. But I’m in this little funk where I read a sentence. And it doesn’t sound right so I try it fix it. And then hate the fix more so I change it back to the original and I’m like oh that sounds better. UNTIL THE NEXT NIGHT. where the process repeats it self over and over.

It’s so goddamn frustrating because like any other writer I want it to be the best it can be. But like Christ dude when do you just know when to stop and leave it as is.

Bottom line is I’m trying to get it out as soon as I can and I hate making y’all wait.

[orchidyoonkook]

🍒🥭🍌🍏 :D

Nary! My love. I adore you.

🍒: What's your favorite character dynamic to write? (Can be romantic or platonic, specific or general!)

Strangers to lovers because then you get the WHOLE story of them within it. From beginning to end.

🥭: Rank from most enjoyable/fun to write to least: Fluff, Smut, Angst, Crack.

Fluff, angst, crack, smut.

Conveniently also in order of how easy I find it to write.

🍌: in your opinion, what's the funniest joker reference/pun you've made in a fic?

Okay so this whole ask took me a sec because my answer is actually from chapter 4 of TWWWBAATTA and I had to go find it.

I don’t think it’s the absolute ~funniest~ but I also didn’t wanna look through 80k worth of fic I haven’t read in 5 months plus this guy happened to be right there and I like it a lot.

*spoiler below*

Do with this what you will:

🍏: Is there something you overuse, whether it's a certain phrase, trope, or piece of punctuation?

🎶 can I interest you in everything all of the time. A little bit of everything all of the time. 🎶

LITERALLY EVERYTHING. I write the same words, phrases, tropes, everything always in the first draft and it’s SO ANNOYING to edit. But while I’m writing it makes it SO MUCH easier.

[orchidyoonkook]

3, 4, 7, 12

AND a forehead smoochie *chu* 💕😊

I love you most and I will take no other opinions on that and a forehead kiss for you to!! 😘

So!

3. 🌍 - What tags or warnings will your / one of your wip(s) need if you intend to share it?

Okay so FIRST OFF. Love this. * L O V E * this.

And secondly. I plan to attempt more smut in the future so some filthy stuff probably. I’d like to attempt different types to challenge myself, similarly to how your doing make me, I’d love to attempt some form of BDSM, or even simple stuff like male rec oral. Idk about you but I have to zone into a certain mood to write it or it ends up being actual gutter trash, and that particular mood is difficult for me to tune into.

4. 🧭 An alternative title to your/ one of your wips?

I’ve actually been asked this before but I accidentally lied due to not remembering!! So before TWWWBAATTA was TWWWBAATTA it was going to be called “You Amongst the Others” cuz I thought that was so pretty. But then I had a moment of “wait why is that so familiar” and realized I’d actually read a fic with that title the year before. And being the decent human I am, immediately changed the name so as not to copy.

I think it’s different if I never would’ve realized. Cuz then it’s just accidental. But if I had realized and not changed it, that’s just shitty imo. So of course I changed it.

7. 🖍 Post any sentence from your wip.

“Large men clad in black all coming to guard His Royal Rumpledness while he sleeps.”

THATS ALL YOU GET 👀👀👀👀

12. ♥️ Not a question, just a second kudos to send.

I will fight you in order to assert I love you more and I will win. Do not tempt me. (😘😘😘😘😘😘😘🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥹🥹🥹🥹♥️)