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nny11writes · 2 years ago

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My “favorite” thing about the bloodborne AU is each time I get a burst of excitement and inspiration for it, the very first thing I have to do is scrap tens of thousands of words of written work because it’s cluttering the story.

I’m not deleting them, but good god each time I look at this monster I realize a huge problem is I’m doing the equivalent of trying to explain all the backstory and lore in the fic itself. Which, like, most of my worldbuilding has been more for me than my readers. For internal guidelines and rules to follow, but they would detract from the story if left in.

I am just not used to doing this kind of in depth world building, so I have to stop come up with explanations and background to help me chart out the plot, and then painfully realize that there is no way for me to include some of these things at all.

I have a hole document just for Etherian Customs and Practices, a deep dive breakdown on the main types of blood (one of which I don’t think even makes a named on page appearance), major institutions, political historys and alliances, important items to the story, and a timeline that stretches over the 72 years the broader fic takes place during.

And today I realized I need to focus in on one character’s story if I ever hope to finish this.

I’m glad I’m making it better! Just! Would be cool to write something that will actually be in the fic. :)

#I think Catra farming blood vials will make it #and there's a few thousand words that might work out with some major tweaks/edits #me: I don't want to write a novel because of all the intensive behind the scenes work!#also me: okay but what if I had to piece together bloodborne's many theories on lore into a cohesive thing-#and then have to completely re-write it to be a proper fusion story and then re-write that to be a workable story and-#re-write that to be both readable and enjoyable #me feeling a sense of dread overtaking me: that would be wild wouldn't it....#anyhow finally figured out that since Catra's story is the one I'm most interested in it's the one I should write #even though she doesn't have as many overarching story beats as Adora or Glimmer #All the major turning point in the AU happen because of Catra by her choice or existence #hurray for writing about cycles and choices and fate #this is also the most not spop fic to be a spop fic #what if I took everything I love from this franchise and invert it to fit the spiritual antithesis to it?#purposefully trying to not break any characterizations but having those characters be put into this new world so unlike their own #ugh #complaining about writing #just needed to vent a little lol #super annoying to want to write only to open the folder and see all the docs and immediately feel overwhelmed #been trying to put new ideas in their own docs just to get things moving and on paper #it will all count in the end and make the story richer and better but fuck damn dude let me live

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