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[shouyuus]

We need some vi sub being overstimulated!!!

─── Ⅵ NO, MORE, MORE

18+, mdni, sub!vi-shaped, overstim ur vi, bitches

sub!vi getting all whiney after a long day, just needs you to do something, anything -- needs to feel you, your hands, your fingers, your lips, to have you pushing her down onto her knee, you tugging on her hair, forcing her between your legs, talking her through it -- god she loves that -- and is always so pliant for you, so desperate to please, isn't she? so eager for your praise, your validation. and all it takes is a single smile, a single "good girl" for her to clench around nothing, flooding her boxers, rutting against your leg like a bitch in heat, keening as she laps at your cunt, eyes wide and glazed over with want.

sub!vi who doesn't know her own strength, so you have to tie her up, hold her down, pretty ribbons around her wrist and ankles, kissing along her biceps, murmuring into her ear about how bad she's being because she just can't hold still. and it's not like either of you really think that she can't break out of the ribbons' hold but just the pressure, the touch of silk against her skin, is enough to remind her not to pull too hard, to keep still (or as still as she can), to be good for you.

sub!vi who makes the prettiest noises when she's close, high little cut-off keens in the back of her throat, long, drawn-out whimpers, her head digging back into her pillows as you tease her with your fingers stuffed into her sopping cunt, her juices slicking down to your wrist and staining the bedsheets -- she can't help it -- it just feels so good -- and your fingers are filling her up just the way she likes, the tips teasing against the gummy spot inside her that has her seeing stars -- her thighs clamp down around your arm as she fucks herself on your fingers over her 2nd (or is it her 3rd?) orgasm, her voice breaking, her stomach a riot of heat and pleasure.

sub!vi hiccupping when you soothe her through her high, tears lacing her thick lashes as she grips for your hand, lacing your fingers, squeezing you even as you coo at her and lean up to kiss her through it, slowing down but never pulling your fingers out, cocking your head and watching as she slowly comes back to herself, her gaze fractured and unfocused.

"think you can gimme another one?" you ask.

you feel her cunt flutter first before she groans, a frown burrowing itself between her brows as she wars between nodding and shaking her head. you can feel her trembling, but you know she can take more -- she always does.

"f-fuck -- i don't -- i dunno --"

"mm... i think you can."

sub!vi nearly blacking out as you tease her, edging her till she's begging, even though her clit is oversensitive, and her abs are starting to get sore from how hard she's clenching around you (your fingers have long since pruned, but who cares about that when you get to take her apart like this?) --

"please -- i -- i'm so close -- i've been -- been g-good for you, ha-haven't i -- ah -- ah -- ha..." her hips bucking up, the air in the room almost thick with the scent of her and you.

"yeah? c'mon then... come for me, vi --" you, flicking your thumb against her clit just the way she likes till she's keening, her whole body arching off the bed as she cums around you for the 4th (or is it 5th?) time that night. you groan, reveling in the sight of her, the feel of her -- all sweat-slicked sink and pulled-taut muscles.

sub!vi who turns to you with a sleepy grin, reaches out to cup your cheek even as you wipe her down gently with a baby wipe before dropping a kiss on her lips, who pulls you in till you're nearly on top of her so she can bury her face in the crook of your neck.

"thanks... i needed that."

you laugh, the sound muffled against her skin even as you right yourself and curl into her, your bodies settling against one another on the bedsheets (they're stained, but you were planning on doing laundry tomorrow anyways).

"yeah, i know," you say, leaning up to kiss her proper, "i know you did."

[neonghostcat]

The monster still grows.

So, for the last couple of days I've been finishing up the last major edit of The Guardian Ghost and the Bookish Fairy.

I've been half-jokingly making comments about how it keeps growing and getting out of hand, like someone seeded a garden with mint or something. Delightful! I love mint! But apparently mint is one of those plants you have to treat like a virus or it grows out of control.

I have not treated this story like a virus.

I am suffering for it.

Okay, 'suffering' is going maybe a little too far.

But this was supposed to be a quick story written in the middle of July so on August 8th I'd have something to post, right? And then I could spend the rest of my free time working on Cultivate.

Every time I work on it, it grows.

I finally gave in and upped the chapter count from 9 to 10.

I had to.

Chapters 8 and 9 were already over 7k as it was. One of them was over 7.5k. There was a time not that long ago where I thought 5k was pushing peoples' tolerance level. ~7.5k+ is practically past indulgent.

Then I started reading chapter 8 and realized... My friend, there was stuff left out.

I must have been so tired and ready for the story to end I hallucinated writing a few parts of scenes. And those parts added up. (I forgot about Binghe. He straight up disappears for a bit in chapter 9. Same thing with Shang Qinghua, only it sticks out less. Both of them have been properly restored to the narrative. I have also added Shang Qinghua back to the tags because he really is in the story enough to be tagged.)

Hilariously, when I split Chapter 9 into two parts, there were ~5.5k left in it. "Oh good. A more normal-sized chapter then. I'll just add a little more and fill in any gaps and we're golden."

It is currently just over 7k. I guess in the end I only cut the size down by maybe ~500 words by taking ~2.1k out of it.

Magic.

When I uploaded chapter one, the draft was ~49k. It is currently at ~55k. And since Chapter 10 is currently just over 2k, that means an absolute minimum of 2k more left to write.

The story is absolutely better for it. And the rough draft of the ending always sucks until I've had time to let it stew a bit before I come back to it, so having more room to work with to make the ending better is always great.

But I want to be able to post Cultivate starting before November. I feel awkward about talking about Cultivate since October and always writing, "One shorter story so I can focus on Cultivate."

I have written four stories since NaNoWriMo. FFS. No more!

I am hopeless. 😂

[finnlongman]

If you don't mind me asking, as a writer, is there anything you do to motivate yourself/stay focused on one particular idea/project? Like, keeping yourself from having another idea mid-work and having an "ooo shiny" moment, and leaving the old work to be an Emer to the new idea's Fand (to make a clumsy Ulstsr Cycle joke)? I've been trying to get a bit more serious about writing recently and this is an issue I've been running into. Thank you in advance if you do answer this ask.

I always have multiple projects in my brain, but I generally have a one-track mind when I'm actually working on things. It's why I'll obsessively edit a novel in three weeks and then go back to doing academic work -- my brain won't let me do both at once, so I have to give them all my focus for a short period of time and then switch.

I'm trying to get better at juggling multiple things, but it's still my weak point. This summer, I had to split focus between two novels, a thesis, and an article, all in the space of about 2.5 months. The result? I completely abandoned my thesis, and indeed, any academic work, for the whole of August, in order to focus on fiction, because the deadline was more urgent. Sometimes you have to prioritise, and knowing you have to switch tasks at a certain time and that this one has to be finished first does wonders for making you focus.

However, if you don't have deadlines and if nobody is expecting you to hand anything in, it can be a lot harder to do the finishing part, and it's easy to go off chasing new ideas. I think we've all done it. For the first 10 years of writing fiction, I didn't have any deadlines either except those I gave myself, and I definitely abandoned projects and hopped around. Even since I signed with my agent, there's been at least one project I had to put aside unfinished and I don't know when or if I'll come back to it, though that was less a case of being distracted by something else and more a case of being too depressed to write. If it had been under contract, though, that would have been more difficult! So I'm glad that it wasn't.

Part of the way I avoid it is by writing fast. This is unhelpful advice, because either you write fast or you don't, and if you're not a speedy writer, it's probably not very useful as a tactic. But if I write fast enough, not only do I not give myself time to get bored, I also have the drive of knowing the sooner I finish something, the sooner I can move on to something else. If it's only another 3 weeks of work, there's less a sense of the new idea being impossibly distant. I always leave first drafts to stew for at least a few months before I edit them, so once they're done, hopping between projects is a good thing -- as long as I got to the end first. But not getting to the end can be a killer.

I also try not to take breaks while writing first drafts. Again, doesn't work for everyone, hasn't always worked for me. But the books where I take days/weeks off while drafting are the ones that are hardest to finish, and every time I've stopped long-term and said I'll come back to it later to finish it ... I never have. If I ever do, I'll have to rewrite the whole first half before I can continue. This is partly because I'm not an outliner, so first drafts are precariously balanced in my head and setting them down can mean losing sight of something crucial. If I had a set outline to follow, it might be easier to dip in and out.

Having said that, I do have some books that have been written far more intermittently with lots of days off... but they were definitely harder. The continuity and speed is a fairly crucial part of maintaining my train of thought. Like I said -- one-track mind. That's why it's so hard for me to balance multiple projects.

Over time, I've learned that ideas are really the easiest part of writing, but they often don't go anywhere. I keep note of them, often in my phone, but an idea is not a plot, and it takes time for them to turn into a book. I like to let them mature on their own for a while. I knew I wanted to write TRWTH from about 2015, but I didn't draft it until late 2018; I knew I wanted to write a Bisclavret retelling since about 2016, but didn't draft it until late 2019. I gave them time to figure out what shape they wanted to be in before I started actually working with those premises directly. So that can help me resist the temptation to jump on something new -- it's not necessarily ready yet. Writing it down feels like scratching the itch ("I'm not ignoring it, I'm just setting it aside") and means you won't forget it, but also means by the time you come to look at it again, you have a better sense of whether it's worth writing.

Having said that, I'm easily distracted by the temptation to *edit* something other than the book I'm currently working on; I'll reread an older project and see how to fix it and since editing doesn't require the same single-minded focus (for me) as first drafts, I can be lured away quite easily. Deadlines are usually the main thing that helps there.

If I'm honest... deadlines in general are the only things that keep me on track. Otherwise I'm always hopping between things and never focusing on anything long enough to get it "finished". It's where things like NaNoWriMo can help: setting yourself a goal of writing a certain amount of a book within a window of time can often keep you on target long enough to pass the point of no return (i.e. the point at which you're more invested in finishing the book than in starting a different one). I never finished anything until I did NaNo for the first time; it turned out what I needed was a deadline and an excuse to write quickly.

Two final things. One is that I try to only write things I really care about. If I'm ready to abandon a project and never come back, I probably wasn't invested in it in the first place. Two, if an idea is constantly popping up while writing something else, it might be related. It might explore the same themes, or develop on one of the ideas. It can be worth poking at it for a minute to check if that's the case, and if it is... it's not a new story. It's a new part of the story you were already writing, and can be woven in.

It's possible absolutely none of this is applicable to those with a different writing style to me, and it's also incredibly rambly, but quick summary:

deadlines help. knowing someone is expecting something from you helps.

writing fast enough not to get bored gives you less time to get distracted.

ideas need time. write them down and let them stew instead of rashly chasing them; they may not be able to carry a whole story on their own

they may not BE a whole story; consider whether they're part of what you're already writing

Did this make any sense at all? I have no idea. I've actually been switching between three projects (two fiction, one academic) this week, so my brain is utterly melted because, as I said, I suck at doing that.