I have figured out what is wrong with my stupid due South AU s2 F/K/V polybigbang fic, and it is that I fucking doomed myself with Magnetic. Seriously, I wrote the first draft of that thing inside a week, while attending classes, and though it went through two drafts and a bit of overhaul before it was functional, it was still ... possibly the easiest thing I have ever written, one of those rare gifts where the actual writing process was actively fun. And it was awesome but it means that now I am doomed, as I said, because to a lesser extent no other due South fic I ever write will be that joyous, and to a greater extent I'm now sitting here going, "Fraser! Rays! You're in the same room! I expect a perpetual high of writerly delight and possibly some easy banter, please." I am even sure I might get back there eventually, but in the meantime because I am very foolish I actually thought writing a universe where Kowalski meets Fraser-and-Vecchio-as-partners would be interesting, and it is but it means I have to do all sorts of legwork to get them to the Fraser-and-Kowalski comfort levels the show has. Gnahhh.

I may also be suffering from "oh god, it's getting too long" syndrome, which I have not trained myself out of despite understanding that plotty due South fics are necessarily massive. The thing is, though, that I've hit 10,430 words in the doc and the corresponding section of outline is ... 400 out of 3575 words. Which means, um, if my math is correct and the ratios are anything like corresponding, that it'll come out around 93,218 words. Dear lord no. That's two Dreamwidth posts! Even DW does not exceed 50,000 words! And neither did either of the Doctor Who seasons, nor do I actually want to kill [personal profile] oliviacirce nor [personal profile] sionnain's souls when I send it over for beta.

AH WELL I SHALL CARRY ON.
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