citrinesunset | Living the WIP life / Gearing up for June

So...I've been working on the Frankenstory for a while now. The Frankenstory is the unofficial name of the X-Men WIP that I started two years ago and have been fiddling with ever since. I used to always write very linearly. Like, I could never even skip over scenes that were giving me trouble. But it turns out that that style of writing doesn't work as well when I work full time and don't feel like writing when I get home. So I wrote most of this fic in pieces in Google Docs, all out of order. And I've been filling in the gaps and rearranging scenes ever since. All in all, I'd call the method successful. I did write a lot, and I found I was able to capture my initial ideas much better than if I sat on them for a while. But this method definitely needs more refinement if I want to keep using it, because this WIP is a mess.

Anyway, it's almost done, but I made the decision of going ahead and starting to post it on AO3 as I finish revising. I debated whether it would make more sense to finish the fic completely first, but so far I feel good about my decision. It spurred me to make some narrative decisions that I was dragging my feet on. Anyway, if you like dark!Charles, dub-con, misuse of telepathy, and mutual Stockholm Syndrome and Lima Syndrome, here's my WIP.

I had this really ambitious idea that I would try to finish the main three X-Men movieverse WIPs I'm working on before Dark Phoenix comes out. The other two WIPs are an extended version of the Charles/Hank Ancient Rome fic I wrote recently and a post-X-Men Apocalypse AU involving Wanda Maximoff. All of these fics are AUs, so it's not liked I'm worried about Dark Phoenix jossing them, but whenever new canon comes out, I worry about it impacting what I'm inspired to write or how I see the characters, so I liked the idea of finishing these fics before then. I don't think that's really going to happen.

On a personal note, I don't know if I'm going to get around to seeing Dark Phoenix in theaters or not, and I'm a little sad about that. I'm really eager to see it, but I've been working on addressing some anxiety issues, and those issues are affecting my willingness to go to a movie theater right now. I don't want to let this affect my life too much, but I don't want it to be something that I stress out over. So I'm playing it by ear right now. In any case, I'm a spoiler fanatic, so it's not like I'll be in the dark about what happens. :P