Write Every Day: December 2

[luzula]

Still no covid symptoms and I am on day 5 after exposure! \o/ Good luck with your writing today.

Day 1: philomytha, scribe, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, regshoe, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, ljm, yasaman, cornerofmadness, lferion, marvelouscity, silveradept, carenejeans, boxofdelights

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[ysilme]

Thanks!
Drawer fic is likely to be different for everybody; some also use other names for it (which I currently can't remember, /o\ although I lately heard a term that fit much better), but it's essentially fic you don't want to share for whatever reason. Mine are both/all of it, original, fannish, crossovers, also crossovers in-between them, and the reason they're drawerfic might be different for separate fics. Sometimes I just need to write a quick fix-it for something I've seen or read elsewhere, or which annoyed me at another fic, and I just need to get it out of my head without the intention to make more of it. Often a drawer fic consists of just short scenes or fragments, or isn't more than a first draft, as I want to write down or work out something but don't have the time or energy to make more of it. Sometimes I want to indulge in extreme hurt/comfort or woobie fluff which are guilty pleasures of mine and/or work as coping mechanism when I'm overwhelmed or in emotional distress, but to write those for publishing would need too much of an effort for it to make it doable, or I simply don't have the spoons or time for it. Sometimes it's also something I want to write _now_ but can't be bothered to research or properly develop, or know that it won't work within canon but would be too much of an effort to make a plausible AU out of it because I just want to write that down. Or it's a kind of extended scene to something I wrote for publishing with details I wanted to include but which don't fit any longer. Part of what I wrote as drawer fics in the past has made it eventually into fannish stories, or is growing into origfic which might grow to be more one day, and since several years I'm also using drawer fics to work at improving certain writing skills, or to experiment.
It all boils down to writing totally free as nobody is observing me and there won't be anybody possibly giving concrit or worse, and I can just indulge in the sheer fun of writing withouth having to pay attention to anything. Like a children's sandbox, if you will.

[luzula]

Oh, interesting! Yes, that all makes sense. Hmm, I wonder why I've never done that kind of writing?

Or wait, actually I have once, but it was a special circumstance: I had a crush on someone IRL that I knew wasn't going anywhere and wrote a short self-insert story about that to get an outlet for it… That is certainly something I would never show to anyone.