fic talk: writing about writing

words about words! i'm writing a long...er fic again and, as always, i have Thoughts. (primarily: oh god the word count keeps going up help)

for last year, one of the goals i set (and achieved!) was to write a humorous fic — something funny for the sake of being funny. i really, really love reading humorous fics and i'd tried multiple times to write something start-to-finish humorous (i'm pretty sure there's at least one author's note on my fics saying something like "well this was supposed to be funny"), but i didn't actually achieve it until in stitches. none of the fic i've posted since then has been explicitly humorous start-to-finish, but i've noticed that in general, humor has become much more present as i'm writing; the conscious effort it took to write something humorous really made an impression on me, and i've been wanting to do it again.

so here i am! 15k words into an explicitly humorous fic. with much more to go.

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