Cerulean Mornings

So apparently NaNoWriMo is imploding from the inside. If you want to know the tea may I suggest the nanowrimo subreddit. I myself don't really know too much about it, but I'm sure the folks there will have great summaries and such. All I know is that the org is in disarray and community managers are quitting left and right, so that means...I'm not going to really participate in Camp NaNo in April, I guess? 

Well, I'm still going to participate in my own pace, because I got a long fanfic to write, folks! But I'm probably not going to use much of the site resources. They still haven't put up any Camp NaNo 24 official art anyway. I can find word trackers elsewhere. Heh, maybe I'll go back to the good old days of posting a sticky entry and paste a word tracker there that I update daily. (Ah, LJ, how I miss you.) Except nowadays I'm not sure where I can find a word tracker that I can just insert. I have my own trackers but they're not really public, or easy to paste-and-use. I'll look around and see if I can find anything in this day and age.

Speaking of fanfic, I have been thinking of my ChengXian plot bunnies. I have a few kicking around, like everyone does, though I am making sure I only focus on one right now. Anyway, I've been thinking of the major themes in each plot, and I realized a couple of points:

1. I like writing from Jiang Cheng's POV. He's easier to inner monologue, and in most cases he's the one with more power than Wei Ying in the political sense, and I love me some political intrigue than out-and-out fighting. Wei Ying is a wild card, a whirlwind who obeys no rules. It's much more fun writing as someone who reacts to him than Wei Ying himself. Also, there's more complexity. I can put JC in a very difficult position so he can't do what he wants, but has to maneuver around it (mostly to save WY lol). It can get juicy! I'm not saying WY is not complex. I'm just saying I find it easier to write complex JC for an entire fic than complex WY. 
2. I currently have 4 major plot bunnies (yeah...don't even....I don't think I'll be able to write all of them, seriously). They neatly fall into different relationship dynamics. I seriously did not realize this until just now, as I'm trying to figure out their major points. They are:

• One is JC and WY get together, but circumstances force JC to give WY up. WY still comes back to him in the end, though.
• One is JC and WY mutually decide to give up on each other, and then later both regret it. They fight against the urge to be together but, alas, they fail, and a lot of shit ensues because of this.
• One is JC and WY are not together, and everyone are actively against them to be, but they fight on regardless, and never give up.
• The last one is different, in that JC and WY are side characters in a mostly NieLan story. They do end up together but with some significant caveats, but overall it's still ChengXian. The NieLan side, however, is a whole different ballgame. That is all I'm saying about this one.

The fanfic I'm currently on is the first one. Don't worry, it really isn't a spoiler because it is ChengXian after all. Plus, by the time I finish and start posting it'll be like months later, so you're probably not gonna remember this anyway lol.

The second one is a giant epic that I probably won't write. It'll be controversial because, uh, there's cheating involved. I'm not sure I want to face that wrath from fandom, yet. If I ever actually write and post this I will make sure to tag it clearly so people can avoid it if they want.

The third one I will attempt, after I finish the first one, because I really like it but it's gonna be devastating and hard to write so, we'll see when I'll be up for it.

The fourth I love, and will write, because it's a series of connected short stories and not a giant novella. I will at least write two stories in it. The NieLan is going to kill me, though.

And that's enough writer talk for the day haha. I do hope NaNo sort itself out soon. At least let there be an alternative so I can keep my yearly tradition with a little bit of community.