I believe I lamented this at length when I was into Laviyuu back in my D. Gray-Man phase. Way too many plots and setups and I finished like a fifth of them? A tenth? Very little. And, of course, me being me, getting into ChengXian just means the exact same situation. Again!
I currently have 3 ish plot bunnies hounding me. Now, don't let the number fool you, because 1 is a novel, as in literally with over 100k words planned. 1 is a novella with maybe 50k words planned. And the last is a series of short stories that will probably have 10k each, if not more. Yeah. I also have a collection of "shorts" that I'm currently working on. They're actually supposed to be short, but you know, sometimes they grow into monstrosities, too. I...I'm not sure what I should be doing at this point. I started the shorts to ease myself into writing ChengXian, but now I'm like, goddamn it, this is supposed to be fun and easy! What in the seventh hell? 🤣
Here's a quick run-down of what I have planned:
1) The novel - a complete AU where the Sunshot war doesn't happen until much later. WWX and JC grew up together, had inclination to marry, but were denied when WWX had to be married off for political purposes. Contains indisputable WangXian and some serious cuckji moments because, yo, this is a ChengXian story, okay? (I am 100% NOT tagging the story with any of those when I post though, because I ain't inviting that drama!) Anyway, no one loses any golden cores or take up demonic cultivation. And despite everything, this is in essence a very sweet love story. (Or a very long, torturing love story, depends on who you ask.)
2) The novella - a canon-divergence AU where instead of JC getting captured, it was WWX who got captured and lost his core. JC then tries everything he can to get WWX out of Wen's hands. Major hurt/comfort vibes, some serious, depressing PTSD issues, and instead of a lot of people dying they're alive but are very, very miserable.
3) The series - a modern, mobsters/gang wars/police AU. (Got some inspiration from The Wire, for sure.) It is a multi-ship series where WangXian and ChengXian co-exist peacefully (or at least they do in my fic. Some people might interpret it differently but you know, that's out of my hands.) Also my first serious jaunt into NieLan. Actually you can probably call this series a NieLan fic with ChengXian on the side. At least the angst does not come from JC and WWX this time, mostly.
4) The shorts - Random small bits that, like I said, I'm writing to get myself familiar with these characters. Also I found that there's a curious lack of alpha!JC/omega!WWX fics in the omegaverse AUs. It's always the other way around, which I think is fine but don't understand why it is so much more prevalent. So I'm going to add to this rarest of rare things just for kicks.
And that's what I have so far. I say so far because who knows what my brain'll come up with tomorrow. I'm trying very hard to keep it contained to these four items, though.
I currently have 3 ish plot bunnies hounding me. Now, don't let the number fool you, because 1 is a novel, as in literally with over 100k words planned. 1 is a novella with maybe 50k words planned. And the last is a series of short stories that will probably have 10k each, if not more. Yeah. I also have a collection of "shorts" that I'm currently working on. They're actually supposed to be short, but you know, sometimes they grow into monstrosities, too. I...I'm not sure what I should be doing at this point. I started the shorts to ease myself into writing ChengXian, but now I'm like, goddamn it, this is supposed to be fun and easy! What in the seventh hell? 🤣
Here's a quick run-down of what I have planned:
1) The novel - a complete AU where the Sunshot war doesn't happen until much later. WWX and JC grew up together, had inclination to marry, but were denied when WWX had to be married off for political purposes. Contains indisputable WangXian and some serious cuckji moments because, yo, this is a ChengXian story, okay? (I am 100% NOT tagging the story with any of those when I post though, because I ain't inviting that drama!) Anyway, no one loses any golden cores or take up demonic cultivation. And despite everything, this is in essence a very sweet love story. (Or a very long, torturing love story, depends on who you ask.)
2) The novella - a canon-divergence AU where instead of JC getting captured, it was WWX who got captured and lost his core. JC then tries everything he can to get WWX out of Wen's hands. Major hurt/comfort vibes, some serious, depressing PTSD issues, and instead of a lot of people dying they're alive but are very, very miserable.
3) The series - a modern, mobsters/gang wars/police AU. (Got some inspiration from The Wire, for sure.) It is a multi-ship series where WangXian and ChengXian co-exist peacefully (or at least they do in my fic. Some people might interpret it differently but you know, that's out of my hands.) Also my first serious jaunt into NieLan. Actually you can probably call this series a NieLan fic with ChengXian on the side. At least the angst does not come from JC and WWX this time, mostly.
4) The shorts - Random small bits that, like I said, I'm writing to get myself familiar with these characters. Also I found that there's a curious lack of alpha!JC/omega!WWX fics in the omegaverse AUs. It's always the other way around, which I think is fine but don't understand why it is so much more prevalent. So I'm going to add to this rarest of rare things just for kicks.
And that's what I have so far. I say so far because who knows what my brain'll come up with tomorrow. I'm trying very hard to keep it contained to these four items, though.
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