luciazephyr | (no subject)

flamintwilight and I have been writing our cracked out MGS High School AU fic for months now. We just get on at night and write scenes. The last few days, she's been going through our chat logs and putting all of the snippets into a Google Doc.

Ellen: March 3rd [in the logs] I am barreling along here <3
Lucy: I admire and fear your dedication.
Ellen: It will be nice to have all of this in one place.
Ellen: And I checked a while ago-- not sure how long-- and we had 98 pages
Ellen: nearly 50,000 words-- I think 47,000
Lucy: ...... Oh my god.

jksdhkjfgkjjk WE HAVE WRITTEN A NANO-WORTH OF CRACKFIC.

WHAT THE HELL.

-Lucy

ETA: Oh god, we're on the worst crack ever. We wrote a snippet of Valve sending Hal a helicopter to seduce him into their industry. Yes, Valve the gaming company. It makes sense in context.

Okay, no, it doesn't. But it made sense at the ungodly hour we wrote it, I think.

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What do you mean, it's EPIC.

Perhaps I've lurked too much at Fission Mailed, but sounds like awesome crack. I want to know how you made it work 8Db

I'm not sure we did. It was mostly, "YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE COOL? [stupid idea here]" and then a few months later we'd look back and start justifying and building around the stupid idea.

Like Hal. Early on I gave him a weird habit of being cold all the time. Physically, I mean. We used it as an excuse to get him cute and hugged a lot, but then we started to delve into why he's cold and how it's a contrast to his exceedingly warm, friendly personality, and now it's a huge part of his characterization and is the branching point of his major dysfunctions and issues in the AU.

So, that, multiplied by fifty. That's how we did it. IDEFK, man.