#FRWAD fic post

[indiaalphawhiskey]

🎵For Reasons Wretched and Divine

by indiaalphawhiskey | cover art by pass-the-pencil

Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson | Explicit | 94.6k | Complete

Tags: Alternate Universe, Friends to Enemies, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Bullying, Homophobic Language, Betrayal, Angst, Unrealistic Sex

Ten years ago, Harry Styles was just a nerdy kid with one friend and a debilitating crush on the captain of his school’s football team. He thought the stars were smiling down on him the day he and Louis Tomlinson were paired for their end-of-term Literature project. But because Harry’s life is decidedly not a fairytale, the budding friendship quickly leads to the least happy ending of all time.

Now, Harry Styles is a household name. Barely twenty-seven with two Grammy nominations to his name, the singer-songwriter is poised to take the music industry by storm with his highly anticipated third album. So, what happens when the best producer in the business is also the only person Harry’s vowed never to speak to again?

An AU in two parts. Two boys, two stories, and hopefully, two chances at love.

#larry fanfiction #1D fanfiction #indiaalphawhiskey #AO3 #completed #this is an oldie #2017 #but I wanted to show off #the cover #FRWAD #FRWAD fic post #fic post with art #iaw fic

[wyvernne]

I think I’m a bit late but I just read For Reasons Wretched and Divine and oh my god?? It’s so good?? H o w?????? I love the spin you put on Mondstadt with the church and everything and how you included references to Kaeya, Crepeus, Gold and even Albedo (I think, assuming I interpreted that part right). Also that one line “Barbatos. Barbatos, where are you? Why have you forsaken your servant?” Is so damn good I read it and then re-read it like three times and then just stared at it for another 5 minutes. Also the CHARACTERIZATION omg I can’t it’s so good. You have so much skill and I just wanted to express my joy and amazement after reading that and I am eagerly waiting a part 2 to the series if you still intend to continue it. I hope you’re having a good day/night bc I definitely am after reading that!! <3

Thank you so much 😭 out of all of the fics I’ve written, hearing praise about frwad is the one that makes my heart flutter the most. It was genuinely such a joy for me to write, and even now I’m proud of what I’ve created.

I absolutely intend on continuing the series, and have actually decided to post a prequel before diving into the second part of mc and diluc’s story.

#asks #anonymous #i’m starting law school in august but that won’t stop me lol #i might just update fics a lil slower #i’ll do my darndest

[firemedicdiaz]

Writing Updates!

The McKirk epic officially has a title!

For Reasons Wretched and Divine

I’m currently working on chapter 4 - the first appearance of The Great Angst™.  Len and Jim have not yet met, and will likely not meet for at least another 4 chapters.  It’s going to be hella slow burn.

This chapter is also already about 1900 words and not even half over yet.

Fucking yikes.

(NB: all future posts regarding the progress on this fic and the fic itself will be tagged with FRWaD, so you can track or block to your heart’s content!)

#FRWaD #jules writes

[indiaalphawhiskey]

I saw you said you struggled a lot with OLNF. can you explain a little more? or maybe just link posts where you've talked about it? I've been struggling so much lately and it is very encouraging to know that an author you adore and look up to so much might also be in the same boat

Hiya!

I don’t think I’ve talked about it extensively in a post; might’ve just mentioned it in response to one or two asks, but yes, I struggled a lot. (Will put under a cut, in case no one wants to hear my personal Canterbury Tales. 🤣)

One piece of it was that I was able to find employment after moving away from home and being unemployed for almost 2 years (when I was unemployed was when I wrote Barefoot, Howls, and FRWAD), so my creative time went from 100% to 20% (if I was lucky).

But the other piece was just that the prompt itself felt so incredibly personal to me, as a writer. Add that to the fact that Marcel is largely based on me and you have a recipe for a creative neurosis unlike any other.

I just couldn’t force myself to rush through it, nor could I wrangle myself into making the story smaller (read: more manageable for my skill level at the time). No, I needed it to be epic (eye roll at myself) and meta and romantic and sexy and personal and all! the! things! and that meant it felt extremely creatively overwhelming (which I find stories tend to do when you can’t even visualize how to break writing down into milestones, so it just feels like an endless tunnel of work. I have since learned how to manage this. Not well, but at least be able to see key moments to stop.)

There was a moment it was so incredibly overwhelming that I didn’t open my document for three months because I was so paralyzed by feedback someone I respected (and still respect, very much) gave at the time (that I solicited, mind you, but it was just that their editing style and my writing style didn’t mesh). In the end, I just had to bite the bullet and make a decision to ignore their edits so I could move forward (I grappled with this a lot because I never want to be the kind of writer that can’t take solicited critique graciously, but eventually, I made myself understand that as a writer you have to know when to take critique and when your personal vision is worth standing by, and that not every editor is a fit for every writer, and that’s why the nuances of the writer-beta relationship are so important).

And then COVID happened, and even if my creative confidence took a huge hit, I suddenly had the time to sit and deal with it. So I did. (With the help of my friends, hi @twopoppies and @myfineline) And I put a lot of that personal struggle into the fic, pretty much word for word (that scene where Louis doesn’t know whether the story of his new book is too big for him? If he’s capable of writing it? It me. Hi.)

So, yeah. When all is said and done, OLNF is the fic that it is because of all of that (quite literally) and all the writing advice I had Marcel and Louis dish out and grapple with are all things I personally learned the hard way.

And in the end, it didn’t matter that I started the fic in 2017. No one was timing me, no one faulted me for it, and I also eventually forgave myself for “taking so long” because the writer I was in 2017 could not have written that fic anyway, and it found the audience it was meant to find at the time it was meant to find them.

So, my advice: listen to your creative pursuits when they tell you they need to take a little longer. Sometimes, you’re not yet the author you need to be to finish them. But you will grow into your dreams, as long as you continue to pursue them, stubbornly, painfully, ceaselessly. I promise.

#iaw ask #iaw anonymous #writing #writing struggles #creative struggles #growing into writing #taking time

[indiaalphawhiskey]

Dear For Reasons Coda Anon, I’m not posting your ask because of slight spoilers but: Thanks so much, I’m really glad you liked it. <3 FRWAD is by far the most challenging thing I’d ever written, and it warms my heart just to know someone is reading it. :) And will I ever write a coda/epilogue? Mm. Never say never? :) Truthfully, I really like open-ended endings. I have this thing - I like to think each fic is a singular moment in my characters’ lives, a snapshot. And that’s why I tend not to write anything that ties the story up with a neat little bow, because each of my Harrys and Louis(es) still have other stories to live within that universe. But, who knows? I might miss them so much that I have to go back. It’s definitely a possibility. :) x

#iaw anonymous #FRWAD anonymous #FRWAD coda anon