#iins

January 6, 2025

I am a strong believer that fics are a perfect reflection of who a person is at the time they were written. Whether intentionally or not, they showcase parts of a person and their outlooks and opinions at the time they were writing them.

Back in 2020 during the pandemic, I was 18 and started writing If I Needed Someone for fun and the hell of it as a way to pass time. This quick way to pass time while being isolated quickly turned into something much bigger than I have intended, as not only did the fic end up gaining more traction than I could have imagined but I met some of the coolest online friends as a result of creating this fic. I posted my last update on If I Needed Someone back in February of last year, and did not necessarily fall into a writing slump, but started becoming so busy that this fic has ended up on the back burner.

It's been almost two years since I last updated the fic, and I feel like I've changed a lot in those last two years. My approach to writing and my writing outlook has changed. However, this is not a post announcing that I am going to be orphaning If I Needed Someone. Over the last few weeks, I've grown incredibly anxious and stressed, and craved to start writing again, which was one of the main reasons I began IINS in the first place. So, I am writing this post to announce that, after almost two years of updating this fic, I am finally returning back to finish what I had started back in 2020 and complete If I Needed Someone.

Updates are not going to be as quick as they had been when I first started writing as working full time as an assistant manager and going to uni full time are kicking my ass. BUT, I am going to work as hard as I can to ensure that I can get updates out in a timely manner.

Also, after-reading through the fic and heavy consideration I've come to the decision that there are going to be some rewrites. Not only since I am a different writer at 20 going on 21 than I was at 18 going on 19, but also because there are some continuity mistakes I want to correct and things I would better like to foreshadow. So there are going to be scenes in the rewrites that are going to be cut out do to not serving a purpose in the plot, and there are going to be new scenes added into the fic as well, so it gives people who have loved this fic and wish to return to it something to look forward to. However, this doesn't mean that some of the most significant and some of people's favorite scenes are going to be the ones getting cut from the story.

I am so glad you enjoy the fic, thank you so much for the kind ask!

I have been working on both If I Needed Someone in tandem with the 80s Road Trip AU I have been writing with Auxctor on AO3. Temporarily I was going under some writers block for a whole new chapter I am writing for the fic- and it doesn't help that student teaching application are kicking my ass- but I have one final scene I have to write in what is going to take place of the original fourth chapter, and then have the current fourth one get pushed and become the fifth chapter (I am praying to all things holy this makes sense). As soon as I finish that chapter I will be updating the fic here soon!