#it's fascinating tbh

Hi! I don’t mind you asking at all, and I wish I had a better answer for you. I do want to continue my stories, so that’s the good news, but my creativity sort of went ‘whoosh’ as soon as I got pregnant. And now I have a baby in the house, it’s hard to find any time at all. Thing is, I used to write the Wilde way - just lock myself in a room for hours on end without stopping until I was sort of happy - but now I have to learn how to write the mom way - in short bouts of time, when the child is sleeping, accepting the house will never be clean again and that yeah, that load of laundry can actually wait another two hours. I don’t know how long it will take to get used to it. 

(I’m hoping what’s left of SPN, or the finale, will be so spectacular that it will jolt this process in place and I’ll be ready to write again soon, but tbh I’m not impressed so far, so who knows.) 

I do feel plenty guilty, and also a bit weirded out, because I can’t think of the last time I was so long without creating anything. But, well, I guess my body was busy creating something else. I never remember my brain is actually part of my my body, but there we go - it definitely is.

woah really?

Well this is just my experience (and @weirdhybrid‘s, we talked about this many moons ago when we still talked about such things) but...it’s kinda like night and day?

Most all of my exo writing is below 4k hits. Only one has more than 20 comment threads. When I write exo, it’s just not read as widely, commented on as freely, or kudos’ed (it’s a verb now shh) as much.

With bangtan, about half of my work has over 4k hits, and most have more than 20 comment threads. Even the super short stuff. And the amount of kudos is always fairly even in comparison to hits.

It’s like ARMYs are kinda more voracious readers and more inclined to support authors? Whereas with exo-l, very set criteria needs to be met, people tend to have just one OTP and won’t read anything else, etc. But ARMYs will read all the things. and I think it’s mostly just a reflection of the group dynamics. They work well together in any iteration so reading any pairing is pretty much guaranteed to make sense.

And that’s not to say exo-ls are bad for being a bit less forthcoming with their love. It’s just different. And admittedly I don’t write exo as much anymore because of it, not because I need the accolades (they’re nice though!) but because I really genuinely enjoy the engagement levels in the bangtan fandom.