#jessix

First of all, very delighted that there's a Jessix Week again so thank you to the organisers for putting this together! I think they're @medic-6116 and @prowlingthunder but please correct me if I'm wrong.

My original plan for Jessix Week was to write one large fic in response to the Alt Prompt: Jesse Lives, maybe with a few other prompts thrown in as well. It would be set in my series Strike Fast in the Dark, an Everyone Lives Clone Rebellion AU, and would be written in the style of two other fics I've written for that series, Knowing You Now and Woven Together. Both fics are a collection of drabbles of various lengths, focusing on a specific ship and characters (Cody/Echo/Fives/Rex). So the plan was to write a Jessix fic in this AU in the same style.

However, a couple of things happened.

As I was writing these various fics, they started to become more disparate from each other. They didn't really fit together in the same way the drabbles of various lengths in the other fics did. There wasn't really a flow between them and some of the fics are vastly different from each other.

I've also been struggling with really bad writers block for the past 6 months. Working on these fics has been slow going and most of them are still WIPs that I need to finish. In an effort to try and rekindle any kind of writing flow, I've been trying to remove any kind of restrictions that might've been getting in the way, like adhering to a strict word count. I've just been trying to write, and that's it. Because of this, fics that I had planned to be drabbles of various lengths have now grown into longer pieces of writing. But it is at least writing! The fact that I've managed to write anything at all is great and I'm trying to be kind to myself about that and see it as at an achievement.

On top of all this, my health, work, and life have really been rough. Being disabled and chronically ill sucks, and work keeps on taking over my life so I have a lot less time and spoons to write.