Of Endings and More Beginnings.

[wishingwell44]

 Well, at 41,314 (unofficially) words the self titled 'Spy Fic' is complete. I have been writing this thing since September and goddamn. It's so weird to be done with something like that, especially for something that you can only hope people read, let alone like. I think this is why fan-works (any form really) are so impressive - there's nothing at stake. We love a thing? Write a novel about it or not! Maybe 500 words that tickles your fancy. Want to see something of "that thing"? Artists draw and capture the likenesses of these characters and it brings something to life!  Or, I don't know, someone wants a fair isle knit sweater depicting a scene that breaks their heart? Pretty sure someone has done it on Etsy. 

I think what I'm trying to say is that that feeling of completing a novel (at least dictated by the word count) is putting me in this happiness because it's something i wanted to do and completed a goal and set out create. I wasn't told by anyone to do this, like a teacher or professor (except maybe a few friends that egged me on [thank you!!!!!!!]), and the nights working on it made it so much more fun without the whole responsibility aspect. I feel, or honestly just straight up guessing, as though a lot of people in fandom kind of follow that same path. It's something they want to do.

 I want to write a part 3 to the spy fic series. It's just...not done. I ended the fic with plot lines closed, but in a way it can still end it with another installment. I think it's going to be  all about repairing things. Not in the physical sense (although somebody please write the fic where Bucky or Steve is a mechanic, thank you.), but the emotional sense. I know, I know, in the wise words of Miranda Preistly a la "The Devil Wears Prada" - groundbreaking - but it just works.

I need to find the themes of where I want this next part to fall into. Romance? More action? Fantasy fight battles? Well, probably not but could you imagine just a random chapter of Bucky speaking Elvish to Steve in the middle of a Modern FBI AU? (Fantasy dream sequence? I think Steve is totally a LotR fan in the series I think...so it could actually work). 

I was going to write/start a new AU fic , but I will put that one on the back burner. Back to my notebook I go.