I can't wait .... It's gonna be so peak ...

Billionaires, Charlie Kirk, Murdoch’s "role in destabilizing democracy in North America, Europe Australia
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, healthcare and power to fight back against big banks & corps"

This is my curse and my blessing..
.I have a master's degree in yapology and loquaciousness and so on and so forth

And in my original draft, the content that will be in those 5 whole chapters was only like 5 paragraphs 🤣

So the moral of the story is ....... I seem incapable of writing one shots within the LISA THE PAINFUL universe cause my plots are so complex I gotta flesh them out 🗿

That's why "Getting in Deep" is now a multi chaptered story -- it's actually not even anywhere near the end that my original 2,000-word one shot had

So I have a lot more events to fully flesh out before we get to the end of the story, so to speak

Maybe 5 chapters?

So I wrote like 2000 words of random mumbo jumbo and asked a friend to read it

Well, he told me it made no damn sense whatsoever and said it made him hella confused cause of the pacing

So I forced myself to slow down and tell the story from the top, rather than forcing it as a one shot

I initially wrote "Getting in Deep" to explore the world of post-White Flash Olathe

Because "LISA: The Faithful" and the Dustin/Reader fics are prequels, there's no fun post-apocalyptic chaos in either story

And I was in a mood where I really wanted to write a wasteland story

Praying this will make the story easier to follow 🙏

Fun fact: I came to this realization while writing my LISA: The Hopeful fanfic about the Lovelies with Reader being an evil little gremlin who joins simply so they don't hurt him

This one - archiveofourown.org/works/668471...

What I'm gonna do is write a whole new 1st chapter, starting from Point A, and then just make the end of it lead fluidly into their first meeting (which is currently chapter 1) ......

So I'll have to write a new chapter, add it to AO3, manually make it chapter 1 and backdate it

Essentially, my Dustin/Reader story starts at Point D in the timeline, then jumps back to Point C for context, and Point A and B are never specified, so even though I give context clues about the background events that led up to their first IRL meeting, it's never explicitly explained

I've literally been writing fiction for over a decade and I only now realized I have this issue in which I sometimes become so enamoured with a particular sentence as the opener of a story that the story gets sacrificed to my stylistic choice

The premise is Reader befriends Dustin via a pen pal service, and that leads to the first scene, which is their first IRL meeting..unfortunately, it means the story has to play "catch up" and explain the context to the reader so they're distracted & confused rather than focusing on the actual story