Aww thank you! I love orange color palettes hehe

1) the biggest challenge will undoubtedly be outlining! It's the part I'm stuck on now hahaha. First of all, I have to reread the 200k we wrote 2-3 years ago to refamiliarize myself with the world....... my brilliant friend Blue is working on a bound copy of HAW, and I'll be reading over the draft as a way to kill two birds with one stone! On top of that, there are all the other struggles that come with fic outlining... especially a fic with five POVs to keep track of! It takes a lot of color coding! The original HAW outline was 20k (excessive for sure, but I have a bad memory and need everything written down), so hopefully it won't be that long? 😅 I really have to think about where the characters would be 5+ years from the original story, and as much as I would love for them to be Happy Forever, I also need to give them conflicts! It would be a disservice to HAW, such a theme- and side conflict-heavy fic, to not include lots of little trials for them to overcome
2) A yeonkai longfic!!!!! omg!!!!!! There are two strategies to use to reassure myself, as someone who has a fic with 800 kudos and many more with less than 200, or even less than 100..... the first is that with a rarepair, you are absolutely 100% writing the fic that someone else badly wants to see in the world! With fewer fics to choose from in rarepair tags, you're absolutely going to make someone's day. Writing and outlining and editing can take hundreds of hours, and sometimes it's hard to envision the power a comment has through a screen, but making a real difference in the tags and filling that niche is a big motivator for me personally! Writing you're proud of always deserves to see the light of day. The other strategy... when you're posting rarepair fics that are constantly overshadowed, it's kind of like exposure therapy? You end up naturally growing a thick skin 😭 some of the first fics I posted for TXT were for Collateral Damage, my series of Star Seekers oneshots, which I knew wouldn't receive much attention... so I went in with low expectations, and wrote them 100% for my own validation (I really wanted at least one fic in every ship tag). That helped me confront my worries of posting vulnerable art only to be met with silence gfghjkhgfhjghj there are definitely still moments I feel insecure over posting rarepairs, including with my current taebin longfic, but I'm too proud of what I'm creating to quit. Having a chapter buffer also helps! If I'm struggling with motivation, there's something to edit and post in the meantime

Good luck my friend!!! It's always a pleasure to chat with other yeonkaists :D