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“Stars should not be seen alone. That’s why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.”

— Augusten Burroughs

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I've had this little idea in my head for a while now, so I decided to sit down and plot it out.

Disclaimer: This isn't meant to be some sort of One-Worksheet-Fits-All situation. This is meant to be a visual representation of some type of story planning you could be doing in order to develop a plot!

Lay down groundwork! (Backstory integral to the beginning of your story.) Build hinges. (Events that hinge on other events and fall down like dominoes) Suspend structures. (Withhold just enough information to make the reader curious, and keep them guessing.)

And hey, is this helps... maybe sit down and write a story! :)

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Downloaded a few episodes of drama to watch on the way. Never imagined we'd actually talk pretty much 9 out of the 10-hour journey.

It was fun catching up :)

I always assume the train will be so boring and I bring seven things to do but then I’m entranced by the wonderful window the entire time

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Ah, how do I say this. Found this fic right around the time the "Now or Never" clip somehow kept replaying in my mind. And this definitely does not disappoint. The need for fluff was satisfied :)

he fell first, and he fell harder

summary. jeong jaehyun really loves basketball. but also, he’s terribly in love with his childhood best friend of seventeen years, you.

pairing. basketball captain! jaehyun x fem! childhood best friend reader

genre. basketball captain! au, college! au, childhood best friends-to-lovers! au, slow burn, mutual pining, angst with fluff

word count. 18,746

warnings/tags. cursing, drinking, a few angsty moments of quarrelling :(, mentions of food, dual-pov, many many taylor swift references (especially from the lover album!!!) bc i am insane, a few of the other nct members make a cameo in this!

(long) a/n. did i expect the word count? no. i did not… but i’ll never let the jaehyun bolton agenda die down, so i’m immortalising it through my writing. i also don’t know how i’m able to churn out this many words but have trouble coming up with the title… but i thought it would be fitting! (my google doc title is literally “jaehyun bolton” …) this has bits and pieces of high school musical, the summer i turned pretty, and dear. m in it <3 don’t usually capitalise my works because it’s a bit of a hassle (i write on both mobile and laptop) but since this is a long fic i tried capitalising it… hopefully there aren’t many errors lol. sorry for the long a/n but as always i hope you enjoy this~ pls lmk ur thoughts and if i missed out any warnings!!

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“You coming to my game tomorrow?” Jaehyun asked, eyes not leaving his screen. 

Clad in a black hoodie, the Computer Science major had been working on his assignment for the past three hours. Cigarettes After Sex record on loop, it’s occasionally accompanied by his rapid, and sometimes, aggressive keyboard typing. Mumbles of apology follow after he thinks he’s being too disruptive, but you don’t pay any mind to it. 

You were on Jaehyun’s bed, begrudgingly watching your lecture that you’d missed on Monday because you slept through your alarm that morning. Alarms, to be exact. Your eyelids already felt heavy from listening to your professor drone on about how rain is formed. No offence to him, but you were simply taking this Geography module to clear your general education credits.

Jaehyun’s voice shook you awake, even if it’s just by a little bit. Taking out one of your earbuds even though you’d already paused the video, you looked through the mental image of your calendar that you have in your head to see if you had anything planned for the next day, but nothing came to mind.

“Probably,” you shrugged. 

You’ve never been one to miss any of his games, so you most likely cleared your schedule for it already. Besides, it’s not like you could bring yourself to not watch his games in the first place, especially not when your childhood best friend slash neighbour is the star player of the school. Not forgetting that he’s also the captain of the basketball team who has led them to victory after victory through the years.  

Being in his life for more than a decade, you wanted nothing more than to be a part of every chapter of Jaehyun’s life, just as how he’s been there for yours.

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Found this piece through a recommendation thread on AFF.

I'll just say that I love this! Such a good read to end a long working day 🥰

FIVE PLUS ONE | JAEHYUN

SYNOPSIS. Five times world-renowned chef Jeong Jaehyun tried to end your journey to be a chef  because you weren’t ‘qualified enough to be a chef’ and that one time you proved him wrong. 

—or: your villain story quite literally 

PAIRING. jaehyun x fem!reader

GENRE. fluff | angst | enemies to lovers!au | chef!jaehyun | aspiring chef!reader

WORD COUNT. 28.8k+ words (is this my new record? omg)

author’s note. i posted a long time ago about how i must write a chef!jae fic and now, here she is. i’m so sorry for such a long wait (and all those postponements oop) but i’m glad that she’s finally done and posted for you to enjoy reading! i hope you enjoy this fic as much as i enjoyed writing it :-) also pls reading the author’s note at the end for all my thoughts about writing this fic! happy reading~

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What am I doing with my life

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Tell me how to feel when even the burn in my lungs can no longer fill the void

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Shine

Some people are meant to do extraordinary things.

Some just... don't

If everything is extraordinary, then everything is ordinary

Sometimes it almost confuses me that my life is not more exciting, but at least it serves a purpose. So those that shines can look brighter

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Remember that life is not a race to complete a checklist. People may even have different checklists

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But even when my world fade away, will you remember me?

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When day slowly turns into night

and bygone memories creeps back

You start to question whether it was feeling or logic speaking

or is it the nostalgia embellishing what could have been?

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Okay. I don’t know if anyone’s gonna care. But at least I want to stop lying to myself. 

This year is the year I turn 25. It being a quarter century and the square of 5 makes me feel like it should be a special year (even though it must be spent during the pandemic). And so I thought to write everyday, considering the fact that I’ve been wanting to write again after so long (i.e. stopped pretty much completely when I started working full time last year). 

But I simply can’t keep up. 

I’ve been having lots of overtime and the resulting pieces are not up to my expectations. And so, the 365 days of writing came to a stop. 

However, that does not mean I am no longer writing anything this year. I am hoping to post old WIPs so they can finally see the light. That is, instead of forcing myself to churn out uninspiring things. 

And with that, the next post should be titled “Let’s go see the stars”. The first few paragraphs were written last year and it’s just been collecting dust since then. But I resolve to put it out, hopefully, this month!

Updates will be irregular but they will certainly be there. See you when I see you!

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Forever Young

As you grow older you realise that 

your firsts

the hard times

the beauty of your youth

are ones that stay in your mind. 

Body may grow older, but you are forever young

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One More Chance

“Can’t we at least be friends again?” he tried to shout over the harsh pitter-patter of the rain. 

“Are you asking for one more chance?”

“Well, I’m hoping we can start over”

“Good bye” 

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Falling

Is this why it’s called falling in love?

May potentially hurt

No guarantee to survive the aftermath

So difficult to get back up from a failed one.

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Sofa

Felt so many things the past two weeks I’ve been MIA here. I stressed over work and the future. I laughed while catching up with friends. I cried listening to this song: a cover of Sofa by Day6. Here’s probably why.

In around 3 months, the division I’m currently working at will be gone. So, job security wise, I’m definitely not in the green zone. And with that, every additional responsibility given to me almost feels like an honour to receive. It feels like I have higher chance to stay. At the same time, I feel like I’m lacking. I overthink each message my supervisor sent. Meanwhile, job opportunities browses do not show much of a hope for better future. 

I felt lost. 

The song said “There’s no shame in being lost”. 

Hence the tears. 

It was truly comforting to know that a lot of people also feel similarly. Knowing that it’s normal to feel this way actually made me feel a lot better. 

Then I met a few friends yesterday. It almost felt like they have their shit together, their life figured out. They know what they want, and even still have the capacity to throw out one or two advices. 

I felt small. 

But there’s no shame in being lost!

So now I can take the meet-up as a happy catch-up with old friends, an accidental (but very useful) information gathering, and weekly dose of proper human interaction during this very weird period. 

If anyone happens to come across this post. Please also remember, you are not alone. It is okay to feel lost. 

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45.7 cm

Friends to lovers AU

One of them comes back from studying abroad for 4 years (should I consider making NCT jaehyun the character just so i can make the reference? #totallyseriouslyconsidering )

First catch-up they put arms around each other like the best friends they are. 

Now that they are older, spent some time away from each other, there are things that are bound to change (gotta expand more about this)

By the end, they would cross the line from being just friends to lovers. 

(May consider wrapping up the story with a kiss because that’s what the song is insinuating)