I don't know your sub-fandom well enough to inquire specifically, but I do feel your pain in a general sense - I'm currently in a similar place (on a pinch hit no less). I'm meditating on something that seems a little helpful
"What keeps a soap opera running for 20 or 30 years? (I know, stay with me here) Questions. What keeps a reader turning pages? Questions. It doesn't make sense, and isn't much fun, to create or retell w/o that ingredient. We grow to love stories because of their characters, events, and wisdom, but most of us read them through the first time to find answers to the questions the story raises."
in terms of thinking of what questions I want readers to be dying to have answered by the time fic is over.
"Otherwise, hey, maybe this'll finally let me move to a different story." Now reeeeeeaaaaaalllllly hoping I didn't just derail *ducks* *runs*
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"What keeps a soap opera running for 20 or 30 years? (I know, stay with me here) Questions. What keeps a reader turning pages? Questions. It doesn't make sense, and isn't much fun, to create or retell w/o that ingredient. We grow to love stories because of their characters, events, and wisdom, but most of us read them through the first time to find answers to the questions the story raises."
in terms of thinking of what questions I want readers to be dying to have answered by the time fic is over.
"Otherwise, hey, maybe this'll finally let me move to a different story."
Now reeeeeeaaaaaalllllly hoping I didn't just derail
*ducks* *runs*