About Finishing Steeplechase

[ninthfeather]

 Anonymous said: Is steeplechase getting near its end? If yes, do you plan to write more for this series or...? Just curious.

Steeplechase is in its final arc.  This story is about Kaito bringing Hakuba home.  Granted, it’s also about a lot of other things, and I do plan to resolve as many of the emotional arcs, side plots, etc. as I can, but that was always the main point of this story.  Granted, getting Hakuba home means more than getting him there physically; it involves convincing him that this is home.   The story has quite a few chapters left in it still–there’s a lot of conversations left to be had in the wake of Hakuba’s return, and I’m not planning to rush through them.  Also I made promises to miladyRanger about the epilogue, and those date back to 2014 or possibly early 2015.   So, given my current posting speed, making firm predictions on whether the story will end this year might be pushing it.  But it won’t still be going this time next year.

 

I’m not going to write another chaptered fic for this verse, or at least, I don’t have plans to do so at the moment.  When I finish Steeplechase, I’d like to take a bit of a break and catch up on ficcing for some of the other fandoms I’ve been neglecting in favor of this fic, and possibly even poke at some original projects again.  But when I come back, I have pretty fleshed-out plans for oneshots set in this ‘verse, and I’d very much like to write them.  While putting together background for this fic, miladyRanger and I wrote some backstory that didn’t really have a place in the fic–adding it would’ve been intrusive and unnecessary, so I left it out.  Also, it would just be fun to write some lower-pressure scenarios with these versions of the characters, as opposed to what I’ve been doing with Steeplechase.  There’s a lot I like about the character relationships I’ve set up in this verse and a lot I’d like to be able to explore with them.  So yeah, I’ll probably write in this verse after this, but it might not be on this scale.

 

…Frankly, if I write on this scale again, next time I might want it to be original fiction.  I really enjoyed this, and I’m so glad everyone else has too, but I can’t emphasize how much the length was not planned.

Originally posted 9/18/2017