The Great Catsby

 First update of the new year! I am not the sort of author who writes things ahead of time normally, but this is the first fic where I wanted to try to both outline it and have at least some chapters done ahead of time as a buffer. To that end I've been pretty successful -- the chapter I just posted was written over the summer, and I promised I wouldn't post it until I wrote another chapter. So right now I have up to 18 completed and am in the middle of writing chapter 19.

These (and the chapter I just posted) were really hard to write and I'll probably try to let the later ones sit so I can see if they're right or not. The chapter I most recently posted was hard to write mostly because it was a transition and is setting up the big thing that happens in the next few chapters. The next chapter will reveal Dazai and Chuuya's first mission with the Agency...and then there's the actual mission. I'm mostly done writing that and it had a lot less physical combat than I expected...but I've always been better at writing dialogue. Past me wrote out what it was and present me had to try to figure out what I meant. 

Going back over the most recent chapter and the one after it reminded me the main difference between Gifted and only human, which I was kind of forgetting, which is that Dazai is already in the Agency and is guiding Chuuya in one, and is on equal footing with Chuuya and trying to find his way in life in the other. Chuuya is in a similar position in both, and I think in getting ready to write up the next few chapters I was focusing too much on him. Which is weird, because the chapter I wrote of Gifted that hasn't been posted yet focused on Dazai...

I think I'll still try to finish only human first before moving forward with Gifted, even though it was started later, because I'm almost to the end of it. Might as well make the final push and reach my goal of finishing it before May without allowing myself to lose track of time (because that is also something that's happened and is why I have long gaps between some updates.) 

I also might change the title so that "only human" is capitalized because writing about it now, the lack of capitalization confuses me. I'm only realizing this now because I've been writing more about it in the new year, and it's bothering me.