Burnished Gold Trivia - a thread

So basically I'll be ranting about my writing process and story trivia I guess?

Also SPOILER ALERT there will be a lot of them so if you haven't read/are still reading the fic, bookmark this for later because I don't want it to be spoiled🥺
I turned off replies to keep the thread from breaking so feel free to qrt anything you want! I'm just randomly saying things off the top of my head and I'll keep adding if I remember anything later.
1. Firstly I want to mention, the setting for this fic was inspired by the Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard. I got the idea for different coloured blood from that. There are reds and silvers, but I didn't want to copy the same thing so I made it gold and silver instead. +
I wanted to make Taehyung a gold and Jeongguk a silver, but that idea was in the backburner because I didn't have anything more than that. No plot, no exciting premise. I was desperate to write for in bloom but there was literally no prompt that immediately called out to me. +
I knew nothing about the sentinel/guide trope and I skipped over the prompt so many times but in the end, I considered it and I remembered this premise and I decided to combine them. I did research about the sentinelverse and then the plot started taking place, and I finally+
came up with a solid plot. I was running out of time so I literally had to come up with the entire plot in a single day??? I made so many notes and finally came up with a satisfactory plot and finally decided to go through with it
( I sound like a grandma telling my grandkids a story jdjdjdj I apologize for that) anyways I'll try to keep the thread less story-like and more informative
also I want to mention that the concept of different blood was the only thing I took from the book. The plot, the worlbuidlng, thee characters, everything was literally my own.
okay now I'm just gonna spew random facts. The history of the world was inspired by the pandemic, obviously. I was cooped up in my house, quarantined for a month, and every day I watched the news, the death toll rising around the world. And I thought, if this pandemic was an +
incurable one, and people kept dying, then the human race would be led to extinction?? The idea stayed in my head, and since I'd already claimed the prompt it automatically went there, and I came up with an entire history lol. I envisioned the capital and rhyvelis to be in korea+
but maybe around the year 3000? so the world has changed, the climate is hotter, people went back to nature etc.etc. I put us redbloods into the mix, but made us extinct HAHAHA
3) The aurum council ofc got its name from the Latin name for gold, and rhyvelis was supposed to be argent-something. But I thought and thought but nothing fit, and I just rolled off random syllables on my tongue until I came up with rhyvelis, which I liked, and it stuck!
4). Jeongguk's mother's name, eunha, literally means 'silver' in korean
5). When I planned the story, I thought it would be around 70k. The original first draft was 82k, which I finished writing in 4 weeks exactly, 20k per week. I'm a planner, I always set down my entire plot before I start writing, and I had a 2 month deadline to catch too.
6). The first draft had 5 chapters, and the epilogue was included in the last chapter. And surprise! Kim Hanjae was not alive in the original story 😶
He was supposed to leave the journal as his legacy, and stayed dead in the first draft jdjdj and for this, i have to thank louise. Ever since she started beta-ing she was CONVINCED hanjae was alive. she keep mentioning it again and again, and then we got not one but TWO +
extensions, and I got more time! and I said well fvck the original I have been given more time this is an amazing plot twist, so I rewrote the entire latter half. ( Meaning everything after Jeongguk woke up after his coma was deleted and rewritten)
I went back to chapter 3 and added the man in the cottage, and chapter 5, which was 20k, became around 55k, which then got divided into chapter 7,8,9 and the epilogue.
to clear any confusion, I said the original draft was 82k, but editing is a huge part of my writing process, and I went back to the beginning and edited and I added around 5k to every single chapter. ( bar ch 5, which I already explained) for me, the first draft is like a +
skeleton, and editing is like filling in the flesh. so the 82k became 110k after editing, and the finally 30k was completely newly written at the end after the plot changed with hanjae
7). Seokjin had a few more scenes in the first draft. One in ch 1, after Taehyung disappeared, another one where he met beomgyu in ch 5 ( which was summarized) and a final scene where namjin made up in the last ch. But since this is a taekook fic, I got scared that people might+
come at me for having so many non tk scenes so I cut them all off except for the ones essential to the plot. (I'm sorry seokjinnie I love you those scenes will be in my heart forever) .
8), in ch 7, Namjin actually fought, hence why I needed a makeup scene in the final ch. But when editing I realized how immature that was and rewrote that scene too, and made them make up then and there
9). the painting scene, the almost-kiss-in-the-garden scene, the bathtub scene and everything after that only came to be because of the extension. I was running out of time so the balcony scene transitioned into the smut scene and the fic ended there. But the extra time gave me+
a breather and I added all the new scenes in the middle, and added the last few scenes. Which made me so much happier, because they are some of my favourites, and I would have been really sad if I didn't include them. So say thank you in bloom for the extension!
10) I don't think anyone noticed this, but Taehyung's birthday and Jeongguk's 'rebirth' (from the phoenix) are on the same day! I wanted to make them share it 🥺 Seokjin is the one who says Taehyung's birthday was 'yesterday' which was the same day guk woke up.
11) in the first draft, beomgyu was supposed to come to rhyvelis, sent by hoseok's mom, to ask for help. It was a bit far fetched but I wrote too much in too little time and my brain was literally MUSH ( I'm no taecheeks I struggled SO MUCH) I couldn't think of anything better.+
But after I decided to throw kim hanjae in again, i deleted, what I had written, removed beomgyu and wrote the fic as it is now.
12) another small detail, but I put a great deal into symbolism so; the four golds, tae hobi, jin and joon all had bright, unnaturally coloured hair. symbolic of their 'privileged' nature, they didn't have to worry about food or money, so they could bother about appearance. +
jimin, yoongi and jeongguk all had natural black hair, showing they were only concerned about essential needs.
13) I put a great deal of thought into characterization. I wanted to show the bond, not between just taekook but all seven of them. I mirrored a lot of things from real life, yoonmin being protective of guk and namseokjin looking after taehyung, because they're the two youngest.
14) another thing was, I really wanted to show the side of platonic love as well as romantic love. I deviated from the trope here and made my own rules. I wanted to emphasize platonic soulamtes, and namseok were perfect to explore that.
and I wanted to stress the fact that taekook are together because they WANT to, not because of their bond, hence the conversation in the bath. (which miss sadia insisted on calling 'the pikachu bubble bath scene' because of the 'i choose you part' )
okay this thread got REALLY long so I think I should stop here, people seem to have lost interest now 😅. I got a question asking what happens if a gold and a silver had a kid together... which became the premise for the sequel.
okay end of thread lol if you read till the end, thank you for truly loving the story enough to read my silly rant, ily 🥺
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