omg honestly no… like there weren’t any problems writing together it was lowkey a super seamless process i think mostly bc we weren’t really taking ourselves seriously and just having fun with it! honestly we didn’t even think anyone was gonna read it bc of the content of the fic SKCJEKDJD it was such a surprise to see so many people like it. we just had one big doc and one planning doc and we just went ham for a month together!!! i think the fact that we are such good friends def helped i don’t think i would have been able to do this with many other people i’m kind of a control freak and we both trust each other immensely when it comes to writing styles and hkvh characterization, plus the fact that we are both comfy w opposite povs helped too!!!

i came up w the plot line like in summer 2023 and i had started writing a few scenes (the very first scene of olts the haitham pov of hkvh’s first meeting was one i wrote over a year ago now) but stopped for some reason or the other. luma and i have been close friends since we met, and as our friendship anniversary approached i floated the idea of collabing on a fic together since atp we had thought about doing it a few times and had a few ideas but nothing ever rly progressed forward. but the deadline made it more concrete for sure!!! i had alr talked to luma abt the kidfic idea back in the summer so i suggested it as a possible idea and she was totally on board - i was like ok let’s gooo 30k fic and then bam. 158k. but sometimes it be like that. i think i spent about a month just planning the fic and i wrote about 30k of it while luma was finishing up her other projects, and then in march we both went ham and wrote the last ~120k together and then posted on our friendiversary!!!!! so yeah!!!

don’t be sorry at all omg i love talking about the olts writing process (and writing processes in general) bc it was such a fun time!! thank you for asking!!