Getting to know Lucycamui

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Interviews by Fans
Title: Getting to know Lucycamui
Interviewer: Sarabel
Interviewee: Lucycamui
Date(s): January 2018
Medium: online
Fandom(s): Yuri!!! on Ice
External Links: Getting to know Lucycamui, Archived version
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Getting to know Lucycamui is a 2018 interview with Lucycamui, a Yuri!!! on Ice fanfic writer.

She was interviewed by Sarabel from the Yuuri/Victor fanfic blog, viktuurificwriters.

Introduction

Lucycamui ( @lucycamui ) is one of the most decorated writers in the YOI fandom, and it’s no wonder she is for she has written many enjoyable fics.

Notable in Lucy’s writing is her ability to add humor to a fic without neglecting the more serious parts of the story. She gives proper attention to how she ties everything together so it won’t come out awkward and unrealistic. Even with her Siren AU, a collaboration she’s making with @crimson-chains , where every chapter is a ficlet, everything flows so well even when each chapter can stand on its own. Readers wouldn’t feel disconnected from her writing.

Excerpts

Lucy usually gets her ideas from personal experiences or observations. “Be my Sex Coach, Viktor!”, for example, is based on something that actually happened to a friend of hers, and Lucy was Phichit in that situation. Her friend didn’t get any sex homework, but her first date with the porn star did go wrong like Yuuri’s.

Although BMSCV’s opening is rather silly, Lucy makes it work, effectively pulling readers in. The fic is realistic in the way it shows how sex is not always hot and beautiful. Yuuri does a lot of mistakes that makes readers wanna facepalm, and yet people still read the fic because the true beauty of it lies in Yuuri learning how to be more confident with himself and to be more open with his desires.

Other times, Lucy comes up with an idea because it’s something she would like to read but can’t find anywhere. She could either lament the lack of it or try creating it herself. When she can’t stop thinking of a certain scene or line, the idea grows from there. It mostly begins in the middle of the story, but as Lucy plans her plot, she figures out how to get to that scene or line.

Like a Fairytale started because Lucy had this image of Phichit as a fairygodperson who kept making mistakes because he wasn’t properly trained yet in magic, which is why the spell expired at midnight. Lucy had to map out her idea to get there, writing three different opening scenes before settling on one.

When she sits down to write a chapter, she often writes it for one or two long sessions. She can’t handle writing in piecemeal because it feels like she’ll disrupt the tone or pacing she’s set.

In BMSCV, she worked on for about twenty-four hours straight on some chapters. BMSCV chapters are generally longer than her other fics, plus she had to pause in writing to research something, like finding the actual form a person needs to fill in when visiting the sexual health clinic in Detroit. Writing smut also takes more time for her.

Lucy may take short breaks to eat, drink, and stretch, but when she’s in the “I’m writing this until I’m finished” mindset, there is no stopping her. When she gets stuck, she talks to Cryingoverspilledvodka about the idea or vision she has, bouncing off ideas with her. “I think there are lots of chat logs between us that has one of us going, ‘I was thinking xxx but I am having trouble figuring out xxx,’” shares Lucy. “And then the next message, without the other even replying is, ‘OH! Wait! Never mind, maybe… Maybe I got it!!!’”

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