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💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language

Ohhh I got this ask several times, so I can answer it in multiple parts! Err, I might ramble a little...

As a writer I come at everything from character. Plot stems from the character, and the world building also (mostly) spins out from the character.

This is why I can write 15k or 25k and not actually have a beginning, middle, or end. I get so caught up in the process of understanding how the character is inhabiting the world and figuring out what they want. What they need. It takes me so long to narrow things down and cut things out because I’m so far inside a character’s head.

Sometimes approach a story from a “what if x happens to Character A?” (I have a like two trope-y yennskier things I want to tackle this year that start with this question). But 7 or 8 times out of 10 I’m starting with what a character is feeling and doing and rolling around in the why. All my feelings start and end there. ❤️

✨What's a fic you've posted you wish you could breathe life into again and have people talking about it? (or simply a fic you wish got more credit)

Oh, I could probably just randomly pick any of my witcher stories at this point but maybe I’ll single out Learning Curve which on the surface is just porny cuddles and softness, but I spent a lot of time working through some TWN Yen thoughts about how she is coping from season 1 and 2 events. Her upbringing and relationship with Aretuza and Tissaia and how that impacts the way she fucks up with Ciri and what she wants to try to do and be better.

This Yen also has a magical disability which throws an emotional/psychological/logistical wrench into her plans about how to teach Ciri, too. Sure, Yen got her powers back from Voleth Meir, but what if there was still a physical/magical consequence for using up so much of her chaos in the first place? The wear and tear on her body can’t just go away, even if she can get her magic back.

I want to write more about Yen and magical disability and explore teacher/student dynamic with Ciri and when/if it can cross into a mother/daughter dynamic that I felt more acutely in the books and games.

💌share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited!

Ah!! Yes, okay. My puppetskier story Coin Operated Boy will feature Shani for a few scenes. It’s going to be sweet and endearing and funny. But!! Let me share with you the first meeting between Shani and Jaskier. This is not in the puppetskier story because I’m writing and publishing this in a very non-linear order but I want to share anyway cause I am EXCITED.

Some context: I’m casting a young Jessica Sula as Shani, and this Shani is going to be maybe a little genderqueer. And when Jaskier first meets Shani, he’s a little hungover and has been going through some things so he’s not at his best.

I’m enjoying writing Shani and Jaskier’s dynamic, mostly from a point of view where Shani actually doesn’t know who Jaskier is as a performer or professor because she’s been too busy doing her own thing. Jaskier hasn’t always been around for her to meet first or second-hand. The intergenerational friendship is a big deal to me to explore and tease, which is largely a contrast and parallel for when Jaskier was first setting out on his adventures with a monster slayer.

Bedside Manner Shani & Jaskier warning for implied alcohol abuse ~1800w

A gentle boot kicked Jaskier awake. Gulls. Clop of hooves. Distant yelling and chatter. He didn’t remember falling asleep down near the harbor.

Stabbing pain gouged Jaskier behind his eyes. He refused to open them to see what kicked him. He tried rolling over, his chin knocking into the corner of something, and instead he folded his arm and turned the other way. Horseshit wafted in the air, mingling with the scents of fish and piss. Maybe he should get up after all.

The boot kicked him again, but not with the heavy intent of harm.

“Hey.”

Jaskier was cold and stiff and he pulled his sleeves down. Pulled himself away from the repeated kick. Gentle, but still annoying.

“What,” he muttered.

“Wake up.”

The voice was bossy, but warm. Jaskier’s stomach clenched in pain and he scrunched his face. Last night hadn’t gone as planned, judging from the aches in his body. He remembered making it to a cot at some point to sleep off the drinking game, but he was outside now. His mouth was sandpaper dry. Coppery-taste on the inside of his lip and cheek and the faint taste of semen in his mouth.

Why did morning exist and why was someone bothering him?

“No,” Jaskier said and pulled the collar of his coat up to protect him from the sea breeze. He kept his eyes shut and feet shuffled beside him. The creak of wood beside his ear was like an anvil being dropped on his head. “Fuck.”

Jaskier rubbed his face which did little good to improve his situation. He opened his eyes, had a fuck-all time clearing the gunk from his vision, and regretted the daylight immediately. He blocked out the sun with his hand and hazarded a glance upwards.

A child peered at him from the cart that Jaskier was leaning against. He squinted at the street urchin, bronze skin with large brown eyes and curly, cropped hair that seemed to be an unnatural shade of red. Cherubic. Precocious. Someone looking for opportunity.

“I don’t have anything worth stealing,” Jaskier said and thought about getting up and decided against it when the needles inside his head told him not to move.

“Got that right. Saw three fellas feeling you up before I came over. Lucky you still have your boots,” the boy said.

“My boots are shit,” Jaskier said.

“Which is why you still have ‘em, I guess,” the boy agreed.

Jaskier sighed and his head lolled back, closing his eyes, and trying to find the will get to his feet.

He felt an odd pressure on the top of his head and tried to look up but something rolled down the side of his face and into his lap. It was a piece of fruit.

“Bwuh?”

“Hungry?” the boy asked.

“Eh,” Jaskier said and wiped off the fruit with his sleeve. He looked up at the child. “Not so keen on taking a…pear? from a strange child on the street first thing in the morning.”

“It’s afternoon,” the boy said.

Jaskier looked around again and supposed that was true enough.

“You pass out here often?” the boy asked and Jaskier picked at the stem of the pear and shrugged.

“Here, there. I am a man of the city,” he said and turned the bruised pear around in his hand.

“Did you vomit before or after you passed out? Think that’s your piss or someone else’s?” the boy asked and looked over his shoulder at the cobblestones Jaskier had slept upon.

“What?” Jaskier asked and frowned, looking down at his trousers and the ground and his head jerked back up. He hadn’t been sick—or remembered being sick, but that was beside the point. The scratch of a pencil was loud in his ears, inciting a new round of pain. He knew the tell-tale scribbling when he heard it.

Jaskier kneaded his eye and leaned forward, bracing a hand on the wheel of the cart and dragged himself to his feet. He got himself a proper look at the boy who was less of a boy and more of a gangly adolescent wearing a well-fitted green tunic. Clean, well-fed. Maybe not a street urchin, but still looked like a child.

A wave of vertigo passed over Jaskier and he braced himself against the cart, watching the boy write something in his notebook. “What’re you writing?”

“Patient notes,” the boy said.

“What? Huh,” Jaskier said, his hands moving before his brain caught up, and he swiped the notebook from the kid’s lap. Name, age, weight, symptoms were left blank but the child had written down a brief physical description along with a few notes under medical history. He read: Patient has a likely history of alcohol abuse. Damage to his liver suspected. Inquire about family history??? The words swam in Jaskier’s vision. He really should go lie down after drinking some water.

“I’m a medical student,” the boy said. Jaskier squinted at him. He looked too young to be at the university.

“You look too young to be at the university,” he said.

The boy grabbed the notebook back and twirled the pencil around in his hand. “I’m almost fifteen. What are you, 10 stone?” he asked, looking Jaskier up and down.

“Right,” Jaskier said. “Good luck with that,” and turned around and began making his way back to the town. The more he moved, the more wafting smell of fried fish was going to make Jaskier hurl.

“I’m not done yet, hold on,” the boy said and Jaskier gave the urchin a sidelong glance and he held out his notebook again. “Do you have a headache?”

“Splitting,” Jaskier said.

“Nausea?” the boy asked.

“Sloshy,” Jaskier said.

“Sensitivity to light?”

“I am quite hungover, thank you so much for your concern,” Jaskier said and turned a corner and slipped the pear into the palm of a old woman sitting on a stoop.

“Ohhh, I do have something for that,” the boy said. Jaskier almost didn’t bother stopping but the hopeful note in the boy’s voice seeped through the nausea. The promise of relief was too much to ignore. He turned around and the boy had leaned against the side of the building and was digging through his shoulder bag. “9? 10 stone? 9 stone just to be safe,” the boy said.

Jaskier wandered back. “I don’t have any coin for any tinctures you have there.”

“I don’t need coin. I only need to finish my report after you take this,” the boy said. He muttered something to himself and held out a large glass bottle at Jaskier. “Drink that water first. All of it.”

“You’re kind of bossy for a kid,” Jaskier said and uncapped the bottle, giving it a wary sniff.

The boy shrugged and uncapped a light green vial and poured a little on his finger and gave it a lick, nodding at himself and then handed Jaskier the vial. “It’s mostly ginger,” the boy said.

“So why should I trust you? Especially if I’m not paying you for this little remedy here.”

“I get extra credit for helping the stupid and poor,” the boy said. Jaskier frowned. The fucking nerve of the kid. Jaskier has now upgraded him from child to nuisance kid.

“Some bedside manners you have there,” Jaskier said.

“We haven’t covered that unit yet,” the nuisance kid said.

“Ah, well then,” Jaskier said. “To your education,” he said and raised the vial in a toast and tipped it back. It tasted…green.

He frowned and dropped the vial in the boy’s open shoulder bag. He tongued the roof of his mouth. “You make this yourself?” he asked. “What’s your name?”

“I’m Shani, and yes I made it. What good would it be if I had someone else do my homework for me? That’s how you’re supposed to learn, by doing it,” Shani said.

“If only all students were as sensible as you. Good job,” Jaskier said, and plucked the notebook from the bag and went flipped through the pages. Patients A through D were people Shani must be picking up from the streets, judging from the notes.

Jaskier helped himself to the pencil but Shani grabbed it and the notebook.“It’s not very nice to dig through somebody’s stuff.”

“Fair enough. What else do you need from me?” Jaskier said. His stomach rumbled loud enough that Shani’s eyes widened slightly. “Let’s keep moving away from the fried smells, eh?” he suggested and began walking, motion Shani to come along.

“Alright. What’s your name?” Shani said, flipping to a page in his notebook and following after Jaskier.

“Julian Alfred Panktraz,” he said. “P-A-N-K-R-A-T-Z,” he added helpfully.

“Age?”

“Timeless.”

Shani made a noise and Jaskier glanced over, watching him write down refuses to disclose age.

“Any other symptoms I should know about pertaining to your current health?” the nuisance kid asked.

“I’ve got an itch on my left toe that won’t go away—probably because of my boots. I seem to have lost most of my coin in a drinking game and I’m not quite sure whose company I enjoyed last night, but the memory problems are probably because of the drinking. I have trouble sleeping because I can’t seem to work out the third verse of my current ballad, but that’s more symptomatic of inherit heartbreak and loss of a decades-long friendship. Or maybe the heartache is from the terror seeping into Oxenfurt because of the war that’s happened—or the war that’s likely to come. No one seems to care how Oxenfurt has changed. The people aren’t like they were before. I don’t know why everybody else can’t see it. I mean, I know why…pretending something isn’t happening is easier than acknowledging the truth. I don’t know how to tell the story of what’s happening because… Fear isn’t easy to… to deal with when you’re alone,” he said, stymied by the next wave of nausea.

Shani paused his scribbling, clearly not knowing what to make of that.

Jaskier rubbed his face—his lips felt funny—and and shrugged. “You asked.”

“Oookay,” he said.

Shani closed his notebook and nodded at Jaskier. “I think I have everything I need. How do you feel?”

Jaskier patted himself down. Still nauseous, but not actively feeling like he was going to vomit. “Better. Top marks for you,” he said and Shani grinned.

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annabtg · 1 year

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💌 for the real asks;) pls xx

Hey there! ❤️❤️

💌share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited!

Well, it should be no surprise that the WIP I'm most excited about is Nom De Plume, my writer!James fic! Though, well - between reaching the dreaded halfway point and my inability to read/write properly for the past three weeks that has drained me of all creativity, I'm now thinking it's terrible and with no chance of redemption 😅

I will say, though, that I am really, really proud of the first chapter! I really like how I've worked James's present situation and predicament, his backstory and his relationship with Lily and feelings for her all together! I often think about posting that one just because I like it so much and hope that I'll get good enough feedback to get me in the zone again :p but I don't trust myself to do that!

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mischief-and-tea-by-the-sea · 1 year

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Let's get real fic writer asks: 🌈💞🤍🕯️

🌈is there a fic that you worked really fucking hard on that no one would ever know? maybe a scene/theme you struggled with?

A spirit with a vision (Is a dream with a mission), which is Part 2 of the Hemispheres series. Part 1 was what started the whole thing, a tiny little prompt one shot that turned into a series that isn't even close to finished. Part 3 is started, and some entitled little twats think that I've abandoned the fic because I haven't written anything on it in a while, but it's not abandoned - I just have two hands, one brain, one computer, and only so much time in the day to get all my writing done, and somedays/nights, that brain doesn't want to brain. Anyway, I digress a little. Part 2 took me a while to bang out because it's 8 chapters, which might not seem like a lot to some folks, but it's huge for me after only writing one shot fanfiction for ages. It was a whole birthing process out of love, and it was hard sometimes getting the tone right, the timing right, plotting out what I wanted to do with each chapter, wanting to drag it out just enough to build the emotional connection but not so long that it turned into something that outlived its worth (I could name a popular TV series right here that definitely did that, and I didn't want Hemispheres Part 2 to venture into that territory). I know it's gotten love, but sometimes I feel like I bled for this fic and the people flocking to other fics aren't even noticing it.

💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language

Characters and getting their voices right, the figurative language - I still struggle with that one sometimes because I want my writing to knock people on their asses, but I always feel like I fall short, and technical stuff usually kicks into the top important things because I've had that hammered into me since elementary school, though most of that comes pretty easy when I'm writing. Making sure that the stories are cohesive and that I don't forget a detail I've put in somewhere that I felt was important, that's pretty big, yeah, consistency. Plot for me works itself out along the way, and worldbuilding isn't something I like to delve into so much that I spend all my time on that as opposed to the actions and emotion and characters.

🤍what's one fic of yours you think people didn't "get"?

Oh that's easy. Gestation. Then again, not a lot of people have read Contrarywise and Trickster's Touch by Zohra Greenhalgh, so they have no clue what the hell that even is.

🕯️was there a fic that was really hard on you to write, or took you to a place you didn't think it would take you?

All the losing and the knowing. This is from the Angst Prompt series, and it's a Loki + Thor one-shot that has a lot of pain and sadness to it. A lot of the time I write Loki and Thor, particularly their problems, particularly Loki dealing with the brunt of Thor's bullying - no matter how much the two of them love each other - it always takes me to my own issues with my older brother (the one who's still alive). We love each other very much, but he pulls a lot of bullying bullshit that he doesn't, of course, see as bullying, so I channeled a lot of that angst between us into this little fic.

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nimata-beroya · 1 year

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Thank you for the asks, my darling @takadasaiko!! 💜💜

💫 what is your favorite kind of comment/feedback?

I love all comments, no matter how short or inarticulate they are. But the ones where the reader tells all the emotions my story provoke them are the best. If I get a "I hate you!" (affectionate) or "How dare you?!", they make my entire week.

🌈 is there a fic that you worked *really fucking hard on* that no one would ever know? maybe a scene/theme you struggled with?

Most are a struggle in a way or another, but I think multichapters in general are with what I struggle the most, to finish them. More often than not, I lose the initial drive to write and always there's a shinny new idea intruding in my head that hijacks my attention. And talking in specifics, Deconstructed Reality, I think it might be the one that I've banged my head on the desk the most for. The idea in my head was wonderful, the execution, not so much.

🦋 what are you most insecure about when you post a fic?

If people are going to like it. Years ago, I agonized over it; these days, I've learned to let it go. Sometimes the stories I think will be a success barely gets engagement, and the ones I think are garbage suddenly are fan favorites, so I go with the flow. Having the mentality have helped with my peace of mind. But that doesn't mean that bout of anxiety just before I hit the post button is no longer there. I don't think that it will go away ever.

🌻 what makes you want to give up on writing? what makes you keep going?

That what makes me want to give up on writing is frustration when I'm in the peak of writer's block. Sometimes I think of giving up, but I can't. I simply can't. I need writing as much as I need breathing. That's what makes me keep going. I might take breaks, but I always come back. It's been 20 years this year since I started writing, and I haven't stopped for more than a few months since then. It's what has kept me sane all these years, to be honest.

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aobawilliams · 5 days

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Hewwo!!! ✨💞💝💋 please!!!!

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✨What's a fic you've posted you wish you could breathe life into again and have people talking about it? (or simply a fic you wish got more credit)

Uuummm not so quite breath life into again but maybe Before the coffee gets cold - the sisters and the flowers have water like I knew they'd be fairly niche but they're still some of my favourites (even if I am aware they're far from perfect)

💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language

I think fairly equally the plot, characters and worldbuilding? Like they're the most important to me, but to different levels depending on the kind of story it is.

💝what is a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?

Hmmm very hard to tell 🤔 maybe what it takes to survive because I was expecting more Shinsou Defenders to get mad at it but I think they didn't find it (or there's less Shinsou mad fans than I thought) but beyond that I kind of knew what to expect from the fics I've posted.

💋when you leave comments on a fic, do you want to hear back from the writer?

Yes!!! I love when they answer my comments, that's such a nice feeling, that's how you make friends! (Not to say every author who answer your comment is a friend but you get what I mean, you gotta start somewhere)

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mcfiddlestan · 26 days

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🌈 is there a fic that you worked *really fucking hard on* that no one would ever know? maybe a scene/theme you struggled with?

I struggled the entire time trying to get through Ghosts That We Knew, the conclusion to the Picture Perfect series. I honestly hadn't planned to write a whole ass trilogy. Dark Side was the only one I had an idea for, and then halfway through, people wanted more. So I started planning the sequel, Come Back to Me. I'm not a fan of duologies. Trilogies just make more sense. So I started thinking up plots for the third entry. Where could Tony and Loki go after marrying and having two kids (one through a relationship, the other through a surrogate)? What kind of problems would they face? I had no idea, lol. I knew I wanted to insert another kid (Audrey Maria or "Audi"), but I also wanted to show that after 8 years and 3 kids, even the most in-love couples have bad times. I'd gotten about halfway through and just blanked on where to go. It didn't help I was having outside issues -- my RP partner (whom I was in love with) and I were having issues, I was stressing about school, and my dad was having health problems at the time. Oh, and I was struggling to RP too. But I was able to pull something out in the end. And everyone seemed to enjoy it. 😁

🎉how often do you celebrate completing & posting a work? how often do you give yourself the credit/validation that you seek from others when you post? (if you don’t, you should!)

Umm....I'm not sure what "celebrate" means?? I might give myself a mental high five? Say yay? LOL

🤍what’s one fic of yours you think people didn’t “get”?

It's not a fic that's completed, nor is it posted on AO3 anymore, but it's Fools Rush In. It was Frostiron set in the Matthew Perry/Salma Hayek movie. First time I was writing fem!Loki and even tho I only published like 4 or 5 chapters, I got complaints that Loki was "too feminist" and "obsessed with her dad's [Odin's] opinions about what a woman her age should be doing." To be clear, Loki was a 28yo grad student who'd been adopted by the Odinsons as a baby and at 13, chose to search for her birth parents who were teenagers when she was born. She was the youngest in the Odinson clan (Thor and Baldur being older) and the oldest in the Laufeyson family (Helblindi and Býleistr were much younger). And the only girl. So Odin certainly had a lot of opinions about her needing to be settled and married, not living with her bestie (Natasha) in an apartment in a big city.

This isn't the reason the fic is incomplete, tho! I removed it, along with four other fics, from AO3 and ff.net bc I'd reached a block on all of them and I felt bad just letting them sit there unfinished. I do hope to complete them someday. But we'll see. Here's a banner I made for it, when I still thought Olivia Wilde was a good choice for fem!Loki. I do not anymore.

And this one was made by a fan (@/tomhiddlesdarling), and as much as I loved it, I'm not big on Eva Green.

Thanks for asking!

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sugareey-makes-stuff · 5 months

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Hiya dear friend! Just getting back to this now, and you asked some excellent questions! Here ya go:

🌿 How does creating make you feel? I'm going to try to reign this answer in, but the short one is creating makes me feel like myself and I'm comfortable in my own skin. It's like breathing, and I try to work on a thing on a daily basis as my non-negotiable. 5 minutes of doing a thing every day adds up to make something super cool. I think I've been wired to tap into creativity since I was a kid and I've used creativity as a way to reach milestones but also as a coping mechanism during really difficult times. It's definitely something I can't turn off? And hey, creating lets me throw down ideas or stories in a more accessible or tangible way, and it's a form of self-expression I can always rely on since it hasn't failed me yet.

💝 What is a fic that got a different response than you were expecting? I'm going to mention 2 fics, since that's what happens when one writes for multiple fandoms! If we're talking about from HP, I think things will always back to Little did I know (Perciver, T, 2.5k), since that was the first official fic I published back in 2021 after a really long writing hiatus. I figured if I had 3 people read and liked it, that would be cool. But the amount of love the story got (and is stilling getting), and the fact it's one of my most bookmarked AND kudosed works to date is kind of insane. I'm grateful because I think that's the reason why I kept writing again. I could have easily bowed out, but I didn't! For Teen Wolf, The Walls Came Crashing Down (Sterek, T, 4.2k) was such a wild card. First time writing whump, and the recipient wanted lots of angst. I threw in lore, blood, and uhhh...for a short ficlet/one shot, I guess people really liked it? I honestly was unsure how I felt about the fic when I initially posted it since whump is not what I usually write. But it paid off because the person squeed, and honestly, it was refreshing to write something different from the usual, you know?

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genavere · 6 months

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💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language

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KILI!!

sdfhsdoihsdf, I JUST ANSWERED THIS INDEPTH!

I EVEN MENTIONED OUR FAVORITE DWARVES!

Anyway, I won't go into a FULL explanation like I did before, but characterization is the most important factor for me in a story. If you don't have characters who you actually care about, nothing else really matters.

How many romance novels have we dissed because the characters are just so...bad? You can't root for them if you don't care if they live beyond the next page or not.

But, if you want my full blown answer on this, you can check out this answer.

And don't worry, I literally posted it probably around the same time you sent the ask...so I will let it slide this time.

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kiwiana-writes · 8 months

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Great question, anon!

🎙️ which one of your fics would you like someone to make a pod-fic of?

Ooh this is such a good one! Because I am a podficcer, and I know how much work goes into any podfic, but in particular... I genuinely consider someone doing a multivoice of a long fic, like, the highest compliment an author can receive, having seen that process from the recording side. So, I'm gonna go with RWRB Much Ado actor AU as my answer to this one because that would be fun as fuck, but there's also some longer SC fics that would make delightful podfics.

This question is kinda complicated by the fact that I don't have blanket permission for transformative works for Reasons, but... you know. As I say in my AO3 profile, my inbox is always open 😉

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ectogeo-rebubbles · 10 months

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Hiiii, this ask from 9 days ago literally JUST showed up in my inbox, sorry that tunglr is such a webbed site -_-

🤲what do YOU get out of writing?

I get to simultaneously extract the insane daydreams from my head so they are no longer haunting me AND mercilessly inflict the very same upon others! >:3 What's not to love about that??? ^_^

💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language

Getting the characters right! I always really want the characterizations to ring true for people. Also the part where the characters finally kiss, or the italicized oh moment after a series of misunderstandings and oblviousnesses, or when their hands finally seek each other out, or the /comfort part of the hurt/comfort... that's the good stuff right there, that's the best part, THE ROMANCE, THE EMOTIONAL CATHARSIS. <3

🦋what are you most insecure about when you post a fic?

Dialogue, my beloathéd. <3 I def struggle a lot with voice and flow, as well as conveying tone in a more interesting way than dialogue tags such as "he said adjectively." And just the general paralyzing fear of making someone go "He would not fucking say that."

(For this ask game from last week lol)

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kuwdora · 1 year

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💞 & 🪄 for the ((REAL)) writer asks, please and thank you!

🪄 what is your post-writing/sharing aftercare? How do you take care of yourself or celebrate yourself when you've finished a fic?

Ahhhhh, this is a good question! I’m not always good about the celebration part, other than being able to let out a very relieved sigh about FINISHING SOMETHING.

I sort of decompress by taking a few days off from writing or thinking about writing. I like to pick up a new project that is in a different medium than what I just completed. After I finished the second'ish draft of the puppetskier story, I made a Yennefer fanvid in two days and wrote about the process. When I finished my Leshen Eskel story, I made a bunch of acrylic pour paintings.

But after that little re-set, it's rest, relax, catch up on my to-read fic tabs. Give my brain space to breathe before I try to get back to it.

💞 what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language

I wrote about this in a previous ask meme, but yeah my answer’s still mostly the same: character! Character leads to worldbuilding, which gets tangled up in all my prose feelings. It’s all very fun stuff for my brain to chew on while I’m working on a project.

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annabtg · 1 year

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🌍 What role do you think writers play in promoting social change? Do you feel like you contribute?

This one is from my additions when I reblogged : D

Thank you for allowing me one of your additions, I saw them and really liked them!

I think writers can play an important role in promoting social change! A writer can approach unusual or underrepresented subjects with a critical eye, promote them or condemn them, present them from all angles etc..

Personally, I think the main area where that appears in my writing is relationship dynamics. Obviously, since I mainly write romance, lol - but also it's a field where I have more experience to draw from. I view Jily as an idealized couple and I try to make sure that their relationship reads as good and healthy, and that whatever problems/shortcomings they have (either in their relationship or as individuals) are framed as such and addressed accordingly. Same when I write triangular dynamics with Sirius: I try to do it in a way that does not undermine his friendship with James, to make sure that everything is acknowledged and dealt with and explained, because to me they represent the epitome of friendship.

I often feel like I don't contribute much because I don't have enough experience/feel the need to delve into more sensitive subjects. But then I think about how much more misogynistic our society used to be not so long ago, how we now speak of toxic relationships (this was not a term I'd ever heard last time I was in one!) so I think healthy relationship representation even through the cishet lens does contribute, after all. :)

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For the writing asks:

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thanks for asking Kristen :)

💝what is a fic that got a different response than you were expecting? Answered here :)

🎈describe your style as a writer; is it fixed? does it change? Typically I write character driven stories, both when writing fic and writing original work. I like the human aspect of stories. Plot is obviously important, but to me the characters are the most fun to write and so I usually focus on them. How are they reacting to the plot? How has the plot changed them? Etc.

It does change depending on the story, but I'm primarily a character driven writer.

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mischief-and-tea-by-the-sea · 26 days

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🌿how does creating make you feel?

Alive. Powerful (in some ways). Really good about myself because I'm utilizing my imagination and creativity and all of those things I learned and worked toward in my writing classes/degree. I feel really good about myself when I'm writing - like I'm fulfilling part of what I'm in this particular life for, which is storytelling.

💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language

The characters are definitely the most important thing, I think. I like to get their voices right - their voice, mannerisms, their expressions, the specific tone and lilt of their voices. Everything else - the plot, the worldbuilding, the settings - those are secondary to the characters. The plot (or scenario, if it's not something huge that requires a full-out PLOT) drives the characters, but I mean, the plot can change from story to story, so it's really still mostly about the character. I'd be lying if I said the technical stuff wasn't a top important thing - I'm an English/writing major, and all those grammar and spelling and punctuation things are hella important to me. Those keep me honest and make me slow down and pay attention to how I'm writing. Figurative language fits in with that, too, though, because it's all the stuff I absorbed in trying to become a better writer, either by reading or by what my awesome professors passed along to me.

🕯️was there a fic that was really hard on you to write, or took you to a place you didn't think it would take you?

I just answered this one here!

💌share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited!

From Too weird to live, too rare to die, a prompt fic for @kleenexwoman that is a Justin Hammer/Loki (in canon, post-Endgame, everyone lives) bonkers fic:

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Still humping the American Dream

Tony closed his eyes, pinched the bridge of his nose between the thumb and index finger of his left hand. He took five deep breaths. Counted to twenty. Took five more. Counted to ten. He opened his eyes, the right one pale amber and couldn’t see nearly as well after his snap that ended the war with Thanos.

Justin still stood in front of him, hands defiantly on his hips, watching him.

“Anthony, I’m not here to just take up space and piss people off,” Justin said in that affable tone that still managed to dig underneath Tony’s skin and threaten to give him hives.

“And yet you do that so well, Justin,” Tony snarked as he felt the threat behind his eyes indicating a headache was imminent. He winced at the harshness of his tone, even with this pain in the ass he never expected to see again, much less share a living space with him.

Still, they’d made peace with Loki when he returned with Thor and Bruce to help them handle Thanos, and as it turned out, the guy wasn’t so bad in the long run. Tony liked his sass and sense of humor – always had – and he was pretty handy to have around.

Perhaps he could make himself get used to Justin Hammer, too. The guy wasn’t dumb, and since they’d released him early for good behavior and some other reason Tony had already forgotten for the moment, he’d dropped some of that pretentious peacocking that paralleled Tony’s own, which to be fair, he’d been happy to mostly give it up since it got tiresome after a while.

“Who? C’mon, Tony, I’m a big boy. I can take it. You can tell me who else I’m pissing off besides you,” Justin cajoled, his big grin stretching across the angles of his face. He’d been trying, but Justin wasn’t stupid; he knew he’d fucked up by trusting the wrong guy. Didn’t help that he kept trying to compete with a guy known for his genius and his ability to stare any problem in the face, punch it once with his intellect and creations, and boom, no more problem.

“Pepper for starters,” Tony blurted out, “though she doesn’t live here, and she’s kind of gotten over the idea of you being around Morgan since the kid actually likes you and trusts you.”

The expression on Justin’s face burst with a sappy fondness he used to reserve for his nephew alone, and he schooled it quickly when Tony had to dial back that initial Papa Bear concern that his kid was around several former villains these days. Respectfully, he tried to look serious, to take Tony’s comments seriously.

“To be fair, your kid’s awesome and one day’s gonna run circles around us to make the world a better place,” his words came out clear and heartfelt, and Justin thought he noticed that Papa Bear pride seeping into Tony’s features.

Note to self, praise that adorable little big-eyed bunny, and that’ll keep Stark from wanting to shoot your nuts off.

“Yeah well. That’s the truth of it. Oh and Nat’s still keeping an eye on you. Everyone else...you’re a somewhat clean slate with. Not like you’re the only former bad guy in residence,” Tony remarked and went back to what he’d been working on when Justin wandered into the kitchen, namely working on agility and firm (but not too firm) grip with his new arm by making and rolling out pie dough.

“You want some help?” Justin asked when it seemed like Tony was having trouble with one of the cookie cutters he was using to cut out star shapes (to go with the crescent moons). He held up both hands when Tony just tossed a glare his way. “No problem. Just...offerin’. As for Natasha, eh. Sam mentioned it took her a little bit to warm up to Loki, too, so I’ll just...be patient.”

Justin was in no rush to be liked, and he really didn’t expect to be. It wasn’t even that he was being a martyr or self-deprecating or living on his low self-esteem. The prison counselor got him to see where he’d fucked up way before he’d actually chained his personality to impressing the military and broke Anton Venko out of custody.

Piece of shit and his dumb fucking bird.

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