#missing zorobin hours

[real-jaune-isms]

2, 5, 10, 21

2. Every other month, I’ll reread my main fic from start to end to make sure I’m still in the right headspace to write the newest chapter. The ZoRobin ficlet anthology I will sometimes if I want a dopamine boost, and I read through all my fic chapters once I publish them to make sure I didn’t miss any typos or gaps in info I’d wanted to include.

5. On several occasions I’ve thought of doing a Luffy x Uta romance fic, but I could never settle on the setting and circumstances, and part of me wanted to make it smutty, but aroace Luffy is so widely accepted I don’t know if I could get away with it. So it’s just been left on the cutting room floor. Aside from that, there’s been some ZoRobin ficlets that I had the beginnings of ideas for and never ironed out to proper narratives.

10. My ZoReiju fic got more attention and positive reception than I ever imagined, because before I started it NOBODY had done fics for that pairing so I figured I was playing for an audience of one. I’m very grateful, but a little amazed.

21. As of yet, no. I’ve had ways I wanted a chapter to go, and then once I started that portion realized I couldn’t make it work and tried something else, but laboring for hours only to delete it? No I wouldn’t say so.

These were fun, thank you so much!

#asks for fanfic writers

[sketcher1994]

Long story short...

...I’m not gonna make any promises. I’ve been working a lot, sleeping for a few hours between shifts, which constantly change. I also find myself missing people that I chatted to a lot before I basically vanished and I was a bit surprised when I re-emerged last time to find that so many people had vanished too for various reasons. I’ve had so little time for writing, when I try to write something, I find that it doesn’t sound like me, or at least my writing. I tried to write another chapter for His Brother’s Girlfriend’s Neighbour, but it sounded so disjointed and factual, no feeling, I deleted my attempt. I have 1 (maybe 2) chapters left to write for Becoming Purav, but I’m not sure if my writing is up to it (a scary thought for me, not being able to finish my baby that became “our baby”). I can’t remember the last time I wrote a Zorobin, but I do have a vague plan for one saved as a note on my phone.

It’s still just me and my cat, staying at my parents’ and working my butt off. I still just have 2 nephews and 1 grandparent and I still have the same job. The job just got more complicated with more hours.

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[sketcher1994]

Writers’ Questions!

I was tagged by @whereisthefood123 & @aya-eisen ! Thank you!

1.      How many works in progress do you currently have?

Not sure you want to know... Let’s see... I’m re-writing Redeeming Lucy (not changing much, just trying to do a better job of it...)... For Fairy Tail, I’m working on a Bounty Hunter Gajeel multi-chapter fanfic, a one-shot of Levy after Gajeel dying if something had gone differently in the manga (won’t go into detail here), a Levy as a vampire and Gajeel as a half-vampire that doesn’t know about his origins multi-chapter fanfic, His Brother’s Girlfriend’s Neighbour (although I may finally have come up with the next chapter I need to write... There has been months’ of thought on this subject), a Gajevy that I can only barely remember starting (can’t remember what it’s about but apparently I last updated it 30/01/15...oops? Need to re-read this and find out why I stopped...), a Gajevy called One Night Stands... I think I decided Levy was out of character and couldn’t seem to get her back into character... This fanfic has crossed my mind several times and I actually want to try to write it again. Then there’s Part 3 of Parole (Incinerate). There’s also “Sogra”, which is also shelved for the moment, not sure where to go with that... Also a Gajevy (points to anyone who can read the title and realise the setting). On The Hunt. That took a twist and I was torn between two paths and then the severe writer’s block got in the way and nothing could be continued... Ooooh, just come across one I remember starting that doesn’t have a name... I wonder why I didn’t continue it?? I’ll have to re-read it! I’d forgotten about that one... Bother. Ah-hah!! Just came across one that was supposed to be funny... I got sidetracked with His Brother’s Girlfriend’s Neighbour, but it was the inspiration for the first scene of Life on Repeat. And Mountains to Dust: Becoming Purav. As everyone knows. I have one/two chapters left to write and I’m plagued with ideas for a third in the series but the last chapters for BP are really ‘important’ and I’m intimidated by them...and I don’t have anyone to bounce ideas off anymore...

-          13 for Fairy Tail (Gajevy)... Oops?

-          3 for One Piece (Zorobin). I deleted Life of the First Mate... or that would have been 4.

 2.      Do you/would you write fanfiction?

Yes and no? When I’m not suffering from Writer’s Block and have been struck by a sudden flash of inspiration. Or the inspiration has been nagging me and I can’t sleep (or focus). So for 3-5 days a year, yes. I may as well say no... Sorry, guys. One of you actually had me crying about 20min before I started answering this. You’re so lovely! Thank you! I don’t deserve that level of praise!! Just look at the above list for proof!! *sigh*

 3.       Do you prefer paper books or ebooks?

Paper book. Yip, and I’d go so far as to say paperback over hardback. You can store more paperbacks on a shelf than hardbacks. I’ve had to stop buying books because I’ve ran out of shelf space... I REALLY need to get my own house. I plan to line my walls with bookcases. I don’t have that many books yet. I would have if I had all the books I have on my Kindle in paperback. I really appreciate the transportableness of eBooks, but, in my opinion, you just can’t beat a good old paperback! And I take good care of mine, even when I’m putting it in my handbag! They tend to look like they’ve not been opened even after I’ve read them two or three times...?

 4.      When did you start writing?

Well, I liked writing in Primary School (for 5-12 year olds), but I don’t know how old I was? I was that concerned about the cost of notebooks and the idea of someone discovering that I’d actually written something (I had a brother who would torture me for anything he could think of) that I didn’t really start writing until I was in university? I kept all my stories in my head and they’d be constantly playing like a TV screen in my mind, but the stories kept becoming increasingly dark and twisted the more they played? It would also start on a sort of “First Generation”, then onto the next, before ending up onto the grandkids of the first characters and the first characters would be divorced/dead/hate each other... Yeah, this is where Life of the First Mate came from and why I deleted it. Anyway, the first proper thing I wrote was From Amongst the Rafters, which for some unknown reason I still get notifications about people following it? I’m not complaining (I’m very flattered, thank you!), but it is pretty confusing since it’s a good few years old now and marked complete and has been for years? But I guess I am working on Redeeming Lucy again? *shrugs*

 5.       Do you have someone you trust that you share your work with?

I used to and I really miss them both... I really hope they’re ok, wherever they are right now and that everything is actually pretty good in their lives right now.

 6.      Where is your favourite place to write?

Anywhere I can get comfy without the threat of someone looking over my shoulder! I once started writing this fanfic in a lecture theatre (I was waiting for the lecture to start) and I just couldn’t concentrate because I was so aware that there was someone behind me. It was actually a request I’d received, but to make matters worse (as I’m sure you know, I have really bad anxiety issues so this was hard enough before this point) it was something I really didn’t like the idea of. I don’t like cheating. Try writing smut that involves cheating...while sitting in a lecture theatre surrounded by people you don’t know...and knowing that at least one person can read everything you are writing, not that they’d have even noticed I was writing a cheating-smutty-fanfic... DO NOT DO THAT TO YOURSELF!! IT IS A BAD IDEA!! Unless they just happen to also be a fanfic writer and understand what you’re writing... I honestly still hope that they were, but I doubt they were!

 7.      Favourite childhood book?

Still the same answer – Tiger Tiger (but I absolutely LOVE The Velveteen Rabbit!! We have this fancy version (it has a cardboard slip cover!!!) on the bookcase in the living room... I used to love when my mother read it to me – this was a rare event). I do tend to love a good book that’s set in the past but not actually non-fiction? I tend to get bored with more modern books...? Or I’ll get irritated with the main character. And want to put the book down (I won’t, I have to finish it, even if I despise the main character).

 8.      Writing for fun or publication?

Fun. It doesn’t matter if someone tells me I should try to get something published (a IRL friend told me to see about MtD), I will never think my work is good enough. Too much stress and negative reviews always hit me hard when it’s “just fanfiction”, so imagine how much hate my anxiety tells me my “awful writing” would get if it was published somewhere that wasn’t the usual site(s)?

 9.      Pen and paper or computer?

Computer. I can’t spell (you should see how many spelling mistakes I made writing this...) and I also struggle to get what’s in my head onto paper, so I can spend half an hour on one sentence that just does not say what I want it to. The computer helps me with spelling and I spend a lot less time rubbing out (and I can’t rub through the page if it’s on the computer... You have no idea how many times I’ve rubbed out so much that I’ve actually worn through the paper trying to get one sentence to tell the reader what I want it to...).

 10.      Have you ever taken any writing classes?

Nope. I had a wonderful BETA that kept telling me off for mistakes, so I’ve improved a lot but I’ve never taken an actual class?

 11.      What inspires you to write?

Mostly music. Sometimes what I’ve been reading. Today, I ended up putting Don’t Fear the Reaper on repeat while I was editing Don’t Fear because I wanted to try to make sure I had all the images that had been flying through my head over the last month correct. I have no idea how many times I’ve listened to it today, but my iTunes probably thinks I’m obsessed with it...

 Now, I’m not actually going to tag anyone? To be honest, in the ones that I was tagged in, I was so excited to see certain names – I didn’t even know they were still around! It honestly makes me so happy! But, yeah, I don’t know who’s still around... so feel free to do it and tag me (then I know you’re still around and I’ll sit here beaming like an idiot but not have the courage to say hi and likely freak out if you say hi...)!

#Sketcherisramblingagain #Writers Questions