#my passion is sociology and business operations... makes me sound like a boring tool huh

[utterlyinevitable]

2, 3, 11, 18 for the 40 Questions for Fic Writers (also, if these are too many, sorry!)

I’d answer the entire fic writer asks list if you sent it to me haha ♥

2. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?

Smut. Is smut a trope? 

All the scenes I want to write play out so well in my head but then I put it into text and it’s a CRINGE FEST 😫 

3. Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?

I mean.... probably not any body/gender swap ff tropes. Nor supernatural stuff. And absolutely nothing with horror/gore. I generally just write about things that happen in my life or those closest to me so there’s always a existential realism to my works (hopefully it comes across).

11. Is writing your passion or just a fun hobby?

It’s a hobby I wish I could monetize. If I got paid to sit here and write my silly little stories all day I’d be living a great life 😌 

Thank you, Corona, for reminding me how much I love to write. 

18. Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?

No 😂 @withbeautyandrage​ tried to get me to do/use a character outline template once and I gave up after inputting their middle name lmao

Thesaurus.com is basically what I use religiously when I remember. 

I do outline my fics though. The first thing I always write is the rough dialogue and then piece the imagery around it.   

40. Write an alternative ending to [insert fic title] (or just the summary of one).

Ohhhh I have so many alternate endings! Even when my fics are published they still live rent free in my mind and are editing themselves 😅 So I’ll just summarize the ones that definitely aren’t getting another part: 

If there was a Drunk Words Have Sober Consequences Part 3 or extended ending, Ethan would just say “Stop it” and Becca would challenge him with “Say it. You haven’t had any problems the last few weeks, what’s one more time.” The problem is he know this would be the very last time she’d let him this close. He wasn’t ready to lose her even before they’ve started. He’s silent and looking at her like a deer in headlights and she adds “I’ll make it easy for you” and starts to rip herself away. Just as he’s about to plead with her one last time and she’s about to turn away, June comes in; “Am I interrupting something?”. Ethan shoots Hirata daggers a snarl ready to erupt but Becca gets there first, “No. Just arguing about patients again” and leaves. (and patients is a play on words for patience bc that’s what they’re actually fighting about and becca has 0 patience left).

In Hopeless it ends up being Ethan who texted “come home with me” instead of Raf. She meets Ethan in the parking lot and they go back to his place. The whole travelling there bit is full of awkward silence. There’d be no conversation besides asking if she’d like a drink or needs to charge her phone. The most mechanical they’ve ever been. She’s still so emotional and regrets turning up at his office and almost getting caught by Harper. She knows this is a bad idea. So does he. But they don’t care. The warmth of their bodies together makes the entire world disappear. It’s irrational and neither are having any foresight about what’s going to happen next. They’re going to fuck the entire night, and then what? She gets a cab home in the wee hours of the morning, not staying the night ever again because he didn’t deserve her. 

In WIADTS after Stuck, Becca doesn’t stay in this alternate ending. They don’t make it to the weekend getaway. She’d checked out of their relationship hours ago and there’s no going back. She does this stealth mission a bit better with giving Ethan a false sense of security. He went to work earlier than she did and in those two hours she packed up everything and left to her friends’ place. She went to work and just avoided him. Avoided him as much as she could to avoid the inevitable fall out coming when he gets home and realizes she’s gone. That afternoon she started looking for other jobs across the country. Boston hurt too much. 

In happier events, Miles Apart! 

Even though they fell apart and she’s doing amazing across the country and she’s releasing her first book, they’re still on one anothers minds. That’s why she calls him.  Somewhere in this conversation she asks him to write the foreward of the book, he accepts with an “of course”; and then he tells her not to be a stranger next time she’s in Boston, and she tells him the same. Then Ethan lies and says he’ll be in California next month and if he could take her out to celebrate. “I’d like that.” The second they hang up Ethan pulls up his airline app and buys a ticket to California for next month. 

She sends him the address for a vintage coffeeshop that she loves and knows he’ll appreciate. She turns up 10 minutes early to settle in and running over just a few things she practiced saying to him in the mirror the last few days. She didn’t want anything to be too weird or anything to elude to their break up. She’s focused on moving forward. She’s grown a lot in the last year. 

But Ethan was already sitting there in the back corner staring out the window. 

Becca hung in the doorway and drank him in. needing a few moments to calm the butterflies raging in her stomach. She walked over slowly. As slowly as possible without being suspicious. 

Ethan sensed her. Her same old perfume hit his nostrils like a freight train with the first few steps she took, and he looked at her. 

They shared a weird greeting. Him getting up but neither moving to shake hands or hug. She took the seat across from him and ordered a coffee and asked how his flight was. Then immediately showed him the book when pleasantries drifted. She made a joke out of never getting his signature and as much as it pained him Ethan let out a small chuckle. Everything about her was still so endearing. 

That little joke broke whatever barrier was left between them. 

What was carved out to be an hour lunchbreak turned longer as time slipped away from them in their ease of conversation. So easily falling back into one another like the years apart meant nothing at all. 

Thank you for these 💕

#imagine the power i could wield in my own personal productivity if i could write smut... #my passion is sociology and business operations... makes me sound like a boring tool huh #a lot of my alternate endings are for the fatl universe #i just wanna give these babes all the chances to get back together😭😭😭 #the entire premise of What If universe is rewriting reality so every fic in that series has 2 alternate endings that'll be written #at some point #lmao just realizing my alternate endings all have the same theme of: strong female leaves waffling man who doesn't appreciate her #asked #alwaysmychoices