#FANFICTION WRITING ASKS

[crepesuzette2023]

17, 25, 26, 35 :)

Thank you for asking!

17. ) Do you have a writing routine?

Answered here!

25.) What’s your favorite part of the writing process (worldbuilding, brainstorming/outlining, writing, editing, etc)?

Answered here!

26. What’s your least favorite part of the writing process?

Aaaaaaarghhhhhh Revising and feeling how my brain gets sluggish and I'm no longer able to tell what's shit from what isn't, and being unable to let it go. Revising, and finding out the changes made it worse, and having to go back. Anything that's not clear and satisfying progress. LOL.

35. What’s your favorite fic you’ve posted?

That I posted? That's a tricky question, because I truly like each of them in a different way. But I have a soft spot for the J&P in Paris fic, because it's shamelessly romantic, and it was a lot of fun to write. And perhaps this little fic about Paul and Mal's trips in '66 and '67, as told by Paul—my first try at first person POV in fan fiction.

Fanfiction Writing Asks

[kiwiana-writes]

for the fanfic asks 2, 7, 27 and 72!!! (Please and thank u)

2. Where do you get your fic ideas?

God, anywhere and everywhere. My own life, other media, tumblr posts, chaotic off the rails conversations with friends...

7. Post a snippet from a wip.

😈 From rockstar Alex exes to lovers:

27. What area of writing do you feel strongest in?

Probably character voice? Dialogue and narration. I slip on US/UK terms sometimes but in terms of the characters sounding/feeling like themselves, that's probably it.

72. What’s your favorite writing compliment you’ve gotten?

Any variation on "I will follow you into any trope/pairing/kink/premise even if it's not something I'd normally seek out because I trust you as a writer". INCREDIBLY flattering.

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[mischief-and-tea-by-the-sea]

Fanfiction Writing Asks! 4, 6, 7, 8, 24, 39, 42, 61 for "Save a horse, ride a cowboy", 63 for "Eden revives in the first kiss of love", 65 for "You are the ghost behind my eyes", 67 for "Learned to walk alone".

4. How do you choose which fics to write?

Usually, it's whichever characters or storyline is speaking louder in my head with actual complete sentences that I can then write down. Anymore, I pull up multiple WIPs at once and sometimes even bounce around between them if that's how they want to play. Otherwise, the one getting written on is usually the one with the louder characters/story.

6. What’s the last line you wrote?

From the untitled multi-ship Pride collabfic with @scottxlogan. I haven't finished my part yet, but this was the last bit I wrote last night before going to bed:

“Great! Then it’s all settled,” Tony crowed and hip-bumped both Bucky and Steve on either side of him. “Hey…Maguna, you and Laura come over here for a second,” he called out to the two little girls, who just barely heard him over the music they were still swaying and bouncing to.

7. Post a snippet from a wip.

From Too weird to live, too rare to die, a Justin Hammer/Loki canon divergent fic for @kleenexwoman

“Everyone thinks that?” Loki hummed low, his thoughts as veiled as his irises. 

“No, hey...no no no.  Loki, no.  No one thinks that at all.  I was...I was just fuckin’ with you,” Justin backpedaled.  Out of instinct, he reached out, intending to pat Loki’s hand or something, just to calm and comfort him, but with his back to the door, his hands were just out of reach.  So Justin’s hand fell onto Loki’s knee.  Loki’s very bare knee as the trickster-prince had chosen, like Justin, to wear shorts on the almost five hour trek across the desert. 

He was about to pull over.  If Loki was still having some sort of crisis of friendship over his dumb quip, Justin would totally pull over to focus on fixing shit with his mission partner so they didn’t go pear-shaped from their goal. 

Then Loki’s hand fell on top of Justin’s. 

“You’re fine.  And I know you were just fucking with me,” he replied, letting Justin off the hook.  “I am well aware of where I stand with the Avengers now, and as such they consider me one of them.  Oh dear, you really will need to get used to me, won’t you?” 

It took a moment for Loki’s words to really wrap around Justin’s mind.  First off, he was intensely focused on the road and keeping all possibility of crashing Tony’s pretty baby into a sign post or something.  Second...well, second...

Loki’s hand is really warm.  Like yeah, it’s super cool to the touch, too, but it’s warm.  Or maybe I’m warm and he’s cool, but my stupid inconvenient attraction is making me warm, and I canNOT wreck this car holy fuck this mission is so important and are we even making good time?

Justin cleared his throat and shifted a little in the driver’s seat, hoping he didn’t look too much like he was fidgeting and nervous.  His hand remained sandwiched between Loki’s thigh and his hand for three, four, five breaths longer before he felt the road breeze blow across it and realized that Loki had moved his hand away.  When he glanced over, hoping that the guy wasn’t pissed at him – for what, he had no idea, but Justin had gotten so used to his day to day world being filled with people pissed off at him that he was always more surprised when they weren’t – but what he saw, namely Loki with his arms stretched up and his hands tucked behind his head like he was Tuggle Carpenter in Where the Boys Are, and yeah, Justin could be TV Thompson if asked just right. 

Wait, did I lose the metaphor somewhere along the way?

Another burst of nervous chuckles tumbled out of Justin while he clutched the wheel again.  They’d just made it out of Barstow without even noticing the city itself, though Justin had managed to keep to the proper speed limit. 

“Once again, Loki, you’re right.  I do need to get used to you.  I kinda need to do that with everyone.  Been running on first impressions and rumors and hearsay cuz I didn’t think any of you wanted me in your space,” he conceded, stepping on the gas a little more to push back up to highway limits. 

“You hide from everyone first because you don’t expect them to take to you.  To want you around,” Loki surmised. 

“You do that when you first joined up?  Though as I understand it, you were pretty banged up at first.” 

8. Post an out-of-context spoiler from a wip.

From The House in the Mist, a Scogan Lovecraftian horror fic, spoiler:

Logan really just wants to set fire to all those weird fucking mushrooms - eyes? They have eyes?

24. How do you choose whose POV to write in?

Usually I don't choose a POV for most fics as the thoughts will bounce back and forth between characters, but like in the Justin/Loki fic I mentioned above, while it's that all seeing eye sort of POV, there's a lot of Justin's inner thoughts and dialogue, and that's just because he's the one pushing those thoughts out louder right now. So yeah, it's whomever is the loudest who gets their POV emphasized and when.

39. What’s your most self-indulgent wip?

I was about to say Too weird to live, too rare to die because I'm hammering the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas references a little hard in certain areas (and I mean, how is it not utterly self-indulgent? I'm writing Justin/Loki ffs, and given that the only other person on the planet right now that ships them is @kleenexwoman not to mention that the relationship tag on AO3 only has my two fics in it so far), but the more I thought about it, I think my most self-indulgent WIP is Hemipheres, a Frostiron fic that is a huge fix-it for so many things. Or will be even further into it I get. And it's also self-indulgent because I'm taking my time with it, which has naturally gotten me a comment about abandoning the fic. *eyeroll*

42. What’s your favorite title that you’ve come up with?

Of titles that I actually came up with (and not just borrowed song lyrics or lines of poetry), there's two:

Never Piss Off a Telepath; Or How Logan Opened His Mouth and Said a Stupid Thing

and

The Deflowering of Ferret Face (my one and only M*A*S*H fanfic)

61. In Save a horse, ride a cowboy, what’s your favorite scene that you wrote?

A toss-up between Scene 3, where Loki (on Steve's request) rescues a stranded Bucky and Tony at an inopportune moment, and Scene +1 where Bucky and Tony finally get their uninterrupted time together.

63. What was the hardest part of writing Eden revives in the first kiss of love?

There wasn't really much that was hard to write in this one. I think I'd decided before I even started that Emma was going to have replaced Charles in helping Scott to run the school and that she'd be one of the first reveals (after trans Kit Pryde). No, this one was pretty smooth sailing from the start.

65. If you wrote a sequel to You are the ghost behind my eyes, what would happen in it?

I don't know. This would be a weird one to do a sequel to given that two of the main players are dead. Well, one of them was already dead and a ghost. But maybe the sequel would be Tony getting Steve to Valhalla where Loki and Nat are waiting for them, so it'd be a really self-indulgent fic of just one big sweet reunion between those four and maybe them gossiping on what everyone else is doing if they ever 'visit'. LOL

67. If a fic was titled "Learned to walk alone", what would this story be about/how would you write it?

This feels like a Frostiron fic with parallel views of Tony's early life and Loki's early life and where (while they obviously had some people in their lives helping them - Tony had Edwin and Ana Jarvis, and Loki had Frigga) they both had to learn to be self-reliant because the people they should've been able to lean on, to learn from, to have as guides (Howard, Maria, Odin, Thor, etc) were never there for them. But how that path they'd chosen to be self-reliant led them to each other where they could both rest, relax and trust and rely on each other.

Thanks for the asks!

Fanfiction Writing Asks.

[jamiesfootball]

5 & 7 for fanfic ask!

5.How many wips do you have?  What fandoms/pairings are they for?

There are actually more than this, but of the ones that still have a chance of seeing the light of day:

19 - Ted Lasso (mostly gen with the occasional qpr thrown in)

11 - Original fiction (assorted)

1 - The Musketeers (I'll finish that last chapter one day. Athos/Aramis/Porthos, D'Artagnan/being good at food)

1 - Batman (gen)

2 - Our Flag Means Death (both Stede/Ed, started after season one, only one of which may see some daylight)

7.Post a snippet from a wip.

Jamie fought through throbbing pain in his head. He argued, “But we have Leeds tomorrow.”

“We do. You fucking don’t.”

Roy couldn’t have hit him harder if he had elbowed him in the face himself. The IV wasn’t the only cold dripping into his veins anymore. “What?” he asked helplessly. Sam’s fingers fidgeted with the hem shoulder hems of Jamie’s shirt. “Roy says—“ “The physios said you’re not cleared,” Roy cut in. He clenched his jaw. Jamie wasn’t stupid. He knew who’d pulled him.

[imzadi-caskett-huddy]

How’d you ever get over the fear of posting your first fic?

Um...I don't know that I ever had a real fear of it? I've been writing forever, and I've always been a decent writer. I used to write fics on message boards before fanfiction.net was ever a thing (yeah, I'm that old... when there was dial-up internet)... and I was a teenager, so I don't know that I ever really thought about being scared? I mean, I didn't really know the people reading it, so I guess I just never thought about it?

I have been terrified, however, to let people I know personally read my fics. A few years ago, I worked with Jennifer Morrison at DragonCon as her assistant/ handler. One of my friends told her I had written House fanfiction, and she asked to read it. That was truly a terrifying experience. In the end, what made me do it was my curiosity of how well I'd done...I was curious what someone who had read scripts and been with those characters for so long would think about the way I wrote those characters. That curiosity and desire for her review of my writing was greater than my fear... and though I was a nervous wreck with beet red cheeks while she read it in front of me, I let her read it. And I would do it again.

Writing is a deeply personal thing. And it's hard to put yourself out there if you've never done it before. But to me, the reward is greater than the risk involved. And the more you do it, the more comfortable you feel about it.

I hope that answered your question.

[sokoviansimp]

for teh fan fiction writing asks 11 - Do you write scenes in order, or do you jump around?

25 - What’s your favorite part of the writing process (worldbuilding, brainstorming/outlining, writing, editing, etc)?

69 (Hehe) - What are your favorite fics at the moment?

71 - Do you spend more time reading or writing?

Yayy, I love doing these 😁

11: I always write scenes in order but I do make outlines when I’m trying to figure out where/when to place things.

25: Definitely the daydreaming about scenes and how they play out in my head.

69(haha): oOo here’s a list of my faves!

Sparkling Scarlet by @hopelesslygaysstuff

Did you get enough love, my little dove? by @charturnus

Silver Springs by @whereianonymouslypostfics

Bulletproof by @ginnsbaker

ScarletWidow Life Lessons by @sugarybitterness

Ties that Bind by Temptations Brew (devastatingly deleted)

71: Reading fersureee

[walkawaytall]

For the ask game? This topic is interesting to me. I’m definitely guilty of it and curious if others are better at disassociating from real life?

34. How much of your personal life/experience do you include in your fics?

So, I did answer this here, but I think I have some other examples. I think I've mentioned this before? But I do sometimes write Leia as ADHD-coded because I think it fits with how we've seen her portrayed as a kid, teen, and adult, but, like, the only ADHD I have firsthand experience with is my own, soooooo...I'm sure that ends up in there.

And...this hasn't been posted yet, but it's something upcoming. Um, basically, I had written a whole blog post commenting on the interpretation of Han saying "I know" as some jackass move, and, like, I get when people interpret it that way and I know what I'm about to say is far too deep for Star Wars. But, long story short, over a decade ago, I had a friend die very unexpectedly and something that haunted me for awhile was the fact that I remembered very clearly seeing him the night before he died, saying goodbye as I was leaving, and hearing him say, "Bye! Love you!", but I couldn't remember if I'd said anything back. And this bothered me for a bit until I was telling my mom about how much it bugged me that I couldn't remember what I'd said or if I'd just left since I'd already said goodbye, and she just said, "He knew." Which, as soon as she said it, it felt obvious. But it was helpful to have someone outside of my brain affirm that someone I cared for a great deal knew that I loved him since I couldn't tell him that myself any more.

So, anyway, I wrote this whole post about this and how I could certainly see, if you know someone is going to worry about whether you know they cared for you or not because maybe they've been lashing out recently or they just don't express emotional things very well, being assured that you knew that they loved you could actually be a great comfort. And then I was like, "I think I want to make my point by way of fanfic instead of blog post." So. That's a thing that will eventually be released into the world. But I promise it's not too self-indulgent.

Thanks for asking!

Fanfiction Writing Asks

[andypantsx3]

andie!! hi hello! number 77 for the ask game!

Hi Bee!!! Happy (almost) New Year!!! Thank you for dropping in!!! This is probably my favorite question in the whole set. 🥺

77. Why do you enjoy writing fanfiction?

I really love the community and the exchange of ideas, plain and simple. I hope to one day write my own characters as well but I love just lingering in the love I have for these specific characters, and I love lingering in it with other people who love them too!! I love taking them in directions Hori never would (because that's not the kind of story he's out to tell), just to see what would happen.

To me, fanfiction is just like, jumping into a pile of leaves with your friends lmao. That's not what the leaves are for, that's not why the trees produced them, but you get to use them for a fun secondary purpose, and doing it together with people makes a good memory!!

[killerandhealerqueen]

for the ask i just reblogged from you- 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 18, 22, 24, 27, 28, 31, 35, 36, 41

Ooo damn, lots of questions! My favorite

4. How do you choose which fics to write?

Honestly, whatever idea catches my fancy is what I want to write about. Or if I'm craving something that hasn't been written yet, then I'm like "well god damn it, looks like i have to do it myself"

6. What’s the last line you wrote?

He then reached up and cupped the back of his neck before he pulled him down into a kiss

8. Post an out-of-context spoiler from a wip.

               “I didn't know anything about any gate code.  And besides, I couldn’t have killed Matthew.  I’m vegan.  I would never touch raw meat” one woman argued as she sat before Eric and Walter, Walter testing her hands for animal blood.  Eric hummed.

               “Good to know” he grumbled as Walter shook his head.

               “She is negative for animal blood” he declared.

11. Do you write scenes in order, or do you jump around?

I tend to write scenes in order, it's very rare that I jump around, unless a particular scene is screaming to be written first. Then I'll usually write it and put it to the side to be pasted in later

12. Do you outline your fics?  If yes, how detailed are your outlines?  How far do you stray from them?

Honestly, my outlines are just the fics in bullet form. Like I will write the dialogue, the scenes, and all the lovely stuff in bullet form and then go back and transform it into the actual fic. But that's only for oneshots. For multi-chaptered fics, I will have like...the general idea for what I want a chapter to be about, unless I'm doing a multi-chaptered fic inspired by a tv show or manga. Then the chapters just sort of flow how the show flows and the cuts and what not, if that makes sense.

13. Do you listen to music while you write?  If yes, what have you been listening to recently?

I do, sometimes. But sometimes the music that I listen to either throws off my groove or throws off the vibes I'm going for, so I'll turn it off. Or it distracts me. But, since I'm currently working on a mafia au, I'm listening to songs that have that sort of vibe, so like

or

(her songs really scream mafia vibes and honestly, love that for her and me)

18. Do you enjoy research?  Which fic of yours required the most research?

I do enjoy my research every now and then. The fic of mine that required the most I would have to say is my CSI: Jing City au, just because I have to know some of the testing that they're doing and how to break down what they're doing into layman's terms. Of course I understand what I'm writing about, but most normal people don't have a background in forensics, nor do they have degrees in them, so I gotta make it scientific enough to fit with the story but in layman's terms so that my readers aren't confused by the procedures and what not.

22. Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process?  How do you come up with titles?

Oo, good question. I usually title my fics after the writing process, but sometimes a title will just come to be before hand. As for how I come up with titles, I usually use like a dialogue or a sentence from the fic itself. Sometimes the titles are inspired by song lyrics, or my fics are titled after the tv show or manga I'm taking inspiration from

24. How do you choose whose POV to write in?

I like third person past tense to read in, so that's what I write in. I'm not really a big first person writer/reader (like if I see it's in first person, I nope the fuck out) so I don't write a lot of fics in that pov. Sometimes third person present, but only for headcanons

27. What area of writing do you feel strongest in?

Dialogue, I guess? It just flows so easily and comes to me no problem, so...dialogue. And maybe understanding the characters? Like, not being ooc? If that's an area of writing idk

28. What area of writing do you want to improve in?

Action scenes maybe? Because my Killer and Healer rewrite has a lot of action scenes and while I can see them in my head, translating that into words fucking sucks ass

31. Do you use a beta reader/editor?

Not usually, only when I've stared at a fic for too god damn long and I'm starting to hate it. Then I'll ask @ahhhnorealnamesallowed to look it over for me. She's honestly the best when I need a new pair of eyes

35. What’s your favorite fic you’ve posted?

That's not fair, I love all of my fics that I've posted...I can't pick a favorite

36. What fic are you proudest of?

Oh, 恨君不似江楼月 | Killer and Healer 100%. Just the amount of time, energy, and love I've poured into this fic...this fic is my baby and I love her

41. Who’s your favorite character you’ve written?

Ah, I love writing about Jiang Yuelou and Chen Yuzhi. They're honestly a packaged deal at this point. I can't choose one over the other, they are packaged. Do no separate. They're both just so complex and they work well in any au that I throw at them so...they're great. I love them

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[jessamine-rose]

hey can i ask 74 and 75

Thank you for your questions, Anonie!! :>

74. Do you have a fic you wish got a bit more love?

Definitely my two-part Yandere! Pantalone fic!! Housecat and Alea Iacta Est feature lots of manipulation, drama, sexual tension, and pretty outfits. I portrayed the Regrator as extremely cunning and deceptively beautiful, and it’s one of my best stories in terms of the yandere’s methods. I used the POVs of both Pantalone and his darling <3

I rlly do wish that those fics got more love, bc aaahh manipulative Pantalone!! His diabolical methods for attaining his darling!! His ability to psychoanalyze her and make her fall for him!! The *cough* sugar and spice……!!

75. Is there a particular fic that readers gravitated towards that you didn’t expect?

Definitely my Yandere! Capitano fic. I didn’t expect so many ppl to like Herbarium since Capitano is a less popular Harbinger + it was my Genshin debut. I’ve grown quite fond of him and his darling, and I’m so happy whenever I receive a new ask/ comment expressing love for their story ヽ(；▽；)ノ

[robins-treasure]

#11 for the fanfiction writing ask? 🙃

Fanfiction Writing Asks

11. Do you write scenes in order, or do you jump around?

I like to write my scenes in order from beginning to end.

[crepesuzette2023]

24, 43 and 77 for the writing asks!

Thank you for asking!

24.) How do you choose whose POV to write in?

I don't choose, it just happens. And since there is no one to stop me...

43.) Is there a trope or idea that you’d really like to write but haven’t yet?

When I'm feeling bold I'm thinking that I would love to write a long fic from the POV of Paul's brother, Mike McCartney. It would cover the early days, Jim, John vs. Jim, J/P, Jane, Stu, the Cavern, but also Tara Browne (Mike was close to him, possibly closer than Paul), the Beatles breakup, Mike's first wedding and Paul's insane 1968, and later the recording of the McGear album with Paul and Wings in 1974. I love Outsider POV, and Mike is such an interesting character...I loved his memoir... And in my mind he's at least bi-curious...But I don't know if I have the stamina and bandwidth to do it. Not to mention the huge language barrier caused by him not only being a Brit, not only from Liverpool, not only born in the 1940's, but also having his own idiosyncratic speech! I know better than to try and imitate...but to make it sound believable and clear for the duration of a chaptered fic...would be a huge challenge. But I love him, you see.

The other thing I'm thinking about is a longer fic about Woodland Sprite Paul...maybe a Beatles analogy?! But perhaps he must remain elusive...sheltering in the tags...emerging only for brief moments...

77.) Why do you enjoy writing fanfiction?

Let's see whether if I can keep this brief! :-) I think the reason I enjoy it is not so different from the reason writers, painters, and playwrights enjoy bringing to life historical or mythological characters. There's something magical about creating your own version of a known character and making them come to life. It's a freeing way to play with ideas about a story and people you and your reader are already in love with. That shared love is a beautiful thing to feel.

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[kiwiana-writes]

thanks so much for sending me one of the fic writer asks! here are two tor you!

7 Post a snippet from a wip.

36 What fic are you proudest of?

Hello hello!

7. Post a snippet from a wip.

I’m going to be really mean (sorry) and share a tiny little something from the Big Secret @indestructibleheart Collab:

Nora sucks in a sharp breath between her teeth as June’s face shutters. Guilt rolls through him, sharp and shameful, but he swallows back the apology that springs automatically to his tongue. What’s she’s asking of him—June is the one being unreasonable here, not Henry.

36. What fic are you proudest of?

I have GOT to stop reblogging asks that ask me to pick from my two hundred and thirty fucking seven fan works 😂😂😂

It’s either With so much of my heart (that none is left to protest), aka the RWRB Much Ado Without Nothing actor AU my beloved, or it’s non-binary Alexis Rose. Two veeeeeeery different fics in many many ways but the underlying factor of queer joy and queer feelings is very present in both 🩷

[Fanfiction writing asks]

[astroboots]

7, 12, 27, and 28! 💕

7. Post a snippet from a wip.

Rather lengthy snippet so I've put it under the read more cut 😀 a oneshot of how Miguel met Nena from EYEM.

12. Do you outline your fics? If yes, how detailed are your outlines? How far do you stray from them?

Depends on the nature of the fic. Oneshots -- absolutely not, it's just a messy stream of consciousness. But for long series I do outlines in order to make sure that I do not contradict myself too badly with the plot and have an idea of how it's going to end. They tend to be short blurbs for each chapter just so I have an idea of how long the story in itself will be and where I might need to cut down on subplots so I do not go mad with the word count. However sadly, I always do end up veering off course, both in word counts and plot, especially as I become more familiar with the characters' voices, more often than not I realize that what I had in mind with the plot is out of character with their behaviour and motivations and I will have to course correct.

A good example of this is in Red Flags. Initially Marc and reader was not meant to be a slow burn. It was supposed to be an enemies to lovers three parter, where reader meets Marc and they have angry hate sex, and instead it turned into... an 100k plus word fanfic, where they spend most of the time together eating breakfast and falling in love with each other torturously slowly.

27. What area of writing do you feel strongest in?

I feel very comfortable writing emotional scenes, and getting into the inner workings of how an ordinary person would feel even in the most bizarre and supernatural situations.

28. What area of writing do you want to improve in?

Brevity. God do I wish I could just calm the fuck down sometimes with the descriptive word vomit.

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[jamiesfootball]

80. What was the first scene you wrote for OGYGGIYHNBGL and the Jamie sleepy 5+1? (If they’re not spoilers)

OGYGGIYHNBGL - the pivotal confrontation when Jamie tells Roy he went to visit his dad in rehab. It was very much a situation of beginning at the heart of the story and building everything around it.

the 5+1 sleepy Jamie fic - I actually started this one at the beginning! Aren't you proud of me? ONE TIME my brain worked in order. I wrote the beginning intro, and then the first scene which is set before Ted came to Richmond while Cartrick was still in charge