#I have a chapter written of my multichapter fic but i wanna get chapter 2 done but i got stuck

[frobby]

i need to heal my inner child blue exorcist fan that read 1 million evil yukio fanfics by writing 1 million evil rin fanfics

[lilac-melody]

So what if, and bear with me here, what if I made a fic...an actual novel-sized fic, ft Prince Aizou and Entertainer Yujiro?

Like a prince and jester kind of thing.

Am I basing this off of the fact I’m still not over that that one director wanted Aizou to play the role of royalty while Yujiro plays as his lover- a courtesan? Yes. Yes I am.

It would be sometime after my current multichapter fic, obviously, but what say you, fandom?

[valeriianz]

For the fic writer asks:

4. Obviously you did research for BitB. I'd love you to ramble about it if you like I'm sure you've got STORIES

5. Did you outline it?

7. How'd you decide it would be Hob's pov?

25-27 I'd love to know a/some favorite lines, details, and any lore you might want to share

omg TJ what wonderful questions! thank you!! this is going to get LONG!

4: Rambling about research!

do you wanna see a screen shot of my bookmarks under my "band au" folder?

man, and that's only what could fit on the screen.

there is... SO MUCH i chose to ignore for this fic. ideas that i had to drop, lines or extra details about the other band members equipment. more logistics, what Lucienne actually does, what Mervyn has to put up with as the new touring stage manager... i realized very early on that i couldn't possibly cram all this (super cool and eye opening) information into the fic and still keep reader's interest and, most importantly, to not stray away from the fact that this is a dreamling fic. whenever i felt myself getting carried away with a side character or job or even social media numbers, gossip, outside POVs, i had to reign myself in and get back on track. there will be time for exploring everything i missed in side stories after BitB is finished. i just hope i still have the energy to write it all.

once, i was so deep into research that after publishing chapter 2, i went into work and when my chef asked what "GA" meant on my prep list, i answered with full confidence, "general admission."

(it means "get ahead.")

the worst part of this entire writing process is im still learning new shit. i havent rewatched or read a lot of what i've saved because, to be very honest, i was feeling a little burnt out. it's why we're kinda full steam dreamling now. it's why ive been glossing over a lot of technical stuff and being vague about conversations amongst the crew/not including it at all. i don't prefer ignoring my research, but at the end of the day i want to still enjoy writing this fic and finish it. even if i can't be as descriptive and detailed and nuanced as i used to be.

5: Did you outline the fic?

(also asked by @hardly-an-escape!)

i wouldn't call what i have a proper "outline," it's more like a 20k word document filled to the brim with notes that i skim at least a dozen times while i'm writing a new chapter (being in my brain is literally hell). i live multichapter life very dangerously. i copy and paste lines or sections (always scattered, never together! augh!) that are meant to go together and plop them in a new document titled "band au ch.#" and then i structure the chapter around what i want to happen.

but to answer this question in the plainest of terms: yeah. i know exactly what's going to happen up until the very end. even if its all in my head and the only concrete shit that's written down are beats/plot points. i'll figure out the rest later!

7: How'd you decide it would be Hob's POV?

i actually never even considered writing it from Dream's POV. this was my first fic in the fandom (which is so nuts to think about lol) and writing in Dream's POV sounded so scary lol. i also just thought Hob's would be easier because i have worked a few backstage shows, back in my college years. i figured eh, i can make this work. and i loved exploring how weird and mysterious musicians can be, from a normie's POV. making Hob a fan first and having him worry about developing a parasocial relationship... it was fun to explore.

25: Share your favorite line

oh god, i have so many haha.

“What are you thinking about?” starting in ch.2 and onward lmao

“It’s–” Dream laughs quietly, bitterly. “I don’t like change.” He says each word with emphasis, eyes trailing down to fixate somewhere past Hob. “And I still hold onto the things I can control, like my instruments–” his eyes swing up to regard Hob apologetically. “Or my clothes or my–” he brings a hand up and wiggles his fingers around his head. “My hair.” ch.4

"His majesty is pleased." ch.5

“You are obsessive,” he states, slow and cool and with a quiet smile cracking through his composure. “Just like me.” ch.7

“You look good.” Hob has to lean in to say so, unwilling to raise his voice amongst the roar of the fans. ch.11

“Del looks like porcelain, but she’s actually made of steel.” Desire swirls the contents of their glass before pushing their shoulders back with a deep breath. “She's tougher than all of us.” ch.11

“Everything. I want…” his fingers tighten in Hob’s hair, pulling him closer, speaking against his lips. “…Everything.” ch.14

26: Share your favorite detail

how intentionally coy Dream behaves. i love keeping him a mystery and deciding when and how much to allow his intentions to peek through has been so fun lol.

Despair is in fact covered in tattoos and piercings! i say this because i feel like sometimes i forget lmao. (but also her and Hob don't interact much so. my bad haha).

Delirium's constant explosion of color in the way she dresses <3

Hob's dedication to his job, Dream, and the people he cares about the most. i don't care if people think i'm making him too soft and good, im gonna project on that man and make him a sweet, sweet simp lmao

and ah, this doesn't matter anymore, and i kinda regret doing it but. i originally had Dream's favorite bass all black but the pickguard was white. so it actually looked like Jessamy. not gonna lie when @designtheendless drew it all black i decided i liked it better that way. and truly i do. that's when i went back to ch.1 and changed it haha. to actually see the guitar with Dream, all done up sparkling black and purple flecks... gosh it's just so him. but then i got up to the reveal that the guitar's name was Jessamy and i was like, "oh, right." lmao. no one seems to care so i'll leave it be.

27: Share a piece of lore you made up for the story

i have a lot lmao. and this post is already so long... im hoping i can get to some if not all of it in side fics in the future. but for now, here's some that's more like headcanons but:

Dream hates flying. he can full on go into panic attacks on the plane if he allows himself to get into his own head.

this was mentioned briefly in ch.4, while Dream was discussing the formation of the band, but Despair was in another band before joining Endless. she is the only character in the fic who gets to keep her English roots (lol sorry) and is the oldest in the band (30).

all of the band members ages: Dream, Desire, and Death are all 28 and Delirium is 22.

Dream can experience subdrop after going too hard during a performance.

Dream paints his own nails, it's very therapeutic.

as an exercise, i explored my own headcanons for Dream in this verse in a word doc, and one thing i will share from it that you might find interesting: If I were to ever give Dream a theological values, I would describe him as a satanist. He is a physical and pragmatic person, nonconforming, and although he is introverted, he enjoys being a part of a community (he loves his band).

also found this in my notes: How Desire and Dream got along was Death making them fight it out. Hob raises an eyebrow “like in a brawl?” He couldn't imagine Desire throwing hands. “No, in a pillow fight that escalated in hair pulling and verbal taunts.”

fic writer asks

[angelmichelangelo]

GIVE US THE 2/4 OF THE FIC 😢😢/lh /np

or is it a rlly long oneshot?? if so pleaseee give us fic spoilers human au my beloved <3

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haha i’m tempted but alas i shall hold out until it’s fully complete :’) and no it’s a multichaptered fic. im drafting up chapter 6 and im aiming for it to be about 16 chapters long? so ive made some progress at least :)

it’s actually a kind of sequel, follow up fic to this one i wrote not long ago. i have like. an entire whole lore to this fic that’s been brainworming in my head for the last year haha so being able to just punch out most of it so quickly has been pretty fun :D

so whilst i can’t post what ive already written so far for you, i can give you a little sneak peek :)

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“I could kill you, Mikey.” His brother yells, fists curling tight around the wheel, making his knuckles glow red. “I could actually kill you.”

Mikey gulps. He finds the frayed edge of the cuff again and tugs on it, like if he yanks hard enough it might unravel his whole being, and he could just turn to nothing on Raph’s passenger seat for the rest of time. “I was just the driver,” is what he offers up.

That apparently was the wrong thing to say, evident in the way Raph’s eyes go comically wide, and his jaw twitches at the strength of which he clamps it shut.

“Alopex had to bail you out,” he tells him, so angry and raw his voice cracks. “She used her money she’s worked really fucking hard on because you can’t fucking help yourself.”

The cop station parking lot gets a bit of foot traffic around where they’re parked. A young mother strolls on by with a child skipping at her side whilst a group of teenagers bounce past them, laughing as they swap phones to no doubt share videos.

“I’m sorry,” Mikey says, voice impossibly small. “But. But you knew what Hun was about, don’t– don’t act like you didn’t work for him too once upon a time.”

Raph’s hands slam against the wheel as a frustrated growl crawls up past his lips. “Jesus, Mike, is that going to be your excuse every single time?”

Mikey can’t look at him, so he stares at the dashboard. There’s the remains of a torn away sticker, something he vaguely remembers putting there himself years and years ago when this car was Leo’s and he was small enough to still have sticker books.

When he doesn’t answer, Raph keeps going.

“I made my mistakes, Mikey,” he says, voice suddenly calm and level. It makes the temperature in the car drop about ten degrees cooler. “I made my mistakes with Hun and the Dragons but I owned up to them. I fixed them. I turned my life around.”

Childishly, Mikey feels tears spring behind his eyes. He fails to blink them away in time, so he resorts to scrubbing his face with his sleeve – Raph’s sleeve technically.

“I can help you,” Raph says, he says it so tiredly yet it holds so much weight still. “Leo can help you, Mike. All we wanna do is help you.”

[omgkalyppso]

5 Favorite Fics

@sevarix-blogs tagged me for fic authors self rec! Post your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers.

Alright time for a ranking. I write Explicit fics and enjoy them.

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5. Clandestine Meetings

Chapters: 6/7 (19,630 words)

Ship: Lorenz x Sylvain

Rating: Explicit

Summary: It’s Sylorenz week! Sylvain and Lorenz are being mostly secretive about their relationship because of the expectations of their fathers. Each prompt will be a chapter as they continue with their plan to pretend to woo Hilda, knowing she is secretly involved with Claude.

This earns a place on the list especially for chapter 4 where the boys wear make up and have fun.

Here's links to ace-friendly versions of the explicit chapters: FOUR, FIVE, SIX

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4. I Wanna Be Yours

Chapters: 34/? (135,676 words)

Ship: Claude x Lorenz x Hilda x Fae (a nonbinary My Unit OC)

Rating: Explicit

Summary: Claude helps people find their soulmates, professionally, but that doesn’t mean he wants to find his own. Tensions rise when Lorenz, his boyfriend, hires him to do just that. Meanwhile Hilda is frustrated with seeking her own soulmate and starts a budding relationship with Fae. They’ll figure it out before the end.

Another unfinished fic on the list... Soulmate AU my beloved. I will come back to you...

Here's links to ace-friendly versions of the explicit chapters: TWO, SEVEN, NINE, TEN, THIRTEEN, SEVENTEEN, TWENTY-THREE, TWENTY-FOUR, TWENTY-NINE, THIRTY-FOUR

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3. Trust Or Something Like It

Chapters: 1/1 (6,554 words)

Ship: Sylvain x Dedue

Rating: Explicit

Summary: Sylvain likes to gift things to those he cares about. One such offering results in celebrating the end of the war with Dedue, and another more than a year later precludes hours of intimacy between them, which Sylvain concludes with a far more valuable gift.

This is a favorite both because I love my rare-pairs and because I succeeded in confining this potentially huge multi-chapter idea into one satisfying fic. I'd like to thank the boys for being agreeable about that and not forcing me to explore their angst for more than like a paragraph.

Here's a link to an ace-friendly version: LINK

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2. Just Go With It

Chapters: 6/6 (40,484 words)

Ship: Claude x Lorenz x Hilda x Fae (a nonbinary My Unit OC)

Rating: Explicit

Summary: A Modern AU where Claude x Lorenz x Hilda x Fae (an afab nonbinary My Unit) start dating because of a slight misunderstanding with some dinner plans.

This is a favorite because it remains the only multichapter fic that I didn't post all at once that I managed to finish. Also I love Fae and their relationships and I hope this is fun for anyone who wants to read it.

Only the final chapter has sex. Here's a link to an ace-friendly version of chapter six: CHAPTER SIX

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Sacred Dedication

Chapters: 1/1 (2,979 words)

Gen fic about Dedue Molinaro

Rating: Teen

Reunited with his allies, Dedue prays to the Duscur God of War for the strength to defend them. In the battle that follows, his finds his faith rewarded and they defeat their enemies together.

This fic was written as part of the CHOP zine which is pay-what-you-want with proceeds going to Able Gamers. I think you can still get a copy here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aZsSQ_qqHr0YAycKY9BKkdSdLvr6srJj/view

This is a favorite because of the work I put into Dedue's prayer and what I wanted out of the emotions in the piece and he's so precious to me.

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I'll tag @bosspigeon, @allycryz, @lemonbronze, @reticentsunrise, @khalidistan and YOU, if anyone wants to.

[theleakypen]

Fic Writer Interview Game

Thank you for the tag (almost 2 years ago) @gusu-emilu!

I am tagging literally anybody who sees this and wants to play :D

name: Puck

fandoms: multifandom! although Untamed/MDZS continues to be my main

two-shots: I never understand this question but it looks like it means to rec your own two-chapter fics so here we go: Stories More Beautiful Than Answers (CQL, Mianmian gets to meet Jin Ling post-canon) and Rhûnlanders (I published it as a series of 2 separate fics, but it's basically 1 thing: Songxiao in Middle Earth - Xiao Xingchen is an Elf and Song Zichen is a Man, both from Rhûnland so they're still Asian)

most popular multi-chapter fic: Obviously Yunmeng In-Laws (my and @iamwestiec's CQL modern AU groupchat fic which had bafflingly runaway success) has to be the answer to this. But if we're only going by ones written solely by me, it's But, After All, I Am A Wen (incomplete Wen Qing canon divergence wherein she actually takes and uses the comb Jiang Cheng gave her to commit treason and save her family's lives)

actual worst part of writing: having the fucking brain space to fucking write, fuck. it's been really hard bc i have so many other obligations and they eat my brain so even if i have ideas i can't get them to turn into prose :(

how you choose your titles: in order of likelihood: first, quote from the fic itself; joint second place, something kinda descriptive of the fic or lines from a poem or song

do you outline? not generally. I did outline my multichapter Wen Qing fic bc it's so much more ambitious than anything else i've ever worked on and I occasionally do something resembling in an outline in the doc of my one shots when i know what happens in the sections but don't have the prose yet; it's usually, like, a series of bracketed statements.

ideas you probably won't get around to, but wouldn't it be nice? oh god so many lmao. i have an entire channel in my writing discord that is just these ideas. One idea I have is a Songxiao no eye transfer AU because BSSR doesn't open the mountain back up to XXC and how they have to deal with that. Also I have yet to write any Witcher fic but I've been playing Witcher 3 and I really wanna write a Vesemir POV fic that's 5+1 "5 times Geralt sent some random-ass stranger to Kaer Morhen and 1 time he came home" inspired by all the times in Witcher 3 when you can help someone and then be like "Oh yeah you'd be welcome at Kaer Morhen"

spicy tangential opinion: not that spicy but i wish more people would comment, especially on the smaller/less popular fics. i see your kudos! it makes me happy! but i'd love to know your thoughts if you have any!

callouts @ me: none of my self-callouts are writing-related, it's all just - clean your room, go the fuck to sleep, you're not a teenager any more and your body hurts less when you do basic life maintenance tasks. (honestly i'd probably also write better/more if i did basic life maintenance tasks so it counts lol)

best writing traits: Westie once said I'm good at making soft things hurt and I hold that compliment close to my heart <3

[lonely--seeker]

I know this is kind of late but I'm making a list of all the things/projects I'd like to work on this year and their level of difficulty.

Y'all can peep on this because I have no other place to post it. And I hope I get a tasty social-pressure boost lol.

• Finish some multichaptered fanfics.

1) Top priority. "Something good in all seeming failures" (<-Should be medium to hard. I'm not sure how many chapters this one will take and I feel it needs a good level of writting, I don't want to half ass it)

2) "Like cats and dogs" (<- Medium. Not too interested in finishing unless I have a good wrapping for it)

3) "The day the pirates came to town" (<- Unlikely. But I still don't wanna give up on the idea of a choose your adventure kind of One Piece fanfic. But I think I should re do the whole thing.)

•Write/Post Fanfics.

These don't have names yet, bear with it.

1) Finish writing that Truth or dare Serirei fanfic. (<- Likelyyy! 1,4K words already on it boss 🫡. But get my ass to write it, AUGH!! I have brainworms. Yk what would maybe be a good name for this? Dared to truth or something like that am I right? No? No? Okay.)

2)The birthdaytm Fanfic (<-Less likely. Already started, besides I could write this one in a fucked up night.)

3)Oh also the teddy bear fanfic. (<-Least priority right now)

4) I should just write more fanfics. At least. LEAST 3 more. Idk.

5) pick up all the fanfics I have scrambled

And he hates it (Reigen. 800.)

The mom fic. (1.7K)

Like like like (Serizawa / To be fair I forgot abt this one. I'm dying to read it again. 1K)

You are the only reason (was this Sanji? Was this zosan? I forgot/ 5... 5K words of the best things ever written, too bad they're not in a way it'll ever make sense )

This is a bad Idea (EkuSeriRei?? In my Google docs?? 1.2K)

How... Do we start a story like this? (Not even started lmao.)

• Finally finish some Animation memes.

1) Coffee! (<- Hard. Not even finished sketching but I should be okay I'm a grown up.)

2)Wheat (<- Medium. It's considerably shorter I think? Besides it's funnier to work on.)

3) Private Life (<- Probably easy. It's a full song BUT I don't plan on making it special.)

4)Honey Pie (<- Unlikely. But I've been wanting to work on this forever.)

•Animatics.

I'm not even going into details for these ones.

1)El hijo de Hernández/Sanji (<-Hard.)

2)Lo malo de ser bueno/Serizawa. (<- Medium)

3)Sea of dreams/Sanji (Unlikely)

•I don't know what to name these.

1) Start working on some scrips for the Runaway kids/ The liminal space.

2) Redesing the whole cast for Spacing out. (Actually Majö is perfect) (<- This should be easy)

3) Complete the Music sonas designs/ Bunnycat's alternative designs.

4)Holy shit. I should make references for Art fight!

5) I dunno. Keep Paws and Such Petting Office active.

[seancamerons]

1, 10, 15, 16

Thanks for leaving me some fanfiction asks too!!

How long ago did you start reading or writing fanfiction? Damn, I had to been when I was around about twelve or maybe thirteen. I don't know if anyone remembers the-ndotcom message boards, various Degrassi message boards (mainly Degrassi boards aka DB, anyone around, I honestly doubt it?), and of course, fanfictiondotnet my online life in the mid-2000s.💗

When I was third grade, I remember writing things that resembled fanfiction. Typically based off of some shows I saw (such as Sabrina the teenage Witch, TGIF line up was awesome) or books I read like The Boxcar Children or Junie B, for these writing journal prompts for school the teacher would assign us. When I say it's all cringe and embarrassing as hell, Let's just say I'm glad no evidence of that writing existed. That wasn't even the tip of the iceberg there, I also wanted to *be* a friggin' author. I'd even include these cheesy bios for each 'book' I would make for myself bc I'd always see them in books I read in childhood.

Fast forward to 2003, my first fanfiction (when I knew I was writing fanfiction) was a doozy for Degrassi written about Sean, Craig, and Emma in some weird season 2 timeline with a love triangle, an ill-fated camping trip, Sean's newly sober mother made an appearance in the form of a camp organizer desperate to reconnect with her son and bring him home much to his chagrin, and other things I forgot about and wouldn't wanna think much on. I was basically winging it. I'm afraid it's gone. I had notebooks and notebooks filled with stories around this time.

10. Worst writing habits? Abandoning and giving up without a doubt. A horrid habit that becomes tempting when I get writer's block, and then I just start the hell over and make something totally new and forget about it drop it like a bad habit, and the cycle comes back around like a shitty boomerang. I then will read the old one months or even years later and be filled with regret or have five million new ideas for said abandoned story. Maybe then I rework it in the future someday or in a whole dif story which has been done before. I am already my own worst critic, but I hate super flaming, negative criticism that shit doesn't help anyone except be tempted to give up.

Some fic I abandoned needed to be, such as the Zoemund vehicle in a weird alternate season thirteen titled The Starlet and Dealer. Not that I need to explain myself, but I didn't feel right writing something portraying a couple with literally no chance on any planet, not even interested in men on the whole didn't make much sense. Also who would read that considering all that? It's available on fanfictiondotnet who cares? I moved on it's never gonna have an ending.

Backtrack has more of a chance of getting an ending, and yes, it's an *almost* ten-year-old fic, just saying.😄😄😄

Another habit is simply beating myself up, comparing myself and just simply hating on myself which I gotta stop doing. Honorable mention, stuff like not being in the mood to write, or getting too much on my plate and then not writing.

15. One-shots or multi-chapters? Multichapters Angst? Yes. Fluff? Yes. Smut? I'm not that brave ha, not for a lack of trying. I usually do the ol' Disney-style cut away. I'm so lame. Hurt/comfort? Yes. Fantasy? Nah. Romance? My bread and butter🥰. Which one is your favorite? Hmm I'd say romance with multiple chapters all the way! Which one is your least favorite? My least favorite is when the protag gets pregnant and the whole story is just fucked after that because it just doesn't interest me. It's just so unoriginal and a little predictable. Unpopular or popular opinion who cares, not every love story or romance ends with a baby or a pregnancy 🤷‍♀️. I'm down for a wedding that would be something fun to tackle in writing. No, really though, out of the listed, I'd say I don't care for fantasy.

16. What’s your favorite headcanon or trope? For semma related fic's stories, I like incorporating things such as emphasis on photographs, flashbacks to past events, and some other memories from their past relationships with one another or things we didn't get to see. For example, Emma had this little box with moments like movie ticket stubs, Sean's old denim jacket (before he started wearing hoodies), Emma's retired dolphin pants, obviously photographs, a few burned mix CDs, letters, and or notes passed from class, and more miscellaneous items.

As for Emma and Jay another Degrassi pairing I write often, for example, I like including a treehouse motif. It's a long story, but in my invented backstory for Jay, Connie (Fancy) is his mother, She left his father for Mr. Edwards (Darcy and Clare's father) she met at the strip club. They had an affair resulting in pregnancy so there's a drama with that. Obviously, Jay and Darcy clash (naturally) and act like they're not related at school is an arrangement beneficial to both for Darcy's popularity and Jay had a reputation to uphold and also there's Jay's young maybe five year old half-sister from Randall and Connie named Christina affectionately nicknamed Chrissy. Jay resents his mother for leaving their father and making this new family with these stuck-up people he seems to detest and what it did to his father who had fallen in a reclusive depression since their divorce.

Chrissy idolizes Jay and serves as an honorary shipper for Emma and Jay, and sometimes provides comic relief. At Jay's dad's house is where the treehouse comes in, and Jay's super attached to it and his father too who he is still close with. The treehouse is a special spot for Jay. He eventually brings Emma into his world and treehouse, and the setting symbolizes a lot in their relationship. All this lore was created long before Jay or Darcy had a canon backstory or last names purely based on speculation. There's also related Jay/Alex lore about their past relationship, invented things from their dysfunctional childhoods. I also have a host of headcanons for Emma, Manny, and JT's childhood memories growing up together.

For tropes, I dig the first love/true love, mutual pining, enemies to lovers, slow burns, and secret relationships/forbidden love is always fun to write. I recently attempted a fake dating story Faking It/(a03)

This all is a lot of fun to write. Thanks Emma! I hope you also like writing responses to these type of questions! I’m always available and down for more questions about fanfiction! 💌

[paalove]

BAD BUDDY FIC MASTERPOST

tumblr prompts:

pat gets injured climbing across to pran's room during the final episode timeskip, 561 words. (ao3 link)

patpran got together before pran was sent away; they meet again the same way, though, 1420 words. (ao3 link)

fluffy, jealous, post-canon inkpaa, 1124 words. (ao3 link)

ao3 one-shots:

find out games you don't wanna play - oneshot, 1869 words. written post ep 7, au coming out. patpran.

summer's a knife - oneshot, 823 words. written before the ming+dissaya history was revealed, au look at why they might hate each other. no pairing.

they always told me i was gorgeous in a way - oneshot, 1646 words. canon divergence au, getting together and making out. inkpaa.

find a home in yours - oneshot, 2041 words. post-bad buddy pre magic is zero bodyswap fic! inkpaa. (original tumblr link)

ao3 multichapters:

cut through the clouds - 2/2 chapters, 2897 words. canon-divergence au getting together, post ep 7, inkpaa.

sequel: i've always needed something - 1/1 chapters, 1086 words. they get a dog.

help me enjoy the fall, 4/4 chapters, 5813 words. canon divergence au, wai gets shot instead. patpran, pran&wai.

i'm not a quitter, yeah i get what i want, 6/6 chapters, 6846 words. 5 times paa had to work around the height difference to kiss ink, and one time ink did the same. inkpaa.

makin' sense of having nothing left to save 1/2 chapters, 1031 words. pran is cursed with obedience and pat has absolutely no idea. the same can't be said for dissaya, though... patpran.

series:

and you know one of these days when i get my money right - postcanon wedding series.

nothing else would ever be better (better) - oneshot, 1584 words. post-canon proposal fic! inkpaa.

but one of these days i won't be able to ask loud enough - oneshot, 2836 words. wai and the briefly-mentioned canon fiancee from episode twelve run into some problems with wedding planning. secret crossover. wai/???, korn/???, pre-kornwai.

[gems1g]

Me: working on ongoing WIP

Me: goes on coffee break

Brain: hey man I just had an idea unrelated to what we're writing what if-

Me:

Seriously though. I've only written less than 10 multichapter fics, mostly because I get distracted by plot bunnies in the middle of a story that may come to me. I do basic outlining but sometimes it's hard to follow to a T. 🤣 That's why I usually write one-shots - my brain tends to go all over the place if I don't set a goal that a story should be finished in one "chapter".

So now, not only am I distracted from writing the next two chapters (done on one but I wanna be able to complete 2/3 before posting an update again), but I have like, 3 more new plot ideas.

To sum up:

[gliyerabaa]

4, 23, 29 for the writer asks :)

hehehehehehe thank you Carson I love doing these <3

4. How many WIP's do you have right now?

Oh jeez, the actual number is not one I'm willing to count... But WIP's with the intention to finish and post... I think I'm sitting at around 4 right now?

Per Aspera ch. 24

angsty one-shot (the premise of this is actually really cool- an AU where Glinda goes with Elphaba after DG, becomes a healer on the front lines of the fight)

smutfic sequel, currently at nearly 6k words and still more to go 😔😔😔😔😔 (not actually *sad* about this necessarily, just like... all these words, going to smut...)

WIP that I may finish, it's more just a few sentences of ideas than anything, based off of this song

23. How do you choose where to end a chapter in multichapter works?

Ok so in my years writing, I've gotten a lot better at 1. writing outlines and 2. actually sticking to the outlines. Take Per Aspera for example, I have the overarching plot written down in a 13 page bare bones outline, and then I flesh each chapter out with its own outline more.

The only times I break in unplanned places is if the word count is getting to be Too Much. Chapters 13 and 14 of Per Aspera were supposed to be 1 chapter, but I decided to break it into two for readability's sake. Might wind up doing the same with the second part of the smutfic. We'll see.

29. Share a bit from a fic you’ll never post OR from a scene that was cut from an already posted fic.

I've decided to share the unfinished doc that was the very root of the inspiration for Per Aspera Ad Astra. It's the beginnings of a short scene about the summer heat that I wrote in the dead of the coldest winter I've ever experienced. A lot of it is just scenario and context, but this unfinished doc is literally what started it all

It was a particularly hot summer afternoon, and Glinda was absolutely overcome with boredom.  Her parents were out of town yet again, and all her popular friends were on vacation- without her. They had all practically abandoned her the second she even mentioned the possibility that she might not be straight.  Small town life as a mostly-closeted lesbian wasn’t easy. Nearly everyone in the tiny Kansas town of Shiz had made their stance on ‘them strange city folk’ very clear.  And by ‘strange city folk’, they meant anyone who wasn’t straight, white, or Christian.  Her phone buzzed twice.  2 new messages from Elphaba Speaking of not straight, white, or Christian…. -hey.  -bored as hell, wanna hang out? Glinda sighed. Elphaba was her best friend and, to put it nicely, the town freak. She was the atheist daughter of the pastor of the only church in town, she was inexplicably green and unashamedly queer.  And Glinda was stupid enough to catch feelings for her.  She was bored out of her mind and needed something to do, but the very thought of spending time with Elphaba made her stomach flip in the best possible way.  She decided to type an ambiguous response. -idk. it’s sooo hot out and there’s nothing to do here anyway The response was almost instantaneous.  -we could drive to Wichita, do some shopping. I know how much you love shopping Wichita was almost two and a half hours away. There was no way she’d survive that long in such close quarters with the girl of her dreams. She needed an excuse. -ugh that’s so far away, besides, my parents just got me a bunch of new clothes for my birthday, I don’t really need anything -besides, you hate shopping -yes, I do. but it makes you happy and that makes me happy  Glinda blushed. Why did Elphaba have to be so infuriatingly nice? Before she could recollect her thoughts, her phone buzzed again. -we could go to Nanny’s. then figure out if we want to do anything else from there? -ooh, I’m starving. Nanny’s it is then.  -great, I’ll be right over Glinda’s heart was racing. She knew that she had no right to be crushing on her best friend this hard.  But her mind would always wander to Elphaba’s emerald green skin, her dark, captivating eyes, her gentle smile that she usually kept hidden from the rest of the world, that sweet, sweet smile that she wanted nothing more than to kiss- no, she banished the thought.  Needing to refocus her mind, Glinda rolled out of bed and decided she’d better get ready. She checked the weather on her phone: 90 degrees with 55% humidity, basically ridiculously hot.  She switched out of her t-shirt to a pink tank top and shorts. She heard Elphaba’s truck pulling into the driveway, so she kicked on her sandals, grabbed her purse, and hurried out the door.  The heat outside was oppressive. Glinda didn’t realize how much she relied on air conditioning until the few seconds she was forced to go without it. 

And that was all I had written in the doc. This is from February of 2019 so the style and characterization is a little outdated by my current standards. But, there it is. What would have happened, had this played out more:

they get lunch at Nanny's

they drive around in Elphie's truck, stop somewhere for ice cream

drive to a lake, unrestrained summer fun ensues

a first kiss in the back of her truck in the night, surrounded by fireflies

[sherl-grey]

For the get to know your fic writer meme: 2, 11 (I don't know if it means of your works but that's what I wanna know), 16, 28, 40 & 65? Sorry I got a lil carried away

hello friend, thanks for the ask!! realized i reblogged this without access to a laptop and had to wait til i had mine again to answer 😂 but here we go! (Also don't apologize, these are fun! Mostly I'm sorry because I can't answer briefly like a normal person, and this response is probably going to take up a lot of space, lol.)

2. Do you plan each chapter ahead or write as you go?

I don't have too many multichapter fics, and I think they've all been done differently, haha. "love don't roam, but occasionally it wanders off" was mostly outlined in advance. "the rose-pond swap" was me messing around at the beginning, but then people read it (lol, how dare people read this) and I frantically tried to plan the rest of it (and we can all see how that went 😂). "the weight of words" has the barest skeleton of an outline just to keep track of the canon timeline, but otherwise is just being made up. "my mind turns your life into folklore" was written on a complete whim, no thoughts head empty just eightrose. (I think we can infer here that planning worked best, but alas, it also appears that I'm bad at that.)

11. Link your three favorite fics right now (I don't know if it means of your works but that's what I wanna know)

😅Desperately going to try to remember what the heck I've written...

gravity like a lunar landing - Twelve is a major challenge to me, and I'm really proud of this because I think I managed to properly explain the way I see him in this one

Barcelona: Where No Doctor Has Gone Before! - Is the plot good? no. However, there are five Doctors, and it was fun, and even if I wish I'd planned it better, I'm fairly pleased with the result.

a more literal method of compartmentalization - I suspect this will always be one of the ones I'm most proud of, in that I knew what story I wanted to tell and somehow I got there? Wrote this in a sleep-deprived haze so no clue how that happened, but I'm glad it did!

16. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

Technically speaking, a lot. Things I'm actually thinking about writing? Maybe like... 5? 2 are Spotify asks from the frickin 2021 Wrapped game and YES I've started I swear 😂😅 I just got stuck. Various other people/conversations have had me revisiting like 4-5 things I'd jotted down in the past (Eight chameleon arch, a tenrose Bridgerton thing, a sequel to something, an out-of-order thing). Uhh, in non-DW news, I've got a Hellcheer thing I really want to write that's mostly about "right person, wrong timing" angst (with a happy ending because it's me, lol).

28. On average, how much writing do you get done in a day?

Most days, I don't write. When inspiration strikes, anywhere from 500 - 2000 words, probably. On a few rare occasions, I've just cranked out the whole story in one sitting, but I don't generally have time for that nowadays.

40. If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

This is such an interesting question... I've never really even considered this. I think one of the scenes I most consciously decided to try to make pretty is the Woman Wept scene in LDRBOIWO (that is a bad acronym lol), so that could be nice? I'll have to think about this more!

65. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

Honestly, at the moment the thing I'm most hopeful about writing is the Hellcheer thing mentioned in 16. DW-wise, though, I really want to go update all of my WIPs sometime soon, and I want to get at least one of the songfics done--I feel like I'll feel way less guilty about starting new projects if I wrap up some of the outstanding ones.

[actualbird]

Happy new year!! Do you have any goals for 2023? Writing wise, what do you have planned for 2023? Hope you are doing well!!

happy new year, anon ^w^!!

if theres one thing that im horrendously frustrated with myself about, it's that im bad at Having Goals For The Future. not in the sense that i'll set goals and then fail them, though that does also happen. but the more Often thing that happens is that i just Dont Set Goals Or Dreams For Myself At All. JHVKSDJVFJKDSFVSDFD

which, in itself, lies a general goal i wanna start working on: get some little dreams and ambitions! nothing too big, because haha aiming high, in THIS economy? //sobs. buuuut i do wanna give myself achievement homework so that theres always something i can be working on when im not working on jobwork

writing wise, ive set up the following more specific goals :D

i want to create a Volume 2 to the "The Journal of NXX Investigation Team Behavioral Studies"!!! because ive written a bunch more analyses since then, and ive also been planning the finer details (like how to improve my layouting HAHA) of this behind the scenes already :D

i wanna write more totfic, deffo!! but specifically, i want to only stick to oneshots and chapters for fics i Already have posted and only ever do a new multichapter work once ive had EVERYTHING written for it already. i dont like that i have a lot incomplete multichapter fics on my ao3, so this is me trying to fix that bad habit ive got.

aaaaand ive got a tiny goal for my original writing, actually!! ive been in the process of revamping my original writing website, but i dont wanna publish the site until i have a new recent work i can add onto my archive of works already stored there

thanks for the ask, anon! and i hope you have a great new year :D

[sapphicblight]

ooh ooh for the ao3 writers wrapped; 3 and 12

3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

hmm i haven't really thought about it before tbh. i have such a hard time judging my work as-is and not as my work. but i think maybe intrinsically just because the inspiration for it was largely my own self worth issues, body image issues, and how i can struggle to believe a compliment is genuine and as a result will feel physical discomfort at receiving one. that last part especially is what fuelled how i described what pete felt. the fact that i did that at all is kinda huge for me bc i'm big on escapism rather than inserting myself and my feelings and pain when i write, so i guess i'm mostly proud of that as a personal achievement (:

(it was also my first go at safehouse era vp, and while i only did so shallowly and for 2 brief moments, i'm fairly pleased with how it turned out actually)

12. How many WIP’s do you have in your docs for next year?

oh god. more than i will probably get done, especially since one or two are multi-chapter ones that require extra world building and character work and arcs and so much planning that i don't actually have time for among my other non-fanfic writing projects.

for vegaspete i have 8, 2 of which are multichapters (one of which i do actually wanna work on despite previously mentioned priorities)

for kimchay i have 3 that i'm not as likely to actually write unless i'm suddenly hit by an unexpectedly strong urge to go back to them instead of vp (which i didn't see coming the first time around either and then suddenly i'd written and published 2 kimchay fics so well and truly, anything can happen)

and then within the college au i've got a partially published vp wip, kimchay plans, and my first ever kinnporsche fic

potentially a new vp wip was actually born today but i need to let her settle for a bit before i can decide whether or not to pursue

[catboy-jupiter]

me hopping between wips like

i wanna work on the yoi time travel fic

stares at blank document for 2 minutes

gives up and reads a cytham fic

for some reason it gives me an idea for my "light is not kira (but still has a god complex dw)" fic

writes three new paragraphs. thinks i should probably do some research before i write more since i've given light a different backstory and i dont wanna get it wrong

remembers yugen, that oisuga fic i was reading before i had ao3 and keep reminding myself to reread and catch up bc it must have ended by now i'm pretty sure. yeah sure i'll reread it later

gets a sudden urge to write for my yuanqing post-post-apocalypse omegaverse fic

instead of writing i think of the two ocs i created so yanqing could be jealous and imagining their own outings before they properly get together. yknow instead of thinking abt the main couple i had this whole fic idea for

i remember how i was doing good progress on my old danganronpa fic that i'd forgotten about until i was moving all my wips and ideas to ellipsus and remind myself to outline the other ships' stories instead of just the saioumami and komahina parts of the fic

i get a flashback to my first fic and mentally complain about how i have no idea where i wrote down (if i even did) the ideas i had for its rewrite that i've supposedly been working on since 2018 (i don't have a single line written). instead of writing down the ideas i came up with a few months ago, i also keep them on my mind, meaning it's highly possible this will repeat again and again and again

i feel guilty about doing all this instead of working on the multichapter fic that i've already posted on ao3 and said i was gonna try my best to maintain a monthly schedule (i only post three chapters and 1 of those was a rewrite of the original prologue, one was an incredibly short new prologue that didn't rlly add much, and only the last was actually interesting new content)

after sulking for a bit i'm reminded of how much progress i've been doing on my hp fics even though the one i'm technically the furthest ahead has only been rewrites of the first draft. but like at least i can see how much i've improved.

i open the p5 metaverse!akira akeshu document and read through it all and don't add a single new thing to it

my other wips continue to collect dust until they somehow enter this cycle

[murdockbuckley]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

i wasn't tagged in this and i'm not going to tag anyone, feel free to do it if you want 🫶

1.How many works do you have on ao3?

two

2.What's your total ao3 word count?

3,724

3.What fandoms do you write for?

9-1-1 but i do have a firstprince wip

4.Top 5 fics by kudos:

i only have two posted soo..

Loneliness [1.1k, General Audience]

Tainted Thoughts [2.5k, General Audience]

5.Do you respond to comments?

i always try to

6.What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

oh my bobby centric wip for sure, i don't write much angst

7.What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

my firstprince wip has a pretty happy ending

8.Do you get hate on fics?

not enough people have read them to get hate on them

9.Do you write smut?

i haven't but i might at some point

10.Craziest crossover?

i don't really have crossovers, just AUs(?) where the 9-1-1 characters are characters from another piece of media

11.Have you ever had a fic stolen?

thankfully no

12.Have you ever had a fic translated?

no, but if anyone wanted to i wouldn't be opposed

13.Have you co-written a fic before?

no

14.All time favorite ship?

i've been shipping for at least 10 years you can't ask me this

15.What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

i'm determined to finish all of them but it will probably take me longest to finish the girldad!buck wip purely because i don't write the chapters out in order

16.What are your writing strengths?

oh i'm not sure, that i can write a whole fic based on a small poem i write that's completely unrelated to any characters

17.What are your writing weaknesses?

i write out of order, so i plan to publish a multichapter fic one chapter at a time and then i never can because i'll be missing chapters in between. i either focus too much on dialogue or completely forget about, not sure if that's because i go nonverbal alot and that translates to my writing or if i just cannot find a good inbetween.

18.Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

i've not done much dialogue in another language but have included a few words here and the, but in langauges i've previously studied and knew how to write it in (it was only one or two sentences and even then they still might be wrong)

19.First fandom you wrote in?

guys i don't wanna say (it was dan and phil but i never posted it anywhere i just wrote it in a notebook, at least i think it was that)

20.Favorite fic you've written?

out of the two i posted it's Tainted Thoughts and it doesn't have many kudos ):

out of my wips it's probably my aroace eddie character study