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love love LOVE your apocalypse au!!!!! i do have some questions, like what kind of apocalypse is it??? It doesn’t seem like zombie bc they’re eating the corpses…. And did quesadilla island occur here….. or is it like an au where they all knew each other regardless of being islanders??? And what’s cucuruchos up to???? Speaking of which…. Who is dead and whose still lurking about????? And it sounds like bads hiding some stuff from cellbit, can’t wait for that to blow up spectacularly!!!!! Once again, fantastic work and many many kudos for the delightful au!!!!!!

thank you !! some of these questions are things i know the answer to and some of them arent !

yeah tho, not typical apocalypse. there's Monsters out there. almost no one knows where they came from. they show up, they eat people, they go hunting again. almost like a certain pair of leading characters... 😳 the big difference is that bad and cellbit (but mostly bad) will eat the corpses left behind. the monsters won't. cellbit thinks too much about the fact that, when he does eat raw meat, he prefers it to still be living. its hard not for him to draw parallels.

and no, no quesadilla island here! it's similar to a modern au, but with a few adjustments (like bad's whole deal, and the apocalypse xP ). there's some characters who know each other still, and some who don't even know that the others existed. thats mostly to keep it easier on me for fucking around with them as units rather than the smorgasboard of dynamics the island gave us. the federation is still around tho. yknow how in some apocalypses there's drinks and shit from made up companies because they dont want to deal with getting deals made with irl companies for the exposure. every brand item is Federation item. something something from one capitalist apocalypse to one where people get fuckin Eaten.

people i know are still alive:

bad

cellbit

bagi

tina

roier

pac

mike

fit

cucurucho

people i know are dead:

philza minecraft

mariana

slimecicle

jaiden (?)

baghera

etoiles

antoine

aypierre

almost everyone that bad would have done anything to keep

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tossing and turning! lumpy pillow! restless!

Tossing and Turning: What parts of the writing process are you most comfortable with? Least?

Answered here! But have another one. I’m really comfortable writing dialogue, and I’m really comfortable (see also: enjoy) pivoting dialogue and growing it for a scene. I’ve included an example for the next question! 

As for uncomfortable, I’ve been slightly uncomfortable writing the kids a little older in the C&C ‘verse? I think though that’s mostly because I’ve still been getting used to writing them as teenagers and young adults more than anything else.

Lumpy pillow: What is the editing process like for you?

Probably a little weird? I generally sort of write like someone might layer paint – I knock out a base coat, then add an overall layer, then fixate on perfecting edges, or finishing a wall, or getting that edging right around a powerpoint (which is to say I do it out of order, haha). 

It means that the story sort of builds up over time. What’s most important to me really is getting the intent right in the base coat, and making sure what I want a scene to achieve is on the page, even if it’ll change a lot between that first draft and what I post. This even goes so far as dialogue. 

Like, okay, an example! There’s a scene in the first chapter of the pirate au where Beth and Annie run into Turner and Noah at the markets, and this is a scene that really starts to introduce broader conflicts and establishes that Beth and Turner don’t like each other (and that Turner doesn’t rate Beth or her family). My initial write-up of the scene had Turner insult Annie for having a baby out of wedlock in a way that basically made Beth mad. I wasn’t beholden to this dialogue, but I knew that I wanted Turner’s insult to be felt deeply, I wanted it to be aimed at Annie but hit Beth by proxy, and I wanted it to set the tone for their dynamic.

So here’s the extremely crappy first draft version of the exchange:

“Surely you must know by now that I am married,” Beth replies. “And to the very man who equipped this city with its court carriages no less.”

Governor Turner looks at her for a moment, before he rocks his head from side-to-side, his gaze fixing back on Annie.

“Of course, not that marriage ever seemed to be much of an issue for all of the Marks daughters.”

Beth stares at him.

That was never really going to stay, but it was a placeholder for what I wanted the characters to feel in it and what the intent of the overall scene was.

As I layered up the story, I added a lot more nuance to character histories and dynamics, and a pretty major throughline where the Marks’ were an old money family in decline, before Beth was ‘rescued’ by new money Dean marrying her. Annie as a result has a diminished family name and is further mistreated due to being an unwed mother, and that is frequently used less against Annie, and more against Beth, because she’s the one who still has social power at this stage of the story.

So now the final version of the exchange goes:

“Governor,” [Beth] replies, tilting her head in his direction in greeting as opposed to invitation, although he seems to take it up as the latter, quickening his stride towards them. Internally, Beth sighs as Annie huffs, stepping a little sideways in the hopes not to be seen.

“What a pleasure to see you grace the streets of our fine city,” he says when he gets to them, his expression bright even as the cut of his mouth looks sharp, and Beth shifts her weight, tries to ease the tension pulling in her chest when she sees his gaze slide sideways to Annie. “Oh, and with Miss Marks too, I see.”

“Lady Marks,” Beth corrects curtly, and the Governor just hums.

“Of course. Lady Marks.”

He bows his head slightly in put-on apology towards Annie, and Beth doesn’t even have to look at her sister to know she’s burning with humiliation beneath the blue lace trim of her dress. It’s enough to make Beth square her jaw, something biting low in her at the Governor’s deliberate mistitling, but before she can say a thing, he steps slightly sideways, revealing a wiry, younger man. Pale, with small, brown eyes and thin lips, a head of gingery-brown hair, and if there was something lynx-like about Turner, there was something decidedly squirrelly about this man, or - - not squirrelly, Beth thinks, pursing her lips and holding her basket back towards herself.

Weaselly.

“I believe your lady sister knows my new deputy, Lord Huntington, but I’m not sure if you’ve made his acquaintance yourself, Lady Boland?”

Beth’s gaze does dart back to Annie at that, seeing her sister’s face flush as she avoids Lord Huntington and Governor Turner’s looks – the former uncertain, twisting a gold ring on his thumb, the latter amused – and well, Beth thinks, pushing her basket to one arm, and bending her knee into the slightest curtsey she can manage.

It’s doing the exact same thing – Turner insults Annie in a way that makes Beth loathe him – but instead of being so blatant, it’s more insidious (he mistitles her, then makes it clear he knows she slept with Noah) in a way that (hopefully) feels truer to Turner’s character and more nuanced and subtle overall. 

So yes! Editing for me I guess is adding coats of paint (and sometimes stripping it too), haha!

Restless: What are your writing goals? What are you striving towards?

I guess my ultimate goal is to make a living from my writing? I sort of do that now through working in operational writing, freelancing and having a (very) modest income from my creative work, but in a fantasy world, I’d be writing creatively full time. 

In terms of creative goals though, I’d just like to keep growing. I don’t think learning about writing ever ends, and it’s one of the things I love about it. I think of storytelling like a living thing, and it needs feeding and nurturing and care and rest, but also if you want it to be better, you need to keep challenging it, educating it, talking to it. I see writers in my real life who view ‘good writing’ as some sort of point they get to, and I think when I was a baby writer, I used to think that too. I’m forever grateful it’s something I grew out of naturally, and I love that I can learn as much from people new to writing with different perspectives as I can from seasoned professionals! It makes it such an enriching world to live in.

Can’t Sleep Writing Asks

[heartofstanding]

fic author meme

tagged by @skeleton-richard, thank you!

Author Name: heartofstanding

Fandoms You Write For: at the moment, mainly just 14/15th century RPF

Where You Post Fic: AO3, sometimes my tumblr for tiny fic, I used to post on LJ

Most Popular One-Shot: Break The Quaking Heart, a Hobbit fic about Fili and Kili I wrote for the prompt meme and, like, I think it’s OK but slightly silly because the premise is (imo) unbelievable. 

Most Popular Multi-Chapter Story: I don’t have many multi-chapter fics on AO3, the most popular is probably Something Beneath The Floorboards which is an abandoned Being Human AU where Annie is a vampire and Mitchell a ghost

Favorite Story You Wrote: it always changes, at the moment I’m really proud of the frail crucible of her body, which is a fic about Eleanor Cobham’s infertility issues, and I feel like it’s a solid, mature story that touches on things about Eleanor that I really want to explore? 

Story You Were Nervous to Post: most of them, really, since I’m really shy and introverted (I don’t have this issue with the Histories fandom because I know a lot of the people there, but bigger fandoms, yeah).

How Do You Choose Your Titles: with a great deal of difficulty. I usually find a placeholder title that’s somewhat suitable and keep searching and then end up settling on something basic or something that comes to me. 

Do You Outline: More or less? I usually have an idea in my head of the general arc of the story and I usually have a bunch of notes about scenes and such. I have done detailed, sequence-by-sequence outlines but that’s usually when I’m struggling and feel like I’m lost

How many of your fanworks are…

Complete: on AO3, 44 out of 45 - but, in fairness, I usually only post stuff once I finish it and the one thing that’s incomplete is marked as abandoned.

In-Progress: I have a WIP list here. There are ten fics that have something written. Six of them featured in the 150 meme I just posted. The remaining four are: a Catherine de Valois fic that was one of the first things I wrote about these idiots but needs revising and I’m not sure anyone will like it, a fic about Edward/Aumerle at Agincourt which I feel woefully unqualified to write, a Mary de Bohun fic which might end up just being about her death or something bigger, and an aimless fic about a disaffected Hal having anonymous gay sex and then getting confronted with his sad little brother. Plus there are a bunch of other fics that are just “things I want to write one day”. 

Coming Soon: I have a couple of fics that I’m editing. The first is one about Henry and Richard meet when they’re tiny and things are Awful (it’s fairly whump-heavy and maybe a bit overblown?). The second is 32k of Edward of York having excellent friends-with-benefit sex with Hal’s bestie Richard Courtenay.

Upcoming Story You Are Most Excited to Write: at the moment, it’s a toss-up between Mary hanging out with her kids and Joanna meeting the Lancaster brothers. Of the stuff I haven’t written anything for, there’s a lot that I think are really cool though I’m currently really into the idea of writing something about the story Hal gave Henry a knife and told him to kill him if he thought Hal was a traitor because Henry will be freaking the fuck out and that’s always fun. 

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