#i feel comeppeled to add that actually i started a bunch of video games novelizations i didn't finish in my early teens

[thegeminisage]

1, 17, & 30?

THANK YOU these are good ones

1. What was the first fandom and/or pairing that you wrote fic for?

oooh, my origin story. WELL. back in the early 00s on ffn one of the trends was novelizing video games. like, writing them as if they were on a shelf in a bookstore and nongamers could pick it up and learn the world and characters as well as people who had played it. as we know though a great deal of fanfic tends to go unfinished - it's just part of the medium. EYE however was absolutely desperate to read the end of an ocarina of time novel, and no one ever really managed to get past the first three dungeons...so i eventually decided to just write my own. it wound up being 36 chapters and 150k words (amazing!), and it was like. love and light to past me. she made some choices. ocs replacing main characters, character deaths, alteration of that iconic ending...but, i DID get to the end, which was my only goal, and i think that experience really formed the way i think about and write fic - always with the ending in mind. there are very few fics i've started that i did not finish, though sadly many of those fics are lost to the sands of time now.

17. What fic are you most proud of?

at the moment? probably how arthur got his groove back. i actually have an ao3 series for what i believe is my BEST work, but that one i think i rank the highest because like...when i go back and reread my own fic, which i do frequently (it's tailor-made to my tastes after all), this is the one i find myself wanting to change the least. i always kind of wish i could edit the others to tweak this or that pacing element or timing problem or whatever but i find very little to complain about with this one...not that anything is perfect, but it executed itself almost exactly how i wanted it to and i think it hits the pacing and beats of everything JUST right, and there's no major scenes that have elements i wish i had worked harder on or smoothed out more. when i need to read something that won't make me crazy it's always my first pick. every day i'm humbled by how much love was given to broken road but it's also sort of hilarious in a way because it's not my best work! not by a longshot! i firmly believe how arthur got his groove back is my best work - at least as far as what's up on ao3.

30. Tell us an idea for a longfic you want to write in the future.

answered this here!

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