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anytaintedcreature · 6 years ago

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Fanfic ask meme: 13, 17 (heh), 18, 21 (I need author recs!), 24, 33, 41, 44, 47 ("Serena Alone"), 48, 50. Any or all, dealer's choice.

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13. Who is your least favorite character to write for? Why?

Hmm...this one is hard because I think it's not so much one particular person than it is the characters that only show up maybe once or twice. Those are the scenes I positively labor over for days, when it's a voice I've never used and probably won't again. Like for example, I've been fighting through a scene with Grand Master Pang, I keep skipping it (because the boys just call to me) and I have to get it done soon, but. Those super minor characters are the ones that throw me.

17. Post a line from a WIP you're working on.

Since you enjoyed giggles in the last chapter, here’s some lighthearted fun.

“What’s that face for?”

Rowan realized too late he’d plastered on what had to be a dopey sort of grin. “Nothing. It’s just, you know. Sneaking around, hoods up, it’s like when we first met.”

The corners of Erik’s mouth twitched upwards. “Yeah, only I think I could do without shouts of ‘Darkspawn’ and being shot at by crossbows and magic.”

((I’ll put the rest under a cut, to spare those who don’t care. There may or may not be another snippet under here, though. ))

18. Do you have any abandoned WIPs? What made you abandon them?

I do not, actually. I've really only started writing fanfic in the past year and haven't started anything that won't be finished. And I'd rather be struck from the earth itself than abandon my original work, so that will happen one day, whether the world wants it or not.

21. Tell me about another writer(s) who you admire? What is it about them that you admire?

Well my bud, my homie, I cannot answer this one honestly without saying you. Because your writing absolutely slays me and I aspire to hone my craft as fantastically as you have, and you have so much more going on in life than I do that the amount of writing you manage to put out for all eight of us and that shoelace astounds me. Like, you’ve got a job you love and a family and all that jazz and still find some time to write about the things you love, that’s the dream right there and I admire the hell out of you for it.

In other news, two of my favorite Dragon Age writers are loquaciousquark and jawsandbones, but it's mostly fenhawke, which may not be to your particular taste, but damn they are fantastic. I also keep up with laurelsofhighever's The Falcon and the Rose, which is Alistair/Cousland - again, idk if that's your cup of tea but we should totally chat about the rest of Dragon Age because we haven't yet. A travesty.

24. How do you feel about writing smutty scenes?

Oh, man. Well. I've never written anything more than like, implied smut. I feel like my kiss scenes alone need some work (although I'm rather proud of one I just wrote recently, completely unrelated to anything, luminerik who I don't go here) and I just don't know that I'd be any good at writing actual, explicit smut, honestly. It'd probably be stilted and weird and I'd quietly slip into the nearest crack in the floor.

33. What's the biggest compliment you've gotten?

God, like I don't cry at least a little over every single comment. I don't know, someone told me yesterday I inspired them which like, hit me in the gut forty different times. Also someone told me a while ago that my prose was exquisite which meant the whole entire world, the fucking universe, to me because I was just starting out with this fic and just didn't really know if it was any good.

I cry over every compliment on my writing because it is something I so desperately want to be good at, because it feeds my soul and knowing that any bit of it has a positive effect on anyone just stuns me.

That got sappy AF so next

41. What's your favorite minor character you've ever written?

Better be this asshole

Honestly I just love his voice and his manner of speaking and finding a way to bring him back around to some manner of light has been a joy added to my life.

44. What is the last line you wrote?

“You have one hour,” Erik shoved his sleeve up. He unhooked the timepiece from around his wrist, before strapping it to Rowan’s. “One hour, and if you don’t come back, I swear to Yggdrasil I will find a way to drag you out of there myself.”

47. Here's a fic title - 'Serena Alone', what would this story be about?

May I interest you in a warm dish of angst, fresh from the oven: a collection of scenes following Serena's lost moments in Act II, juxtaposed with sweet childhood memories, up until the big Grove of Repose reveal, except PLOT TWIST its all told from the POV of Veronica's ghost, who watches her twin face the world alone, (because she couldn't go back to Yggdrasil while it was not there, correct?) Until the tree is restored and Veronica can find peace knowing Serena has found her inner strength and has found a way to go on alone.

48. What's your favorite trope to write?

Is angst a trope? PINING, then. God, I love writing two dorks in love and then keeping them apart for reasons while they just lament.

50. If you could write only angst, fluff, or smut for the rest of your writing life, which would it be and why?

I mean, you all know. It'd be angst, because that's what I love and it comes more naturally to me, but it would be quite hollow without the payoff fluff in the aftermath, because I'm a big fan of breaking it to put it back together and without fluff, angst is just...bitter. But hey, if that's all I had, you can bet I'd write some bitter shit and have a grand old time.

thanks for indulging me with these trash questions I love it

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