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20 Questions for Writers

tagged by the wonderful @autumnwoodsdreamer, thank you!! ✨

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

19 works

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

139,379 words

3. What fandoms do you write for?

star wars, star trek, and...others (that i either won't mention + there's 2 more fandoms i have unpublished wip's for... one day they will see the light of day) (and i used to write for dghda!)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

you could always see me

time to come home

we're a slow burning tune

no different

5. Do you respond to comments?

yes!! and i love to do so!!

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

i don't really write angsty endings? so i'll pick home is far away - the first fic in the series of the same title! it has a hopeful ending but it leaves the characters in an 'angsty' place emotionally, essentially because it's part 1 of 3.

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

home, in every language - part 3 of the home is far away series. ♡ though i am also very fond of the ending of when to hold on and when to let go.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

never, thankfully!

9. Do you write smut?

i have not

10. Do you write crossovers?

no, unless we count mixing characters from various star wars properties; i love mixing rebels characters with the OT, mando, and thrawn books characters, it brings me a lot of joy.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i know of

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

nope

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

nope

14. What’s your all-time favourite ship?

wow that is quite a question... within star wars i'd pick dinluke or thranto lol. truthfully i think my answer to this question changes every year lol, my ao3 bookmarks show this pretty clearly

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

oh hell... it's a star wars au of another fandom that i started writing in fall 2022. please let me finish this someday, i'm on chapter 4 of 4, and the whole thing is only 10k words rn 😭

also, more relevantly, there is a fic about ezra & luke on lothal that i started in ... early 2023. it's 6k words rn and i'm probably 40% through the story... [sighs deeply] please let me finish this one too, please.

16. What are your writing strengths?

constructing a narrative? i don't know, i'm fond of these stories i've woven. i find it hard to write a fic that's ~just vibes~, although i do love to read those; my writing is always spurred by the need to write these characters undergoing something meaningful, with a meaningful conclusion.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

...i have previously read back some of my work and found some very clunky sentences/paragraphs that really make it clear i'm only a writer by hobby, and that my profession is...more technical lol. i also don't like some of the romance i've written in the past, but i don't regret writing any of it.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

hell yeah i've done it multiple times! my bobannec fic is kind of very about that, and i've used other languages in non-sw fics. i like reading it in fics as well.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

dirk gently's holistic detective agency! in 2017-2018. to this day i think it was/is the most welcoming fandom to write fic for.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

home is far away, all 3 parts. ❤️ and since i have a place to say it, that fic means so much to me because it let me express so many of the feelings i was experiencing in 2022. the same goes for when to hold on and when to let go. i really love and cherish both of those stories.

no pressure at all, tagging @theydjarin @gizkalord @gil-estel and anyone else who sees this and feels like answering questions! 💌

[autumnwoodsdreamer]

Ooh! Love this idea!

From the next chapter of my fic Unsinkable (because this series is my most favourite thing I’ve ever written)…

All Sabine ever did was care and love and fight for others. The galaxy showed her a bleak picture and where others would just submit and take it, she dug her heels in, shook her head and decided there would be colour and life no matter what it cost her.

And all she wanted, all she ever asked for was a family.

(It was so hard to find a portion that wasn’t super spoiler-y 😆)

No pressure tagging: @seleneisrising @the-kittylorian-writes @desertbeskar @visitbespin @heatherthetiredwriter and anyone else who wants to join in!

I have an idea! 💜 (if you don't mind such thing, of course!)

Everyone reblog this ask and write about the fic you're the most proud of. Published one, unpublished one, work in progress, doesn't matter! Just say some nice things about your work. 💜

Heck yeah! Feel free to share a few sentences you’re proud of! Tag a friend or several!

I’ll go first!

This is a line of dialogue from a semi-crack fic my friend and I work on periodically:

“I highly doubt there’s a bomb in your e-mail, Timothy,” Jon says, emerging from his office, looking all for the world like a disgruntled rat in a posh button-up and knitted sweater. A posh rat — a prat, if you will.

[autumnwoodsdreamer]

I posted 550 times in 2022

That's 80 more posts than 2021!

(whoa. wild.)

43 posts created (8%)

507 posts reblogged (92%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@starbirdrising

@guinevereslancelot

@fallingforcozyfall

@visitbespin

@mimi-noelle

I tagged 550 of my posts in 2022

#funny - 212 posts

#star wars - 143 posts

#the mandalorian - 136 posts

#fanart - 133 posts

#din djarin - 114 posts

#grogu djarin - 103 posts

#so true - 102 posts

#writing - 82 posts

#din & grogu - 73 posts

#writer - 65 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#(just the way i was taught but you don’t measure for savoury dishes in ‘cups’; it’s splash of oil one onion two tomatoes alllll the garlic)

(what? I only speak truths)

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Ezra: With the benefit of hindsight, I’ll admit teaching Grogu to ride Chopper was ill conceived. But, right now, our priority is not to attribute blame: it’s to find them.

137 notes - Posted October 14, 2022

(thought this one wouldn’t do so well but apparently we are all ready for a crossover of chaos)

#4

you gotta love how the Bad Batch plot is, like, 60% them just running out of frozen pizza and taking really random jobs from sketchy sources to get the money to buy frozen pizza for themselves and their little sister who wound up in their custody

147 notes - Posted March 13, 2022

(forgot I posted that this year…)

#3

it’s got a hood!

163 notes - Posted September 21, 2022

(Yay! My little hooded cutie made it into the review!)

#2

I so need to see the other Space DadsTM try to hide their kids under trench coats…

Din and Grogu: very easy, he gets away with hiding the kid under his cloak most of the time (so long as he doesn’t make noise or use his Jedi powers to steal snacks, they’re fine)

Hunter and Omega: she’s just little enough that he could carry her on his back, stoop over and pass her off as a very lumpy hunchback

Kanan and Ezra: they fool no one. Kanan’s just going with the story that he’s a humanoid with four legs, mind your business.

179 notes - Posted June 9, 2022

(I still want it.)

My #1 post of 2022

It’s just that… at the start of Treasure Planet, Sarah’s saying how much she keeps thinking she’ll open her eyes and see her son coming home with a strange pet and begging her to let him keep it and then he comes in, framed by a thunderstorm, a troubled boy trying to help a dying man and that sets him off on a whole adventure and when he comes home, he’s learned so much and grown and he’s truly a young man and he hugs his mother and shows her a strange pet he wants to keep and it’s just… it’s beautiful.

765 notes - Posted January 11, 2022

(every time I see this get another like or reblog, I get so nostalgic. One of the greatest stories ever.)

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yoinking this from @boltlightning :D

i got bingo! template under the cut if you'd like to yoink this as well ♡

[visitbespin]

one of my fav comments i've received lately ❤️

[visitbespin]

the thing that keeps me going is that whenever i publish a fic, by the time i've got it all polished and ready to hit the "post work" button, i've convinced myself that this fic is so niche and that i've tried my best but didn't write it well enough to truly convey what i was trying to say... but then, without fail, it turns out there is always at least one commenter who absolutely understood what i was trying to say, who completely 100% understood the story i was trying to tell and the characters i was trying to write. and basking in the feeling of reading those comments is one of my favorite feelings

[visitbespin]

*drops this bell zettifar fic into the tag and runs*

[autumnwoodsdreamer]

Thanks for the tag!

Here’s a bit of the next, next chapter of Unsinkable (it’s complicated)

“And Fennec didn’t become a legend by accident. She has the most sophisticated gear I’ve ever seen. She believes she might be able to unmask your pursuer; perhaps, at the very least, trace the call to within a parsec of its origin.”

No pressure tagging: @the-kittylorian-writes @visitbespin @heatherthetiredwriter @desertbeskar @corellianhounds @sassygirl579

Throwing out a general tag to anyone who wants to play--tag game! Reblog with your favorite line of dialogue that you've written today/recently. Here's mine:

"Hey, you can't get rid of me now--I'm an accessory. And not the fun kind!"