Hi! Just wanted to ask out of curiosity, do you always delete your fics upon completion? There’ve been a few fics that really touched me which when I went back to re-read, weren’t there. I think they may have been written by you (i.e. deaf rey working in an ice cream parlor, a fic showing Rey moving into Ben’s apartment when her heater broke, etc.)? I only recently realized when I missed the last 2 chapters of Wanting and saw it was taken down before I could get to them 😭
Hi!
This is a really interesting question and I’m very happy to answer. The truth is I don’t like to, but the fics in question were all taken down for different reasons. So ‘The Sweetest Sign’ was taken down because I loved it so much I wanted to rewrite it into original fiction. This I did (it took me six months to rewrite it) and was published last year as ‘‘Hanukkah at the Great Greenwich Ice Creamery’. ‘Pressed’ (the one in Paris with the broken heater) I took down because I got halfway through and realised I couldn’t end it the way I wanted without seriously rewriting the beginning. It got taken down probably about eighteen months ago? I’m still writing it, unbelievably! When it’s finished I hope to share it again somehow. ‘Wanting’ and ‘Arm the Doors’ were both complete and on Ao3 but sadly both were plagiarised into a different fandom. I took both down while I decide how to proceed from here. I’d actually like to work ‘Wanting’ into original fiction, fixing all the errors I made the first time around. I don’t know... I’d love to finish the Sparrow and the Songbird, but the plagiarism (on top of the disaster that was TRoS) has kind of cooled my love of writing fic.
I don’t know. I feel a bit stuck.
