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Thanks for the asks, Vilz! From the fic writer asks here.
#1: the last sentence you wrote
Hmm. Well, I believe the last bit of prose I wrote was for a Big Bang story I can't reveal yet. So how about instead, I share a line I wrote and tucked into one of my note files to use in a fic I haven't written yet, but didn't want to forget what I came up with?
Actually, let's make that two, because they're related.
See, I like trying to come up with things for Cole (DAI) to say, because he has a very poetic way of speaking. So here are two lines of his, from the notes for two different fics.
First, from my notes for Tyria Lavellan's longfic (the Inquisition novelization):
“Mistaken for the mask, alone, Anchored but adrift, asking with no answers. ‘Does anyone see me?’ Never enough, but wanting and wondering, her worry wrapped around his wrist.”
Context: It's the "Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts" quest, and Cole is talking to Cullen about Inquisitor Lavellan. She also gave him a Dalish luck charm previously in the story, which he keeps tied around his wrist under his gloves.
And the second, from the Sonic/Dragon Age crossover I mentioned yesterday:
"He sees you and the cracks form; he sees her and he shatters. He hides behind humor, hoping the words will hold him whole, but the holes remain."
Context: without giving too much away, this is after "In Hushed Whispers" and "Champions of the Just" (I'm fitting both in thanks to hedgehog shenanigans), and Cole is talking about the Herald's mental state afterward.
#5: first sentence of the fifth paragraph of an unpublished WIP
My only unpublished WIP is Ascension, my Sonic 2 novelization (game, not movie). Unfortunately, the noted sentence isn't terribly interesting.
Miles flicked his ears at the voices and ignored them as he padded into the village.
So how about I throw the first sentence of the first paragraph in there too, because I think it's more interesting?
A star fell from the sky early in the morning of the last day of August.
#10: what is the longest amount of time you've let a draft rest before you finished it?
I tell this story a lot in fic-writing spaces. I'm easily distractible. I think I might have ADHD (no diagnosis yet, but the process is underway). No one really caught it when I was a teen because I was also categorized as "gifted," which can apparently hide the signs, plus it was the 90s and back then everyone was looking for ADD in boys and looking for the outward "hyperactivity" markers. I had structure and "could sit still," so no one clocked anything. Not even when I was briefly failing a class for not turning in homework (before the teacher asked what happened, and I apologized and "shaped up" and brought my grade back up).
This carried over into college, which is also where I found fanfic. And just like with schoolwork slipping (especially in college where I was the "structure" and very bad at it), I also got distracted away from finishing fic projects I started.
Which is a long way of saying I started a Sonic fic in 2003, posting as I went on FFN, but after writing seven chapters, I disappeared for a bit. I came back the same year and dropped a short chapter eight, and then disappeared again.
I thought about it occasionally, especially when someone would leave a review on it, but other things got in the way. Got married. Had kids. Moved states twice. Did lots and lots of other hobbies.
But finally, in 2013, I decided for NaNoWriMo, I was going to finish that story, because I'd still received one review a year on it from people who liked the first half. So I buckled down, and with my bestie/beta's help, wrote seven more chapters and posted them one a week.
I'd lost most of my old readers by then, but oh well. I'd finished it. It was done.
And then I disappeared from fanfic spaces for another ten years. 😅
