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SooperSara’s Scribbles

AKA: A probably long-overdue masterlist of my Zutara fanfiction

All links lead to AO3, but stories are also crossposted to FFN.

Stories marked with 🎶 have podfics available on AO3.

Requests for Zutara Week Throwback prompts are always open and will be filled extremely slowly as I have time!

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In I&S, is Katara still a little scared of Shirishu? Despite forgiving an becoming friends with Zuko since then, emotions are also illogical, and that might not change how she feels about a venemous animal that can track anything that has been used to target her and her friends in the past.

Yeah, probably! I mean, she IS really close with Zuko now, but she's not friends with Jun, much less with Nyla. I don't think learning to trust and care for Zuko would have any impact on her opinion of a huge, venomous animal that has very little relation to Zuko. Like... if there's a mean dog at the end of the street, making friends with the neighbor who hired the dog's owner to mow their lawn isn't going to change the fact that the dog at the end of the street is mean, you know?

That said, Katara's a lot more equipped to defend herself now than she was back when Nyla temporarily paralyzed her, so that might take the edge off of the fear or aversion she feels toward shirshu.

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I'm not usually one to make New Year's resolutions, but I have a big project to work on (obviously), and setting goals has been working for me recently. So in the year of 2026, I want to:

Finish drafting Book 2 of A Tale of Ice and Smoke My current (probably conservative) estimate is that the book will round off around 95 chapters, and I'm currently working on Chapter 79, so that would mean I'd have to average around one chapter every two weeks. Between a couple of month-long writing challenges and pushing through a few hundred words of drafting a day outside of those months, I think that's manageable

Maintain my every-two-weeks posting schedule for A Tale of Ice and Smoke That would mean posting Chapter 54 - 79 in 2026. I've got a 2-ish chapter editing buffer at the moment, so if I can keep up the momentum up to edit a chapter every two weeks (or move a little faster and expand the buffer), I can probably do this without too much issue

Outline the sticky beginning bits of Book 3 of A Tale of Ice and Smoke For the sake of giving myself a public, concrete goal without spoiling anything, I'm going to say that the "sticky beginning" goes right from Chapter 1 through to the... colored lantern bit. This is less labor-intensive than the other two goals since the outline will probably only be a couple of thousand words total, even with a lot of detail included, but there are a lot of tangles in the plot that need to be worked out so I don't end up in the "I know what to do with this character but not the other one, so I'm just going to write ALL the scenes for the first character" boat that I was in at the start of Book 2

Wish me luck, I guess! I think this is all doable as long as I don't crash headfirst into burnout or anything, but encouragement would be appreciated!

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January updates!

Drafting: I finished my first draft of Chapter 79 and 80. Since my original goal was to draft ~4k words (actual total was over 7k) and finish Chapter 79 this month, I'm considering January a success!

Editing: I finished editing Chapter 56, 57, and 58. That's exactly the goal that I set for myself at the beginning of the month! There was a while in there when I thought I'd finish Chapter 58 a few days early and get a head start on Chapter 59 before February, but... I sort of destroyed my own laptop (swinging microphone arm + open water bottle = bad time for any nearby electronics), and the time to sort out that whole mess had to come from somewhere.

Outlining: This is hard to quantify, but I did some brainstorming! There are some plot points in the show that won't be happening in this fic, which leaves me with a bunch of gaps to fill. I don't have solutions for all of those issues yet, but I've written down what most of them are so that I can work on solving them! Oh, and I thought about Hama a lot too.

Next month, I want to: - Draft ~3800 words and finish Chapter 81 - Finish editing Chapter 59 and 60 - Continue my Book 3 brainstorming (mainly focusing on what the side characters are up to in early Book 3)!

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February updates!

Drafting: I finished drafting Chapter 81 on the same day that I surpassed my goal to draft 3800 words - February 12! With more than half the month left (and a total drafting word count of 8118), I probably could have gotten a whole second chapter drafted, but... the story got away from me for a couple of weeks, and I ended up scrapping 3k words. Oh well. I'm still on track, and the new version of Chapter 82 is going in a much cleaner direction!

Editing: I finished editing Chapter 59 and 60, and I'm probably only a day or two away from finishing Chapter 61! That puts me almost a week ahead of where I thought I would be!

Outlining: I did some more brainstorming on early Book 3! Most of the plot gaps due to changes from canon are now filled!

Next month, I want to: - Draft ~4200 words and finish Chapter 82 - Finish editing Chapter 61, 62, and 63 - Continue my Book 3 brainstorming - specifically filling in the rest of the gaps that my changes left in the plot (... which at this point is mostly down to Suki. I've figured out most of the other characters, but Suki's arc needs work)!

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March updates!

Drafting: I finished drafting Chapter 82 and 83 and got in 8376 total words worth of drafting! That puts me a full chapter ahead of where I hoped I would be!

Editing: I finished editing Chapter 61, 62, and 63, and I'm over halfway through Chapter 64! That's about where I expected to be, and 64 is being a bit of a pain, so I don't think I'll be picking up any extra momentum there. Still, I'm on track!

Outlining: I believe I solved the Suki issue! Also streamlined some of my ideas for the many, many characters who will be in play at the end of Book 2/beginning of Book 3 so I don't have to have FIVE independent stories going on at the same time 😅

Next month, I want to: - Complete a writing challenge, with my goal being to write 1000 words a day - drafting on days when I work, and editing on days off - Draft a total of 21000 words, and finish drafting Chapter 84, 85, 86, and 87 - Edit roughly 9000 words, and finish editing Chapter 64 and 65 - No brainstorming or outlining unless major inspiration strikes, because I'm gonna be melting my brain trying to hit my word count anyway

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April updates!

Writing Challenge: I reached my goal of 30000 words on April 21st and got to a total of 43,890 by the end of the month!

Drafting: I finished drafting Chapter 84, 85, 86, 87, and 88! I hit my goal of 21000 words of drafting on April 23rd and got to a total of 28,420 words by the end of the month! That puts me a chapter ahead of my goal!

Editing: I finished editing Chapter 64 and 65, and got through a decent chunk of Chapter 66! Still on track, despite some of the chapters being a pain in the neck!

Next month, I want to: - Draft ~3800 words and finish Chapter 89 - Finish editing Chapter 66, 67, and 68 - Resume Book 3 brainstorming! I don't think I have any specific problems to sort out anymore, but I'll probably start mapping out specific plot points and trying to place them in an order that makes some kind of sense

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May updates!

Drafting: I finished drafting Chapter 89 and 90, and got a total of 8242 words written! That puts me a chapter ahead again!

Editing: I finished editing Chapter 66, 67, and 68, and I'm... probably halfway through Chapter 69? Pretty much exactly on track!

Outlining: I started laying out some of the scenes I want to include in early Book 3! There are a lot of pacing and flow issues that will need to be worked out, but getting closer to the end of Book 2 should help clarify those issues.

Next month, I want to: - Draft ~4200 words and finish Chapter 91 - Finish editing Chapter 69 and 70 (... and maybe 71) - Continue fleshing out and refining the Book 3 outline! Maybe I'll try getting the REALLY early scenes mapped out in more detail? We'll see!

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Any plans for Zutara week this year, or do you want to wait until after the prompts are revealed?

I'll for sure be helping with running the Zutara Week blog and updating the AO3 collection! I've been on the event mod team for a couple of years now, so my hands will be in the mix somewhere. As far as writing goes, though, I think I'm going to keep my focus on Ice & Smoke unless one of the prompts gives me an absolutely brilliant fic idea. I love writing for Zutara Week prompts, but it's time consuming, and I'm not sure that I want to take the days/weeks away from my main project when I have decent momentum built up and the end of the Book 2 draft is in sight.

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August 9th - 15th ;)

Prompts dropping this week!

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A Tale of Ice and Smoke

Chapter 64: A Fresh Deception

With the lessons and the battles of the North Pole behind them, Katara and Zuko set off on separate journeys across the Earth Kingdom. While Katara pursues her next element, Zuko flees the nation and family that tried to destroy him. Though their paths promise new friendships and new challenges for them both, destiny seems determined to bring them back together someday.

This time:

An encounter with a refugee family helps the kids refine their own cover story.

Read it on AO3

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I listened to your Azula “destorying” Zutara recording mutiple times and I have to say I so excited for your A Tale of Ice and Smoke book 2 podfic

Thank you! I'm looking forward to starting to post it too!

I can't promise that my Azula voice will be super accurate or consistent throughout the whole podfic, because it's LONG and I've also been recording bits and pieces of Book 2 for... longer than I want to admit, but I've been doing my best!

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A Tale of Ice and Smoke

Chapter 64: A Fresh Deception

With the lessons and the battles of the North Pole behind them, Katara and Zuko set off on separate journeys across the Earth Kingdom. While Katara pursues her next element, Zuko flees the nation and family that tried to destroy him. Though their paths promise new friendships and new challenges for them both, destiny seems determined to bring them back together someday.

This time:

An encounter with a refugee family helps the kids refine their own cover story.

Read it on AO3

#atla #atla fanfiction #zutara #zutara fanfiction #zuko #katara #avatar katara #A Tale of Ice and Smoke #soopersara's scribbles #later reblog

A Tale of Ice and Smoke

Chapter 64: A Fresh Deception

With the lessons and the battles of the North Pole behind them, Katara and Zuko set off on separate journeys across the Earth Kingdom. While Katara pursues her next element, Zuko flees the nation and family that tried to destroy him. Though their paths promise new friendships and new challenges for them both, destiny seems determined to bring them back together someday.

This time:

An encounter with a refugee family helps the kids refine their own cover story.

Read it on AO3

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This is wild to say like... do they really think they can just "destroy" a fanon ship??? Your so called "power" ain't gonna do shit

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I like to read this in an Azula voice. We should send it to Grey DeLisle.

soopersara

I'm no Grey DeLisle, but I have free will, a microphone, and audacity*

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* the audio editing program. Although I do have the other kind too.

How have your feelings about Ty Lee changed since you started writing her for I&S, if at all?

Hmmm. I'm not sure that my opinions on Ty Lee have shifted too much since I started writing her. If anything, I think they've just deepened and solidified a bit? I didn't have super strong feelings about her character prior to I&S, but I liked her and thought she had potential for more depth behind the airhead persona she puts on. Writing I&S hasn't really changed that, but it has given me an excuse to think about what that depth behind the persona might look like, if that makes sense.

Oh, and writing her character has also pushed me to reconsider where her character is going to ultimately end up in I&S. It hasn't been a drastic change at the moment, but I think I want her to be more involved than she was in my original plans.

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In I&S did Azula still intend to trick Zuko into coming home as a prisoner and just never got the chance, or was she serious? Does Ty Lee know? Because based on her internal monologue I don’t think she does. Does Mai know?

🤔 How to phrase this without spoiling future chapters...

Azula was being misleading when she first tried to get Zuko to return to the Fire Nation with her. Her actual intentions weren't revealed at the time, and are still deliberately mysterious, because figuring out what she (and Ozai) wants is going to be a future plot point! And as for whether Ty Lee and Mai know Azula's motives... that should start becoming clearer as we get closer to uncovering the motives themselves later in the story. I just need to keep a handle on all the plot threads until that point 😅

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Hello! I just wanted to come here and say I love your Ice & Smoke series, I listened to the first one and am currently reading book 2(ch 32) :D! From the characterization and the tweaks to canon, it's all well crafted, from call backs and hidden foreshadowing.

I'm just like to know, as a writer, how do you keep yourself on top of so much writing and schedule? Hope you're doing alright and having a lovely day :>

Thank you so much! ❤️🥰💙I'm so glad you're enjoying the story!

As for how I keep on top of my writing schedule... I'm still trying to figure that out myself 😂 Honestly, there have been a LOT of times when I didn't have a consistent schedule or anything resembling good writing habits, and even after trying to build a schedule up for several years, I still have periods where everything falls apart.

When things are working out, though (fingers crossed that my current system holds up), I've got a couple of things working in my favor from the start: 1) I'm single, have no kids, and live alone, so outside of working 40 hours a week, my time is entirely my own, 2) writing is genuinely my favorite hobby, and 3) Ice & Smoke has been by far my favorite thing to write for years. So I get a lot of opportunities to write, which I try to take advantage of as much as possible because I want to write, and when I feel motivated, my writing usually turns out better, which fuels my motivation further, and it's great cycle to be stuck in!

As far as building an actual schedule goes... there has been A LOT of trial and error, but the thing that helps me the most is keeping track of what I can actually do in an average day and building a schedule from there. My drafting pace is pretty consistent (~400 words per workday on average), but with 26 unposted chapter drafts sitting around, it's a complete non-issue at the moment. Editing is usually what causes delays for me (because I want things to be GOOD after editing), and since most chapter edits have taken me an average of ~11 days for the past year, posting once every two weeks is pretty sustainable! It's also been possible to build up enough of a buffer to occasionally spend extra time on a tricky chapter or to take some time away from editing if necessary!

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I’m thinking about how in I&S Katara still got a diary written by a descendant of Air Nomads and gave it to Aang even after a big argument that was so bad she admitted that it felt like she didn’t even know Aang anymore. It’s such a good example of her kindness.

💙❤️ It really is! I also think that while Katara has the capacity for a lot of spite, she's pretty reluctant to write people off entirely. She's (rightfully) angry at Aang for making assumptions about her, but she still believes that things can be fixed!

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Same anon who asked about Kanna x Yagoda in I&S timeline. I’m not telling you to make it canon, I’ve just been thinking about them. Kanna left her family when she moved to the South Pole, then her Daughter in law died and her son left for war. Three years later her only grandchildren also left to be a part of Team Avatar So by the time the group from the North comes she’s probably pretty lonely (Which I why I persoonally believe she got with Pakku in canon) And Yagoda, her old friend, comes with a letter from her grandkids. It’s enough to get them start talking and catching up. Katara herself theorized that if they would get along as well as they had when they were girls.

Plus, we already see Yagoda being grandmotherly to both Katara and Sokka. I bet they would love it if she joined the family officially. I bet it would drive Pakku crazy, but he deserves it tbh.

Again, I’m not telling you to implement this. I’m aware these are side characters that don’t matter that much. They live on in my headcanons though.

💙 I like your headcanons!

Like you said, Kanna and Yugoda are definitely side characters who may not get that much focus later in the series (that remains TBD, honestly), but it's fun to think about them reconnecting!

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How often do you rewatch AtLA? Either for your writing or personal enjoyment?

At this point, it's definitely been a couple of years since I actually sat down and watched the series through (... to be fair, it's been a while since I sat down and watched ANYTHING all the way through), but I end up referring back to episode transcripts while writing multiple times a week, and I probably pull up the actual episodes to refresh my mind on details a couple times a month!

Hey, question about keeping track of word count.

Is there a program that you have that keeps track of how many words you write in a session or over the course of a day? Or is it by how many words are in a finished chapter or work?

Oooh, wanna see my highly scientific method?

(Example from an already-posted chapter below the cut):

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