5, 6, 7 for the ask meme!
@doctorhelena asked the exact same ones, so you two are just going to have to share a reply. ;)
5. You’ve posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you’d written it?
Canadian spelling, and at least one literary reference. ;)
6. Name three stories you found easy to write.
His and Hers - I wrote most of this in my head one afternoon while cleaning the stove.
The Simple Secret - I started writing this on my phone one morning while waiting for my ride to work. It turned out that she forgot it was her day to pick me up. By the time she came back for me, I had the first third of the story pretty much done.
Five Minutes More - this was a collection of Tumblr prompts that accidentally became a story when I realized I had a beginning and an end already in place.
7. Name three stories you found difficult to write.
Ain’t Love a Kick took far longer than I would have liked to complete. It took ages for me to decide how I was going to handle Steve getting his memory back. Then I lost a family member that I’d been close with, and stopped writing at all for a while.
Love Me Harder started out easy, but turned out to be more challenging than I expected. Because it’s such a different iteration of Peggy, it can be tough to get into the right head space. I’m about 2 chapters away from being done, but it’s slow going.
Pepper Potts Gets a Life sat unfinished for years. It originally had an additional chapter, in which Pepper joins a book club organized by some other SI employees. She finds the books kind of pretentious, but she has a couple of fun outings with them (book club doubles as wine club); she and Tony do some flirty drunk texting, and he teases her the next morning when she’s a little hung over. But then she discovers that the only reason the book club keeps inviting her out is because they’re hoping for juicy gossip about Tony, so she quits.
It was funny, but it was a bit too long in comparison to the rest of the story, and didn’t really progress the plot as much as I wanted. It also felt kind of mean-spirited. Once I cut it, the story worked so much better, and I was able to finish it in a few days.
