20 questions for fic writers
I was tagged by @sevenmerrymagpies for this, thank you so much darlin! 🥰🥰🥰
1. How many works do you have on AO3? 18 (one of them is just links to artwork though)
2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 417,209… that’s the equivalent of almost six novels. Damn, I wrote six novels in just over two years!!!
3. What fandoms do you write for? Right now just Stranger Things
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
With a Little Help From My Friends ❤️ Why Should I Cry For You ❤️ Not-so-iron Maiden ❤️ Tattoos and Trash Talk ❤️ Next Time I Fall
5. Do you respond to comments? Yes, even if it’s just a short “thank you!!!” because I appreciate every single comment so much.
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I think it’s Into the Shining Sun, but even then it’s a hopeful ending too.
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Anyone who knows me knows I ADORE happy endings for all the characters! But Little Help ends with Eddie and Chrissy’s wedding, and Next Time ends with El and Gareth at her senior prom making plans for their future together, so those two are probably the very happiest.
8. Do you get hate on fics? Thankfully no— if anyone hates me/my fics they’re keeping it to themselves. I don’t actually know how I’d handle it. Probably not well!
9. Do you write smut? Nope. I don’t know how. I can barely write the word ‘tongue’ without cringing. Lmao
10. Do you write crossovers? No, but if I could think of a good one I wouldn’t mind trying!
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? No, thankfully.
12. Have you ever had a fic translated? No, but if anybody ever wanted to they’d be welcome, all they have to do is ask.
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Not yet, but Pearly and I have big plans!
14. What’s your all time favorite ship? The only one that has endured the test of time— Mulder and Scully.
15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I only have one WIP right now and even though I’m taking a hiatus from it, I do hope to still finish it sometime.
16. What are your writing strengths? I’m not sure, I don’t feel too great about my writing lately (hence the wip on hiatus). I’ll let my dear friend and favorite commenter Rich speak for me— “You have written a world that I really want to live in and populated it with characters that I really want to meet and be friends with.”
17. What are your writing weaknesses? (I’m trying to be realistic and not unnecessarily self-loathing here.) My weaknesses are: not creating strong beginnings and endings, adding too much dialogue, adding too much description to the point of infodumping, unable to write smut, and lately, recycling plots. Sigh.
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I’ve tried it, sprinkling little bits of Welsh into Gareth and my imaginary Emerson family, and it’s not as simple as just plugging things into google translate. I don’t think I’d be willing to do more than an occasional word or phrase here and there. Although cariad as a pet name is a permanent part of my lexicon now.
19. First fandom you wrote for? NSYNC. I don’t want to talk about it.
20. Favorite fics you’ve written? Not-so-iron Maiden and Tattoos and Trash Talk will always be two of my favorites, Gone Away because I love uncle Wayne so much, and of course Next Time I Fall which despite its rushed ending is still the work I’m proudest of.
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