Author Interview: hellomissmabel
@hellomissmabel is a Marvel fanfiction writer and the Queen of Plot Twists™. She has pretty much every variation of Bucky x Reader and Steve x Reader that you could want, and there are even a few other characters in there too for good measure. She also has a section of her masterlist dedicated just to plus size reader fics, which can often be hard to find. We’re thrilled that she sat down to talk with us a bit about the worlds of fanfiction writing.
How and why did you start writing fanfiction? Why is writing fanfiction something you dedicate your time to?
When I first discovered Tumblr, I was mostly a reader of fanfiction rather than a writer. It all started when I shared a fic idea with a Marvel writer on Tumblr that I really looked up to. That same idea turned into a fic series that became a huge success. This inspired me to become a writer myself and to actually do something with all these ideas in my head.
What I love so much about writing is that it’s an outlet and it allows me to channel my creativity. The feedback I receive from my followers is what encourages me to continue to write. Writing is also very therapeutic. My job is also very demanding and fanfiction is a way of calming my mind and letting go.
We wanted to ask about Incandescence. It was a test drive for a fic where readers voted on what happened next. We love that idea, and we noticed that there was never another chapter. Was this because the test drive proved unfruitful, or some other reason?
Sometimes life happens and you have to hit the pause button. Incandescence was in fact one of the first stories to suffer from my writer’s block. On top of that, despite a lot of people voting, the last poll ended on a draw. So I decided to reassess and think about what to do next. It’s definitely a challenge to write a fic series where you don’t know at all how it’s going to play out. I was always worried I wouldn’t live up to the readers’ expectations, so much even that I would edit for days on end and still feel insecure about the work I was putting out. But the journey into this series has been extremely interesting and Incandescence is still very high on my list of fics to finish. Recently I’ve also regained that spark and started to slowly...
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