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[coraxaviary]

Curiosity - what is your writing/posting schedule like considering SiA is such a big project? I've never written fan fiction, only read, so i'm really just curious LOL

Hi, thank you (again) for the ask! I pretty much try to work on SiA any night that I'm home. Often I get down somewhere between 500 and 1.5k if I make it across the initial waffling stage where I may be caught up in "research" (plying the depths of veteran blogs, raising my eyebrow at uncited wikipedia clauses, or ctrl-f-ing WW2 Gravestone, etc). The waffling stage is quite a monster. At times I have spent hours trying to lock in only to consult the BoB bible and end up scrolling it until I go to bed...

So all of this is kinda set up in an attempt to post weekly, with a goal chapter length between 7k and 11k words. I also keep a buffer of about seven chapters between the posted version and my draft backlog in case I need to retcon or reorganize the plot. And then if (1) a week has elapsed since my last update, and (2) I have added ~1 chapter's worth to material to my document: I'll edit the next chapter, run it through an html converter, and post! I used to have a beta(s) to wait on but no more (we die like paratroopers). Of course, life is unpredictable, so, like now, I am pausing uploads until I can sit down to write again.

I have no idea how most other ficwriters plan their stuff. I know of someone who basically prewrote their entire longfic and will release on a schedule. Others post their chapters right after writing and light edits. It really depends on the person. I have an attention deficit, so my solution to that is trying to brute force productivity by writing whenever I'm free. This is not a perfect fix, but it's better than waiting for inspiration to strike (it won't on its own).

And I'll close this excessively long answer with an encouragement: try writing a little! You never know until you try :)

[coraxaviary]

for June: Who do you think readers would pair her with? Her relationship development with the easy company boys is so well paced that I could argue no one could properly guess her ship yet (which is great, who doesn’t love an oc-centric fic?) xx

Hi! Thank u for the ask!

I am glad you think the relationship development is well-paced. I, for one, am starting to feel the strain of the constant enmity and am relieved to be out of the training/bullying arc.

That aside, I've been putting Malarkey into the fic more lately, and when Webster transfers into E-Company before the Market Garden campaign, he is a frequent character. Roe has been nice to June since almost the beginning, so I can see readers pairing them. They have good chemistry and mutual respect for one another. Without really giving away my final verdict, amongst the aforementioned, I have considered Penkala, Buck, and Speirs for romantic interest, and I think some commenters have picked up on this.

Just to yap in general about my own fic: I didn't mean for it to be romance-centric which is why it's halfway complete with nary a boyfriend to be seen. June's relationship with the entire company is really the point of the piece (self-evident in the title) and a pairing is secondary to that. Also, some sort of inter-company relationship would complicate June's situation with the others. And if I know my OC at all, she would never participate in a situation that would make her further rejected from the group.