Summertime writer's ask! 🦋, 🌞, ☁️, 🦩 (if you have one lol I'm just curious) 🍓 and 👒
🦋 tell us about your current wip
I always have a few in rotation that I'm thinking about during my day but currently, I've been working on a little character piece about Puck from Glee. I've had my Glee oc Mariana for years and I had a lot of things sketched out and outlined for her but I could never work out where to start writing. I got seized by the idea of what family means to Puck being assigned as an essay question and him scoffing at it but me using that as a way to go inside his head and think about who he considers family. Naturally Mari features a lot and I'm hoping people will also be interested to jump over and read about her too (once I get her fic started also). There are going to be spoilers for Mariana's ending in Puck's fic but hopefully people will still be interested in the journey too.
🌞 favourite character from current wip
☁️ wip you want to write but haven't started yet
I have a few, I'm sure, but the one that springs to mind is All That Glitters, my Gossip Girl fic. Which I haven't started because it breaks continuity with the original show in season five with Blair remaining pregnant with her and Louis' daughter and marrying him, giving birth to their daughter Charlotte, eventually getting divorced, marrying Dan and having Audrey - the deuteragonist of All That Glitters - and Atticus Humphrey but it also doesn't have anything to do with the Gossip Girl reboot and that's not even getting into all the other big characters, including protagonist Lindy, who I still need to brainstorm backstories for. It's a big undertaking.
🦩 wip you hate working on but are too far gone to turn back
Not a specific hate working on it but although I have so many barely started, once started, discontinued wips, what really haunts me the most is when I've posted part of a wip publicly and it's unfinished. My oldest fic like this I think is one I wrote for a Sybil/Branson Downton exchange so maybe that adds an extra layer of pressure to the unfinishedness. I don't know, I do miss that era of community and interacting with fellow Sybil/Branson people on tumblr but I just don't feel hmm seized by the characters anymore at this point in time.
🍓 worst thing you've done to your characters
Um, for Bailey, I a) killed her dad in a car accident; b) had her mom put in a coma from said same car accident; and then c) sent her to live under the care of her Aunt Joyce in Sunnydale.
👒 nicest thing you've done to your characters
Nicest? What nice things do I do? Well, she has to reckon with causing the deaths of twelve hybrids and betraying people who trusted her first but Hayley gets to raise her daughter together with Caroline in a community that supports her and she doesn't die at age 35 due to Klaus' enemies. I think that's pretty nice of me.
