2, 7, 10, 13 for the fanfic thingie?
2. Which of your own fanfics have you reread the most?
With the caveat that it’s impossible for me to know what I’ve read the most, I enjoy re-reading both Baker Street Papas and Holocene Park. It seems when I sit down to write you a birthday present...
7. Name three stories you found difficult to write.
Freedom in this Union - I had my heart set on writing Kat/Isabelle, but Isabelle is motivated almost exclusively by self-interest, which doesn’t make her easy slashing material. Over the summer I spent many hours tearing my hair out at @amindamazed, while we brainstormed ways to simply get them hanging out together, let alone actually kissing.
Amanuensis - I began this one in 2015, and had to stop when I realized that my plot had run afoul of Great Britain’s interwar drug policy. When I picked it up again in 2018, having at last straightened out the historical elements, I ran smack into two new problems: the planned ending was a fizzle, and also I was going to have to kill off Dr. Watson for it. I ultimately decided on a much earlier ending point, but the story ran a grave risk of getting shelved a second time, perhaps permanently.
THE BEST BEE FIC ON MARS - I began this in 2015, attempting the same devil-may-care, don’t-overthink-it, just-a-lark style that I’d used for its predecessor. Sadly, I overthought it. I froze, and stayed frozen until 2018, which is when I gritted my teeth and made myself goddamned finish the thing even if it sucked. Which, um. It might. Let’s not talk about it anymore, okay?
10. What’s a theme that keeps coming up in your writing?
That people are hella resourceful in cobbling together some happiness for themselves. Although that theme hasn’t cropped up much in the last year or so: it might have been an artifact of the years-long depression I’d been in.
Lately I’ve been on a kick about how being depressive and self-hating doesn’t mean that you can’t love or be loved. Which, (*cough*) might also have to do with personal stuff I’ve been going through.
13. Name three favorite characters to write.
Asked and answered.
