Bready’s Spotlight Challenge!
The lovely @ohnomybreadsticks came up with a fun challenge for writers to spotlight works they’ve already written. You can find the original post for the challenge here. Since I’ve had a bit of writer’s block and been generally down on myself I thought this challenge would be good for me, so here goes!
Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four
(There are twenty, I’ve decided to post them in fives over the next four days.)
#1. Your first fic: Remember to Rise Up (Eskel/Geralt, Rated: T) Summary: Ciri's parents have just died in a car accident and now she has moved in with Geralt. She doesn't know much, but she knows there is something going on between her new guardian and his best friend. She has no idea how right she is. I just re-read this fic, specifically for this challenge, and I found that I’m still fairly happy with it, even though I feel like I’ve grown a lot better in the months since I wrote it. Eskel and Geralt are a little OOC at the end but I was pretty hard on myself when I posted the work, I was really unhappy with the way I wrote them at the end. Reading it again though, I don’t think it’s as dramatic as I’d told myself. It was fun, too, to write Eskralt mostly from an outsider’s perspective since most of this fic is from Ciri’s POV.
#2. Your most recent fic: As Luck Would Have It (Gaetan/Gweld, Rated: T) Summary: In which, Gaetan gets stuck and it's, maybe, definitely, not as bad as it seems. This was a lovely prompt request from a reader who started on A Settled Debt. I started the rarepair of Gaetan/Gweld as a short in the verse for that story and had a few regular readers that really enjoyed them together so I’ve kept writing one shots for them. The request was for a first meeting in a modern setting, elevator panic attack and a fluffy ending. I almost wrote this from Gweld’s perspective (he’s the one that has a panic attack) but I changed my mind halfway through the first write. I’m claustrophobic with a pretty severe aversion to elevators for a number of other reasons as well. I often take the stairs unless it’s necessary for me to take an elevator so Gweld’s situation in this one hit a little too close to home for me to write from his POV. I like the end result though, it would’ve been a lot more angsty had I continued with my original plan.
#3. A fic you planned out and worked on for a long time: A Revelation (Lambert/Aiden, Rated: M, Part two in Lead Me Home) Summary: In which, Lambert and Aiden come together and fall apart. A Settled Debt, the first part in this series, just grew from an idea I had about Aiden meeting Lambert as a boy, before Lambert was taken to Kaer Morhen and during Aiden’s first few years on the Path. The first chapter got such an incredible response that I decided to add onto it. As soon as I made that decision, I knew I’d write A Revelation. I really wanted to explore the idea of the Cat’s betrayal happening while Lambert already knew Aiden, already loved him. It was a hard write, I’m having an even harder time with Wandering Soul but for completely different reasons. This story was so emotional and very hopeless, at times, if I’m being honest, and it was taxing to write so much heartache. The reunion scene in the later chapters was actually one of the first scenes I wrote for this story.
#4. A fic that came to you in a sudden flash: Lie (Emhyr/Geralt, Rated: T) Summary: In which, Geralt lies and loses. I hadn’t thought much about my prompts for the rarepair bingo and I opened my card one day to brainstorm some ideas when this one just smacked me in the face. I’ve always loved Geralt/Emhyr but I can also be quite picky about Emhyr’s characterization, so I was nervous about writing it but when I sat down to start, it all flowed pretty quickly. I think I wrote this out and edited it all in the same day, made myself wait a day or two to post it and did one more editing run before it went up. It’s definitely angsty, break up fics tend to be right?, but I still really love how this one came out.
#5. Your shortest fic: Hold (Lambert/Geralt, Rated: T) Summary: In which, Lambert is irritated and Geralt has something to share. This was so stupid, you guys. I got stuck on hold for like an hour and a half trying to fix something really stupid that took like a five minutes conversation and I was so pissed when I got off the phone and my husband came into the room about the time I threw my phone down and said ‘love you babe’ as he walked by me and it made me smile. So I sat down and wrote this and spent forty minutes trying to get it down to exactly one hundred words so it would meet the prompt requirements for a drabble on the Save a Witcher bingo lmao.
If you have anything about any of my fics that you’d like to ask, please feel free! My ask box is open!
