#qu writes things

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just wrote a line so horrible if people dont want to kill Hal over it theyll certainly want to kill me 🥰 yay

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I can finally post my Yuletide fic here!!!! It’s post-canon Wandersong fic and I wrote it for @lorablackmane and i worked super hard on it please read it!!!!!!

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Tagged by @obstinaterixatrix !!

Rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favorite opening line. Then tag 10 of your favorite authors!  

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I have fewer that 20 published, But I guess I can list some of the unpublished ones too ;) 

1. Untitled WIP (Wandersong, unpublished 2021) The flight home was long enough that, despite Miriam's unease, by the time they had made it to her house, the worst of her anxiety had been replaced by a heavy blanket of exhausted resignation.

2.  Echoing Notes (Wandersong 2020) The world was ending, until it wasn’t. The sun rose again, against all odds, casting its beams of light across an improbable planet, bathing its inhabitants in the most welcome daybreak.

3. Still The World Keeps Turning (Doctor Who, 2020)  She sees the world afire, again.

4. OSTINATI (Wandersong, unpublished 2020)  An unfamiliar face greeted the Bard as they made their way up the hill towards Langtree Village.

5. Split Complementaries, And Other Approaches to Musical Composition (Wandersong, unpublished 2020)  Kiwi rose with the sun, impossible though it was to see through the Chismest haze; the date on the calendar hesitantly suggested it might have been early summer, although the weather all but shouted otherwise.

6. What Do You Want To Hear? (Doctor Who, 2020) "So, Doc, any thoughts yet?"

7. Untitled WIP (Doctor Who, 2020)  The wonderful thing about time is that it never stops, so if you happen to find yourself in a bad situation, eventually you will be carried away from it into hopefully a better situation.

8. An Urgent Request (Good Omens, 2020)  The door crashed open, jangling the entrance bell with all the alarm of an air raid siren.

9. Fracture (Doctor Who, 2020)  He scans the horizon, under the Australian sun, brimming with anticipation.

10. New Year’s Fic (Good Omens, unpublished 2019)  And now it was 2009.

11. As a River Flows on a Pathway to the Sea (Good Omens, unpublished 2019)  Geological timescales are a funny thing, to angels.

12. Black Magic on Mulholland Drive (Lucifer/Good Omens crossover, unpublished 2019) A sunny morning in LA is par for the course. A rainy morning in LA, while uncommon, isn't entirely outside of the realm of possibility*. A foggy morning in LA, however, suggests something surreal is afoot.

13. Heaven’s Over Us (Good Omens, 2019)  Aziraphale stood at the edge of a precipice.

14. Aziraphale Gets A Smartphone (Good Omens, 2019)  If one were to believe that the universe isn't just one single instance of existence created by God according to the ineffable plan, but rather a collection of several universes—a multiverse, if you will—one might believe that each of the other universes contains something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike any other.

15. About Face (Good Omens, 2019)  By the time they arrived at the front door of Crowley’s flat, it was the dead hour, too late to be night and too early to be dawn. 

16. Identity, Ineffability, and Other Things we Don’t Understand (Good Omens, 2019)  "Crowley."

17. V1 (Good Omens, unpublished 2019) The problem, Crowley had decided, was feelings.

18. Hard Landing (Good Omens, 2019)  The problem, Aziraphale had decided, was feelings.

19. Adventures in Attempting to Purchase a Book From that Weird Old Soho Bookshop, A.Z. Fell & Co. (Good Omens, 2019)  [New Topic] Does Anyone Have A Copy Of Clockwork House Vol. 6?

20. The Question of Who (Sherlock, 2012)  "I've told you before. You see, but you don't observe."

Also as a bonus have two original stories:

1. Untitled WIP (original, 2019) A star shot through the sky and landed right outside my window, at a horrible hour of the morning.

2. Untitled WIP (original, 2019)  There was a witch at the top of the mountain, or so I had been told; I had never been there—I had neither the means nor inclination.  

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Patterns, hm... Well, I certainly like to go for either a highly descriptive line that establishes the scenario right away, or a short and catchy line that’s intriguing enough to make you want to read the next line, which is then usually the highly descriptive line. Generally speaking I do favour a compact writing style that fits as much information as possible into as few words as possible in each sentence, so it’s not surprising my opening lines are like that too.

I’m often tempted to open with a line of dialogue, but I’ve heard that’s offputting, so I try to avoid it. Still, there are some cases when that works best, usually when the dialogue itself establishes some important information right away. (In the case of #16, that’s an entirely dialogue-only piece, so the first line establishes it’s Aziraphale who speaks first.)

It’s kind of hard to pick a favourite because I’m very fond of all of these for different reasons. For example, 4 looks very plain, but leads into scenario where the “unfamiliar face” is quickly established to be someone the Bard should know, but doesn’t. And then later the same line gets repeated again in different contexts, developing the theme further. I love 9 because not only does it quickly locate where in the timeline this canon divergence begins, it also establishes a metaphor that, when combined with the next two lines, becomes relevant to the entire fic. 12 and 14 were both jokes I wrote to myself to make myself laugh and fell in love with especially as I developed the jokes further. 17 and 18 make a pair.... except I never actually published 17 so the joke is lost too RIP

Honestly I think the main takeaway here is I should actually finish my WIPs sometime lmao

TAGGING: @wyvernquill @fremulon @gottagobuycheese @theoldaquarian @theplatinthehat @picnokinesis @maskedhero 

IDK HOW MANY MORE FRIENDS WRITE FIC TBH and i dont remember everyones usernames either if you’re reading this and u write stuff consider urself tagged

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I must know about IT'S SO HARD to GET EGGS immediately

8) It’s based on this r/relationships post

aka:

thirteen keeps getting into fights with dhawan!master in a Waffle House bc he keeps serving her intentionally wrong eggs

i didnt get very far in actually writing it bc 2020 Hell Year but heres an excerpt:

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3, 11, 33?

What do you think makes your writing stand out from other works?

I literally cannot stop myself from shoving a shit-ton of poetry in there. Even if it’s not explicitly poetry I’m always thinking of my prose in terms of rhythm, rhyme, alliteration and so on. A lot of my writing is meant to be read aloud. 

Who or what do you find yourself writing about most?

Yearning, but not, like, in the romantic pining sort of way, but rather that sort of vague melancholy way where there’s no immediate crisis, and things are going well, but there’s still lingering feelings of loss, or trauma, or just the need to decompress and process the things that happened... It’s like, hopeful, but in a way that acknowledges the pain the characters have been through.

Is there anything you wish your audience knew about your writing or writing process?

9 times out of 10 my first drafts look like this:

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For the ask game: I wanna know about Split Complementaries, And Other Approaches to Musical Composition, because that's an excellent title and makes me hungry for more!

This is the title of the first Wandersong fic I started writing, waaaay back in February (!!!) of 2020!

It takes place pre-canon, while Kiwi still lives in Chismest, and features my OC, Revue:

....You can see just what kind of character she is :’D

This one is about 1/2 finished, and mostly I put it on hiatus bc the pandemic hit and suddenly the theme just felt very ungood to write about. The circumstances I started this fic under are wildly different than now. I still want to finish it, because it’s really important to me personally, but I’m not entirely sure how the 2nd half will resolve now.

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WIP Title Tag Game

tagged by @wyvernquill :P

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

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Organized in.... mostly?? Newest-to-oldest order??? some of them overlap though. Also i don't have a "WIP" folder bc I write my WIPs all over the place so these are scattered everywhere haha

1. Noirsong notes 2. Miriam goes home 3. IT'S SO HARD to GET EGGS 4. crash fic 5. OSTINATI 6. Split Complementaries, And Other Approaches to Musical Composition 7. shenanigans 8. New Years Fic 9. The Star 2 10. HWP 2 (As A River Flows, On a Pathway to the Sea) 11. Wicked 12. Black Magic on Mulholland Drive 13. Smartphone chapter 4 14. Soft Launch 15. Medicine Quest 16. Actor AU 17. Lisbela and the Doctor 18. Awakening

Do I even have 18 writer friends to tag??? Who weren’t already tagged by Wyv??? lol uhhh @picnokinesis @theplatinthehat @obstinaterixatrix ??? WHO ELSE IS THERE??? CONSIDER YOURSELF TAGGED

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i just think, as a fandom, we dont take enough advantage of the fact that the Bard can literally be dancing all the time for no reason