40 questions meme 3, 17, 23
Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?
Hey hon. I actually answered that to the best of my ability in Scan’s ask here.
Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
Almost always out of order. There’s usually a scene toward the end of a story that comes to me first that I have to get out before I can do anything else. I start there and backtrack. In the case of some fics, the longer ones like If I Told You, Carry Me Home, and Your Name in My Teeth, there were actually several scenes I wrote out of order and had to weave together as I go. Sometimes it requires a bit of rewriting and editing, though the most I’ve had to rewrite a scene was the final scene in Teeth. It was the second scene I wrote and the whole fic took on a darker tone as the story went, leading to some tonal changes in the final product that had to be accounted for.
If you were to revise one of your older fics from start to finish, which would it be and why?
I have two answers to this. One, since I started writing Batfam and one just in reference to what I have posted on AO3
There Beneath, hands down. I wrote it for the Batfam Christmas Stocking last year. I wound up being rushed because I didn’t have tons of ideas for it and my hands were a little tied because I wasn’t sure what counted on the giftee’s DON’Ts for what so I feel like important emotional impact got left out. I’d like to redo it sometime. It deserves a second look.
Shadows Hide is a Dragon Age II WIP that I started in my freshman year of college I’d like to go back and finish sometime. I wrote it in a fever pitch when I was very sick over my Christmas break. I know where I was going with it and what I wanted to do with it but I kind of lost interest/time.