10 and 12 for Portrait of a Family pls
Portrait, my beloved. Thank you for the ask!
10. Is there any moment in your fic that makes you go crazy, even if it's not the most well-written?
Is all of it an answer? I feel like just the dynamic of these three makes me feel insane at all times. Things about the fic in particular, though. I feel really not normal about the Atwood poem I used to title the sections.
And I am never normal about this line from Illario: He only feels that he has her undivided attention when she is correcting him. He craves those moments just before the violence, the ones where she seems to finally see him.
12. Is there any aspect of the fic you considered changing? How would it have been different?
Made it like 10k longer? I don't know. I feel like there is a lot I covered, and a lot I didn't. I think there's probably more moments I could have dug into more deeply or given us more of.
I sort of wish I'd written more of the Villa when it was filled with people. I wish that maybe we would have gotten more of this Crow family before they're all murdered. I recognize that is really mean, but I do think that we would have cared a bit more when they died if we'd had the time to love all Caterina's children the way she did.
I don't know. I go back and forth on if the length of the fic is kind of part of what makes it what it is. That it's just a collection of moments, and it's not all of them?