Fanfic Writer Emoji Ask: 😅 🛒❌💞🎉🤯 💖🍆🎢✨ - Have fun! ^_^
Oh my goodness, @wafflingchemist, thank you for this ask cornucopia! 💕
😅 What's a story or scene you've created that you're a smidge embarrassed exists?
I wrote a J/C story from the perspective of post-Endgame Janeway’s therapy transcript. The concept, payoff, and overall story fall flat. I’m not proud of that one. At all.
🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.
I think I commonly have a core of kindness — characters who truly care for others, whether romantic or platonic, and want what’s best for them. My characters tend to be good people doing their best, and they touch and feel and think (with their heads and their hearts) and they’re flawed because we all are, but they’re trying because hopefully we’re all doing that, too. So, yeah. Kindness.
❌ What's a trope you will never write?
I learned a long time ago to never say never in fanfic, but I’m usually not attracted to anything that entails a lack of consent.
💞 Who's your comfort character?
Right now, Una Chin-Riley. Others have been and still include Kirsten Clancy, Raffi Musiker, and Kathryn Janeway.
🎉 What leads you to consider a fic a success?
When I’m writing and editing — if everyone is in character, the story flows, the sensations and sights and sounds are evocative, everything is clear, the plot is interesting, and the ending is satisfying.
After I’ve posted — kudos and comments.
🤯 What's a genre you struggle with as a writer (ex. romance, action, etc.)?
I’m not sure. Everything is a challenge, but in a good way. I always want to improve.
💖 What made you start writing?
I’ve always written, either for a hobby or profession. In terms of fanfic writing, I was probably going to explode from stress and my husband said I needed to find a way to calm down without ripping my body apart from over-exercise. Fanfic has done that for me, and I’m grateful for it.
🍆 Do you write the spicy stuffs? If so, what's your most popular nsfw fic?
Yes! I checked and my most popular E-rated fic by kudos is Fly Me to the Moon, a Kathryn Janeway/Tom Paris multi-chap. That one definitely brings the spicy early and often!
🎢 Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?
Probably also Fly Me to the Moon. Two timeframes that fracture into four timeframes and the fic has settings within four universes (three canon and one very slightly AU). I’m actually really pleased with how it came out.
✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉
I love how both your ask and emilie786’s ask included this question! 💕 I’m going to change it up and say I’m proud of the details in my writing. I work really hard to structure small visual or auditory or sensory clues as to how the character is truly alive in the story, and I like to think those things work.
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