HELLO, if you’re here you’re prolly here from ao3 but either way, welcome!
This is mainly gonna be a place for me to talk about the various works I have running around on Ao3. Feel free to ask any questions you’d like and I’ll answer them as best as I can. I like to talk so dont be shy :)
My fics:
Stranger Things
Steve Harrington’s Guide To Planning a Party (Without Blowing Up): (9/9)
Robin Buckley’s Guide to Retrieving a Cassette (And Dealing With Idiot Friends): (3/5) currently on Hiatus
(Both Part of this series.)
Star Wars
It Was Only A Matter Of Time (20/20) Complete!
Anyway, don’t have much else to say, thanks for stopping by!
You know it, you love it, it is once again a scene from It Was Only A Matter Of Time by @written-mishaps, this time with our fav chaos Jedi Quinlan Vos.
This is a scene from one of my favorite Fox fics of all time, “It Was Only A Matter Of Time” by Anonymous, (@written-mishaps on Tumblr) which I highly recommend if you haven’t read it :D
What a 24h it was, "It Was Only A Matter Of Time" took me by my neck and shook me like a puppet. I don't remember last fanfic, heck last piece of media that pulled me in so badly. I was today at Hadestown thinking in the back of my mind how the heck Fox will stitch his gut back up.
And what a delight Fox was, the complexity, the wit, the underlying despair and hopelessness that fueled his suicidal tendencies. The absolute commitment to taking care of his brothers to the point it twisted into pathological lack of ability to ask for help. All that in the compelling story about injust power system and it's failures. About standing against impossible ods for your loved ones, because of your loved ones. About the power of trust that made strong community that will support you in dire times.
I really appreciate what you did with Quinlan. He is a love interest but he doesn't outshine the care, and love of Fox's brothers. He is important, but not a centerpiece, not a magical solution to the whole issue. It's hard to write romance relevant to plot yet not taking over it. It was delightfully made under your pen.
Love how you written characters, all of them seem so deep and alive. I wanted to ask you about your writting process. How does it look like in general? How much of the story you plan? Do you have any tips on coming up with plot point, metaphors, dialogues? (All of them which I adored). What was the hardest character for you to write?
(Pls infodump if you are comfy)
Thank you so much for this experience
HEY HELLO IM SO SORRY you sent me this message just as i was starting Uni and its been a CRAZY month thats for sure haha I tried to info dump as much as possible in reponse to your questions about writing to make up for taking so long to answer❤️❤️❤️
First of all im so glad you enjoyed my story! It really means so much to me when people come down and point out specifically things they like cause YES!!! You're picking up on my themes!!! My ideas!!! Let's go thank you so much!!! And yeah, im a hardcore fan of platonic relationships, mostly because they hold such an important place in my life. I also wanted this story to focus on Fox and his story as an individual, but I also wanted to acknowledge romance as still a very important thing to him amongst all of that. Im really glad you enjoyed that element :)
Im gonna put my writing advice under a read more. I am by no means an expert, this is mostly to relate to you how I view the writing process and specifically what I did with IWOAMOT. Hope at least some of it is helpful!
Planning: So generally im a HUGE planner when it comes to writing. I didnt have all it planned out necessarily, but i always find it pretty vital to have the begining and the end in mind, because especially if you dont have a clear end, you dont know what youre writing tiwards, and in a way you almost limit how cohesive and well paced story can feel when youre just weiting with no idea where the final position of your characters will be. Whne you have an end in mind, your job as a writer becomes "what needs to happen to all of these characters to get them physically, emotionally and mentally to this exact position" and all the stuff in between you can be very creative and fluid with. This meant i was constantly adding to my plan as I wrote and the story revealed points i had to adress. But that's just me, some writers love flying by the seat of their pants and seeing where they end up and honestly that's a perfectly valid way of doing it too, especially since you can get really bogged down in weoting EVERYTHING into a plan and then spend less time actually writing the damn fic
Plot points: Honestly, for plot points, im sorry, that one you just gotta thug out. Itll come to you whne it comes to you, but it helps if you just think about your story all the time. Plot points are also easier to come up with when of thinking in terms of 'how can i explore smth?' For example, i needed Fox to have more time between killing the Chancellor and him collapsing and behing taken to the hosiptal. How can i give him more time? Introduce a secondary objective of wanting to pick up the information about corrupt senators to take down the whole system. The Plot point is created and ontroduced to solve a problem and allow for Fox to run around longer and have a bunch of meaningful conversations before hes caught. But dont worry too much, i had a whole phase of worrying about how to bring Fives back at the end without some deus ex machina 'ooooo the force saved him and somehow constructed him a whole body out of thin air!' Or, even worse, just leaving him as a force ghost forever (which has lowkey horrifying implications) or having him like, fade away to the force which would feel SUPER sad after all they've been through. The eventual epiphany for how to bypass all of those potential endings (yippee! Palps stuck his body in a tank!) didnt come to me till id nearly finished the whole story, so yeah, dw.
Dialogue: For dialogue it was super important that i knew the characters. For creating dialogue id keep in mind 3 or 4 essential perosnaloty traits (eg Thire- pragmatic, level headed, disciplined) and that would inform their dialogue (how would someome level headed respond to that last comment? How would a pragmatic person approach this problem and what would they say?) To distinguish characters and give them a unique voice, i would also assign them specific vocal patterns. For example, i gave Thorn a kind of drawl, and with that in mind his dialogue was eaiser to write, or with Stone i made a rule that he would generally be the type not to contribute much to a conversation unless he had something to say.
Metaphore: Metaphors and langauge was something i could never plan for. They always came up during the writing process when i was thinking about dialogue or writing a scene and would go "damn what if this was used as a metahpor" and id type it up. Sometimes id write something once and keep bringing it up so it became a consistant theme (eg. Fox and his stars) A lot of imagery also came from just daydremaing about certain scenes on my walk to school lmao id play the same sene out multipe times in my head and sometimes something interesting and different would happen that i would put in.
Characters: For difficult characters, Funnily enough, i always found rex super difficult to write. He had such complicated feelings about Fox that meant balancing him and making him feeel like a consistant character was super tough. Second hardest was Fives. Cause he was always present but typically we saw most things through Foxs eyes. By contrast the easiest was hands down Fox cause we followed him and his emotional arc the closest. It was easy to write him because in a way his emotional arc was so entwined with the story. Most fun character to wrote was Wolffe. Lmao anything with him and Fox was such a blast cause he allowed scenes to get very volatile and charged.
Honestly, my overall writing advice is just be a little bit crazy and obsessed about your writing. Play scenes over and over in your head. Ruminate. Mull over it. Your story is yours to play with, align it in a configuration that makes you feel most fulfilled.
Oh my God, forgot to mention, thinking about my fic when you could be thinking about hadestown is CRAZY come on, Fox can wait, waiting in suspense to see if Orpheus is gonna turn around during 'doubt comes in' is a ONE TIME EXPERIENCE
What a 24h it was, "It Was Only A Matter Of Time" took me by my neck and shook me like a puppet. I don't remember last fanfic, heck last piece of media that pulled me in so badly. I was today at Hadestown thinking in the back of my mind how the heck Fox will stitch his gut back up.
And what a delight Fox was, the complexity, the wit, the underlying despair and hopelessness that fueled his suicidal tendencies. The absolute commitment to taking care of his brothers to the point it twisted into pathological lack of ability to ask for help. All that in the compelling story about injust power system and it's failures. About standing against impossible ods for your loved ones, because of your loved ones. About the power of trust that made strong community that will support you in dire times.
I really appreciate what you did with Quinlan. He is a love interest but he doesn't outshine the care, and love of Fox's brothers. He is important, but not a centerpiece, not a magical solution to the whole issue. It's hard to write romance relevant to plot yet not taking over it. It was delightfully made under your pen.
Love how you written characters, all of them seem so deep and alive. I wanted to ask you about your writting process. How does it look like in general? How much of the story you plan? Do you have any tips on coming up with plot point, metaphors, dialogues? (All of them which I adored). What was the hardest character for you to write?
(Pls infodump if you are comfy)
Thank you so much for this experience
HEY HELLO IM SO SORRY you sent me this message just as i was starting Uni and its been a CRAZY month thats for sure haha I tried to info dump as much as possible in reponse to your questions about writing to make up for taking so long to answer❤️❤️❤️
First of all im so glad you enjoyed my story! It really means so much to me when people come down and point out specifically things they like cause YES!!! You're picking up on my themes!!! My ideas!!! Let's go thank you so much!!! And yeah, im a hardcore fan of platonic relationships, mostly because they hold such an important place in my life. I also wanted this story to focus on Fox and his story as an individual, but I also wanted to acknowledge romance as still a very important thing to him amongst all of that. Im really glad you enjoyed that element :)
Im gonna put my writing advice under a read more. I am by no means an expert, this is mostly to relate to you how I view the writing process and specifically what I did with IWOAMOT. Hope at least some of it is helpful!
Planning: So generally im a HUGE planner when it comes to writing. I didnt have all it planned out necessarily, but i always find it pretty vital to have the begining and the end in mind, because especially if you dont have a clear end, you dont know what youre writing tiwards, and in a way you almost limit how cohesive and well paced story can feel when youre just weiting with no idea where the final position of your characters will be. Whne you have an end in mind, your job as a writer becomes "what needs to happen to all of these characters to get them physically, emotionally and mentally to this exact position" and all the stuff in between you can be very creative and fluid with. This meant i was constantly adding to my plan as I wrote and the story revealed points i had to adress. But that's just me, some writers love flying by the seat of their pants and seeing where they end up and honestly that's a perfectly valid way of doing it too, especially since you can get really bogged down in weoting EVERYTHING into a plan and then spend less time actually writing the damn fic
Plot points: Honestly, for plot points, im sorry, that one you just gotta thug out. Itll come to you whne it comes to you, but it helps if you just think about your story all the time. Plot points are also easier to come up with when of thinking in terms of 'how can i explore smth?' For example, i needed Fox to have more time between killing the Chancellor and him collapsing and behing taken to the hosiptal. How can i give him more time? Introduce a secondary objective of wanting to pick up the information about corrupt senators to take down the whole system. The Plot point is created and ontroduced to solve a problem and allow for Fox to run around longer and have a bunch of meaningful conversations before hes caught. But dont worry too much, i had a whole phase of worrying about how to bring Fives back at the end without some deus ex machina 'ooooo the force saved him and somehow constructed him a whole body out of thin air!' Or, even worse, just leaving him as a force ghost forever (which has lowkey horrifying implications) or having him like, fade away to the force which would feel SUPER sad after all they've been through. The eventual epiphany for how to bypass all of those potential endings (yippee! Palps stuck his body in a tank!) didnt come to me till id nearly finished the whole story, so yeah, dw.
Dialogue: For dialogue it was super important that i knew the characters. For creating dialogue id keep in mind 3 or 4 essential perosnaloty traits (eg Thire- pragmatic, level headed, disciplined) and that would inform their dialogue (how would someome level headed respond to that last comment? How would a pragmatic person approach this problem and what would they say?) To distinguish characters and give them a unique voice, i would also assign them specific vocal patterns. For example, i gave Thorn a kind of drawl, and with that in mind his dialogue was eaiser to write, or with Stone i made a rule that he would generally be the type not to contribute much to a conversation unless he had something to say.
Metaphore: Metaphors and langauge was something i could never plan for. They always came up during the writing process when i was thinking about dialogue or writing a scene and would go "damn what if this was used as a metahpor" and id type it up. Sometimes id write something once and keep bringing it up so it became a consistant theme (eg. Fox and his stars) A lot of imagery also came from just daydremaing about certain scenes on my walk to school lmao id play the same sene out multipe times in my head and sometimes something interesting and different would happen that i would put in.
Characters: For difficult characters, Funnily enough, i always found rex super difficult to write. He had such complicated feelings about Fox that meant balancing him and making him feeel like a consistant character was super tough. Second hardest was Fives. Cause he was always present but typically we saw most things through Foxs eyes. By contrast the easiest was hands down Fox cause we followed him and his emotional arc the closest. It was easy to write him because in a way his emotional arc was so entwined with the story. Most fun character to wrote was Wolffe. Lmao anything with him and Fox was such a blast cause he allowed scenes to get very volatile and charged.
Honestly, my overall writing advice is just be a little bit crazy and obsessed about your writing. Play scenes over and over in your head. Ruminate. Mull over it. Your story is yours to play with, align it in a configuration that makes you feel most fulfilled.
omg was coming to check out your page after finishing IWOAMOT (which was so so so good btw, fives and fox being brothers is my favourite thing in the world now) to see that you also did Steve Harrington's guide to planning a party w/o blowing up - I read that ages ago and loved it!!
Anyways I thought I'd let you know that your works are awesome,, and also ask, would it be cool if I do some art inspired by IWOAMOT?
AHHHHH TYSM!!! I'm always surprised when people say they bumped into both of my works like!!! I feel like those odds are CRAZY haha but im super glad you enjoyed them both ❤️
YES OMG I literally cannot explain how incredible that would be! The idea that someone wants to make stuff inspired by silly little story means so much to me :)
"That right, and don't ever forget that the Guard has your back." Thorn announced, "Cause we do, till the end of time. And we'd launch another thousand military coups if it kept you safe."
Fox stiffened, "You did what?"
"Oh you have no room to speak Mr"let me just kill the Chancellor real quick,"Thire admonished, but Fox still looked an oscillating mixture of baffled and worried.
Thank you, Thire, for the flat delivery of that line!😆
"We may not be completely sure what we're doing, but I think as long as we're together we can figure it out."
"You move like this," Quinlan said, tugging Fox in what his limited experience identified as the world's most uncoordinated waltz, "Actually, you kinda move however you want, you just let it happen. You take the lead and a little spin here,"
"A relationship is a bit like that, I think," Quinlan said quietly, and when he spoke, Fox could feel the rumble of his voice,
And some authors are writing wise stuff again....
For the fanfic: it's "It Was Only A Matter Of Time" (the link is to the authors tumblr) on Ao3.
I would declare it an AU of Not-Order-66, in which (again) Fox is the main character. I don't know, if he's happy with that...
I love the Mando'a in the fic. But the most important part of the very well written story isn't how that all works - it's about the sibling relationships with each other. And dear @written-mishaps , I cried during the last few chapters.
You moved me to tears. And during the singing guard scene I got goosebumps. #@%£>!!
Thank you for your story. And thank you for the time it took to write that 20-Chapter banger.
And here the Playlist compiled of the songs the author mentioned:
Just finished it was only a matter of time so I’ll try to come back when it’s not the middle of the night but like. Man. It’s so well written. I loved it. The twist with fives being able to talk agggghghhgg
THANK YOU ANON lmao I appreciate you dropping this message at what I'm assuming is an ungodly time of night too❤️
... just wanted to say thank u for 'it was only a matter of time.' you do not understand the SIBLING FEELS i got. like. thinking about rex and fives got me thinking abt my younger sister (she's pretty much my best friend) and how i'd be if i fucked up and she hated me, or if she'd died and left me. got me thinking abt my older brother too and just. how gently supportive of me he is even if he's not super vocal abt it. and just. like this fic just hit somehwere that idk if another fic has ever hit. so just thank you. thank you for writing such an evocative fic because i dont think i've ever given enough thought to how grateful i am for my sibs and our relationships. (also hello, something abt grizzer in this fic i cant even - all i could see was my own dog, like hello??) hope ur having a great day + sending virtual hugs <333
im so happy to hear it resonated! Like, I put in a lot of the love i have for my sister into that fic so it always warms my heart when people say it got them to think about their own siblings ❤️❤️❤️
You know, i don't think I EVER mentioned this before, but like a huge part of capturing the vibe of Rex's and Fox's relationship came from the Oppenheimer sound track, weirdly enough. Like, all of the flashback scenes with younger Rex (chapter 7) i had "Can You Hear the Music" playing on repeat and then for any further Rex scene that involved him thinking of Fox I put on "Quantum Mechanics" which is just a slower version of the first one. Idk guys, its weird I never mentioned it cause in my mind that was like 'Rex's Theme' that was legit just what he sounded like
And here we have it, the final Chapter of IWOAMOT. It's weird to finish something you've worked on for a year and have poured A LOT of love into, so I hope you all enjoy tuning in one last time for one last chapter <3
your story has been so awesome and fun to read this last year, it's bittersweet to see it go but what an accomplishment!! congratulations on finishing it and thank you for sharing it with all of us ❤️🤍
