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#also said oneshot already serves as a prequel to a current wip
thinkingheron · 1 year
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Me, awake at 3 am : I kinda want to develop that oneshot I wrote.
Brain : Yes. Good idea. So here's a *prequel* to that-
Me : NO
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jate-kara · 4 years
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21, 29 & 37 for the fic ask game!
from this list
21. How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
I tend to revise as I go along, so every time I’m working on a piece, I’ll scroll back and reread what I’ve already written and see if it sounds good. It’s very constant and iterative because I have found that for me, personally, the ‘just write the first draft!! let it be messy and imperfect and flawed!!’ approach has never worked. I get stuck because I know something doesn’t fit and I have to fix it before I go on. In my head it’s kind of like laying the foundation for a building; if that’s flawed, the whole thing’ll collapse.
29. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
I’m gonna have to agree with what you said when someone asked you this question - namely, that I love the fics I love because they’re already so wonderfully done (Dinosaur Bones?? - go read that one, followers, I promise it’s amazing). I can’t imagine adding anything to them.
37. Talk about your current wips.
I have my Fred/Veta Most Things Are The Same But Sam Survived fic - chaos (in) theory, which was supposed to be a oneshot but will eventually be longer because people seemed to like it a lot and because I think it’d be an interesting story to tell. Also, I really love detective/profiler Veta Lopis.
I have The Creed, which will be about John-117’s mother, but approaches the character in a different way. I want to explore the idea of an individual working from within the UNSC to improve the system - to try to help the Outer Colonies (and specifically her homeworld). It’s sort of in the same vein as Hunt the Truth, in my head. HTT gives us a courageous journalist questioning everything he knows, standing up to ONI, but ultimately finding himself manipulated and outmaneuvered. What happens when someone deep inside the system hears his story and starts asking those same questions? Her son never died. Her son became a Spartan. John’s mother has served the UNSC for most of her life and is a decorated veteran. How does she deal with that kind of revelation and what does it motivate her to do in response?
I want the story to be nuanced and complex and well-written and I’m not sure how to briefly articulate everything I want from it, but I guess the tl;dr is that I want a story about someone in a position of power who actively chooses, again and again, to do what’s right - someone who doesn’t cave to their peers and who is righteously angry about what ONI did and who is willing to fight to their last breath for their convictions. Someone who has every opportunity to self-justify doing equally terrible things in response - they took my son, they betrayed me - and doesn’t take it. Someone who says This stops now, we are better than this and follows through.
And I want someone to finally go save Benjamin Giraud.
I wrote a short summary about its rough outline a bit ago, in case anyone is interested in that.
Last but not least, there’s Century’s Edge, which I want to be about family, ends not justifying the means, and choosing what’s right over what’s ordered. It’s a Blue Team fic and yes, it will feature Sam (what Blue Team fic of mine doesn’t, lately?). Not sure when it’s set yet, chronologically speaking, but Blue Team Goes To Maethrillian.
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