#but i hate that that's like. one of my most popular fics by a longshot
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20 Questions Game for Fic Writers!
I was tagged by @ssmtskw! thank you bud <3
1. How many works do you have on Ao3?
23!
2. What’s your total Ao3 word count?
204,389
3. What fandoms do you write for?
Technically, Marvel (specifically Iron Dad) and Red, White and Royal Blue, though I've taken a huge step back from Marvel.
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
Baby's Firsts
Domestic Life Was Never Quite My Style
Starlight, Star Bright
Two Worlds, One Family
Tony Stark vs. Babies "R" Us
(um... ok, they're not bad fics, but they're all super old. the fact that they're my top five is due to age more than anything else. I was a semi-popular writer in the height of the Iron Dad fandom's activity. My writing has significantly improved since these were written, so if you've read my most recent work and decide to go back and give these a try, just keep that in mind 😂 most of them are five years old.)
5. Do you respond to comments?
Almost always! There are a couple of unfinished fics that I ended up turning off the comments for, though, because I don't plan to finish them, and I kept getting comments on them that are written with the best intentions but come off as discouraging and kind of obnoxious instead - "update when?" "i know this is a longshot but please update" "it's been two years, will you ever update?" Aside from those, I do try to answer every single comment that comes to my inbox.
6. What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
Um... I don't really write angsty endings 😂 "I Will Soften Every Edge (I'll Do Better)" is probably as close as it gets? It's not pure angst, but it's not pure fluff, either. "Oh, Little One, You Just Need to be Brave" is another kind of vaguely hurt/comfort angst-adjacent ending, I guess, but please don't read that one 😂 the only reason I haven't deleted it is because I know how frustrating it is when authors delete stuff.
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
Maybe "Baby's Firsts" or "Before, After, and Beyond"? Like I said, angsty endings are hard to come by in my fics, but if you want pure fluff...
8. Do you get hate on fics?
Nah. I've gotten a couple of comments that were confused by something and asked for clarification, but they were very polite about it.
9. Do you write smut? If so what kind?
LOL, no 😂 I'm comfortable talking about it, but I don't think I'd ever write it myself.
10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve ever written?
I used to write wild crossovers all the time when I was a little kid just learning how writing works for the first time 😂 I don't write them so much, anymore, it's not really my thing, but I think one time when I was a kid I wrote a Harry Potter/American Girl crossover? 😂
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Nope.
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
Yeah, actually! Or, at least part of one. Someone translated two chapters of "Before, After, and Beyond" into Russian. I think they forgot to translate the third? It was still pretty cool, either way.
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
Yeah, a couple times. I've taken my name off the published ones, but I'm working on another project with a bunch of people from the Brownstone server, at the moment, and I'm super excited about it!
14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?
At the moment? FirstPrince. It changes depending on my current hyperfixation, but Alex and Henry are my #1 right now.
15. What’s a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?
Ugh. Probably the birthday fic in my "Tony Stark adopts Harley Keener and Peter Parker" AU. I've just completely run out of steam on anything Marvel-related, and I feel bad about it, but there's not a lot I can do. My mood completely plummets whenever I try to sit down and make myself work on any of my old Marvel WIPs, so I've just been giving myself some grace and telling myself that if I never finish them, it's okay.
16. What are your writing strengths?
Ooh, I don't really think about this very much. I feel like I'd need an outside opinion 😂 I've been told by several different people that I'm good at nailing characterizations, which always makes me pretty proud of myself, haha. Every time I get a "this is so in character!" comment I puff up like a peacock 😂
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
Descriptions, maybe? I can do them, but I feel like they've never quite as interesting as they could be.
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?
I love multilinguism in fics! It's a little intimidating for me personally, because I never quite managed to grasp a second language myself, so I have to rely heavily on translators and asking people who speak the language "hey, does this make any sense?" but especially when I'm writing Alex and his family in RWRB fics, their bilinguism is so important and I don't want to skip it just because I'm scared, so I'm willing to put in a little extra work to make it more authentic.
19. First fandom you ever wrote for?
Well, technically, if we're talking about writing that never even got published, the very first fanfic I ever wrote back when I was probably around six years old was a Harry Potter self-insert 😂 But my first published fic was for the MCU.
20. Favorite fic you’ve ever written?
"It's Nice to Have a Friend" 😊
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Fic Writer Interview Game
ohoho thank you @extraordinarilyextreme for tagging me! i love seeing these memes and also talking about myself
tagging: Ahahaha ok susu already tagged most of yall so I'm gonna snatch a few urls from my follower list with AO3s in their bio <3
(if I didn't tag you, you can do this too. Also if I DID tag you, you don't have to do this if you don't want to! Also hi~ sorry for bothering you :P)
@annadream @catholicjigglypuff @lady-in-the-lair @walkwithursus @randomingoftherandomness @ghostly-writer
name: wawa // 娃娃
fandoms:
Currently, my main fandom is The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty, although I have also written a bit for Hunter X Hunter and X-Men (comics) in the past.
two-shots:
oh god, i was surprised I even had any because I usually have (n/?) chapters or I just post one/longshots.
Five : X-Men Hellion/Elixir fanfic. Chapter 1 was posted in 2013 and chapter 2 was posted in 2018, much to the surprise of my exactly 2 readers 🤡
I don't need your name : TSOMD rongzhi fanfic. I'm not sure if this even really counts as a twoshot because of how long it is, but oh well! I was/am fairly proud of this fic.
Cold Little Heart : TSOMD rongzhi fic. A proper twoshot, I feel, and one of my more recent fics. Ding Rong is a vampire-type creature.
most popular multi-chapter fic:
My most popular multi-chapter fic, based on kudos, is my HXH hisoillu fic We Who Have the Souls (by far lol). I'm incredibly proud of my HXH series because it is the second series I managed to finish and definitely came at a time when my writing was really improving (in my opinion). It's also an adventure fic and fairly gen despite being hisoillu. I still consider it peak wawa-writing for those reasons ahaha.
actual worst part of writing:
Lately, the worst part of writing is... writing sentences, if that makes any sense. I don't mind not being motivated because that happens, but it really sucks when I want to write, and yet everything just feels WRONG. Like I can't figure out how to make words flow or jump from one beat to the next. At those points I read my writing and it's like "ah. A woodchip wrote this."
how you choose your titles:
These days, I usually use lyrics or lines/phrases from poetry. It's sort of funny to me because I remember for the longest time, I hated using lyrics as titles. I thought they sounded super dumb and I would always try and pick titles like you'd pick a title for an original piece of writing. I'm still prejudiced about using lyrics as titles (especially if the lyric is particularly memorable/popular), but sometimes... titles are not important... sometimes you just gotta slap something on in the title section and hit 'publish', even if that fic is titled something stupid.
do you outline?:
For the most part, no. For multichapter fics, I might set plot point goal posts, or write out beats I want to hit in the upcoming chapter or chapters, but it really depends... I have one fanfic still in the works right now that was almost completely outlined (while still leaving room for change at the end), but apparently outlining a fic entirely does not motivate me to write it.
ideas you probably won't get around to, but wouldn't it be nice?:
Hm... I have MULTIPLE abandoned fanfics in my writing folder for fandoms including WTNV and CATFA, but those WIPs were abandoned so long ago, I don't even humor thoughts of finishing them.
Originally, I was going to write a 4th part to my HXH series based on Emily Dickinson's I've seen a dying eye, but I ended up using that poem as inspo for a TSOMD fic. The 4th fic would've taken place a few years after We Who Have the Souls and would have seen Illumi returning to the Zoldyck mansion to meet his father once more before Silva dies. In the WIP I have, we learn that Illumi and Hisoka have sort of parted ways because Hisoka went on a Dark Continent expedition that is almost a year late in returning. Throughout the fic, Illumi would have been resigned to the fact that Hisoka was dead and would have been acting in denial of his grief, as well as the unsettling realisation that they hadn't parted on the best of terms... and, again, this would all be set in the background of having to deal with family affairs because the fic opens with Silva announcing that he is dying (and Kalluto and Illumi rightfully being like what the fuck are you talking about old man). I think this fic would've been pretty interesting, and to be honest, I really enjoyed the bits at the mansion that I've already started, but... writing a part 4 to my HXH series feels unneeded.
Other than that fic?
I pretty much write the main TSOMD ideas that come to mind, so I don't have many regrets there. There are a few twitter/chat fics that I think would be nice to actually expand into fuller stories, but they're all a little bit "girl help, I'm having ideas beyond my creation skills" for me, especially with the groundhog day AUs or the time travel fix-its.
OH! Today when I was giffing from an TSOMD episode, I had brief notions of writing a character study with Sui Zhou flirting with the idea of truly running off with Li Fei (the head bank robber guy), but I don't really think my character study of Sui Zhou would be accurate because I think I would fundamentally misunderstand his character. I wouldn't be able to incorporate Tang Fan into Sui Zhou's psyche/outlook of his world because I've never understood what endeared him to Tang Fan in the first place. 🤷🏻♂️ It was an intriguing idea while it was in my head, though!
callouts @ me:
BOY! stop posting the first chapters of multi-chapter fanfics before you even figure out where the fic is headed!! I have SO many discontinued fic from my ff.net days... The first multichapter fic I finished wasn't until like 2016 and it was only 4 chapters. I ought to know better by now but I'm just too greedy for feedback, I guess...
best writing traits:
I would say my dialogue has always received compliments, both in my fanfic and in my original writing. Dialogue has always felt fairly intuitive to me because it's just like... how people talk. Like, we all know how people talk in real life, so?? Writing dialogue is just a little more streamlined than that (usually). I am told I write angst fairly well, also, although I personally am not always sure about that lol. Most of the time, my attempts at angst always seem to fall short of what I am going for in my mind. I think that goes for most aspects of writing (plot especially!!) as well.
spicy tangential opinion: Hm... SPICY? I mean I agree with @extraordinarilyextreme in that... do your research for cultures you are not apart of, and for the LOVE OF GOD, if a person in that culture is trying to tell you that the way you are depicting something is inaccurate... LISTEN. Think about why that person is taking time out of their day to fucking tell you that.
And also, more generally, if you don't like it, don't fucking read it.
(Which is not to say that I think people should write racist stories to get their rocks off or anything, but if you know you don't like certain dark themes or various kinks/sexual subject matter... just hit leave! Exit tab! Do not interact <3)
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2020 Goal Recap & 2021 Goals
Recap
2020 was a shitshow. I’ll say it. So, my goals didn’t go to plan. None of them happened in their entirety. So, let’s talk about what I did accomplish in 2020, writing wise.
I wrote and posted 28 chapters of Silver Rings and Golden Hearts.
I wrote and posted 21 chapters of The Weight of Living.
I wrote and posted 2 chapters of And There was Only One Bed, before putting it on hold.
I wrote and posted 9 chapters of Sonder.
I wrote multiple chapters of unposted fics, which I had fun with. At least one ended up 25k total.
I wrote and posted 13 oneshots, 12 for RWBY, 1 for Star Wars, ranging from just under 2k to over 28k in length.
I wrote and posted three smut fics, the first new smut I’ve written in over three years. And I’ve managed to reread them and not want to rip my face off.
I wrote approximately 800,000 words.
Was this what I wanted to do? No. It’s a lot less. Am I okay with this accomplishment? I’m working on it. I am so pleased I wrote 2 longshots. I am so pleased I wrote and posted smut fic again. That’s incredible. And I figured out the length of both of my big long fics and I finally started writing and posting a Pokémon fic, something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.
So yeah, good things all around. I need to remember that. I need to remember that.
2020 made me think about a lot of things. So, let’s try and set goals that fit with what I’ve learned.
Writing
Stop enforcing impossible deadlines on myself. I cannot write an update in a week, not with how long they are. I know this. I need to deal with it. There is nothing wrong with slower updates and no one is going to hate me if I update biweekly, triweekly, or monthly. It will be okay.
Write things that bring me joy, first and foremost. Stop letting my own fears and other peoples’ preferences and ideas dictate what I write. I don’t need to game the system, pick popular ships and tropes, or compromise my ideas to get readers, and even if no one reads, I will still be happy with what I wrote. This is why I write Sonder, why I play around in old, dead fandoms, and in non-existent ships. I need to have fun with my writing, and I’ve spent too much time being sad about it this year.
Take at least one day off per week. I have burnt out at least four times this year, probably more. Furthermore, while I wrote around 800,000 words, I have spent so much of this year berating myself. I have never spent this much time being upset with my output, especially not when it’s this high. This was not fun to deal with. I need to change it.
Give up the notion that I can finish both Silver Rings and Weight in 2021. I might be able to finish one, or at least come close, but I absolutely cannot finish both. The chapters are too long and there’s too many left to write. I can’t do it. And I can’t ruin myself trying to. It’s okay to take several years to write several fics that are going to be 500k+ words.
With that in mind, I do have two chapter-based goals for the upcoming year.
First, I would like to post chapter 60 of Silver Rings before the end of 2021. Chapter 60 is one of a handful of chapters that I have wanted to write for over a year. I am very excited for what happens in that chapter, and how we get there, and what comes after.
Second, I would like to post chapter 35, if not 36, of The Weight of Living before the end of 2021. Chapter 35 is the chapter that started this fic. It’s the whole reason the fic exists. It’s probably one of the most hyped up chapters in my head that I have ever written. I need to write it, obviously, but I have it sketched, I know the beats, and I am so, so excited. I want to get there.
Find a way to enjoy writing Silver Rings again. It’s no secret that this fic causes me a lot of stress and strife. I have put so much stress, and hype, and pressure on this fic that opening it some days makes me have panic attacks. I don’t know how to fix this, but I want to. I miss loving this fic. It’s not the fault of anyone but myself. I just don’t know how to fix it. But I want to. Because this fic means so much to me. And I am tired of being scared of it. And I want to keep writing it. And I will not abandon it. I refuse.
Stop worrying about consistent schedules and output. Fanfiction is not a job, it’s a hobby, and no one expects me to pump out an entire 500k fic in one year. It’s okay to take breaks. It’s okay to write new fics. I want to play around more with Sonder in 2021. I want to write other things that aren’t my two long fics. And that’s okay. I have so many ideas and it’s okay to write them, even if they take months to update.
Reading
Have at least fifty percent of the books I read be part of my TBR on January 1st, 2021. That means I want half of my reading to be from books I owned prior to 2021. I own a lot of books and I need to start making a dent in them. Not because I dislike having a large TBR, but because I have so many books I want to read, and I need to read them.
Be more conscientious of the books I am buying. According to my spreadsheet, I bought over a hundred books in 2020. I don’t even want to think about how much money I spent on them. You know how many books I read in 2020? Thirty-six. Yeah. Of the books I bought, I read eight. Eight. That’s not enough. I want to think more before I buy books. I want to really only buy books that I truly think I’ll enjoy.
Read more books on writing. I own so many non-fiction writing craft books. I spent most of 2020 buying as many as I could, taking the time to study them before I bought them. I want to read some of them cover to cover, take notes, and learn in 2021.
Life
Find a hobby outside of reading/writing and stick with it. I like video games, even though they make me motion sick, and I’ve wanted to pick up needlepoint for a while. I just need to do something not involving words. I feel like it will help.
Take up yoga. I own mats. I like the stretch. I’m just self-conscious and awkward.
Sort out my sleep schedule so I wake up between 10 and 11am every morning. Yes, this is a year long goal. Don’t @ me.
Figure out self-care habits and routines. Find out what works for me. Go for walks, listen to music, take naps, practice good hygiene, have a living space that sparks joy. That sort of thing.
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⭐ loading message!
i knew this one was coming lmao
Loading Message… aka my pjo chat fic that for some reason people still read even though now rereading it i cant get through the first 20 chapters without cringing. buckle up everyone because theres a lot to go with this one
the title on my google doc is “title unavailable” because i like naming my drafts really unhelpful things and then i can never find them again, but it gave me inspiration for what i would inevitably call the fic. also fun fact its single spaced size 11 font and over 117 pages long, which means it takes a good minute and a half to load before i can actually edit anything, and another 2 minutes to scroll all the way down to the bottom
loading message actually didnt start out as a pjo fic that i had intended to post. it started out as something i started typing during free time in my english class and i shared the doc with my friend from my class because she would read it and crack up and i love making people laugh so i just kept writing more of the most random shit and inappropriate humor bc we were rebellious, emo, newly-founded queer 7th graders and i ojhklknshbk i cant read the beginning i keep telling you that but i cant. anyway one day i decided to just post what i had written (the first 12 chapters) all in one night, to archive of our own and it just blew. up.
literally the day after i posted it my friend (different from before) came up to me during lunch and she was like “i have to tell you about this hilarious pjo chat fic i read. it has all the characters and theyre all dating and reyna and thalia are together and rachels there too and its so funny” and i was like. hm. theres no way. but THEN she started talking about these really funny scenes in it and ofc they were completely identical to what i had written and i just started wheezing and i told her that I had written it and that was like an inside joke with us for a year until she stopped reading fic. she was actually a huge inspiration for a lot of the chapters (she shared a 5 page doc with me with so many ideas, i wish i still had it tbh) and this is actually sort of sad but right when we stopped being friends, the spark i had for that fic died out even though it had been a long while since she read fic. (i actually still wonder sometimes if she still keeps up with it. god i really hope not)
anyway, that sad part aside, i met one of my really amazing friends now through it! val aka jayjay-graceless and i started talking through the comments of loading message, and once she started writing her own pjo chat fic (which, lemme tell you, rip ocean man is typing… it was so much funnier than mine) and eventually we got a tumblr and stared interacting on my blog at the same time annie and cj had been (for separate reasons, i was a superfan of cj and annie was a superfan of me) and boom alabanda happened so ty loading message for giving me a new friend after i lost one
i keep talking about rewriting loading message at some point and maybe i will because every innuendo i ever made and that whole weird solangelo sex plotline that i hate still to this day, but idk. i kinda like the history of it all. loading message is truly my trash baby and even though i hate that my most popular fic by a longshot is a crack pjo chat fic, im so grateful for the people that support it (this is really sentimental, its truly garbage but ty everyone who finds it funny ily)
if anyone has any groupchat name suggestions/chapter suggestions/etc please let me know! im always looking for new ideas!
also if you havent already checked out cjs solangelo-centric companion fic to it called message received, then please do!!!! its a million times better!!!!!!!
send me a star and one of my fics and ill talk about it
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