#and then you're just constantly going back and forth with two versions of your wip

[moonandris]

Ughhhh... I went back and looked at an old science fantasy WIP I started in 2015 and it gave me SOOOOOO many ideas that make me wanna change everything. *cries in adhd*

I seriously hate my adhd brain SO much because I could worldbuild for literally eternity and it would never be enough, lolololol. I keep tweaking and changing the genres and magic system of my modern fantasy WIP and It’s driving me insaneeeeeee!!! Send help for my indecisive writer brain!

Idk if I wanna go the full blown high fantasy magic route with mages, sorcerers, witches, and warlocks OR if I want to explore science fantasy route of my old WIP and instead of mages & witches, I’d have espers (essentially, people with psychokinetic abilities). My story is set in a modern setting and I want to mix science and magic either way but it really comes down to how much power I want my mages/espers to have... like do I want them to have the ability to use their magic/psychokinetic abilities teleport across the world instead of using trains or airplanes? Do I want (some) of them to have god-like magic or do I want them to have more practical, less showy magic that works with the man-made technology of their world? I really love the idea of magic technology or psychokinetic-powered machinery, too.

I also feel like I might be overthinking it because either way, espers and mages are somewhat similar in that they both have fantastic powers with just different names...

Ugh, I’m being bombarded by so many ideas (which is great) but with the way my brain works I have to explore every little thought until my WIP has a ‘perfect’ system. It’s so annoying.

I also don’t see as many novels that explore espers over mages, as using the magic/mage terminology is more popular. I like the idea of having a ridiculously small amount of the human population with these powers, whatever they may be. So, if the world population in my story is 4 billion, then there would only be about 20,000 mages/espers, which is less than 0.0005% of the population. Some could be incredibly powerful while others could have powers that are completely useless, hehehehe. So. Many. Ideassssss!!

What sounds more interesting, mages or espers? Or both??

#faye speaks #wip advice #modern fantasy wip #my wips #writeblr wips #is anyone else like this? #where you look at your wip #and think OOOH what if we switched up the genre? #and then you're just constantly going back and forth with two versions of your wip #it's driving me INSANEEEEEEE #i've got writer madness #just writeblr things #should i go with mages or espers?

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Tagged by @jurijurijurious - thank you!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?:

71 (don't ask me how that happened, I have no idea either)

(Guys there's no number 2 in this thing, where did it go??)

(seconding the no number 2)

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Megamind, Reboot, The Queens Gambit, Goncharov, ATLA, Good Omens, Phantom of the Opera, Destiny 2, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Repo! the Genetic Opera, The Witcher, and Labyrinth

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Tea with Topsy (1,485)

Rings (807)

Presentation (805)

No one calls you honey when you're sitting on a throne (737)

Wait a Minute (702)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes always, I dropped out of the habbit when I first got back into fic writing but picked it up again and now I respond to every comment because if someone is going to take the time out of their day to say they appreciated my work you can bet I'm paying that kindness back!

6. What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Currently Somnia, though whenever I fall at your feet, won't you let your tears rain down on me? comes a strong second and is probably the angstier overall

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Probably Rings or Back of Beyond. Rings is the one where I really put the work into getting Megamind and Roxanne to a place where they were both happy and wanted to be together, so I can see it contnuing happily even after I finished writing.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not really, got flamed a time or two in the ff.net days. The occasional person who doesn't really think

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Oh I absolutely do! I love writing smut. I love how much storytelling you can put into smut. You can get SO MUCH character work into smut just by how the characters are connecting.

My absolute favourite is the tension got to much and we HAD to break smut, because there is so much gooey deliciousness I absolutely do not write in the mornings after, where the sex comes easy but the feelings are locked behind a dozen doors.

All my smut tends to involve tentacles or some version of fuckery. The last time I wrote fic that just had a standard dick I think I struggled! XD

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Does roleplay in the DBCA mansion count? Not really, though Nails kind of crosses over with Round the Twist. I'd love to write a PacRim crossover someday though.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Doubt it, though I've never really looked and it wouldn't surprise me if some dickhead scraped my fic for AI.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! I've had a couple of fans translate one or two of my Megamind fics into Russian.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? 

Not yet, though I think I'd like to. Dal and I have bounced ideas back and forth a few times and I did scoop and drop all of our Megamind accidentally swears a bluestreak in front of Roxanne but she just laughs at him idea into a google doc that i wil someday get around to opening.

14. What’s your all-time favourite ship?

Just one? I mean my ship is more of a theme of dramatic bastard in a big cape and the equally dramatic person constantly needling them back. Ideal OTP is Rick/Evey from The Mummy

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

I really REALLY want to write the florist/tattoo parlour Megarox fic but I have literally no idea what to do with it so it will remain a collection of unrelated scenes forever probably, alas.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue. I love writing exchanges between people, especially when they get to be snarky with each other. I feel like I'm pretty good at smut but everyone's mileage varies on that one.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Action scenes. I hate them, I'll take any opportunity to avoid writing fight scenes.

I'm also a wordy fucking bitch so I take forever to get to scenes that readers are begging for if I feel like the story isn't there yet.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I'm not bilingual so its something I would need to do with a translator and probably would't flow well.

19. First fandom you wrote for? 

Star Wars. I wanted to impress Grand Admiral Thrawn SO MUCH as a nine year old (still do tbh)

20. Favourite fic you’ve ever written?

Ahaha it changes depending on which one I'm working on. Topsy is up there but Ricochet, Recoil, Rebound is one I can always go back to with joy.

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