#ffwf

[narastories]

Hi! For Fanfic Writer Friday, I'd like to ask you about the order you write your fics in. Do you write the scenes chronologically, or do you write what comes first? Does it depend on the length and complexity of the fic, or do you always operate the same way?

I'm curious because I'm wondering about that aspect of the craft these days, as you know from the discord. And I'm interested in your experience with that <3

Hii! For me the answer really depends.

Interestingly, nowadays I write more chronologically than I used to. I remember I used to jump around a lot more than I do now. But I think it all depends on my motivation/vision for the fic and also the length.

If I have a short fic with just a few scenes, and I have a strong vision for it, I will usually write the scenes in order. However, if I have a long multichapter fic, then I will definitely jump around because I usually know what I want to put in the first third of the fic, then I have a couple of scenes I have a good vision for in the second third and usually have an idea about the ending. So I would write those and then fill out the gaps. (And move scenes around. If a fic approaches the 50k mark then my writing process becomes exponentially more chaotic lmao Which is why I don't post long fics as I go anymore)

You have to have a good balance, I think. If I try to force myself to write scenes chronologically then I can get stuck. But also if I just jump straight to the scenes I want, then sometimes I have nothing to look forward to anymore with a longer project and lose motivation ^^"

#thanks for asking #ffwf #fanfic writer friday

[hungryhannya]

hello hello! thank you for the ask! here's your ask back:

do you have the whole idea of a fic and it has approximately equal appeal when you start writing it or do you have That One Particular Scene you really want to write and the rest of the fic is the explanation of the justification for it?

Ty for the ask, or well askback :D Let's see, this is a tough one:

I think I'm generally the "all or nothing/one thing" kinda writer, so would either write the ONE SCENE i wanna go for, and just start it in media res without bothering with much build up, or build up an entire fic that might be based on the idea but not really "built for it"?. At that point I would be invested in the whole fic more or less equally, even if the scene originally was the main inspiration for it.

For example with the Reverse reymas AU I wanted to write them having a day at the hamlet, but had the broad backstory that at the time didnt want to write out, until the idea came up when writing for the DD zine. But writing Twisted Roads made me not think of "oh this is gonna be a good build up when i drop the fic/scene i wanted originally" but that "oh this is pretty fun."

#FFWF #ask game #think i might need more writing under my belt though #before i can say for sure #but this is how i feel right now

[jaynovz]

for the fanfic ask game: what work of yours do you feel is the most underappreciated/do you wish got more attention? could we have a small sample of a bit you like?

Okay I thought about this for a long time, cuz I WANTED to say the FlintMadi series or maybe hanahaki or petplay ot4. honorable mentions lol.

But I think the True answer is the John Silver backstory aka a stained glass variation of the truth.

I knew when writing it that like maybe a handful of ppl were EVER gonna engage with this for multiple stacking reasons: the dark subject matter, the underage archive warning, the huge amount of OCs, the Silver/OMC. Lotta death knells for readership lol

but guys I'm SO fucking proud of it and I've read basically every other Silver backstory and mine sort of stands alone in being the most extensive and focused example, by which I mean it doesn't venture into canon events, it tells its own story and is a true prequel (perhaps another death knell lmao) but yeah I'm just really proudddddddddddddd of that okay, I did SO MUCH historical research and historical WRITING isn't my strong suit but I killed it

oh also just to like, clarify, I subscribe to the "all and none" Silver backstory mindset. Meaning that, anything we can dream up could be correct and also there's no answer, these facts exist in my mind simultaneously. What they did in the show, leaving it up to the viewer, leaving it implicit? Yeah that was some fucking MASTERCRAFT and I don't mean to say that one *needs* a Silver backstory per se.

So yeah me writing it wasn't some be-all-end-all statement, but it Was an intensive character study exercise for why I thought he might turn out the way he did.

Anyway, I do not expect this answer to get literally anyone who hasn't already read it to check it out but there it is! thank you for asking <3

and yes here's your excerpt--

The voice John knew well raged inside--venomous, accusing.

Weak. He had to rescue you because you are weak. And now he’s dead. Just like everyone else.

Belatedly, John realized Solomon had been his friend. He had cared about John beyond his usefulness or their alliance. For as skilled as he was at reading people, sussing out their wants, their needs, their tells like the hidden flesh in a mollusc… John had utterly misread Solomon. In the moment, it had seemed so clear-cut, but in retrospect...

He remembered months spent joking warmly, sharing the toil, taking meals together, playing cards, privately mocking the worst of the crew, and telling lie after extravagant lie to one-up each other. They’d been set apart from the other boys, both too clever by half, opportunists who understood each other almost too well. Solomon was always teaching John--how to scale the rigging, the nautical knots, the best hiding places on a ship. He remembered the easy affection the older boy had expressed and the wedge it had driven between them, that John had put there. The recollection pained him and he slapped the side of the ship in anger. As usual, John was too late to recognize and appreciate anything good.

No. A rational voice pushed back. Solomon was a fool.

A mistake. It was a mistake to care about him, it was a mistake to care about anyone but yourself. Solomon had cared about John and what had been his reward? To die, to be forgotten, to be filled up with water and subsumed into the abyss.

In the end, boys like John, like Solomon, mattered to no one. Not to the crew of this ship, nor to the ferocious, unknowable sea, nor to the machinations and fates of the larger world. Boys like them had to make their own safety--carve a spot for themselves by whatever means necessary, be it force or duplicity. He'd learned, many times over, that caring too much for the well-being of other people was wholly incompatible with this goal.

I won't make their mistakes.

The next day it was business as usual for the crew of the Bridgewater; the storm had calmed and they weighed anchor. The drunken man who'd attacked John went unpunished. Indeed the entire event went unremarked upon, as none of the other crew asked after the missing cabin boy.

John had a surreal sense of deja vu; again, it was as if it hadn’t happened at all.

And isn’t that easier? To let it fade into irrelevance?

The other boys eyed the empty spot next to John, but said nothing. They were meek shadows, poor beaten things, colorless compared to all that had been his friend. Numbly, he completed his daily chores, all too aware of the heaviness of the workload. That which used to be split, yoked over two sets of shoulders to lessen the burden, was now his responsibility alone.

Tom. Scrap. Ollie. Lizzie. Mary.

Solomon.

Despite his best efforts, it was yet another name he would try and fail to forget.

#thoughts #the silver backstory #ask game #etoilesombre #ffwf #fanfic writer friday #yes im aware it's no longer friday i got kinda rip roaring blitzed and watched media and got DISTRACTED okay #my writing #john silver #black sails

[gaygryffindorgal]

Happy FFWF!

What has Klara been up to during the war?

Any hcs of Elian and Malcolm during the war?

Thank you for the ask!

Klara's war time years are spent learning to fend for herself. In 1913, she refuses to marry the man her parents had picked out for her (a certain member of the Faust family who doesn't have a first name yet lol) so she leaves and her parents cut her off. She moves to France and has to get used to a very different lifestyle. She doesn't have much involvement with the Muggle or Wizarding politics of the time, but she does reconnect with her friend Alexej ( @potionboy3 ) at the end of 1916, when he finds her and asks for her help hiding from his many, many enemies. My plans are still sort of open and bound to change, though!

Malcolm, 35 at the start of the war, would work closely with the Ministry to try to stop anyone from using the chaos to their advantage. Since he's pure-blood, he'd probably not have that much to do with the Muggle military? I actually haven't decided if he holds any muggle ranks... I mean he could, in which case he would be more involved, the Ministry using this to their advantage, too.

Elian is probably hanging out with Henry who is involved with the Muggle side of the war on account of being muggle-born. They both do hold ranks in the Muggle army, though we haven't actually discussed this very far with Annie.

#ffwf #klara belikova #elian goldcrest #malcolm stolberg burke #everyone wants to kill alexej :DD

[chocomd]

happy ffwf! take this moment to highlight a fic you've written that you think is underrated. why do you think that is? what are you most proud of from that fic? and talk about anything else you want!

lol I'm answering this one week late and not on a Friday....

An underrated fic of mine is easily Lullaby for the Departed. It's a oneshot about Aang and Katara traveling to the spirit world to save baby Tenzin, who has been kidnapped. It's my least popular fic probably because it's very dark and has a content warning for miscarriage (although no miscarriage happens in the events of the story).

But I'm really happy with how the fic turned out. It's one of those stories where I wasn't too restrained by canon because 1) in the spirit world, almost anything goes, and 2) the time period when Aang and Katara are adults is a nice, long blank with little to no canon material. So I could really let loose and write what I wanted to write, and that's why I think the fic turned out as well as it did.

Thanks for the ask!

#ffwf #ffwf answer #northerngoshawk #chocomd answers

[itsmoonpeaches]

FELIX FIC FOR FFWF

Tell me anything you’ve been just dying to talk about for that fic

(Or if you can’t think of anything, then for one of your other wips or finished fics)

Why hello there

Blood pooled on the floor, like the crimson veil of a strangled maiden trailing after her lost lover. And so, when Felix came to himself, his grip tightening over the pommel of his sword, the drip, drip, drip did not faze him. What gave him pause were the eyes that stared back. Violently glowing and poisoned green. A breath on her lips only because there was no other choice. Her hand held onto what was left of her.

#tw blood #lol hi choco #this is what you get #fe3h #ask #ffwf #fanfic writer friday #chocomd #fire emblem three houses

[kathrynalicemc]

Happy FFWF! Skalafell during the 1990s? [ellie-e-marcovitz 😊]

The 90s is big for the Arcanos. Just before the 90s started Kaari graduated Hogwarts. 1994 had the birth of Dayamanti who had the first Gift in about 100 years. 1997 was also big because in January Dafne was born which marked the second born with the Gift. In august the second war started and Kaari joined the PR. He then eventually got together with Semele which resulted in Siv being born in 2000 ending the decade.

I don’t know what else you might have wanted to know for that period? Lmk if there’s something specific!

#ffwf #ask game #arcano family #skalafell

[endlessly-cursed]

happy ffwf! what writing projects are you working on right now? and how's primrose's story coming along?🤗💙

Happy FFWF!

Some writing projects that are on the works as in today is a founders Christmas fic collab with @hphmmatthewluther who will announce it soon. Our OCs, Lam and Henriette, after a few years of each their fics, face a holiday threat that they both must vanquish. Guest appearances will be made, and a few lessons will be learned. Not to mention, family fluff before the storm sets in!!

As for Prim, I do have written some parts of 'Infatuated' that I'm itching to get first, but firstly I need to consult to a friend whose OC is involved to see if I make their OC justice and to get some notes 🫡

#asks #ffwf #oc: henriette of wessex #oc: primrose gray #writing projects

[unfortunate-arrow]

Happy FFWF!

Can we get some O'Sheavery lore/hcs? 👀

Colm O’Shea and Ione Avery (@cursed-herbalist) were at Hogwarts together, both Gryffindors in the same year but they ran in different circles. They didn’t interact much until the later years at Hogwarts, when a quidditch training mishap drew them together. In their seventh year, they began dating in secret. From 1912 to 1914, they dated in secret, having excursions into the muggle populated parts of England, Wales, and Ireland.

Unfortunately, in the winter of late 1914, everything came to a screeching halt. An engagement popped up for Ione, one that wasn’t Colm… who had been working on saving for a ring of his own. Things just went from bad to worse and the relationship abruptly ended, propelling Colm into impulsively joining the Great War as an intelligence agent for the ministry.

In late 1918, they find each other again… this time in a war hospital. Ione was looking for her brother when she accidentally came upon Colm, who was recovering from severe burns to the back and a badly broken leg. They spend a lot of time getting to know one another again, and everything doesn’t always go smoothly… especially because Colm jumps right into another war (the Irish War of Independence) less than two months after the Great War officially ends.

#fwf #ffwf #o’sheavery #colm x ione #colm o’shea #ione avery #hp wwi era #hp ww1 era #they’ll get married at some point… sometime between 1922 and 1925 (when colm’s done with his intelligence work) #because he doesn’t end up fully involved in the civil war that follows the independence war… he does pick a side tho #they’ll probably also have a few kids too but nothing’s established yet

[thinkingisadangerouspastime]

How about some headcanons that you've been thinking about, for any of your fandoms/pairings, for ffwf? 💛

ooooooh headcanons 👁 since my l&o brainrot doesn't appear to be going anywhere anytime soon, i'll share some of my kincoy thoughts:

jack and claire take a two-week trip to italy together bc claire has always wanted to visit florence

when they can -- which isn't often -- they like to spend long weekends together in maine and other places far from manhattan where they don't have to hide their relationship

jack said "i love you" first, but claire knew her feelings before he realized his

claire can get a bit jealous (shelly kates kissing her man right in front of her djksadjs), but she's generally pretty good at keeping a lid on it

jack's desire to always win, to always be right, is a major point of tension between the two of them that has led to several arguments (post-"trophy," however, jack's final conversation with diana offers him a better understanding of claire, and they don't clash as much in that regard)

claire is never afraid to disagree with jack and to let him know when she disapproves of something (more canon than headcanon tbh)

jack can be a major cynic, but he secretly admires claire's idealism, as much as he sometimes believes it to be naivete

claire is very good at distracting jack. very. good.

neither claire nor jack expected their relationship to ever progress further than a game, than sex and stress relief, than toeing an unspoken line, but it did, and it did faster than they could've imagined. (neither of them mind that, either.)

HOT TAKE but claire is flirtier than jack. jack is more smug, absolutely, but claire is flirtier. she deserves to be

claire realized she loved jack the first time they slept together just to sleep together. very much an ah, shit moment

jack realized he loved claire while he watched her working late one night, her legs resting in his lap (very much the same vibes of jake deciding to marry amy in b99 when she finds a typo in a crossword puzzle. he just... knew.)

im a 'claire dies' truther and im also a 'claire was jack's last serious relationship' truther. she was it for him

#I LOVE THEY #kincoy #claire kincaid #jack mccoy #law and order #law & order #ffwf #drowning-in-cacophony #amy answers #id in alt text

[narastories]

FFWF: What is your favorite story that you have ever written? 💜

E-ever? That's such a big word lmao

Still, it has to be "put my heart in your pocket". It's a Tom Byrd/Lord John Grey story that follows the Lord John Grey books (Outlander spinoff series) and basically it was just me going and making my rarepair and slow-burn dreams a reality.

It's also the one that my amazing friend @mistresspandorawritesthings graciously bound for me and I cherish it so much. Just look at her:

#ask game #ffwf #tom byrd/lord john grey #lord john grey #tom byrd #scary thing is that moral compass *almost* knocked it out for a second #wow one day I might write a harry/nic fic that's going to be my favorite and then I'll be in trouble #alternatively it can be something to aspire to #now excuse me while I go read my own beautifully handbound fic lol

[hungryhannya]

How does the perfect writing set up look for you? (i.e. do you write at a desk or in your bed, do you need music or silence, do you need your favourite beverage etc)

Thank you for the ask!

Let's see: my ideal setup I would go for the desk in my room, write on my laptop with either a random youtube video or music playing (would change to silence if i can get into the zone). I like to eat snacks and have a drink during writing, chocolates or chips. Drinks can be anything, at least water but coffee, tea or soda are also good.

I do say my super ideal setup would be paper/notebook with pencil/pen, but editing is kinda hard with those, so I avoid that. I do write my occasional ideas out like and gather the notes in a small box. It's impractical but creates a nice mood :)

(Also saw your other ask, will answer on pf later if i can, ty for that too!)

#ask game #FFWF #ty for the ask!

[jaynovz]

What are you working on now that you're really excited about?

I am working on something that I had in concept doc for two years but finally feel like I have confidence to write--an alt canon action-adventure story, which starts to diverge after 2.9 Black Sails when, instead of Vane and his lumberjacks, Silver goes to Charles Town to rescue Flint.

I have been doing a fair amount of research for this including looking at maps of historical Charles Town, reading about the history of prisons, devouring action adventure plots/books, building a playlist lol.

I'm setting myself SEVERAL challenges with this--

Less words!

More communicated through action and dialogue! Less in the characters' heads!

More external pressures! Drama, tension, action-adventure, as stated.

The genre/style of this is a pretty different approach compared to most of the other things I've done, with the exception of The Silver backstory. It will be most similar to that, and fans of that story WILL see certain easter eggs. But yes, an attempt at a historical fiction type novel, but still fanfiction, still Silverflint, lmao. So basically, a lot of original events/plot, but within the bounds of canonverse this time instead of starting almost fully from scratch like Break Up AU.

There are surprises galore waiting within this one, I think it's gonna be a pretty crackerjack tale if I can pull it off.

Hope yall like it~ Thanks for the question~~

#charles town au #thoughts #ffwf #fanfic writer friday #writing stuff #asterofthevoid #ask game #black sails

[northerngoshawk]

FORBIDDEN LOVE AU FOR KATAANG TELL ME WHAT KIND OF VIOLENCE YOU'LL HAVE

oh yeah happy ffwf

someone nearly dies and someone else sobs while it happens 😌

also happy ffwf

#northern answers #itsmoonpeaches #ffwf #ffwf answer

[chocomd]

Just tell me anything about the Rhea fics you have going on please I beg you

oh yeah happy ffwf

Here's a Rhea-themed ffwf just for you, my peachy friend!!!

From the Rhea POV fic, titled (for now) "Thicker Than Blood," where I'm writing her as sympathetic and human yet also disturbingly inhuman at the same time:

Rhea wipes her hands on the golden fabric of her apron. Gold like the light of the sun that warms the earth with its blessing, just as Sothis once did. As Rhea herself is attempting to do. But Sothis has left behind shoes that even her most devoted child cannot hope to fill.

The Dimitri-kills-Rhea fic is only a wip in my head for now, but I know exactly what's going to happen in vivid detail. It's going to need multiple content warnings and go way beyond canon-typical violence because it's post-timeskip Dimitri, so uhhh hope you end up liking it lol.

#ffwf #itsmoonpeaches #chocomd answers

[itsmoonpeaches]

Happy FFWF!

What's your current favorite ship to write about and why do you love writing them?

Oh my friend...is this a loaded question? You know the answer to this how dare you 🗡

As you've probably noticed I have started writing Fire Emblem: Three Houses fanfic recently. My current favorite ship to write about is Dimileth which is Dimitri X Byleth. I could write whole essays about them which is why...I'm writing fic.

I think I love writing for them because it is a very different ship than the ones I'm used to writing. These characters start older and are already young adults in the game. Their entire world is built on war and political conflicts. There is a lot or established world building and complicated fantasy behind the scenes.

Byleth is generally a blank slate until she's not. She grows with the game and with the things she chooses. Dimitri is...well. Uh. Let's just say he's one of the most complicated characters I've liked and also one of the most complicated to write for which is why I love writing him.

The game basically lets you choose how it will end, but Dimileth is strong even without your choice. It basically makes you think..."How could they not end up together?" Byleth finds Dimitri and both literally and figuratively pulls him out of the darkness. He's a guy who is very plagued by his past, and not like Zuko is (for those of you out there who might think this because he's also a similarly complex character). Dimitri is more complex. It's like writing for a person that has 3 different books and character arcs in one person.

Then you add in Byleth who comes in knowing nothing but still is determined to keep him afloat all the while trying to understand what the heck is going on with her too. It's just such a juicy ship, and I love it.

The way Dimitri is also the only one who checks up on her after a certain life changing event in the game, and how he uses his own experiences to really connect with her because especially at the beginning everyone finds her disconcerting...just so strong.

Their aesthetic is literally dark into light and accepting someone's help. HOLDING HANDS. BEING THERE. TAKING THE HAND OFFERED TO YOU.

I need help.

#ask #ffwf #fanfic writer friday #chocomd