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teruthecreator · 5 years

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💘 for macknerva!!

anon, you are a genius. you’ve basically just sent the magical question that has now unlocked for the world: macknerva origin story (bc honestly i realized i just start posting abt it without rlly explaining it??? and someone people are loving it??? so thank yall for being my ultimate favs but u deserve this origin)

also this is several days late (thank u Depression) and also super long (thank u Dumb Brain) so i hope you can forgive me for both of these things

💘: who developed a crush on the other first?

it’s time we take it back....Back To The Start.

so since this is my magical world of My Own Personal Canon (since i stole griffin mcelroys rights), minerva ends up in Kepler in a completely unnamed and not talked abt manner (bc im too tired to explain my general alternate theory hgkgldlgbfhke but busically she just got on a ship to earth to avoid dying) and is staying with duck until further notice. she doesn’t mind laying low at duck’s apartment until they’re able to figure out Everything and get her set up w a place of her own (spoiler alert: that never happens, but duck won’t admit he just misses having a roommate so they let it slide).

after about a month (which feels like eons in minerva’s mind), she starts to get antsy. she’s already been introduced to the pine guard and amnesty lodge, by this point, so she’s constantly trying to hang out with someone so she isn’t stuck in duck’s apartment all hours of the day.

which is how minerva ends up in the cryptonomica the day kirby has to run into his job at the theatre for a good portion of the day. it’s pretty empty in the shop--i mean museum, so it’s not like ned minds (plus him and mack have already struck up an agreement, which i explained in a previous post abt ned and macks friendship) especially when minerva’s around to willingly pick up the slack.

but this second job has minerva curious:

minerva: I assumed your assistant, Kirby, had only the singular position at your museum? ned, from behind the counter: Oh, for a while he did, but then the theatre opened up and his services were needed elsewhere. And who am I, Ned “Theatrical” Chicane, to deny such a marvelous establishment of the skills and technical prowess Kirby possesses?” minerva: Oh? A theatre, you say?

here comes some random personal hc: on her homeworld, minerva was involved in her planet’s form of theatre (which i’ve always pictured to be very greek-esque, thus explaining her naturally booming voice) and absolutely adored it as a hobby. she, obviously, understands there will be a difference between Earthen theatre and the theatre she once performed; but there is no denying that that thought barely crossed her mind as she proceeded to pester ned about the theatre until he suggested she get a part-time job there.

(ned knows mack’s struggles with keeping hires at the theatre, which is why he is quick to suggest minerva get a job there. that, and ned knows enough abt mack at this point to pretty accurately guess her Type. so let’s just say ned was doing this for both macks gain, but also for his gain to be able to harass her abt her hot new employee that he totally inflicted on her on purpose)

ned probably brings it up later that night, or the next day. just really casually drops that he has someone interested in a position at the theatre:

mack: Holy fuck--yes, Ned! Tell them they’re hired!!! What can they do? ned: Hmmmmm, well she’s quite fit, and has no qualms with getting her hands dirty. mack: Oh, perfect! I need some more set builders! Thanks a whole lot, Ned. I knew you’d always have my back. ned, knowing full well what he’s just wrought: Oh, of course, dear Mackerel. Anything for a friend!

cue the next day: mack is just going about the theatre, business as usual, staying sort of close to the house doors so she can be Right There when ned comes in with the new hire. she’s faced away from the doors, checking something on her phone (probably her texts with ned, to see if he’s arrived yet) when she hears the doors open and shut. mack turns around to witness the Hottest Woman She Has Ever Seen In Her Goddamn Life.

she’s tall--holy shit is she tall--with beautiful dark skin painted with these almost glowing blue tattoos that travel all the way across powerful arms and a prominent collarbone. but the tattoos don’t stop there, of course they don’t. they go all the way up to this woman’s bald head, perfectly framing her beautiful face. high cheekbones, strong chin, a wonderful nose (mack doesn’t have much of a preference for noses but this one is perfect she just knows it), masterfully-carved eyebrows that look like they were chiseled out of stone, and those enchanting, bright, beautiful bright blue eyes.

mack’s brain basically short-circuits once minerva smiles at her (with those pearly white teeth and a grin so inviting it feels like her whole heart is melting), so she’s barely able to process the smug ned beside minerva.

@goforduck drew this scene for me a while back and imma show it to u all bc i love him, his art, and the hot takes he gives my special lil ship:

needless to say, mack Is Attracted, but i wouldn’t necessarily consider it a crush. meanwhile, minerva’s pov, she’s so damn excited for this job that she’s practically vibrating on the way in. and then, like romantic poetic would have it, all of that energy halts as time stands still and minerva locks eyes with....mack.

mack definitely looks a little disheveled, but it’s like every fly-away hair crowns her head like a halo as those gemstones-for-eyes lock w minerva. she’s never seen someone she has felt so immediately attracted to in her life. but, that being said, she still does not Have A Crush.

so after all the awkward blustering (AKA mack tripping over every eighth word as minerva turns on the Charm to keep that blush on mack’s freckled face) mack starts to get minerva accustomed to the work environment and the tasks she’d need to do. eventually, she hands minnie off to kirby bc shes got work to do, and the rest of the day goes by uneventfully.

now minerva works at the theatre, and she’s Delighted w it. the job is easy but entertaining, she’s making friends, her knowledge of the world is expanding, and she now has a target for some very playful flirting and obvious showing-off of her muscles. because, listen....she has Eyes. she Knows mack always blusters whenever she’s around. and she knows herself, too. mack is cute and minerva likes making her blush. but there hasn’t been that moment where things are taken seriously.

until about a month in, when minerva walks into something she maybe shouldn’t have but also definitely should have.

you see, mack has a very important ritual in the morning. she arrives at the theatre at the absolute ass crack of dawn so she can get her yoga/stretching/vocal warmups in (since she is still a performer at heart and this has been her routine since college) and then sit by herself on the stage just sorta soaking it all in before kirby comes in with her coffee (which she needs in order to get up from her seated position on the stage bc she is that much of a coffee addict). just about every employee on staff knows not to even bother coming in this early bc 1. this ritual is very Private and Sacred to mack and 2. ur not even gonna be able to speak to her unless ur kirby w her coffee.

“just about” encompasses every employee except for minerva, who decides to show up before kirby to bring mack her coffee (that she memorized after cornering kirby for the specifics one day)

so she comes in the back entrance and is sort of at a loss as to where mack may be bc she doesn’t know mack’s routine. and she’s just kinda wandering aimlessly through all the shops and little rooms until she reaches the wings, where she hears the gentle strumming of a guitar.

she approaches, with all the caution of a woman who has spent years mastering the art of stealth along w her combat studies, and comes upon the following scene:

mack is seated in the exact center of the stage, eyes shut peacefully as her body sways to the tempo of the song she’s strumming on the guitar she’s playing (which minerva recognizes as the guitar that some idiot pit member left here about two weeks ago). she’s singing (the song is Dream A Little Dream of Me), and her voice is so soft yet so resonate that minerva feels as if she could stand right next to her or be 1000 feet away and hear the exact same thing. and she sounds so good, so completely in the song she’s performing and in her contentedness that it eases some subconscious unease minerva was holding. in the time minerva’s known mack, it’s the most natural she’s ever heard or seen her, just playing for an invisible audience in the dim lights of a theatre not yet awakened.

minerva doesn’t realize she’s drifting closer to mack until she steps on an uneven plank, and the noise snaps mack out of her little world as she turns to the noise. needless to say, she’s a little surprised that minerva’s here this early, but then minerva wordlessly hands her her coffee and so mack could care less. she accepts the drink w a smile and then decides to go to her office to get started on some business emails.

it isn’t until mack has already left the stage, and minerva is still stuck in the same position she was when she handed mack her coffee--heart racing a million miles a minute, face hot, and stomach feeling as if an entire colony of butterflies suddenly took refuge there--that minerva realizes that she is Endlessly, Hopelessly Fucked In Love.

So yeah, TLDR; Minerva was first.

#ignorance cloud on #mack attack tag #macknerva #fellow keplerians #long post #so uh yeah consider this my coming back from my hiatus lmao!!#i decided its easier to be active and sad on here than to be inactive and sad irl #my posting will probably be a little erratic still but uhhhhh whatever #sorry this took so long anon some shit went down

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aparticularbandit · 5 years

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Current State of Bandit Fic

The last time I did one of these was on April 12, so it’s been about a month and a half. I figured I wanted to do one again, especially since there’s been a lot more stuff started and to give general updates on what I’ve been writing, etc.

This’ll be under a cut, so apologies to you mobile users because I don’t think it does the cuts. :/

Completed JTV Fics:

Carla

THE LAST CHAPTER HAS BEEN POSTED. IT’S DONE.

Luisa and the Fox

I have one more chapter left to post, and I plan for that to be next month.

I do still plan on potential extended scenes in a different fic.

In-Progress Posted JTV Fics:

If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now

Still planning on posting at least a chapter a month until it’s done.

I’ve liked having these on alternate second Mondays with Luisa and the Fox with a chapter of Carla every other week, but given that the latter is done and the former is almost done....

Probably still plan on posting these on Mondays.

There are at least fifteen twenty known chapters (as in I have a fairly good idea of what happens in those chapters) and past those potentially two more at least - and some of those might expand because I know me and this should all happen in this chapter! and then it ends up being longer than I thought.

Right now it feels like this fic is shaping up to be more like multi-chapter chunks/arcs.

So the first arc was Luisa’s first few days at Belle Reve, and that was eight chapters.

The current arc I estimate to have at least seven chapters (six of those I have a fairly good idea of what’s going to happen but there’s an in-between of what’s currently going on and the latter half of the arc - like there’s a time period that I don’t have covered that I think may have a chapter but am not sure).

The next arc has at least five chapters (that I have general ideas on what happens with them) but will probably be longer than that.

The next arc has at least four but probably five chapters (that I have a fairly good idea of what happens - two of those chapters may be combined into one, but not sure at this point).

The next chapter has at least two, maybe three chapters before a one-two chapter break, and then there will probably be more chapters but not sure exactly on how this one will go as well.

Okay so apparently that’s more like twenty more chapters. Oops.

The general ideas are the same as they were the last time I gave the estimate. It’s just that at least one other complication has been added, among other things. This is more likely to be longer than shorter.

Jane: The Real Story

Still not planning to schedule updates but may go into the Monday update slots.

Still don’t know how long this is going to be.

I do have the season one arc fairly plotted (or, well, partially plotted because there was a lot that happened in season one and while I know some of what I want to do with this, there are probably other things I should address and haven’t decided yet).

I have season two better plotted. Or. It’s less like seasons and more like arcs.

The first arc is Jane + pregnancy. This is your season one equivalent, but it’s fairly different from season one.

The second arc is consequences of lying about the artificial insemination. This is your season two equivalent, even though it address some events from season one.

The third arc is dealing with the aftermath of those consequences and...takes place in two different locations. This is your season three/four equivalent.

I’m not sure if I’ll have an equivalent arc for season five because by that point it mostly won’t exist but I suppose there’s at least one aspect I’d like to address from season five so. There’s that.

Basically it’s better brainstormed.

Still planning on having this be flexible in terms of updates. For now, at least.

The Adventures of Rose, the Baker’s Daughter

I still like writing fairy tales and still don’t want to be judged but for now, this one is not in the cards to be regularly updated. Kind of like the Pokemon fics.

Not abandoned but not super high priority.

Aftershocks

Potentially goes into one of the Monday update slots but not sure at this point.

Have a general idea of things I want to happen in this fic but not enough to give a general chapter count. This is a really new fic, so it’s still being brainstormed ish.

I do look forward to the Luisa/Lint scenes, though, and I do plan on this being very focused on just Luisa, Rose, and Lint. I don’t really want it to be bigger than them at the moment, although it may expand after this initial first arc. I’m not sure yet.

May have a companion piece in regards to the Rosalint fic.

Kind of like how Carla and If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now are companion pieces. You can read them separately and they work, but if you’ve read both, you get more out of them...ish. They reference and call back to each other.

Heart in Motion

Not planning on having a firm updating schedule with this because it’s comedy and comedy is hard for me (dramedy is a little bit better but not by much).

This one is harder to write because idk if I can accurately capture the feel of all the ODAAT characters (Lydia, in particular, may be hard).

I have a general idea of where I want to go in terms of plot on this one.

I do want to have some ODAAT-centric chapters that set up for later stuff; I don’t want to just focus on Luisa and Rose drama (although I definitely do plan on drama as a result of...primarily Rose, let’s be honest). But I don’t want to make the ODAAT characters side characters because I want it to be just as much their story as Rose and Luisa’s.

Expect irregular updates for now because that’s probably what might happen.

Sleeping Habits

I keep forgetting that there’s supposed to be a second chapter to this.

My bad.

In-Progress Unposted JTV Fics:

Everything’s Coming Up Roses

No change from the last update as I’ve been focusing on other projects.

Shenanigans: Luisa and the Fox

Name change. More like a rearranging.

The only change here is more brainstorming, tbh, insofar as connecting it to another piece.

I like companion pieces, and while one might assume that the fairy tales are companions to each other, right now it’s looking like they’re more companions to another, much bigger, project.

May take up a Monday update slot once Luisa and the Fox is finished.

Where The Lightning Splits The Sea

aka Roisa HP AU.

This is probably going to be really, really long.

The first book has an outline. It should be...fifteen chapters long.

The second book has the beginnings of its outline - right now it’s at least seven chapters long, but that only gets us to the end of October.

The following books I have notes on stuff that I want to make sure to include.

I’ve started writing the first book.

Right now I’m in chapter three, and the book is already over 13k. That should give you some idea of length here.

I have a really good idea of what I want to do with this entire series.

It’s just probably going to be really long.

Right now, the plan is to finish an entire book and then post the chapters as updates (probably on Thursdays as opposed to the normal Monday updates).

I hope to have betas for these, and I’d like the betas to have the general overarching outline of what’s going on...but maybe not.

Maybe should have different betas for this. I’m unsure.

Also I should probably finish my HP series reread. Oh well.

A Christmas at Longbourne

aka Hallmark Holiday Special

Projected to be five chapters long.

Hopefully to be posted on Mondays in July.

Because Christmas in July, y’all!

So. Should probably focus on this and finish the rough draft but I keep getting distracted.

Currently with the second chapter.

University AU

Unsure on length.

Have a fairly good idea of overarching plot.

I think last time I checked I was in chapter...two?

But there was a prologue, so for y’all that’d be the third chapter. Ish.

Probably won’t be a Monday update slot. But could be?

Rosalint Fic

Yes, this is more considered a JTV fic than a Tick fic because it’s set in the JTV universe more than The Tick universe.

Right now I mostly just have bits and pieces. Scenes. Some fluff, some...not.

This is likely the companion piece for Aftershocks, probably, so. You won’t need to read both to enjoy either of them but you’ll enjoy them more if you read both. Basically.

Brainstorming JTV Fics:

Canon-Compliant Soulmate AU

OKAY BUT I WENT THROUGH SOULMATE AU PROMPTS AND IDEAS AND I HAVE A GENERAL GOOD IDEA OF WHAT I’M DOING WITH THIS AND I’M ACTUALLY EXCITED,

It’s still in brainstorming stage because. do you see the above? I’ve been doing a lot of writing on a lot of other things.

Brainstorming Non-JTV Fics:

Potential Lint/Overkill Prequel Fic

Just what it says on the tin.

Probably more a collection of one-shots that would follow like lightning.

Potential Timeless Soulmate AU Fic

Focuses on Emma.

Uses the same general soulmate timer world as seen in the Roisa one-shot that people liked.

Have a good overarching idea of this but want a few more specifics before jumping into it more.

Probably won’t use the time machine BUT plan on having other Rittenhouse funded research that they want to use to control people.

Potential Timeless/Noir Fusion Fic

In which Emma has amnesia and gets dropped on Lucy’s doorstep before Lucy knows about Rittenhouse.

I have ideas about this one and I like those ideas but still hammering out the specific details of the fusion.

Like I can’t just make Lucy an assassin.

Like Emma makes better sense if I fuse her as a combination of Chloe and Altena but she’s technically in Kirika’s role.

Like how do I throw the rest of the gang in here (and do I, considering one of the great things about Noir was that none of the main characters were men and the men who showed up were usually in minor or plot device roles)?

I really want to write this because Noir is so near and dear to my heart but.... Idk if anyone else will enjoy this, tbh.

#bandit does an update #bandit updates #musings

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toki-macross · 4 years

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Fun meta asks for writers

[To preface this. I am a shameless, Scooby Doo Fanfiction writer since 2005. So, 15 years been writing, in 73 posted stories and countless ones to come.] This is long, so Read at your own risk of me babbling about my fanficiton and answering questions from a writer blog.

Tell us about your current project(s) – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?: Falling for the Bat. Oh god... I have been indulging in some For ME type writing. Since my main account of fanfiction has self imposed rules. Which, I do honestly love to have, and make stories that keep up my rules. (PG content, not definite pairings, cute and fluff stories) But with my alternate universe story line I am working on. I get to sink my teeth into some permanent and serious things. So, I get to make all the pairings and things and end up a bit more serious. But well, still be all the cute fluff and romance. Falling for the Bat has Bruce Wayne realize that the cute, nerdy braniac that is working for him in Velma Dinkley, and he has to pour on the super annoying Playboy jerk mode on. Less she find out he’s really Batman, is kinda handed another option from Alfred, to stop lying. And Bruce realized that he has never considered that he might be able to find someone able to handle both sides of him before. And so it’s a fun story about him trying to apologize and her reacting after finding out the truth. And all the fun chaos that entails! Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project:

Falling for the Bat: There are so many moments that are going to be fun, but also getting to those points it also fun. I have a partly made story that is further in the story line, so getting to that would be really cool. And also classic things, like them getting married. Meeting the Folks. Not sure kids though. At least not at this point. Girl time with Barbara, Daphne, maybe even some Villains as well. Since canon that the gang has worked with Harley, Catwoman and Poison Ivy. As well as being adopted with Diana aka Wonderwoman. So, like PJ party of ‘No cootied boys allowed’ with tubs of ice cream and boy talk XD

My Main account: Oh god, so many things in the chute but waiting for me to have less chapters in the lik, 11 unfinished works so far. So, I hope to have a fun cross over, and a classic second generation Gang story, and lots of others I have started but not finished to post, or well, need other stories to be done first. What is that one scene that you’ve always wanted to write but can’t be arsed to write all of the set-up and context it would need? (consider this permission to write it and/or share it anyway):

I’m working on it... TT_TT But I am not ready yet to face down a new Mystery that I have literally building up towards on my main account, because mysteries are HARD! I started leaving clues about this story in 2006... so 14 years of knowing about this story, but still... not getting around to it. Since I have only done like two legit mysteries and both I was happy at the time, but as I have progressed in writing, ugh all the issues. Putting down clues, distracting from facts, introducing suspects, argh so hard.

Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like):

"I'm honored. Though, I understand. Having you as a girlfriend is probably the biggest relief compared to all those ladies I had to fake date in the past. Their conversations could be really draining at times."

"Oh, how dare you be popular." Velma couldn't help but snark at him, though regretted the words as soon as it left her.

"Yep, it's terrible to be popular and stupidly filthy rich. Having to listen to all the nonsense that those ladies thought I wanted to hear. And the countless of them wanting to get close to me for my money. So, snark accepted, but it was honestly a hassle."

"So, you would rather have a short, dumpy woman toss herself half naked at you... and end up crying and ruining the mood?" Velma voiced her self doubt, not knowing why he put up with her.

Without skipping a beat, he responded against her doubt.

"Every time and always. And twice on Saturdays for good measure."

(Part of my Bearing her Soul, story with her finally confessing to him her greatest trauma in Ben Ravencroft. I love giving her relationship issues with Ben, because she fell so hard for him, and her facing that with Bruce was so much fun to do. And the story starts out with her trying to seduce him at home, and it ends up more her telling the story and well, Bruce being Batman XD)

What character that you’re writing do you most identify with?: Always been Velma, she feels closest to myself and yet so radically different. And she is also so much smarter then me, so to write her properly, I actually push myself to learn about what she would know and be able to say in things. What character do you have the most fun writing?: Oh dear... i really have grown to love the whole gang. I literally struggle to decide who would be better to use, Do I do a Velma snark here? Or oh, dorky Fred would be perfect there! Shoot, should I have Daphne being a sweetheart here, or a mischievous imp there XD Choices choices. I used to be Velma centric, but to expand my writing skills, I have gotten to the point where they exist as a unit. And I can’t go back, and not sure I would want too. It is like a lot of my favorite shows. Firefly, Leverage, MASH, Big Bang Theory. Each character is strong enough to stand on their own, but as soon as you put character A, with Character B. More story options open up. and well, the combinations and variations of options are so much fun, it’s sometimes hard to figure out which would be the most entertaining. Not only to write, for the readers who are fans of the characters as well. Needing to do my best. What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?: Hands down, I have not only been told, but enjoy being the cute fluff writer. I aspire to rot out your teeth with cute, and fun character interactions. My bread and butter being that it’s what happens to the Scooby Gang, between mysteries. So, when they are at home, relaxing, recovering, being bored out of their skulls. XD All of the things that happen off screen between them being on one mystery to the next. Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?

Depends. I certainly do have a preference for cute. But I love anything that is well written and thought out. Even if it might even clash with my own thoughts. And while I might not have something in my own canon, I am not against seeing what another writer might think.

Are you more of a drabble or a longfic kind of writer? Pantser or plotter? Do you wish you were the other?

I do all of the above, but seem to have lost the ability to write small stories under a certain length. I ramble and have a lot to say. So, I try to make short things but they tend to end up like several chapters long, mainly 3 is my ‘short stories’. So length wise, they aren’t too bad, but I sometimes feel bad for not having more snippits of cute for easy digestion. And well. Some of my stories that are not done, can be beasts in word length. Reunion is about halfway done at 37k words 15 chapters and many chapters to go.

How would you describe your writing process? Depends on the story sometimes. I have had moments of sitting down and in one go, smashing the keyboard and ending up with like 4 chapters of a story in a blizkrieg of work. While some have been in the works for years, and have notebooks dedicated to information, characters, backgrounds, and sometimes previous stories that tie into things. I have a habit of leaving ‘seeds’ of things, that might not make sense in the story that they are in, but is actually linking to other stories that are down the line to weave the world together. Chaos... Chaos is a good word XD What do you envy in other writers? Consistency... some people are able to get work out on a regular basis. And I wish I could do that. Granted, the amount of work I am doing is hard to see if you are just looking at like, last time something was posted. I truly have a lot of things on the background that is never seen until I can finally post it when it is done, or I finish something else. But I do seem to go dark sometimes for months, and I feel bad for my fans that I don’t have something out there for new content comparatively. I am always working on SOMETHING, but it’s hard to see what isn’t online. Do you want your writing to be famous? It is, and I am not sure how to handle it most of the time. I am one of the pillars of the Scooby Fanfiction.net community since I have been around for 15 years, and one of the oldest, still posting artists out there from my original time period when I started posting. And have influenced countless readers and writers and I HAVE NO CLUE HOW TO HANDLE IT... I’m me. I’m just a dork who likes Scooby. I don’t know how to handle people being fans. Though I’m glad they like my work. So, I didn’t really wish to be famous, I am glad people like my work though. And are fans. But Did I want to be famous. No, that was not my intention at all.

Do you share your writing online? (Drop a link!) Do you have projects you’ve kept just for yourself?

https://www.fanfiction.net/u/739744/Karianasan# (Main account with 73 stories) https://www.fanfiction.net/~fallingforthebat (Alternate universe, self indulgence)

I keep things to myself when they are not finished. Since My main account has 11 unfinished stories in various degrees of unfinished. So I am trying to be good and only post something new if it’s complete. To not add to the number. Though I have sometimes finished one of the 11, to then replace it with a new one. So I have yet to chop down the number. I was originally not going to post my first romance I wrote, for my own personal shipping. (Velma x Fred) but I ended up having a roleplay go south and I wanted to write a better (Daphne x Fred) then what happened in the RP, so since I had half the main 4 pairs, I decided to make all of them. And well, since then that is what I try to do. Keeping the balance between the four main pairs (Fred x Velma, Fred x Daphne, Shaggy x Velma, Shaggy x Daphne) Keeping my stories PG, I have restrained myself from dipping into any obvious (Daphne x Velma or Fred x Shaggy) But well, I have made a few stories that are them being best friends, so a reader can always see it as something more. Which is usually how I write my pairings anyway. As well as being able to keep most of the stories in the same timeline. (Though it kinda makes them a poly gang overall, since they do kinda pair up and rotate, but again... you can read into it how ever you like. Nothing is set in stone.) Also, makes it easier for the mom’s that have contacted me, that read my stories to their kids, not have to deal with having to talk about those subjects unless they want to. So, less obvious the better. It’s just meant to be cute, fun stories between a group of people who are really close friends. At what point in writing do you come up with a title?

Depends on the stories. Some are instantly ready, others might be named a more obvious thing and get the final name later. And my naming conventions are drunk anyway. I have things like, Wearisome Persistence of the Common Kind and Grand Illusions of Ridmore Mansion. And on the other side of the spectrum, Breakfast and Tag. My Game of tag on the lawn, was dubbed Lawn Calls, but ended up being named Grass Stains. Which I like better. And Twenty Die, my geeky gang playing a D&D like game, is saved under Maidens and Monsters, the name of their tabletop system I made up. Want to do some Mundane Magic? is saved as Bubbles. But I like being mysterious even if the summery might ruin it. But, it’s Scooby. So I have to have some type of mystery in there somewhere. Even if it’s a silly title, or a cliffhanger from one chapter to the next. It’s habit.

Which is harder: titles or summaries (or tags)? Again, hard. XD It depends on the story for either the name is hard, or the summery is hard, or both, or neither. It really is a story by story basis. Tried anything new with your writing lately? (style, POV, genre, fandom?)

I always consider new fandoms, but I have been in Scooby for so long, it’s hard. But I guess I am doing something new with Falling for the Bat, since it’s a Cross over, and kinda my first. So, I now stress about getting canon writer for TWO massive universes, not just one. XD Scooby has been around since 1969, Batman has been around since 1939. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! XD

Do you think readers perceive your work - or you - differently to you? What do you think would surprise your readers about your writing or your motivations?

Well, I would hope that each reader will find what they want to find and enjoy out of my writing. And sure, I am writing how I write it, but its also for their happiness. Their enjoyment and entertainment in the work that I do. Being normally in the entertainment business, working on films and movies, I know what is written in a script, most likely isn’t going to be there in the final creator, at least not in the same form. So, for me. As long as the main spirit is there, and well, someone enjoys it and hopefully might smile, Then the effort is worth it. Though, I have met several of my fans in chat rooms and forums, and I certainly ruin the famous person idea. I’m just a dork, who likes to write. I am me. And hopefully that is good enough for people. And that my work, brought joy, or made them think, or heck, even if someone read it and didn’t like it, but it inspired them to do something else that someone else found joy from. I’ll take it.

Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them. Falling for the Bat is one such a thing XD Though I made an account just for it. It does follow my main universe up to a certain point, since I love the world I have been building this whole time. But it’s given me an opportunity to make things more permanent and all that comes with it. But I like AUs, though my account doens’t have many of them at the moment. I do need to dabble in some. Though I do have plans to make some things canon in my own universe, that the cartoons have only given us a taste and then nothing. I do have plans in both AU and main universe, to have Crystal and Amber show up. But well, only in Falling can Shaggy finally get his girlfriend back. And MAN I can’t wait to do that! Is there something you always find yourself repeating in your writing? (favourite verb, something you describe ‘too often’, trope you can’t get enough of?) I make mysteries in the smallest things, because I’m writing freaking SCOOBY! But some are just an odd naming convention, or a mess of times it’s ‘who is speaking right now’ till it’s revealed. Like Daphne calling Fred and Shaggy, Nerds, in What to Cast some Mundane Magic? Or who’s POV Present for my Pal, was, till the end. What is inside Fred’s Closest? In Fred’s Little Secret, and Twenty Die. Who is howling under the table? In Reunion. Little things, that add a flair of mystery in normal, everyday events. Though I do love me some running gags, and also to help perpetuate the universe and have the readers come back to the same world every time. I like sewing connections between my stories. They are a timeline history and often will refer to things from the past. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

SEEDS! I have rambled to many people about my Seeding. Basically I have in my 15 years of writing, been slowly weaving things in stories that might not make sense in one piece, but is actually tied together with others. My complete bloom is from Fred’s Little Secret. It started in 2006 with Back in the Habit, with Fred being shifty, hiding something in his desk and pocketing something that was never explained. So, basically I only knew what it was. But then in Fred’s Little Secret, it’s revealed that he has been making miniatures for many years, of the monsters they have defeated. But been doing it in secret and in this story, only Velma finds out. Being bribed to keep it a secret. Later, in Stars and Skeletons, Fred hides something in his desk, but it’s never revealed what, at least in that story. With the whole thing coming to a bloom in Twenty Die, when Velma tries to convince Fred to make Daphne her new Mini for their table top game, Maidens and Monsters, and Daphne eventually comes along once he has agreed to help and finds out about the mini’s in the closet (which is mentioned that off screen Shaggy and Scooby found out, and well they have been using Fred’s mini’s in the game for a while.) But this is one of may seeds that exist in the 73 stories that I have. Many future things I have planned, have had parts pop up already. Like, Fred mentioning he is a fan of aliens, or that there is some mysterious comic books that Shaggy doesn't know who brought to the clubhouse. Or that some troublemakers haven’t been seen the last of.

What other medium do you think your story would work well as? (film, webcomic, animated series?) Well, they exist in alot of things already. Being Scooby. But actually seeing my work in some format. I would love to see fanart. That would be cool. Or if I was skilled enough, to make some of my favorite scenes in like a webcomic/graphic novel form. But well, copywrite so I don’t own them anyway. But there is a faint posibility that I effected canon in the Scooby verse with something I wrote. I gave Shaggy the ability for Origami in 2007, and in 2009 he got the skill. So, small % that, someone on the writing staff read my work, and was influenced by it to give it to Shaggy. Do you reread your old works? How do you feel about them? OH god yeah. Some of them I eagerly go back to and read when I want to feel better or just happy. I love some of them alot, and some are even surprising. Since one of my go too. Is not my default pairing. Popcorn Memories is a story between Shaggy and Velma being cute and solving a silly mystery in a snowy night. I get joy out of converting people who are normally Die hard fans of one pairing, to still enjoy and delight reading a pairing they might not normally like or agree with. But can see if how I write it. Massive compliment. And well, it works for me too. While I do really love my Fred x Velma stuff, some of the ones I gravitate or have fond memories writing and love to re-read are not those ones. Though some, yeah, there are some that I wince to look at. Infection, story about Scooby and Fleas is SO BAD. I don’t. And I am happy that my Morning Redone, was such a improvement, since I made so many problems with the first story I ever wrote. And well, all of my Mysteries make me regret and want to do better next time. But it’s a tall wall to concur and thus been a wuss to write another one. What’s the story idea you’ve had in your head for the longest? Oh man, longest? Let me check my notes. Yeah, Mystery with the Family. Temp title, but yeah. Setting: The gang decided to bring all their parents to a vacation. They head off to a resort and end up stumbling over a mystery that they have to solve with their parents. Gives their parents a one on one experience they will never forget. Again, full blown mysteries are scary. But I really want to have the gang go on a like cruise with their family, or a resort, and then have to break up into groups to solve it. And it’s got to have mixed groups, so like Shaggy is running away with Fred’s mom and Daphne’s Dad. And Velma’s off solving clues with Shaggys dad, but hiding from Fred’s dad’s camera. Just, getting to mix up the groups and then using the unique skill sets that each of the parents bring to the table. But it seems like lots of chaos. I also have a move serious sort of... mystery not mystery. As the story starts with them finishing a mystery, but Scooby get’s dognapped and the gang get captured one by one. Split up and in different rooms, the evil villain wants them to dispair and cave to his bidding. Forcing them to admit they were wrong with an accused relative who was a villain from a previous story/show. something that way. And the gang runs around a house they already solved a msytery in. And leave notes and stuff as they all run about the house and only bump into one another. So the gang has to kinda commuicate to pass along various clues, for them all to reach the same consluson and then get together at the end ot solve it. But htings like, Shaggy putting a pillow to catch Velma’s knees when she trips. And Daphne hiding a candy bar for Shaggy’s stomach. Making loads of things that they all work with eachother, even being in differnt parts of the house only cossing paths in notes, or clues or a chase sequence in the hallway. But it’s comlex, and I’ve re-written the sucker many times, in many years and itterations. And well, at this point, my style is more light hearted and soft. So, dunno if I will ever get to this. But it’s got years into it at this point. Would you say your writing has changed over time? I hope it has. I hope that I have gotten better at storytelling and conveying my words to others. And being entertaining. I write to make me happy, and keep in mind all the time to make my readers happy. I can’t spell, I am terrible with grammer. But I hope the spirit of the stories will be the strong point, and be the kinds of things that people will seek out to enjoy, be entertained and overall be happier by reading my work. I would love that. What part of writing is the most fun? The moment when my fingers hit the keys and everything is just there waiting for me to get it down. Most of the time, the whole thing plays in my head like a cartoon. I feel that I am an artist, before I am a writer. So, my brain sees them in moving pictures and cute scenes... and then I have to sit down and describe what already exists in my head and then hope that it makes it to the text ok. But I really love sitting down, getting to just type and see the story come alive with cute moments, and lines that I will look back later and be utterly floored and in disbelieve that it was my fingers doing that. And then realizing that six hours have passed and I am looking at chapters of content that I can’t wait to share with others. That is the best feeling.

Though the worst part of writing and then sharing my writing... is posting it and then never getting comments on it. I think everyone who posts a bit of themselves when they make a for public viewing, story... it’s always nice those rare moments when someone lets you know what the story means to them. And how it made them feel. Validating why you made the story in the first place.

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