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Fanfic Writer Ask Game

These are always fun so I wanted to make one! Reblog this and let others send you an ask based on any of these emojis/questions:

❤️ What is your favorite line that you’ve written in a fic?

💥 What is one canon thing that you wish you could change?

✨️ Out of the comments you’ve received on your fics, what are two or three of your favorites?

👻 What is your wildest headcanon?

✍️ What’s your ideal writing setup?

🚀 Do you like to outline your fic first or create as you go?

🎁 Have a piece of a WIP you want to share?

🏷 Is there a tag you like to search for when looking for fanfics to read?

⏰️ Do you like to post fics on a schedule or at random?

👓 What helps you focus when you write?

💕 What is your favorite fic that you’ve written?

🐇 Do you write for yourself, for others, or both?

🥳 Why did you start writing fanfic?

🦋 Which character is your favorite to write?

🦈 Which character is the toughest to write?

🍬 Do you write for multiple fandoms? If yes, what is your favorite fic of yours for each fandom?

🌻 How often do you read your own fics?

📗 Do you want to write something outside of fanfiction? If so, what about?

🎬 If a movie or show were based on your fic, which fic would you choose and who would you fancast?

💭 What inspires you and your writing?

🧪 Do you research for your fics?

😎 What fics do you prefer on a scale of canon compliant to wildly original?

💎 Do you often write about a relationship or focus on an individual?

🔥 Have you included any sexy scenes in your fics? If yes, do you find them easy or difficult to write?

💘 Is it easier to write angst or fluff?

🚦What sort of endings do you prefer to write: ambiguous, bad, happily ever after, etc.?

💡How many WIPs do you currently have?

🔎 Does anyone beta read or edit your fics?

📚 Is there a fanfic or fanfic writer you recommend?

🤩 What led to your interest in the fandom?

🤖 Are non-fandom friends aware that you write fanfic?

💛 What is the most impactful lesson you’ve learned about writing?

👑 Do you like writing short fics or long fics?

🎯 Do you have a writing milestone you’re working towards?

🔮 Any advice for writers working through burnout or writer’s block?

🤔 Would you ever want to write something canon if you got the opportunity?

💌 Is there a favorite trope you like to write?

🎨 If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

Fanfic Writer Ask Game!

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What was the first fic you ever wrote?

Why did you start writing fanfic?

Do you have an ao3, or a link to find your writing?

Have you considered writing an original story? What would it be about?

Do you have a writing playlist?/what's on it? I

Who are your favorite characters to write for currently?

Do people in your real life know you write fanfic?

What is(are) your favorite trope(s)?

If you had to pick one: Angst, Fluff/Soft, Smut, or Darkfic?

What is the longest fic you've written?

Which fic has the most hits/kudos/likes/reblogs?

Do you have a writing process/what is it?

Do you have any advice for writers just starting out?

Can you talk about how you get inspired for new fics?

Do you write multi chapter fics or only write one shots?

How about 1, 5, 7, 9 for the asks!

1. What was the first fic you ever wrote?

Okay, so we gotta go back a long way to answer this question. Six years to be exact. Gosh, it was six years ago. And so many fandoms ago, too.

Either way, to answer your question: the first fandom story i ever wrote was called Once Mine and was a crossover story between Disney's Tangled and DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon, and written for hiccunzel as a pairing. It was heavily canon based, set after Tangled and HTTYD 2 (I mean, there was a time i thought i might actually finish it by the time httyd 3 is out, silly me). It had lots of angst, lots of pain, lots of unresolved issues... that stayed unresolved because i simply couldn't bring myself to finish the damn story.

Sometimes, i wish i could go back.

@astridthevalkyrie sure hopes i do (she'll tell you it's a snunzel fic though).

5. Do you have a writing playlist?/what's on it?

I do! I had this one huge one for Once Mine (see above), that was pretty much songs that inspired each chapter. Lots of Sleeping at Last, some Stallion soundtrack. Pop songs in general though.

Now these days i hardly ever listen to anything other than instrumentals because of how distracted i get otherwise, and it's mostly the soundtrack from the fic i'm writing. I have two playlists for chihayafuru (manazashi on the loop constantly). Other than that it's more about, "Well, today's some angsty Kono Oto Tomare/FMA/etc, let's find some sad OST on youtube."

7. Do people in your real life know you write fanfic?

Some do? I don't exactly brag about it, I usually answer the questions with an, "I write... stuff." But yeah, i told some people. My siblings do, but there's no hiding things from them. Oh, and i remember some of my friends getting really hyped about me writing for Anne of Green Gables back in the day.

9. If you had to pick one: Angst, Fluff/Soft, Smut, or Darkfic?

Angst with a happy ending is an epitome of storytelling and fanfic in particular and you can't convince me otherwise. That being said, it's fun to be able to write fluff every once in a while.

Though it's still more fun if you have a heavier/sadder background to paint it methinks.

Thanks for asking!

Fanfic Writer Ask Game

For the fanfic ask, how about M and R?? ☺️💕

M: What’s the weirdest AU scenario you’ve ever come up with?  Did it turn into a story?

Oh my goodness, for sure there have been some crazy ideas at a time, but I'll need a minute for this one. I do remember thinking of a Zutara: The Lion King AU, with the banished cocky, insecure prince and all, as well as a Hiccstrid: Anastasia AU (not so weird, really). Neither turned into a fic, although i did rephrase the "Rumour in St. Petersburg" into a "Rumour on the Isle of Berk" song, or at least bits of it (quite successfully, may i add). I blame @astridthevalkyrie and @wilderwestqueen for the last one.

also obviously virtually everything can be turned into an MLB au. just saying.

R: Which writers (fanfic or otherwise) do you consider the biggest influence on you and your writing?

I feel like i've been answering this question since the first ask I ever posted, but when it comes to fanfic, it will always be @cried2dream, as she is the one who personally and single-handedly dragged me into writing fanfic in the first place (with her own great writing, of course).

Fanfiction aside, I do pick up a style of writing pretty easily (if imperfectly), and so here it would mostly be L.M. Mongomery, Jane Austen and Andrzej Sapkowski (yes, the Witcher guy).

But also I will never not talk about Fyodor Dostoevsky and Boleslaw Prus, so I'm dragging them into this as well because I can.

And Tolkien. Of course there must be Tolkien.