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Yes!! They pulled one another out of their respective, different shells. I just rewatched Winter Soldier yesterday and the emotional vulnerability and honesty they show one another after arriving at Sam's is ridiculous. Natasha only comes close to that with Clint—the person who saw enough in her to offer her a second chance—and Steve confides like that with Peggy when he visits her—his love interest (who, interestingly enough, also tells him he has a second chance to live his life and should do so). They have so many parallels in their characters and form a camaraderie on a level with unspoken understanding that I'm not sure any other Avenger has with someone else.

I haven't had much time lately to actively write fanfic, but I have poked at a few things within the last year or so!

Most recently (last year), I finally finished my prompt piece from Zutara Month 2018, but I'll list out all my AtLA stuff just in case you wanted to peruse them to see if you hadn't read any, and if anyone else is interested in them.

Diplomatic Solution (finished) The Spirit's Waterbender (just a few scenes) Focus (oneshot) Sparks in the Library (oneshot) Just (WIP) Clemency (oneshot)

RPs with the Adamant Daughter (currently not in fandom, so these are all unfortunately unfinished: the villains that live in my bed Perfect Places bleeding gold

I also am sometimes over on my Zuko/AtLA tumblr @teaandcrowns

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oh gosh hey hi there!

First of all, thank you for taking the time to send me a note on a different platform!

Secondly, I’m really glad you enjoyed my stuff I have up there! I’m working on getting even better and hope to sometime in the near-er-ish future have some original narrative* stuff out on some physical shelves!

also---uh, I’m sure you also noticed the embarrassing amount of WIPS on ao3; I have every intention of finishing those...... eventually.... but life’s a bitch and brains aren’t always cooperative. So thanks thirdly for reading unfishined stuff!

So proud of you!! Updates like these make me very excited for projects AND motivated to work on my own, so I definitely enjoy reading your posts!! ♥ SO HYPE FOR THIS You’re writing your novel chronologically, correct? Can I ask, did the beggining feel easier to write than the later parts are?

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I know the feeling of being motivated by friends’ moving on their projects!

And yes--I am writing it more or less mostly chronologically. I do have a few scenes here and there that are “out of order” from where I am in the narrative, but mostly this novel is a “growing” novel rather than a super plotted one. Which surprises me about myself, tbqh. I only have a bare bones, broad strokes idea of things, so I’m allowing the ins and outs of the plot sort of unravel as I go. I’ll write something, and it’ll flip a switch in my head of OH THAT’S WHERE THAT’S GOING or THAT’S WHAT I MEANT TO REFERENCE IN CH3, etc.

It’s hard to say if the beginning was easier to write than now? I had absolutely no idea of the broader picture back then, because I originally intended for it to be... a short story... so I only had “Main Character goes and does X” which then spooled out into a whole Thing, and now I’m in the entire second arc of a much bigger story.

If I were to solely go by how much at once/how often I was writing, the beginning went easier than now, as I wrote about 10k words in about a week. I was just following along on a relatively straightforward monster-hunting adventure then. Now, I’m delving into more difficult and deeper themes from the character’s background and starting to lay out the larger world and its plot, so it’s more complicated to balance giving information without info-dumping and without giving too much away, trying to not write myself into a corner etc.

But, a lot more dots are connecting now---there are also more dots just in general, so I can much more clearly see the larger picture of the story, its purpose, the main character’s drive (the surprise secondary character’s drive and part), the problem and how it needs to be resolved, the main character’s personal issues, and so on.

Ohhh I didn’t know you posted more stuff on AO3. I think I’m only following you on FFN.

oh man thank you for answering tbh!!! ♥ this is so inspy and interesting to read through, really! i’m always ready to listen about different systems and process of creating, esp when it comes to stories bcs it’s a deep ocean full of weird shit and trying to make sense of it?? ANOTHER JOB ON TOP OF WRITING. I really dig that one of the characters just forced you to give them some own pov screentime that’s so GOOD :“D

I honestly LOVE worldbuilding, so it’s kind of the cherry on the cake for me (sometimes it’s way easier than the writing itself haha).