I think I’m going to be taking an official break from Bat-Swap and writing it for a while. Mostly college reasons, plus some inspiration and motivation issues between that and other life influences. I have a lot of stories other than it I do really want to work on, but Bat-Swap is going to be but on hiatus until I’m back in the frame I need to be to keep writing it without making it start to feel like a chore. I’ve only written for a little over a year now and I don’t want to end up burnt out so quick.
So, officially, not writing Bat-Swap for a while and going to try and get to my smaller potatoes pieces.
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The way I'm going we should have Bat-Swap's next chapter up sometime Nov 2nd, which will give me a more stress-free birthday (Whoot-Whoot!).
It feels like more of a "We need this chapter to make sense of the time between others" inclusion but it'll have fun stuff in it!
Plus the next planned one is angst having to do with a certain birdbrain so that'll be fun too (Hopefully writers block doesnt delay it until christmas... ugh)
Writing the fluff chapter:
Planning the angst/reconciliation chapter:
Planning the next bit of foreshadowing:
Me, investing another year towards the ending: I am no better than DC
Happy birthday to the bat-swap, buddy!!! 🎂🎉🥳
I absolutely adored reading this fic, and while I'm not done reading it through yet, I'm having so much fun seeing all the amazing writing you put into it and the cameos of old Fawcett characters! Genius! A masterpiece!
The question I wanted to ask has already been answered, lol. Do you eat snacks or listen to any particular songs while you write? If so, which ones do you recommend? I always snack while I write ✍️
Thank you so much!
Normally when I write I listen to one of 3 playlists, my A List when I want a good variety of vibes, my Music List if I just need the silence to be filled, and my Billy Batson Vibes list if I need to get into his headspace when I’m having more issues with a chapter. As for snacks it’s normally a mini-sundae cup full of smarties I eat 2 at a time based on shared coloration or some saltine crackers with a drink.
Behold my sugars, I think the rushes they give are half the reason this fic got so long so quick lol
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So sorry @mrfanlow ! I meant to post these as scheduled on Bat-Swap’s birthday but accidentally posted instead.
I got the idea for Bat-Swap reading another boy swap fic, though more randomized. What I do remember is that Billy was in Clark’s body, Bruce in Billys, and Clark in Bruce’s and it was also a “JL doesn’t know abt Billy=Cap” and a “Bat-son” au of a one shot where Clark goes back to the manor to explain the situation to Bruce’s kids + one newcomer. I thought it was hella cute, funny to, and thought “A Billy and Bruce body swap would be insane”
I think I read that fic a month or so before writing the first chapter on an impulse and then impulsively posting it lol. I kept the body swap aspect of that, yeeted Clark out of the equation, and decided this fic was going to be 145% self indulgence to all the pieces of both characters I personally loved. And thus, the lovechild
As to how I make one little piece into a huge one, I try a few thinking methods like “If I saw the synopsis/tags/idea I have now as someone else’s fanfic, what would my immediate thoughts be?” Helps sort expectations for me and get other splinter ideas that I can smooth into the work. I also always sleep on my ideas, playing with them in my head until I get a good story idea come morning.Hopefully that can help you out, I’d be so excited to see what you come up with!
And thank you so much for the kind words, they mean the world to me!
I was wondering if there were any deleted scenes/concepts that didn't make it into the final fic? Or a character you wanted to add but didn't get the chance to?
Love your writing! Might have to go reread for the fic's birthday!
The muse, the Michelangelo, the WOLF!!
Oh god so many, I thought this fic up with the ending coming like a week later and so much came up in between that got scrapped into the Outtake Doc for any later use.
I have a list of my minds bullcrap, hold up, gotta dig through the receipts
In absolutely no particular order-
Back when we met Pinky I planned to reveal the whole Vasquez extended Marvel family through a statue for each Marvel at the park, one basically guarding each path that all branched out of the center area Billy’s was at. By then I had already made plans to make the Sins and maybe Blaze a looming Big Bad so I had a concept of the statues having their own importance sometime in the final confrontation I have planned (bc we gotta have one, I love comics and comic are all about that big payoff fight) but that got scrapped for the longer buildup and the timeline I refined to make them heroes for too short a time to get such big memorials
One more overarching idea was to make the Batfam more hostile to Cap, not liking the situation as much as he wasn’t and not getting along well. I wanted to start off with a lighter note so I changed peoples tune
Was going to have a moment of some Batfam like Tim and Steph (who were involved with YJ) asking about Freddy and wanting to catch up with him, with the allusion to the Marvels being more tight knit with Billy seeming like the exception given how much he seems to travel more than his siblings.
One scrapped scene that might make a comeback with some editing is Bruce as Cap joining Pinky on a pre-planned stake out/take down, with more than a couple of playful jabs that “Look at us! The redder versions of you and Krypto-boy!” Plus some more Pinky love bc that kid was insane (like every Fawcett character honestly)
Actually cut the Katabasis chapter down; had an outline and some paragraphs done of Tim destroying SBP and getting a whack at him with a lot of unhealthy pent up issues that I doubt fully got resolved after the Everything™️ that was The Teen Years Of Tim Drake
Dick was supposed to have a scene visiting Damian in the hospital first but plans very obviously changed and I added a Dick & Billy focused bonding-ish chapter
Two things with Lucy’s reveal actually, was gonna have her book be a redo of the old Owlman and Pulchinella characters from Harley’s failed romance novel now turned turned adventure novel but changed it to basically be personally made story of a Lucy like sidekick to Capitano (Billy). More endearing to me to have Harley making books like she always wanted to that are aimed for her daughter’s wild imagination and Billy helping in recommending them. Also was going to have Lucy jokingly call Bruce-as-Billy “Batsy” as a riff on Billy’s last name and Bruce in his stupidly big brain for everything criminal put some pieces together about how she said that name and the kind of smile+laugh she’s got but have no chance to say anything before the doors shut. Just to fuck with him more
Was going to have Kit and Jason have a chat when Jason first woke up, with Kit realizing who the guy he scared unconscious was and adding my long desired “Oh this ghost is a kid I accidentally avenged by murdering a guy.” Moment. Will never forget that Jason killed Captain Nazi, top tier stuff to mess with
I had another small villain confrontation idea in Mr. Banjo Jr leading a crime spree parade, even had lyrics for him to sing about sticking it to the man I even named (bc I am insane at all times) “Rebel souls unfold” to work in more of a Music Miester-y way in leading the brainwashed Fawcettizens in attacking Bruce-as-Billy, all with lyrics of Banjo Jr hyping himself up and making it sound like a revolt against heroes. Honestly a lot of fun thinking up but it never got to the writing stage for a scene and I don’t know where I’d put it now that things are getting serious. I’ll probably post it when I have a full list of scraped concepts when this monster of a fic is finally over, haha
(Wow, I just switched to numbers instead of dots here, Holy moley)
There are a lot of scrapped ideas I feel confident in including later and other ones I want to foam at the mouth about with everyone but are all spoilers so aaaAAHHH but I continue on! Honestly, blame my brain for having so many ideas and only ever writing in flow of thought for this mess of brain matter in my cranium. Ugh
Oh no, not spoilery don’t worry! Bruce promised he wouldn’t and he’s not going to, there’s actually going to be a funny scene where someone tries to explain something and Bruce is like “No no, please, he’s gonna hate me after all this already. I know too much, for the love of god don’t make me know more.”
He might feel forced to tell it after Plot™️ but he’s gonna hold out and Billy and Co. Will be very happy he did after the Shenanigans™️
