Been noodling on a fic a little out of my comfort zone for a while (technically not a ship I’ve written before, er sort of). And suddenly it’s the longest thing I’ve ever written? By a significant margin. I mean it’s not *long* by today’s standards, but if I ever post it, it will be multiple parts. It might even reach 5-digits on words. 😂 I don’t even know who I am anymore.
No one get excited. It’s a long way from done and that’s IF I even ever finish it. But it’s an interesting exercise.
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I was gonna post my second full-length fic in less than a week (a feat not accomplished in I dunno prob 17 years or something) but my computer chose today to explode. Like really almost literally. It’s dead, dead, deadsky. Luckily the fic is in the cloud, as it were. But maybe the fates were telling me something and it should stay there.
It’s the polar opposite of my last one too. That wasn’t received very well and I was exceedingly proud of it. This one I have no excuse for except that I was challenged to do it (a long time ago). I’m still kinda proud. But in a wholly different way.
i feel like youve been asked that a thousand times but how did you even plan wcwsthwas? like it’s such a massive story, how did you plan that big a fic, how did you figure out what to include what to change, how did it all come toge? I’d just love to find out what the process was for it all
dw this is a good question!!! i think i was very lucky in the sense that the timing was just right! i had just graduated and covid had just hit so i was stuck in lockdown with not much to do. i really dont remember HOW it all happened but the idea of a pjo/hoo rewrite was always lowkey stewing in my head, y'know? i've been very vocal about my issues with how hoo wrapped and i knew i always wanted to try it myself. ofc i didnt know what a massive undertaking it would be but…oh well
putting the rest under the cut because i do tend to ramble
i really cant be sure of what triggered it, but suddenly i got the idea for the mistranslated prophecy and it felt like such a lightning in a bottle moment that i immediately grabbed a notebook and wrote it down. and truly... what followed after was like possession. i was like a maniac. the broad strokes of everything came together in my notes in a matter of days. i wrote the opening intro and the mirrored conclusion. i figured out who i wanted to kill. i picked and chose plotlines from the books i wanted to keep and i started to outline ways to make it happen.
so all of this was in early 2020 and i told myself i'd start publishing the fic only when i wrote ALL of it since my track record with chaptered fics was...horrendous lol. that didn't quite work out but in the year between coming up with the idea i'd finished writing chapters 1 and 2, most of 3 and 4, and bits of 5. of course, if you remember the years as i was publishing wcwsthwas, i figured out in real time that this fic was a monster i was wholly unprepared for, and i kept having to make room for new ideas. it was super fun tho! i'd never change it for the world.
as for planning out the fic itself, once i figured out my beginning and my ending i just started to draw the path between them. i'd ask myself questions and break them down into sub-questions,
"how are they going to find out about the real prophecy?" well, ella tells them.
which led to "how are they going to find ella?" they need a reason to go looking for her.
which led to "what reason do they have for finding ella?" it makes sense for someone like annabeth to want conclusive proof that the prophecy they'd all known for years was wrong.
which led to "how would annabeth find out the discrepancies in the prophecies in the first place?" obviously percy would blurt it out to someone, and then the ball would roll from there.
not sure if that works for everyone, but it sure did for me!
for my actual writing, i answered a previous ask about the nitty gritty of how i broke down my wcwsthwas chapters here!
i'm not quite sure if i answered your question haha BUUUUT tl;dr: it was an absolute fluke lmao and i can only hope i made the most of it. ty for the thought-provoking question, anon!
i wanted to ask you bc youre one of my fav fic writers ever and i genuinely love how you write. do you have any advice on writing, the whole process and stuff? bc i want to start but im scared it wont be good, or ppl wont like how i write etc
hi hi!! sorry for getting to this so late; i started typing out an answer to you and then i realized i had answered an ask vvv similar to yours a while ago. and then looking for that ask took FUCKING AGESSS but good news!! i found it and it is here!
i think everything i could ever want to say is in there but also remember: the best way to get better at writing is to START WRITING. do not worry about it being good or how many kudos its gonna get or if people will like it or not. i started posting fic like 50 million years ago and i can say with confidence i wrote like a fucking FOOL lmaoooooooooo. this is a process that's always evolving and i'm STILL not happy with my skills. take in every bit of advice or critique that people may give you and use it to get better! read a lot to improve your own vocab and figure out what style speaks to you. don't be afraid of ppl not liking your work!!! in my experience people may be critical but most people arent outright MEAN, especially if you ask for feedback in your author's notes.
on the process itself: i describe mine in the link i attached (oop here it is again) but this is what works for me and may not necessarily work for you! for instance i know lots of writers write while listening to music and i cannot do that at all. see what gets you motivated. feel free to tinker w different things and see what suits you best.
good luck, u got this, and REMEMBER TO HAVE FUN! online spaces can be a shitshow but fanfic can be such a nice place to just have fun and make friends. enjoy the ride and feel free to message if you need anything else :)
i tried to keep this short but i still ended up rambling. sorry bout that :}
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do you think its better to write in current or past tense for fics
My boring but honest answer is it doesn’t matter as long as the author is comfortable with it.
I think people generally prefer to write in past tense. IME, it’s more common to see people make mistakes with tense if they write in present tense. Tense is one of those things readers shouldn’t notice or think about and if they do, it’s probably for the wrong reasons (prose is awkward or there are mistakes).
I prefer to write in present tense because I find it more flexible and gives you more immediacy. It can also be fun to play with narrative distance which definitely can be done in past tense but can also be awkward/confusing sometimes.
Not sure that is helpful but I’d be curious to know if anyone has strong opinions either way??
Hiii I sent you an ask about finishing my long fic a little while ago and just wanted to say thank you because I finally finished it!! it ended up being like 105k which I know isn't that long but it's definitely the longest thing I've ever written ^^ still don't know how many people are really interested in it lol but I'm just proud of myself so thank you again for the encouragement!!
oooh that's amazing congratulations!!! so glad whatever I wrote was helpful (I don't remember lol) and you finished it!
100k is such a fun length for so many things, you have room to play around but it's not soooo big that you can get lost in it. and I think it's not sooo long that it turns people off from reading it. the right people will find it!!
