#querulousgawks

poots, right?

OF COURSE. WHO ELSE.

I can only blame myself for this one one because the premise is that AU!Bitty is dating a Falconer who is Not Jack, and he is also and not being treated well, but I said to myself DOOO DEEE DOOOO I’M TOUGH I CAN ABSOLUTELY HANDLE THIS!  Because it’s the author of baking is punk as fuck and also because I’ve stretched a lot of my boundaries due to the relative zimbits fic draught. And now I can’t stop because I’m too invested but man it’s rough.

I can recommend it so far to anyone who will read WIPs and who prefers actually real plot obstacles*** (as opposed to me, who will read 14 billion iterations of the same objectively-unlikely misunderstanding trope because I can’t stand to see these characters suffering in any way lol). But yeah, heyfightme’s a great writer of course, and Jack’s at his Jack-est (which is to say, JACK LAURENT ZIMMERMANN, YOU ARE THE SWEETEST HANDSOMEST SILLIEST BOY ON THIS PLANET AND CAN’T GO A SINGLE PARAGRAPH WITHOUT DISPLAYING YOUR PERFECT-BOYFRIEND CAPABILITIES, YOU LOVELY TROUBLE MAKING YOUNG MAN).

My solution for this impulse is to get it off my chest but post it in the queue, so I can always yank it back if my mood improves.

Ha ha ha, I didn’t see this at first because I have Yuri on Ice on my blacklist. See, I have this weird issue with animation and it’s not worth explaining, that’s how weird it is.

But uh, Johnny Weir. That’s my favorite character on YOI.

Thanks for the ask, @querulousgawks. I’m sorry I can’t explain myself sometimes.

Apparently Gosling’s fans? Only the hottest stars go to an industry CEO's funeral! Eva has no life, connections or career without her MAN.

something that’s already happened, retold from another character’s perspective

The picture Ainsley holds up is one of Mac’s favorites, Will knows that. It’s the one she carries around in her wallet, and it’s framed on the wall in their hallway. She’s seen it a million times, shown it to people a million times. But her face softens seeing it again, and Will has to turn away. 

He has no solution for this, the imperfect beauty of their life. He wouldn’t want anyone but Mac as news director, but he can see the desperate press of it on her. Not the job itself- she thrives there, fighting frustrated and brilliant through each day- but the attempt to give all her hours to ACN and those same hours to their daughter.

4. I trust the reader a LOT. Readers are super duper smart and pick up on all sorts of weird, small, things-that-you-thought-were-absurdly-subtle-but-you-left-in-to-please-yourself and more. I’m constantly blown away by how much more articulate readers are about the things I’m trying to do.

There was a throwaway detail in my Daredevil story, The Earthly City, where Matt Murdock is trying to not eavesdrop on a phone conversation between Claire Temple and Foggy Nelson happening in the other room and Claire turns off the kettle before it can reach that sudden boil-scream. All throughout the story, I struggled with finding the right balance of “caretaker” for Claire. I very much wanted her to take care of Matt but not be his nursemaid or housekeeper, so I tried to insert a whole lot of  little moments that show that care without it tipping too hard into those other roles.

Anyway, that bit was nothing, a two second detail in a dense paragraph but people caught it and that was amazing.

5.  Oh god, YES. I started writing fanfic in the New Girl world and my first stories are grammar-horrors and chock full of fic cliches: breaths-that-no-one-knew-they-were-holding, couldn’t-help-but-smiling, confusing POV switches--all that garbage. I can’t believe anyone read them, that the people that did were so nice to me, and that I made some very cool fic-writer-friends as a result, including my number one beta reader, @blithers. I go back and read them now and again to remind myself that I have improved.

Look, I’m still having my moments of trash-writing. I’m a novice writer with serious issues actually producing--which is the enemy of improvement. You gotta write a lot and probably suck for a good long while, in order to get any better. It’s just the way it is. 

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Thanks for the questions, @querulousgawks!