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Impossible Encounters

Some Preamble about the making of: There was a LOT of Dadko art flitting around on Tumblr at the time, and the germ of Taako being accidental parent to Angus was born. Also the math necessary for Angus to exist means he was born around the time Lucretia betrayed her crew. This factlet became important in other ficcage.

2: What scene did you first put down?

I hate to disappoint, but I’m a linear writer. I don’t start in the middle or anything interesting. However, the image of Taako screaming ‘my baby’ at a travellers’ caravan was foremost in my mind for a long time. Likewise the picture of a very small boy comforting a grown-ass Elf was just… irresistable.

3: What’s your favorite line of narration?

He’d been in kindergarten when Taako had come through Rockport, and he still remembered the world’s most delicious cookie, despite the fact that it contained the dreadful raisin. 

I remember being a kid and hating raisins with a vengeance. Turns out people in the comments share a similar experience.

4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

“Who’s going to look after the doggie?” – I made myself laugh out loud thinking up that one.

Same with “Just walk this way,”/”I can’t walk that way, my legs are too long.” Sometimes the hoariest of hoary old jokes are the best.

5: What part was hardest to write?

The entirety of chapter 12. Figuring out the transition between being exonerated, rescuing Ango from a murder plot, and the start of Here There Be Gerblins… That was trouble for me

Fifteen Little Words

I have always looked askance at soulmate AU’s but this idea wouldn’t leave me alone since I codified the angst potential. I’m glad more than one person took the idea and ran with it. That way, I’m not alone.

2: What scene did you first put down?

I think I wrote the entirety of chapter 1 without even thinking about what I’d do about it TBH. It sprang from my noggin like a weird deity.

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

Sorry but no. This whole thing flew out of my fingers fully-formed as is.

11: What do you like best about this fic?

Lup and Barry. In denial. Freaking out about it for forty-seven years or more. Meanwhile Krav is quietly going bonkers trying to figure out how a death criminal is going to say he looks like salt and Taako’s given up on finding true love. It was delicious.

12: What do you like least about this fic?

I can’t really point to any particular part of this fic and say, “I hate that part in particular.” Like - reading through it again, I wish I’d been a bit clearer on how skeletons can blush other than Rule Of Funny, but that seems a little bit on the pathetic side.

I’m not saying I’ve written the perfect fic. I’m learning as much about writing in my 40′s as I was as a teen [Yes! I’m an old fart! Amazing!] and I still haven’t quite reached that level of “Holy shit! X wrote something!” and have a flood of chatter about it. Maybe I never will… and that’s okay.