#and that's not counting the ones i actually have sitting in my drafts on here......🤡

[ncthandrake]

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009)

[jake-amy]

fic writer interview

i was tagged by @useyourtelescope (many moons ago! and i was super flattered bc i love their fics! so thank you!! 💖 i am just real slow.)

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

I have 16!

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

86,540

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

just the one! bridgerton.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

the florist who loved me – A look at the various Bridgerton family group chats as Anthony meets one Kate Sharma. (modern, text fic)

‘cause i know that it’s delicate – jealous Anthony, in-between their first kiss and Aubrey Hall. (canon era, missing scene)

Companionable – three times Colin shared a dance with Cressida Cowper, and one time he refused. (mixed tv/canon era; *despite the summary, this is very much a colin/pen fic!)

Of Two Minds – Violet breaks the news to Kate and Anthony that Colin and Penelope’s wedding is being moved up. (canon era, missing scene)

a (veritable) font of knowledge and gossip – Colin and Penelope help Agatha, Jane, Thomas, and George each find their match. (canon era, future gen, current wip) 

5. Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

i do! i actually really enjoy receiving a response from an author, i always want to be able to respond to my own. i’ve fallen behind over the past handful few fics, only bc sometimes i don’t know what to say to such nice things, but i do want to catch up soon to say thank you! truthfully i would rip my heart out of my chest for anyone who takes the time to leave a comment!

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

i’m not much of an angst person to be quite honest! maybe mementos or have i known you twenty seconds, or twenty years? only because they’re edmund/violet fics, and, well…

7. Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

i never have. my brain is simply not big enuff.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

not really! but someone sent me an ask on here the other day re: a wip, asking me why i had made a character queer, which wasn’t all that great to receive. i just didn’t feel like answering so it’s just been deleted.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

just the one time, and probably never again. i feel like i was judging every single letter i typed as i was doing it. but it was a missing scene i always wanted to see – and it’s my favorite (🤠) kind of smut, domestic bliss – so i guess i wrote it for myself.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

😧 not as far as i know!

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

i haven’t!

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

not yet, though @sofwrites​ and i might get around to a gregory/lucy one some time 🦆💚

13. What’s your all-time favourite ship?

there are so so many. i love ben/leslie and jake/amy so much (i think i created my ao3 profile just so i could read them), but for bridgerton, my favorites are penelope/colin, gregory/lucy and anthony/kate.

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

my only current wip is a (veritable) font – i started drafting it last may, so it’s been a real, real slow process, but i’m almost done with thomas and i’ve got an outline for george, so i’m sure i’ll finish both. + my beta for it is the best. but there are two wip’s sitting on my desktop, one angst (rmb, but if penelope had been married and widowed before then) and one smutty (colin.... envisioning penelope’s boobs, because he said he had hundreds of times before their engagement night, which is just insane, off-the-charts horny behavior 💀), but i doubt i’ll actually get around to finishing either.

15. What are your writing strengths?

i think i’m pretty good at having several characters be in one scene! (i kinda get why jq wrote like two scenes with all the bridgerton family now. every time i do it, i think “why 🤡”) but – i’m really happy with how they turn out, in the end, and i think it’s become one of my strengths. 

and family stuff! looking back at everything i’ve written, more of it is family-oriented than ship-oriented, and i think it’s also one of my stronger suits.

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

i feel like i’m pretty dialogue heavy sometimes, and sort of second-guess when/where i need to add action a lot. i’ll just wonder, “do i need to say they walked across the room? isn’t it obvious they’ve already sat?” because i’m afraid i’m boring the reader by making note of something so plain, so there’s that. that, and i’m sure i overuse the em-dash.

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

i’ve never done it (except for the thing i’m working on, which has a line of latin in it), but i’d probably ask a friend who spoke the language for help, if i were to write extensive dialogue.

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

bridgerton, but there’s a jake/amy fic i never finished somewhere on my old computer. i’m only counting ao3, though – if we go back to ff.net though (😭) it was probably harry potter.

19. What’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

i feel like i’ve always thought it was “the florist who loved me,” because i’m a really disorganized writer and i’m happy with how it flows as a text fic (and it made me like, obscenely happy any time someone said it made them laugh), though i also love “a (veritable) font of knowledge and gossip,” and words of advice because they’re both very personal to me. but i do also really like family tree, because i just remember making this post, which then wouldn’t leave my mind until i turned it into a drabble. i think it’s short and sweet and fun and it’s two of my faves, gregory and colin. 

and maybe also Dear Francesca, because it’s the first fic i published on ao3, almost 1 year ago now. i’d maybe only read 2 of the bridgerton books at that point, but it just irked me so much how much the bridgertons let francesca miss (like her sister’s whole ass wedding??) over the course of s1 😭 

yeah i probably shouldn’t have answered with five different fics, but i normally feel more embarrassed than not talking about my own writing, so i’m just gonna put it all here for now.

tagging / saying hello to: @sofwrites @daphnejane @irishseeeker @britishteacup @pensbridgrton @mskatesharma @ourlilinfinity @your3fundamentaltruths 💕or anyone who sees this! feel free to go ahead and interview yourself ✍️