Author Interview
Tagged by @princessvicky01 and @galadrieljones, thank you!
Name: thevikingwoman on tumblr, Viking_woman on AO3. Call me Viking!
Fandoms: Dragon Age, Uprooted (Naomi Novik).
Where You Post: tumblr and AO3
Most Popular One-Shot: On tumbr I think it’s Alone (a Solas characterization piece), on AO3 it’s Home (an Agnieszka/Sarkan story). Interestingly, Home has a lot of tumblr hits too, an Alone got almost no attention on AO3. I always find these differences curious.
Most Popular Multi-Chapter Story: Temporal Arrangements (Solavellan time travel fix-it story). I’m so humbled by all the kudos and comments on this one.
Favorite Story You Wrote: Ahh. This is so difficult. I love a lot of the stories I wrote. Today I really like Tea, for fluff. I really enjoy Home too, I’m really proud of the way I sensory and magic descriptions? For smut I still like Lanterns a lot. In general I love my shorter stories better than my longer ones. I feel much more comfortable in the immediate sensory intimacy of short stories.
Story You Were Nervous to Post: Hmmm, probably Temerity, as it is very smutty, and skirts the edge of dub-con in some ways (non-negotiated d/s scenes). I’m still sometimes surprised I actually wrote and posted it... (thanks @ket-mofo!!). I was also quite nervous about Temporal Arrangements, as it’s the only story I’ve written which attempts an actual plot and story arc, and I’m still not sure it worked?
How You Choose Your Titles: I find titles extremely difficult. I usually try to find a word I use in the story, or is a central theme. Sometimes the title try to add to the theme. And sometimes I struggle. I used a word of the day website to find the word temerity :P.
Complete: Lots of short pieces, and my chapter fics Ar Lath Ma (which is really also a short piece), Temerity and Temporal Arrangements.
Incomplete: I don’t have any posted WIPs. I have some loosely connected drabbles over a theme where I want to go through some scenes in Inquisition, but they’re not really a chaptered story. I have bunches and bunches of unfinished prompt replies and other short pieces which I may or may not ever finish.
Do You Outline?: Not really. For my short pieces I usually have an idea of the end when I start - I need to know the point I’m making. Sometimes I don’t though and just write. For Temporal Arrangements I noted down the major story points I wanted to cover, and where I wanted to go, though I was just a few lines per chapter. I had some key scenes I had more fleshed out, but not all.
For my Professor Lavellan stories, I do have an idea of future pieces and a plot of sort, though I’m not sure.
Coming Soon/Not Yet Started: I have no idea. Hopefully something. I feel creatively slow right now. I tried to write some AU for an August AU challenge but I didn’t really get inspired yet. I have half a smut story I really should finish...
Do You Accept Prompts?:Yes, but I cannot promise when and if I fill them. I have prompts from.... 2017? in my inbox?
Upcoming Story You Are Most Excited to Write: I think my issue is.... nothing? I think I’m the MOST excited for the potential fix-it fic I’m writing after DA4 (I’m highly doubtful there will be nothing to fix lolol). I think I’m also excited to write a bit on my Professor Lavellan story, I think I should just do it (but I have a problem with my turning point plot, and I don’t know what I want to do about it)
tags for @ma-sulevin @buttsonthebeach @ket-mofo @roguelioness @ladydracarysao3 @ladylike-foxes @redinkofshame @bearly-tolerable
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