14 11 6 for Never Wrote a Letter?
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14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?
You know, I don’t think I’m overtly into like, didactic literature specifically, so I don’t think there was any Lesson I was trying to teach or whatever.
I *do* know there are a couple of things that I *don’t* want people to feel like are the Message of this fic. Like, people with long-standing family grudges: I don’t want them to feel like a magical happy ending is something they should have been able to handwave. Having Poe and Kes reconcile is wish-fulfillment and fantasy, not my idea of how father/son estrangement should always end. Sometimes you have real reasons for that kind of shit, and I don’t mean to trivialize that. Likewise Everybody Is Poly– that’s a thing that can happen and I try to have it be semi-realistic and give people for whom that is the life they have/want/admire something to enjoy, but I also don’t think that’s genuinely going to be the solution for most people when their beloved loves another, so I’m not trying to, like, throw that in the faces of people who couldn’t make it work out.
I don’t know– I feel like I’m kind of missing the point on this somehow. I don’t do, like, Message stuff very much, but I also have such a short attention span that if you asked me this on a different day and in a different context I’d probably have a completely different answer. I contain multitudes. I’m not trying to hurt anybody, I’m just trying to tell a story that’s real to me in some way. If people learn to trust me and follow my imagination and hopefully enjoy the destination, that’d be good.
11: What do you like best about this fic?
6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?
oh no all I can think of for both of these is that I’m going to finish it, and that’s what I like best and what makes it different. I think my semi-abandoned WIPs are starting to weigh really really heavily on me. It’s been a long couple of years.
BUT more for real I guess: what I like best about this fic is that I *think* I have managed to walk a pretty taut line between devolving too much into tangential sideplots and accidentally dropping any of the balls I started juggling as this thing complexified. I feel like that’s going well, and more so in this story than in others I’ve attempted.
And for 6, relatedly to above, this is certainly a more deliberately-plotted, heavily-revised (as in, at all) story that a lot more underlying structural work has gone into than my usual. I’ve learned a lot writing it, and I think I’ll wind up with something I can really be proud of.
If I can ever make it be *done*, JFC.
anyone else: questions here | AO3 here :) This has been a fun ride!
14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?
You know, I don’t think I’m overtly into like, didactic literature specifically, so I don’t think there was any Lesson I was trying to teach or whatever.
I *do* know there are a couple of things that I *don’t* want people to feel like are the Message of this fic. Like, people with long-standing family grudges: I don’t want them to feel like a magical happy ending is something they should have been able to handwave. Having Poe and Kes reconcile is wish-fulfillment and fantasy, not my idea of how father/son estrangement should always end. Sometimes you have real reasons for that kind of shit, and I don’t mean to trivialize that. Likewise Everybody Is Poly– that’s a thing that can happen and I try to have it be semi-realistic and give people for whom that is the life they have/want/admire something to enjoy, but I also don’t think that’s genuinely going to be the solution for most people when their beloved loves another, so I’m not trying to, like, throw that in the faces of people who couldn’t make it work out.
I don’t know– I feel like I’m kind of missing the point on this somehow. I don’t do, like, Message stuff very much, but I also have such a short attention span that if you asked me this on a different day and in a different context I’d probably have a completely different answer. I contain multitudes. I’m not trying to hurt anybody, I’m just trying to tell a story that’s real to me in some way. If people learn to trust me and follow my imagination and hopefully enjoy the destination, that’d be good.
11: What do you like best about this fic?
6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?
oh no all I can think of for both of these is that I’m going to finish it, and that’s what I like best and what makes it different. I think my semi-abandoned WIPs are starting to weigh really really heavily on me. It’s been a long couple of years.
BUT more for real I guess: what I like best about this fic is that I *think* I have managed to walk a pretty taut line between devolving too much into tangential sideplots and accidentally dropping any of the balls I started juggling as this thing complexified. I feel like that’s going well, and more so in this story than in others I’ve attempted.
And for 6, relatedly to above, this is certainly a more deliberately-plotted, heavily-revised (as in, at all) story that a lot more underlying structural work has gone into than my usual. I’ve learned a lot writing it, and I think I’ll wind up with something I can really be proud of.
If I can ever make it be *done*, JFC.
anyone else: questions here | AO3 here :) This has been a fun ride!
