Meta Monday! (On Tuesday...)

[narya_flame]

The SWG's block party challenge for Monday was "go behind the scenes of one of your own fanworks," and I forgot to do it because work.  Today I haven't got the energy to think of a fic and come up with something interesting to say about it, so if anyone wants to play, I'm flinging this open - anything you fancy asking about any of my fanworks, or the characters I write, or why Tolkien, or my writing process in general, go ahead.  Ask as many things as you like, though complicated or multiple questions will take me longer to respond to! Who knows, it might get me into the mindset to write again, because who knows where that has gone lately.

(There are some fun ideas for general writing questions here, but I'm also more than happy to answer specific questions about individual fics.)

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[narya_flame]

Oh my goodness, Summerland :D

Well, as you probably know, that didn't start off as mine. It was actually a complete surprise; Spiced wrote it for me as a gift during the crazy-hot summer of 2018, as a little "what-if" exploring Vanimórë meeting my OC, Claire, from The Ways of Paradox. (Actually she posted it when I was up in Scotland for a friend's wedding, and I was reading it on my phone under the table!) After an encounter with Thuringwethil, Van gave Claire immortality by adding a few drops of his blood to a glass of brandy - not that she knew what he'd done, or that he'd saved her life.

It was supposed to be a one-off, but I was intrigued by the idea of Claire going off to find Maglor under these new circumstances, so different from the ones I explore in Paradox. So I started working on a sequel (Summer's Song), set in Venice. As Spiced and I chatted and bounced ideas around, other thoughts emerged, and she added Coldagnir and Edenel into the original fic in a kind of "coda." For Fandom Stocking 2018, we both wrote each other fics set in that 'verse - Spiced wrote Storm Warning for me, and I wrote Beyond the Portal for her - and I continued to work on Summer's Song.

Annoyingly I lost the notebook containing a lot of my drafts for that fic, so I'm in the process of trying to piece it back together, which is frustrating because nothing I recreate feels as good as I imagine the first draft was! But I adore working on it; it's like going on a mental holiday, writing Maglor and Claire exploring Venice and the islands, and knowing that big events are in motion in the background...

One of my favourite "little" things about that 'verse is the fact that Olórin is back in the world, and he and Maglor affectionately snark at each other via ósanwe. It's also the only 'verse I have ongoing where I know exactly how it will end. It's just going to take a good while to get there!

[lilith_lessfair]

Yes, I thought it was interesting how it was both very much a part of Paradox’s world and then how Van’s actions had created something quite different entirely.

Olórin in the world is intriguing. He’s appeared in one of mine and he’s quite the fellow.

[narya_flame]

Yes, I thought it was interesting how it was both very much a part of Paradox’s world and then how Van’s actions had created something quite different entirely.

Yes! It is an AU of the Paradox world; things wont play out the same way there for multiple reasons.

Olórin is one of my favourite characters. He's only made small appearances in my 'verses so far but he is so interesting.