Keira's World

Akane says: I was writing a character redemption fic for the  2015 Nano then the character went and redeemed himself on the show... Now I've lost the drive to finish my story because canon satisfied me.Also, Civil War is later this year and I'm definitely scared to see cause it's messing with my OTP.So, here's my question - have you ever been cock blocked by canon? Are there ways to work around or push through it? Is it okay to just let the story go if you've lost the passion for it?I recommend you also listen to: Short & Junk: Canon is for Pussies

Wushu76 asks: Firstly I wanted to say thank you for hours and hours of blissful escapism. I love that I can reread and always find something new, some little detail I didn't realise the significance of the first time around, or even the second time around.My question was inspired by listening to one of the older pod casts. You mentioned that Lantean Legacy and What Might Have Been are direct AUs and I was wondering if that was true of any of your other worlds?Thank you for sharing your wonderful stories and even more, thank you for not letting the assholes drive you away.

The one where we talked about gross food and how fictional characters would be in bed.

Jilly asks: I don’t know if this question has come up, but what’s your strategy for managing multiple separate plot lines in a story? Whether it’s the more extreme version where you have one storyline happening on Earth and one on another planet, to minor secondary storylines.

Wynnebat asks: How do you deal with not having control over your works? I post on AO3 and it’s generally good. But my fics got onto that ebooks site a while back, have been translated and reposted without permission, got mentioned and linked in some idiot’s college essay, and all this shit. I usually like posting online, but sometimes it really gets to me just how little control I have over everything.

Yzba asks: We all have books (fiction or not) that inspired us, for good because of the subject matter or the writing, or badly because they were absolute crap. What are yours? Are there books you reread over and over again because you fell in love with them?

Au Says: You’ve said before that the original Harry Potter and the Soulmate Bond was written when you were younger and the current version is an updated, re-written version. And the version of Sentinels of Atlantis you’ve published is very different from the version you lost in the data crash. So my question is, when you enter into these situations where you are taking stories that you’ve already written before and decide to rewrite them, how do you go about deciding what to let go of, what to keep, what to change? So basically, how do you approach the process of rewriting something you’ve already written?

Silverf0x said: My desire to write died six years ago, same time my brother died. Last week i had an idea that wouldn’t go away until i wrote it down. And What do you know, I actually enjoyed myself I wasn’t expecting it. Point is what do i do to ease myself into this so i don’t lose the enjoyment? And I’ve forgotten most of what i ever learned about craft So how do i pick up those skills again?Tall Poppy Syndrome: https://youtu.be/Og6BWd0z5-4Required Short Pitch: I hate this fucking short pitch thing (Where does thing even show up?).Special Guest: Jilly James

Question from Ask Me Anything: Akane asks, "I have another question for you: how do you deal with time jumps in your work? What are some methods you’ve seen and which do you prefer the most?"

Website question: Would you do a radioshow about how you strukture and research rituals in your Harry Potter fics. I Think they are well thought out and often awesome! Required short pitch: The stupid short pitch is stupid.