Ask Me Anything December #6 (a day late)
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mhalachaiFor the Ask Me Anything December meme - Day #6
The question today is: What piece of writing are you most proud of?
I'm proud of most of them for lots of reasons, but I think as a whole piece, I would say that Widow Maker stands out. I wrote it before we knew anything about what the canon was going to do with the Winter Soldier (series started in 2012, and Widow Maker came out in July 2013), and I was mostly working off an amalgam of Black Widow's comic background and stuff I wanted.
What I like about this piece is that the action just keeps coming at the reader, and there are lots of twists and turns, some for which I use common tropes and then others where I flip the script so there’s a bit of questioning on what Natasha will choose to do.
Also, in this series, I do a slow introduction to the Stargate Program so anyone who’s coming in from the MCU won’t get caught up on the crossover world, at least I hope.
Plus this was my first time writing Bucky (and this was before the Captain America: Winter Soldier reveal of Hydra) and I got to explore his character a bit, what someone who was in and out of cold storage but didn’t have their memories entirely erased would do.
Plus the prequel Baba Yaga’s Children was a fascinating experience to write – I had written children POV stories before, but this was my first big foray, and in trying to connect it to who Natasha Romanoff became, that was a really fun challenge.
The question today is: What piece of writing are you most proud of?
I'm proud of most of them for lots of reasons, but I think as a whole piece, I would say that Widow Maker stands out. I wrote it before we knew anything about what the canon was going to do with the Winter Soldier (series started in 2012, and Widow Maker came out in July 2013), and I was mostly working off an amalgam of Black Widow's comic background and stuff I wanted.
What I like about this piece is that the action just keeps coming at the reader, and there are lots of twists and turns, some for which I use common tropes and then others where I flip the script so there’s a bit of questioning on what Natasha will choose to do.
Also, in this series, I do a slow introduction to the Stargate Program so anyone who’s coming in from the MCU won’t get caught up on the crossover world, at least I hope.
Plus this was my first time writing Bucky (and this was before the Captain America: Winter Soldier reveal of Hydra) and I got to explore his character a bit, what someone who was in and out of cold storage but didn’t have their memories entirely erased would do.
Plus the prequel Baba Yaga’s Children was a fascinating experience to write – I had written children POV stories before, but this was my first big foray, and in trying to connect it to who Natasha Romanoff became, that was a really fun challenge.