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for the fic title ask meme – as a stranger give it welcome :D

Thanks!

As a Stranger Give it Welcome I credit to @gedsparrowhawk, who kindly suggested it when I was looking for help coming up with a title for the fic. It comes from a line in the ghost scene in Hamlet. “Horatio: O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! Hamlet: And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” This is said when he’s telling them about the ghost, so it seemed appropriate, not to mention of course that in the fic Silver is telling James about his encounter with a sort of ghost (Thomas).  Bri, you’re welcome to weigh in on this one – that’s what I got out of your suggestion but you might have had different reasons.

THREE DAYS LATE but for the writing meme: 4, 5, 10, and 30

oooh, thank you!

4. Three writers influential to my work? J.K. Rowling, because Harry Potter was the first fandom I ever wrote anything for. Tolkien because the man was a genius when it came to attention to detail and backstory and really taught me a lot about world building. And the authors of every history textbook I had to read in college, who taught me what not to do if you want to keep people’s attention.

5. How long have I been writing: Approximately since I was about 13 or maybe 14 and I couldn’t stand the ending of Order of the Phoenix. So, in the tradition of all fanfic writers at some point, I wrote a fix, which shall never see the light of day but which was manuscript length it felt like and handwritten. My first actual posted fics were done when I was in… high school, I think? They too are hiding.

10. How do you do your researches? Depends on the research. Some questions get googled and others, I delve into the library and dig up huge books that I borrow for months at a time because I can and dig through them endlessly. Most things I can find online with a little time and patience (and I’d jolly well better be able to find this stuff, or I wasted a semester studying computer-based research)

30. hardest part of writing? Getting characters to do what you want instead of what they want and knowing when you should bow down and let them do their thing. There’s a fine line between plot development and bad characterization and finding it is a pain and a half sometimes.