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paulamcg
1) How many works do you have on AO3? 36
2) What’s your total AO3 word count? 941,423 words. Yowza!
3) How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?
4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
Earning the Title Earning the Title - Chapter 1 - Marzipan77 - NCIS [Archive of Our Own] NCIS
A Fine and Private Place A Fine and Private Place - Chapter 1 - Marzipan77 - NCIS [Archive of Our Own] NCIS/Criminal Minds
Black and White Black and White - Chapter 1 - Marzipan77 - NCIS [Archive of Our Own] NCIS
Harry Potter and the Persistence of Vision Harry Potter and the Persistence of Vision - Chapter 1 - Marzipan77 - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own] Harry Potter
A Good Man’s Life A Good Man's Life - Chapter 1 - Marzipan77 - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own] Harry Potter
5) Do you respond to comments, why or why not?
Yes! Because connecting with readers is fabulous! These wonderful people have gone out of their way to read my excessively long stories and leave me a note! How exciting! As I’ve said many times, fanfic readers are so lovely to connect with. Friends I’ve met in fandom are now my family. I’m so grateful.
6) What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?
Oy. I had a whole angst period. Probably The Strength to Fall (SG-1) or Box Out (NCIS)
7) What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?
I gave Sam Beckett a happy ending in The Leap Home (SG-1/QL crossover)
8) Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?
Yes indeed. I wrote a weird The A-Team/Torchwood crossover called …Sing You to your Rest for the Into A Bar Challenge.
9) Have you ever received hate on a fic?
Yes. I had a stalker on my NCIS fics for a while. Read them, told me how horrible my characters were, how I couldn’t write. But kept reading them. Deleted. Moved on.
10) Do you write smut? If so what kind? No.
11) Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of.
12) Have you ever had a fic translated? Yes.
13) Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yes.
14) What’s your all time favorite ship?
Not a shipper. I love GEN friendship/found family fics to read and write.
15) What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?
I finish all my fanfics. I do have a Harry Potter bouncing around in my head, but I haven’t even started it so that doesn’t count! I am in the middle of writing my original fantasy series The Heir of Time, so lots more books to come.
16) What are your writing strengths?
Discipline. I finish what I start. I don’t think it’s fair to the reader to leave a fic unfinished for months or years. I hope I capture the spirit of the characters from the screen.
17) What are your writing weaknesses?
LENGTH! I can’t seem to write short fics!! Did you see my word count???
18) What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?
I put in some badly Google Translated Italian in a fic and met a lovely reader who helped me change it. It’s problematic. Mostly because I can’t figure out how to put in the correct accent marks.
19) What was the first fandom you wrote for? If you don’t count my childhood Mod Squad fics, definitely Stargate SG-1
20) What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?
Wow, that’s hard. I’m happy with And the Truth Shall Set you Free And the Truth Shall Set You Free - Chapter 1 - Marzipan77 - Stargate SG-1 [Archive of Our Own] (SG-1) It feels the teamyest.
