Tag: acowas

A New Home for My Fic

IMPORTANT NEWS!!!

Since this blog has changed significantly in the past year, I have decided to clean house a bit. This involved relocating my fanfiction to a sideblog so that the traffic on my main blog is directed primarily to Unrooted, my other original work, and my book blogging. 

DO NOT PANIC. THE FIC IS NOT DELETED. IT IS SIMPLY RELOCATED.

You can still read it over there any time you please, and it may in fact be easier because I reblogged it in an order that’s simpler to navigate. If you try to search for my fics on the main blog, you will no longer find them. If you click the “Projects” links on the sidebar of my blog, it will redirect you to the sideblog. 

I also have kept everything I want to preserve on Ao3, so you can read and download my fics there. I have changed my username. You can now find it under sv_you_know_who_i_am.

I want to be clear–I didn’t do this because I’m embarrassed of my fics or anything of the kind. It’s just better business practice to keep the two kinds of writing separate. I am immensely grateful to all of you who followed me for the fanfiction and have continued to stick around. I’m very excited to share Unrooted with all of you, and I will continue to be very active on this blog. If you want to send me asks about the fics, it’s better to send them to my main, because I don’t plan to check messages sent to the sideblog. 

Once again, thank you so much to all of you who made my time writing fanfiction such a joy. I’m just moving on to different things now. Here’s to a bright future! 

-Sarah

A New Home for My Fic

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Hey I don’t mean to bother you but it’s been so long since I’ve read ACOWAS and I wanted to give it a reread but for some reason it isn’t working on AO3! Is there anywhere else I’d be able to find it?😊

It’s no bother! I checked Ao3 and you’re right that for some reason it’s not working properly! Try this link to see if it helps. If not, you can read the whole thing here on my blog from this page. Thanks for letting me know about the problem!

I, uh, accidentally confessed to a student that I wrote ACOWAS today … 

I was using an excerpt from ACOWAR to teach about sentence fragments (DON’T @ ME, IT’S TRUE) and she recognized the text. And one thing led to another … I’m sitting here now like, “the whole damn POINT of a pen name was so my students wouldn’t know who I was by my fic and HERE WE ARE” lmao

Hey Sarah, I have a question about your writing process. It’s been my dream to be a writer, and I’ve been having very vivid ideas in my head for a series. Alas, I’m not very good at planning – and when I make an outline, it tends to kill my motivation. How do you cope with that? What kind of planning do you do? How do you keep your characters consistent?

Well, outlining doesn’t have to be part of your process if it doesn’t work for you! For me, it all depends on the project whether I outline or not. The Iridia Series is only outlined in stages–it wasn’t until around Book Three that I started getting an idea of how the series would actually end. For A Court of War and Starlight, I didn’t outline at all until around like … Chapter 42? It was only when I realized I had too many moving pieces that I decided I needed to map them out. 

And when it comes to keeping characters consistent, I’ve found that I often know a character has gone off track when the plot stalls or my motivation dries up. I had this experience when drafting Book Three–a main character made a decision that didn’t end up working for the story, and I realized that it was because it was not in line with her character at that point in the story. Once I thought about it and realized what she would do instead, the end of the book came much more easily. 

It sounds like you might be the kind of writer who just needs to write and figure out how it comes together later. This is a perfectly valid way to go about it! Let it flow organically and see how it goes from there.

Is there anyway to get a copy of ACOWAS in print? I.E. do you plan on making an online PDF version that can be downloaded and printed? I would much rather have ACOWAS next to ACOMAF and believe that is the ending than seeing ACOWAR in my collection.

susannadlpena:

sarahviehmann:

Oh, this is so kind of you! ❤ Really, it’s so sweet and means a lot!

Your best bet is to go to the Archive of Our Own page, which allows you to download it as a PDF. You can do the same with any of the one-shots, as well. Just a warning, it comes out to over 400 pages as a PDF, so it might be a little expensive to print. You’re welcome to do so if you’d like, though! 

Thanks so much for the lovely note. ❤

*sings* Just be careful of intellectual property rights and copyrightinggggggggggg

^^^ yep yep yep! This is why I can’t make any money or in anyway promote my fic as equivalent to ACOWAR, because it isn’t, no matter people’s opinions! It was just was a fun project. Thankfully Ao3 is designed to protect fan creators from just these potential problems, so that’s why I always link there when people have questions like this! ^_^

Is there anyway to get a copy of ACOWAS in print? I.E. do you plan on making an online PDF version that can be downloaded and printed? I would much rather have ACOWAS next to ACOMAF and believe that is the ending than seeing ACOWAR in my collection.

Oh, this is so kind of you! ❤ Really, it’s so sweet and means a lot!

Your best bet is to go to the Archive of Our Own page, which allows you to download it as a PDF. You can do the same with any of the one-shots, as well. Just a warning, it comes out to over 400 pages as a PDF, so it might be a little expensive to print. You’re welcome to do so if you’d like, though! 

Thanks so much for the lovely note. ❤

Honestly… I was not even halfway done reading ACOWAR when I decided to just stop reading it altogether. I can’t even explain it; it’s like everything about it just made reading that book feel like a chore to me, if that makes sense? And now my copy of ACOWAR is just sitting there on my book shelf. Seriously, ACOWAS was WAY BETTER. I may or may not wish at times that ACOWAS were the official ACOWAR instead.

That sense of it being a “chore” is reflective of my experience, as well. The pacing was simply so slow that it felt like a slog most of the time. Pacing doesn’t have to ruin a book, but in this case it made my reading experience very different.

And thank you so much! It’s nice to hear ACOWAS aged well, though I am sad that we didn’t get the real third book we were hoping for. 

Hey! It… uh… it sucks that they left ACOTAR as a duology. Like, the author could have done so much with the series if she’d written a third book! It’s a *cough* shame she didn’t continue… but thank you with all of my heart for writing ACOWAS! Your writing skills filled the void in my heart where a third ACOTAR book should have been… (if it existed) :)

(you’re very, very welcome. I’m glad it’s still holding up. 😉 )