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[askerian]

stolen from phoenix_melody:

Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.

Any fandom I've written for. Feel free to ask about Teamwork and Crossed Wires, but the universes are very big so if you could limit the area you want to know about plz; and even then I might still tell you "sorry, that's a spoiler." Or just tell you something totally stupid like how at some point I seriously believed Teamwork would be done in thirty pages tops. ;p

loev me plz. ;_;

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[askerian]

Actually the fic was born out of a couple of random funny conversations my friend kineko and I were having, the first of which had Naruto in heat and then Kyuubiness and briefly running away and stuff, and then a longer convo about Team Seven and all their agemates going through the building of a new house and then the "yay!new house" party that ensued. It was mostly about funny antics and bits of dialogue, kind of like on-the-fly RPing. Sakura was heavily pregnant, so she wasn't allowed to lift anything or drink alcohol and so she was Very Grumpy. So yeah, Teamwork was always circling around Team Seven's future kid, but it was more about the pregnancy than the kid itself. (I seem to remember we also played a bit with "oh look sakura gave birth, whose kid is it?" moment, but... I've forgotten what we were talking about. Came up with the actual kid myself only a couple of years back. XD; )

Kin was sleeping over that weekend, and there I was on the computer, in the dark room with her on an air mattress and half-awake going "...asuka go to bed." and me going "yeah yeah gimme a minute, I'm taking notes" and the next day I had plus ten pages of the first chapter of Teamwork and minus five hours of sleep.

I didn't know what happened during The Night until... I'm not sure, a year or two after I started writing it. It always started with the morning after. XD; (made the start of the fic kinda wobbly actually... hm.)

[fateofshadow.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, interesting! I love to hear how stories develop and TW has so many layers... I'm not surprised that the story started like that, the best fics always seem to spring from an off hand conversation and sleep deprivation. :D (Why is it that the best ideas always come when you're falling asleep?)

And more about the pregnancy than the future children, that makes sense since there are lots of pit falls with cravings and mood swings etc- though they still have nappy changing and the terrible twos to look forward to. *Evil laughter* >:) At least there are more people to rotate for late night feedings...

Another question, how far in the future are you planning to go? Are we going to see team 7's twilight years, their kids becoming ninja, realisation of childhood dreams? (Though I wonder if Naruto would want to become Hokage after becoming a father...)

[askerian]

I think I concentrated the most on the pregnancy and toddler stages because until then it's still about the three of them, naruto-sasuke-sakura, and the way they deal with something; the baby isn't really its own separate entity/person until it starts to speak in a way you can really interact with as another character and not as a plot point on wobbly legs who can't make its own decisions anyway. When the children are older they'll inevitably change the dynamic in a more major way than what's been changed so far and i'm not really thinking about it much yet.

Oh god I'm so not trying to think too far ahead. Seeing how long it takes me to write, I'll be at it for years and years. But... Teamwork 4 deals with : baby is born + gotta get rid of akatsuki for good. Teamwork 5 deals with stuff happening when the kid is a couple of years old.

Then I've got a bunny for middlekid, who I really luvvle, but I'm not sure I want to make it too long but kid should be around 13-14 in that one. Not sure we'll see the parents much though, since it's kid-centric.

Then there's this vague idea I had where Sasuke (it's always sasuke-centric with me XD; ) finds some bastard descendents of the Uchiha, but he's around 35 in that.

Then of course i've got a bazilion one-shots and please god let them STAY one-shots -- so some might be about when they're way older, but I can't write them yet because i'm trying not to waste my time coming up with stuff about the kids when the main fics aren't going to get to their birth for months and years.

(Then there's the Suna thing that goes between 2 and 3 and it looks like it's gonna be at least six parts and maybe nine. then there's sakura's prequel. i die, i diiiiie.)