Day 10 - Snowflake Challenge

Day 10

Create a fanwork. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I made 3 little Captain America icons for DW and LJ

Day 11 - Marvel Characters - Scarlet Witch

Scarlet Witch




Scarlet Witch is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, first appearing in The X-Men #4 (March 1964) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. She is first portrayed as a supervillain along with her twin brother Quicksilver as a founding member of the Brotherhood of Mutants. In most depictions she is portrayed as a mutant, a member of a fictional subspecies of humans born with superhuman abilities. Scarlet Witch possesses abilities to alter reality in unspecified ways and is a powerful sorceress. Scarlet Witch is later depicted as a regular member of the Avengers superhero team. She also becomes the wife of fellow superhero and teammate Vision, with whom she has two sons, Thomas and William.

The character's in-universe backstory and parentage has been changed more than once. Depicted in the 1970s as the children of golden age superhero Whizzer, a retcon in the 1980s revealed Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver to be the unknown offspring of supervillain Magneto. Born to Magneto's estranged wife in Transia, Scarlet Witch and her brother are left in the care of their adoptive Romani parents and she is raised as Wanda Maximoff (later referred to as Wanda Frank while the Whizzer was considered to be her father). In another retcon in the 2010s, it is revealed that Quicksilver and she are not mutants but were kidnapped and used as subjects of genetic experimentation by the High Evolutionary, then misled to believe Magneto was their father.

Along with starring in two self-titled limited series of her own, the character appears in animated films, television series, arcade and video games as well as other Marvel-related merchandise. Scarlet Witch has been portrayed by Elizabeth Olsen in a number of films from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In 2012, she was the second highest ranked female character (at #12) on IGN's list of the "Top 50 Avengers."
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Read more about Wanda HERE.

Day 11 - Snowflake Challenge

Day 11

In your own space, talk about your creative process(es) — anything from the initial inspiration to how you feel after something’s done. Do you struggle with motivation or is it a smooth process? Do you have any tricks up your sleeve to pull out when a fanwork isn’t cooperating? What is your level of planning to pantsing/winging it? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


MY writing process… hmmm. I’m a pantser. I get an idea and go with it. Sometimes a photo, a line in a song or poem, or a bit of canon give me a tiny idea and I go with it. I tend to write short one shots for the most part but I have written longer fictions. If I don’t need to research then I write and go where it takes me.

If I need to research, I hunt and read and read and hunt all the info I can about whatever I am researching. For example, I wrote a story set in the era right after the Civil War up until 1876 – I researched preserving foods, making hardtack, the typical soldier's life, the particulars of the area where it is set from 1864 – 1876, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, World War I (since the ending spanned decades), Civil War aftermath for Southern soldiers, appendicitis in 1865. You get the idea. I am a stickler for historic details. They set a story in time and place like nothing else can. Even modern settings. If I don’t know a place, I look at photos and read about it. If I do know a place, I do the same thing. Many times I do the research as I write, even in long fics.

Do I plan long fics? Yes, in a large, sweeping sort of way. I kind of know where I’m going from the beginning but getting there is not planned. Sometimes I brainstorm with my hubby. He is great with plot advice or to help me see if something will or won’t work. I am not the world’s best plotter… give me a plot and I can build you a lovely story though. That is why I love prompts with a lot of plot.

I also like to play with words… I prefer simple words that paint the picture plainly and vividly to lots of flowery prose about things that distract from the actual tale. I don’t want the story lost in the description.

I guess that’s about it.