Chapter 3 of my first multi chapter Outlander fic is up today! What if it never matters what Frank Knew, because Claire left knowing Jamie would likely survive? An AU from S2 with spies, letters, and Jamie reuniting with Claire and a teenaged Bree.

Sometimes maturity as an Outlander fic writer is deciding Claire probably would have ethical qualms with stabbing Frank even with a practice knife in your AU where Bree is taking self-defense. Dr. C.E.B. Fraser has more ethics than I do. 🤷🏻‍♀️

OL fic writing when you’re married to a supportive physicist: time travel diagrams drawn on the back of an old calendar page where the hypothetical people are labeled “Caitriona and Sam.” 😂

Started posting my first OL multichapter fic today and I’m excited! It’s an AU departure from Season 2, where Claire gets some help from her future self, Frank Is the Worst, and Claire goes back to 1948 knowing she will return to Jamie. Not Time’s Fool: archiveofourown.org/works/787501...

Well, “Marsali” getting changed to “Marsala” is certainly one way to learn AutoCorrect is still on in Scrivener. Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ.

First draft of my WIP is done and I think it’s over 60K? Go big or go home is apparently my approach to my first Outlander AU. Also go big and go smutty. So many sex scenes. So many. I blame the lack of sex scenes in Season 7.

"I have everything I never knew I wanted "

And this is Claire looking at the love of her life every. single. time. 🥹🤍

Proof this OL fic WIP might be in the home stretch: Jamie has gotten injured and gotten lovingly scolded for getting injured, and Claire has done more than one modern medical procedure to further the plot.

TFW you’re working on your first long multichapter Outlander fic and say to yourself, “Oh, I have to have Jamie get injured and Claire patch him up well before the final act or this will read as completely unrealistic.” 😂

Blizzard prep when half your brain is in fandom mode: making a grocery list and watching the Jamie and Claire banter about jealousy from “A Most Uncomfortable Woman” for the 137,000th time.

I’m working on my first multi-chapter fic in this fandom, and I keep having stress dreams where I’m Claire Fraser, but they are very vague. “Claire is stressed and trying to escape disaster” could be any canon era and more than one phase of this WIP. Brains are not helpful. 😂

A thread of my fics so far, with some annotations!

Proof your Outlander fannishness is creeping into your real life: you yell “Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ!” at your cat a lot.