Unsure if this will make sense, but if you ignored the logistics of writing it (plotholes, time and effort writers block, too close to home trauma…you know, the usual) is there anything you’d like to write/attempt/explore
I appreciate no such thing (love - you are an absolutely incredible writer!!) probably pulls in some of these themes but I was wondering if there is anything else you’d consider??
Ahh this is such an interesting question and very difficult to answer, because I have a bunch of ideas right now that I'm still figuring out the logistics of, so I'm not sure if they fall into 'I will actually write this' or 'if I could ignore the logistics. . .' yet.
Definitely no such thing used to be my answer to this. S7 was a mess with a lot of holes to fill. And now. . . I want to write something set in the in-between of reckless, exploring how Hotch and Emily get together. And I probably will write something, but I'm not sure how deep to go yet - like, a one or two part thing set earlier in their relationship? A multichapter?? Start when I said in that fic their relationship started, or before? Slowburn or not? I genuinely have no idea what I'm going to do with that, and I don't want to get too tied up in it because I'm also kind of aware that it might end up with basically no audience because I feel like things set in established AUs where OC kids are a significant part of it are kind of niche, and I'm not the kind of superhuman who doesn't care about that unfortunately lol.
I want to write something about Emily helping Hotch out after Foyet's attack too - the fact that she's driving him to work and back and walking him up to his apartment suggests she was the one providing practical support while he recovered and I love the idea of that. But it's intimidating - the research for the medical side combined with the way the show glossed over it, plus it's an area where I really notice I don't always know whether the words I would use are the same words they would use. . . That one just freaks me out for a bunch of reasons, but I would like to do it.
Also various Foyet-arc reimaginings have always interested me. It's one of those things that changed everything, and it would take just the tiniest tweak for the whole thing to go a completely different direction. So maybe. But again, a lot of factors, and it scares me.
Basically my brain wiring has gone haywire and I struggle to be like 'I'll write a lil oneshot exploring X', so as soon as I have any sort of normal sized idea, I freak myself out. I just published a oneshot of a normal sized idea to try and solve this problem, and I had to wrestle with myself to just end it there and post it.