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hi hi hi here's pinned post #2 because i have no idea what happened to my first one

i'm trixie (shey/heir/it/its): this is my fanfic blog. original writing (@trixierosewrites) and main blog (@goldenzingy46). AO3 :)

send me asks about my fics! ask me about my writing! i will answer anything about anything, no matter if i've since left the fandom or if i wrote the fic back in 2019 or if the fic in question is on anon. i love asks :)

tags:

-> #fic updates, updates

-> #ask response, ask game

-> #twix dw (doctor who fics)

-> #twix bg3 (bg3 fics)

-> #twix hannibal

-> #twix go (good omens fics)

-> #twix soc (six of crows fics)

-> #twix dst (don't starve together fics)

-> #twix malevolent

-> #twix sherlock

-> #twix hr (heated rivalry)

-> #twix dc (dc (probably mostly batman)

-> #twix matrix

-> #twix lucifer

-> #twix terror

-> #twix hp (i'm not proud of this; but on the off chance it comes up again, you can go ahead and block the tag 👍)

[goldenzingy46]

2b, 6j?

2. Which of your fics is your least favourite?

ok i'm gonna pick solely from dr who because otherwise it gets more difficult to choose: either the bargain or put my hand in your chest but couldn't find your heart

b. What is something you would do differently if you were to rewrite it?

the bargain: i don't know, write better? the fic itself is fine i just feel like it was written clumsily

put my hand in your chest but couldn't find your heart: slow down and pull it apart slowly. i think it's all a bit jumbled and the pacing is off, mostly, and it could use some more care. the ideas are good, the execution was just sloppy

6. Which of your fics is the most serious?

question that forces me to contemplate what serious classifies as. i'm ruling out anything that's funny or self-indulgent, which i guess also includes the self indulgent whump 🤔 i'm genuinely not sure. i write a lot of very serious fics, and i write a lot of plotty fics. i write a lot of horror 🤔 if i rule it down to just dr who i think it gets a lot narrower. i think i might pick the borusigma affair just because uhhh. well. it's a miserable fucking time

j. Describe it badly.

dr who gets groomed. that might be too good of a decision. dr who's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad life

mix-and-match fanfic writer asks

[walkawaytall]

mix-and-match fanfic writer asks

pick a number...

Which of your fics is your favorite?

Which of your fics is your least favorite?

Which of your fics is criminally underrated?

Which of your fics surprised you by how much attention it received?

Which of your fics is the funniest?

Which of your fics is the most serious?

Which of your fics is the most crack-like?

Which of your fics did you spend the most amount of time writing?

Which of your fics did you spend the least amount of time writing?

[Asker's choice: specify the fic you want to know more about.]

...and pick a letter...

a. What is something you wish more people noticed about it? b. What is something you would do differently if you were to rewrite it? c. What do you think makes it deserving of love? d. What is your favorite line or excerpt from it? e. Are there any lines or sections that you think don't belong in it? f. Which character (POV or not) was your favorite to write? g. Which section was most difficult to write? h. Which section was the easiest to write? i. Did anything substantial get cut from it? j. Describe it badly.

...to create a combo question! (ex. 1c, 5a, 9g)

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The people yearn for borusigma affair chapter two

WORKING ON IT BOSS!!! ch3 is complete and ch2 is currently at. 2.5k? here's a snippet just for you anon :3 (under the cut)

In Theta’s dream, his throat didn’t hurt. Time slipped through his fingers like water droplets. He was graduating the Academy, Borusa at his back. There was a gloved hand on his shoulder, and although he couldn’t feel more than pressure through the layers, he knew it was there. Borusa guided him out and forwards. He went back to the House. Quences smiled at him from the head of a long dinner table. Quences never smiled at him. Perhaps it was foolish to fear something good, but when something good never happened— Borusa again. They were walking through chambers of the Citadel where Theta was not permitted to go, but people parted for him so surely he was meant to be here. Everyone greeted him by name—by Signifier, tying him back to the House, to Quences. They sat in the Council chambers. They sat in the Council chambers. They sat in the Council chambers. Policy was discussed, and they sat in the Council chambers. The suns rose and set but it never truly went dark. They sat in the Council chambers and voted as they were bid. Borusa’s faces blurred and changed and he guided Theta back to the Council chambers. The robes were ornate and heavy. Theta was tired, he thought. He wanted to slow down the inevitable future, but time slipped through his fingers; like water, it was possible to trap in grasping fingers. Borusa always ranked one higher. Theta always one step behind. Borusa with a hand on the small of his back. Borusa always pulling him forwards, higher and higher. Borusa the Lord President, and Theta his Chancellor. Outside the window, Gallifrey looked the same. The suns shone down on the sands outside the citadel, and the silvery leaves shone bright in what little wind they had. The detail on the seats never changed. The faces blurred, but the votes stayed the same. The policy discussed changed language, but it was always the same. Quences was smiling at him from the head of the dinner table. Borusa was smiling at him, inviting him into his office. He followed him into the office of the Lord President, let them seal the doors, and bent over to take Borusa’s cock. Time wept for him, and he still couldn’t hold it still.

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perirani for the ask game?

don’t kill the girl. oh what do you want to do with her rani? you want to tie her down to a bed so you can steal her brain chemicals? terrible toxic yuri i adore it. anyway, onto the headcanon: peri bites her. she is thrashing and kicking but the whole situation changes when she gets her teeth in the rani, because the rani goes terrible girl! and slaps her, and peri makes it her mission to do it again. at some point it becomes a sex thing. the rani gets her hands under peri’s skirts. peri is still trying to bite her. it remains on the surface a fight but the rani is fingering her and peri has her teeth in the rani’s arm to muffle the sounds she’s making so it could still feasibly be a scream.

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FINALLY WITH FIC

[goldenzingy46]

1, 4 the borusigma affair, 7, 21 how to grieve when you're not meant to be a person, 42?

1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)

i DO think this depends on the fandom 🤔 for doctor who: it could be worth starting with Inconveniences of the Body, because it's a 5+1 and thus a speedrun of a variety of genres (sickfic, h/c, fluff, angst, etc), but at the same time base instincts might be a good place to start to understand that i tend to write overly convoluted long wips that i update maybe twice a year if you're lucky. on the other hand, if i finish biting the hand to feed by this year, that could be a good place to start because it will be a wholly complete multi-chapter fic that i also genuinely think is good. on the other hand if you're insane the borusigma affair could be a great place to start. wait who am i kidding a good place to start for my pornographic works is take what you want. oh wow i've listed five fics just for doctor who. what other fandoms do i have a lot of fics in.

sherlock: G Lestrade (made a mistake) or the dead find the dead.

dc: Sometimes, To Kill Superman

hannibal: rewind the broken clock

matrix: the girl in the club

you're on your own for other fandoms. figure it out ig 😔

4. What detail in [the borusigma affair] are you really proud of?

i think i really nailed The Dread. everything is awful. the future on gallifrey is awful. there are no good options. sexual exploitation or not, theta sigma is going to have a shitty time. not that the sexual exploitation helps.

7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

ok i really like what i'm doing in Big Game Hunting, which is essentially set post-rapture. note that i am not a christian & my only knowledge comes from lucifer & good omens and i did a grand total of five minutes of googling. but i really like the world i'm setting up regardless!! the world has ended but it hasn't really. demons roam the streets and have bar fights and angels hunt the earth for sinners to smite and sebastian moran? he's the guy that hunts angels and finds the channels to sell them through. you know.

21. If you wrote a “missing scene” in [how to grieve when you're not meant to be a person], what would it be?

rassilon losing it offscreen!! a rassilon pov of this is that he's so completely fucking out of it and he still has to do politics and he gets upset and throws everything telekinetically across the room and he is so fucked up he does not realise everything is wrong with the other. right up until the other shows up after tecteun forces him to go the fuck to sleep. and he wakes up and he sees the other and is kind of forced to consider that maybe the other has feelings and also he's fucking terrified of it. it's grieving for omega and he doesn't know how to tell it that it's grieving. so he just lets it kill until it comes back and begs to stop. he doesn't know how to deal with the fact that his thing #histhing has FEELINGS.

42. Have you ever received a comment that particularly stood out to you for whatever reason?

yes absolutely. several! i'm going to mention 2 here because these are the two that i literally chant to myself because they make me laugh as well as being really nice comments to read:

atta's comment on drained, for the whole of the comment but also specifically for:

normal guy having a normal time. super normal about his low commitment long distance long term situationship who may or may not be a vampire. which is also a normal thing to have and therefore be normal about. normalstyle

and your comment on how to grieve when you're not meant to be a person, partially because "are you okay?" mf NO? has become a vocal stim. i keep saying it. it's so good. are you okay mf NO? god. i keep giggling

questions for fic writers

[clumsyclifford]

questions for fic writers

a collection of questions i, as a writer, would love to be asked !!!

1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)

2. Go to your AO3 “Works” page, to the sidebar with all the filters, and click the drop-down arrow for “Additional Tags.” What are your top 3-5 most used tags? Do you think they accurately represent your writing habits?

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?

4. What detail in [insert fic] are you really proud of?

5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [insert fic]? Answer it now!

6. What’s one fact about the universe of [insert fic] that you didn’t get a chance to mention in the fic itself?

7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

8. What song would make a great fic (to either write or read)?

9. How do you find new fic to read?

10. How do you decide what to write?

11. Are you partial to a certain character/pairing or are you more equal-opportunity? If you are partial to any character/pairing, why do you think that is?

12. Are there any tropes you used to dislike but have grown on you?

13. Are there any tropes you used to like but don’t anymore?

14. Are there any tropes you would only read if written by a trusted friend or writer?

15. What’s your favorite AU that you’ve written?

16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

18. If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it involve?

19. If you wrote a spin-off of [insert fic], what would it involve?

20. If you wrote a prequel to [insert fic], what would it involve?

21. If you wrote a “missing scene” in [insert fic], what would it be?

22. Who is your favorite character in [insert fic] and why?

23. What’s a trope, AU, or concept you’ve never written, but would like to?

24. Are there any easter eggs in [insert fic], and if so, what are they?

25. What other websites or resources do you use most often when you write?

26. Would you rather write a fic that had no dialogue or one that was only dialogue?

27. How long did it take to write [insert fic]? Describe the process.

28. Does anyone read your fics before you post them? If so, who?

29. What songs would be (or are) on a playlist for [insert fic]? Explain your choices if you want!

30. Have you ever written something that was out of your comfort zone? If so, what was it, and how did it affect your approach to writing fic thereafter?

31. What’s your ideal fic length to write?

32. What’s your ideal fic length to read?

33. If you write chaptered fics, what’s your ideal chapter length to write? Is it different from your ideal chapter length to read?

34. What aspects of your writing are inspired by/taken from your real life?

35. What aspects of your writing are completely unlike your real life?

36. Do you visualize what you read/write?

37. Promote one of your own “deep cut” fics (an underrated one, or one that never got as much traction as you think it deserves!). What do you like about it?

38. Did any of your fics get surprisingly popular (whatever that means to you)? Which ones? Why do you think they were so successful?

39. Is any aspect of your writing process inspired by other writers or people? If so, who?

40. Do you tend to reread fics or are you a one-and-done kind of person?

41. Link a fic that made you think, “Wow, I want to write like that.”

42. Have you ever received a comment that particularly stood out to you for whatever reason?

43. If you take/write prompts: what’s your favorite prompt fic that you’ve written?

44. If you take/write prompts: do you prefer dialogue or scenario/narrative prompts?

45. What’s something you’ve improved on since you started writing fic?

46. Do you prefer writing on your phone or on a computer (or something else)? Do you think where you write affects the way you write?

47. If [insert fic] was a pair of shoes, what kind would it be? Describe the shoes.

48. What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?

49. What are you currently working on? Share a few lines if you’re up for it!

50. Answer any question of your choice, or talk about anything you want to talk about!

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hold me accountable

perirani biting ✅✅✅

threegado vampires

the borusigma affair ch2

vampirelough / biting the hand to feed ch2

fivemaster aphrodisiac

big game hunting ch4

terror big bang fic (this will probably be posted in september though)

omega lends the other a hand

base instincts ch4

petty thief attachment style ilya

evil tyssa

if i start posting other stuff before i post at least three of these (any order) i need you guys to attack me with hammers. can you do that for me.

[goldenzingy46]

❓can you talk about this line from how to grieve when you're not meant to be a person: “Approve my killing, or I will take as I see fit"? I think it's really interesting when the Other gets to the point of actually threatening Rassilon

🥇 for anything,

🔎any fic at all

❓No dumb questions amnesty - can you explain this [line/dialogue/moment from the story]?

how to grieve when you're not meant to be a person

yesss!!! the other here has never ever ever ever experienced grief. it's fresh experiencing this at a really old age to be first experiencing grief, but crucially it is also a creature of violence. it has had violence done to it, it has done violence, violence is expected of it. it enjoys that. it is, essentially, the whole of its existence!!! so it says: rassilon, do what you always do, and give me orders. rassilon, do what started my killing, do what i would not have started if you had not threatened and intimidated me, do what you did when you forced my hand. approve what i want to do or i will kill you. it's a pretty outright threat which i like to think is out of character!! i don't think it usually actually threatens rassilon!!! but, crucially, it always thinks it. in its dreams, it gets to kill tecteun, and it gets to kill rassilon, and omega always forgives it. (lol. as though omega could forgive anyone for killing rassilon. sorry babygirl.) but as it stands: tecteun is alive, and it's banned from killing her. omega is dead, and it will never see him again. but rassilon is right here, and for the first time the other, extremely sleep deprived and off a murder binge it didn't want to do, goes full time lord victorious and says, fuck time, fuck how events carry out, i want to kill him. but because it has only ever known servitude, it gives rassilon the option to give it orders. think darth vader. point its sword in the right direction, or it will turn its sword on you.

🥇 What scene were you most excited to write? Did it end up being the one you enjoyed writing the most?

i mean i have to say the scene i am most excited to write and have been since december is base instinct's sexy turlough blood drinking scene. have i written it yet? LOL. LMAO EVEN. but other than that i'm gonna say for the borusigma affair i was really hyped to write that first penetration and it was a lot of fun and horrible and uncomfortable and i think i fucking nailed it. so. yayyyy!!! awful and uncomfortable sex scenes!!!!

🔎 What detail(s) in the story are you particularly captivated with? Is there any behind the scenes info or backstory?

i think for the bargain i've done a genuinely absurd amount of worldbuilding, so i just want to talk about it. (there may be some mild spoilers for the fic itself, but, like. i want to talk about it. so.) this is a world where the nobility has a form of Actual Mind Control, and using it too much makes people genuinely ill, to the point of dying!! these people are then tidied up into the hreck quarter, or, as the doctor realises later, the wreck quarter, because of the slight accent. they have an entire quarter for people who are sick and dying. this is a world where people generally die in their twenties. and when people get sick from ACTUAL MIND CONTROL they just leave them to die!!! on top of this they also have a set of clones that they can mind control easier and repeatedly, presumably because they're expendable. but you'll also note that in a society that revolves around servitude (and sexual slavery), that puts people out of a job. if you're a woman, sexual slavery is an option for you, but like. THAT'S A SHITTY FUCKING OPTION! and if you go into the hreck quarter they kill you! and it's also literally ILLEGAL for women to cover up basically anything because this is a world where the emperor has mind control and an army of replaceable disposable mind controlled extremely buff slaves and he wants to fuck and hurt women before he dies, and he doesn't give a fuck about the conditions people are living in. because people rarely hit thirty. so all these nobles are just living hedonistically because what point do they have???? sorry. i know i wrote this fic to make the fifth doctor choke on cock but the entire situation is genuinely fucked up??? a world in which (a) people have extremely short lives, (b) have mind control, and (c) have essentially no humanity left. none of these people live long anyway. live as a hedonist and crush the opposition, and those you don't crush you can mind control. fucked!! fucked!!!! the emperor is a horrible person.

fic ask game

[disarmd]

Fic Ask Game: pick a story and a question…

❓No dumb questions amnesty - can you explain this [line/dialogue/moment from the story]?

🏴‍☠️ Were there any points in which your characters tried (or succeeded) to commit mutiny against your planned plot? Where did they most want to rebel?

🥇 What scene were you most excited to write? Did it end up being the one you enjoyed writing the most?

🙏 Was there anything your character(s) really really really wanted to do? Did you let them?

🍆 What scene do you think was the hottest? What scene do you think your readers thought was the hottest? Are they the same?

🔮Have you imagined what happens to [character(s)] in the future? Or does the story only exist to you as a moment in time?

🔎 What detail(s) in the story are you particularly captivated with? Is there any behind the scenes info or backstory?

🧭 What was the key choice or decision you had to make for this story? If you had chosen differently, what would the story have turned into?

📖 Could the story have been a different length? What would you have included/removed?

🫂How would the story have changed if you wrote it for [this pairing] instead?

💭 If you could wish into creation a transformative piece for your story, made by a real human who isn’t you, what would it be? Art, video, sequel, podfic, etc.

📋What was your main goal for the story and/or writing experience? Do you think that you achieved it?

🎤 Do you think the story was written in your typical voice? Why or why not?

👉👈What two stories have you written that are most similar? Why?

👈👉What two stories have you written that are most different? Why?

🤍Asker’s choice: ask whatever you’d like!

[theminecraftbee]

the fake fic ask game

🐝 send me a fake fic title, and I’ll make up a summary for it!

🐑 send me a fake set of fic tags, and I’ll try to come up with a summary for it!

🦮 send me a summary I already did for one of the above two, and I’ll try to write a snippet for that summary!

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Trust Exercises

Relationship: Fifth Doctor/Vislor Turlough

Tags: Cat Ears, Cat/Human Hybrids, i mean. he's not human. but i think it would still fall under the tag, Petting, Fluff, Catboys & Catgirls, i don't even know how to tag this. don't we all want the fifth doctor to have cat ears? read my fic

With the spread of catboy disease, no, not the Cheetah Virus, Turlough finds himself compelled to touch the Doctor's ears. More surprising? That the Doctor lets him.

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biting the hand to feed

Relationship: Fifth Doctor/Vislor Turlough

Tags: Vampires, Vampire Vislor Turlough, Vampire Bites, Blood Drinking, Hypnotism, sort of a collection of vamp!turlough vignettes that follow along with canon, tags will be added as i add chapters because although i know what's going to happen i'm also lazy, Non-Consensual Blood Drinking, in both the sense that people don't consent to turlough stealing their blood AND that turlough does not consent to drinking the doctor's blood, Manipulation

What if the Trion aristocracy had been vampires? A canon-adjacent fic that follows vampire Turlough through time.

Chapters: 1/6

[goldenzingy46]

28 on fic question list!

hesitated on answering this one because i do not label my ask games well enough and i'm not sure which one this was for. so. um. i'm answering for two and hoping one of these was the correct one LMAOOO sorry anon ily anon thank you for the ask anon and sorry i'm a bit stupid </3

weird questions for writers: 28. Who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? Why?

i think it's probably the master doctor who or maybe sebastian moran? the master doctor who has a lot of fun complexes which means that unpacking his weird freak behaviours and thoughts are a lot of fun, and he's extremely possessive. his doctor. et cetera. sebastian moran on the other hand thinks with his dick first his gun second and his brain third and that makes him genuinely fucking delightful to have around. horny murderous bastard who kills for cash. 10/10 no notes

get to know your fic writer: 28. On average, how much writing do you get done in a day?

this really depends? on a Writing Day (i.e., a day where i mostly write), this would be anywhere from 2k-7k. on an average day in which i try to write we're looking at 500 words-1k. on a day where i try and write and get distracted we're looking at maybe 300 words? on some days i don't write at all and then i feel bad. 😭😭😭

thank you for the ask!! <3

[goldenzingy46]

need you guys to hold me accountable. i WILL post ch1 of vampire!turlough today. or you must all attack me with hammers. (i'm on bst if this helps anyone attack me with hammers)

[goldenzingy46]

17, 24, 27?

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

sweats nervously. i'm not sure how to define current wip? like the thing i last worked on was a self-indulgent escape the heat oneshot, but that's not exactly my most intricate fic or anything. i just like to see fivey begging for it i mean what who said that. where fivey accidentally ingests a large quantity of aphrodisiac and the master has to take care of him oh nooooo anyway. but i guess some behind the scenes for this were i spent some time working out a gender neutral version of sir before realising i didn't care to explain it and just replacing it with sir anyway 😭

24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

it really depends on the story, i think! my multichapter fics all have stuff written down for them because i will forget and i also write better to an outline, so. base instincts has a lot of prep work because it's a story that's about memory loss so there's two stories being written and uncovered at the same time. my time lord cannibalism fic no not the one i've talked about before with eleven but the one i discussed with you mr skull in dms. that one will be complicated because it's not being done linearly because i like to make my life difficult. for a lot of oneshots i just wing it LMAOOOO

and wrt prep work it depends what mood i'm in. i enjoy pacing around in circles talking to myself more than the writing it down, though!

+ it always looks like. insane rambling in wordpad. i reinstalled wordpad onto my computer because it's SUCH a crucial part of my writing experience (inc. my novels!!!!)

27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

oh god uh. probably either hannibal lecter or currently the rani? these two are stressful because hannibal's dialogue kept coming out clunky and i literally didn't know how to fix it and the rani because i'm afraid someone will shoot me for my characterisation. nonetheless my perirani fic crawls along

weird questions for writers

[chdarling]

Weird Questions for Writers (because writers are weird)

1. What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting?

2. If you had to give up your keyboard and write your stories exclusively by hand, could you do it? If you already write everything by hand, a) are you a wizard and b) pen or pencil?

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

4. What’s a word that makes you go absolutely feral?

5. Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?

6. What is your darkest fear about writing?

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?

9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know

10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?

11. Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?

12. If a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? Btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current WIPs into Lorem Ipsum, I don’t make the rules

13. What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy?

14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back?

15. Do you write in the margins of your books? Dog-ear your pages? Read in the bath? Why or why not? Do you judge people who do these things? Can we still be friends?

16. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

20. If a witch offered you the choice between eternal happiness with your one true love and the ability to finally finish, perfect, and publish your dearest, darlingest, most precious WIP in exactly the way you've always imagined it — which would you choose? You can’t have both sorry, life’s a bitch

21. Could you ever quit writing? Do you ever wish you could? Why or why not?

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

23. Describe the physical environment in which you write. Be as detailed as possible. Tell me what’s around you as you work. Paint me a picture.

24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

26. How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?

27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

28. Who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? Why?

29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?

30. Talk to me about the role dreams play in your writing life. Have you ever used material from your dreams in your writing? Have you ever written in a dream? Did you remember it when you woke up?

31. Write a short love letter to your readers.

32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?

33. Do you practice any other art besides writing? Does that art ever tie into your writing, or is it entirely separate?

34. Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go:

35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

36. They say to Write What You Know. Setting aside for a moment the fact that this is terrible advice...what do you Know?

37. If you were to be remembered only by the words you’ve put on the page, what would future historians think of you?

38. What is something about your writing process YOU think is Really Weird? If you are comfortable, please share. If you’re not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us?

39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?

40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.