Send these to your favorite Authors and let them blab! What is your total word count on AO3? How often do you write? Do you have a routine for writing? What’s your favorite kinks/tropes/pairing? Do you have a favorite fic of yours? Your fic with the most kudos? Anything you don’t like about your writing? Now something you do like! Send it to some of your favorite Authors to spread some love <3
Well first of all, I love you, so...
My total word count on AO3 is a terrifying 228,131 words.
I sincerely fucking wish it were more - I haven’t written a single sentence of fiction since the start of the year, which feels like emotional constipation and is truly horrific, but as I basically never shut up about my health issues have taken over as top priority for the moment. I am, however, starting to feel more and more like myself again, so that’ll be part of getting back on my grind.
Do you have a routine for writing?
I’m so glad this thing exists because I fucking love talking about this shit.
I do! I have playlists for every project, sometimes down to individual playlists for certain characters, and I put those on most of the time. That having been said, if I’m not in the zone or if I’m having a hard time getting there, I tend to prefer instrumental music; as my PPPD took over my life, I found myself getting way too distracted too easily if I wasn’t using instrumentals. Luckily, most of my mixes tend to have them anyway. My faves for this purpose are Possimiste, Disparition, Rudy Adrian, Nick Cave’s soundtrack work, and Explosions In The Sky.
My desk fluctuates between a mess, a hot mess and relatively clean, so I usually straighten up a little to minimize distraction and light a candle and/or some incense (I’m a habitual burner of things).
What are your favorite kinks/tropes/pairings?
Every single time I get asked this, I go blank.
Kinks - I love the “we can’t help it” attractions that defy all willpower, which is probably why I enjoy het sibling incest (when done correctly, gotta be consensual and absent of yucky power dynamics or I’m outta there motherfuckers - and don’t let me make you feel judged because god knows I love shitty power dynamics elsewhere) so goddamn much. I’m one of those types who likes dominant men in smut fic but hates most of them in real life. I love a good smut piece that marries exposition with action well. Biting is good. I just really, really like attractions that force inadvisable actions.
Tropes - Sexually incandescent/morally grey female characters, surprise polyamory, unrequited longing, angsty exposition
Pairings - Judge me if you gotta but I largely read x Reader fics these days because I have a hard time chewing on OC’s and there are few ships I roll with in general. Fanatical shippers of non-canon pairings are everywhere and while I begrudge no one their thing, it tends to ruin it for me (see: Kastle, which I once enjoyed the subtlety and implications of and now give zero fucks if I ever have to look at again) I do however love Stucky with every beat of my heart. Clintasha. Madwife (though I’ll be cool if this never becomes canon, too).
Do you have a favorite fic of yours?
I Don’t Hear The Church Bells Chime Anymore.
I am prouder of Church Bells than any fanfic that’s come before or after it; I almost wish I had never posted it so I could alter details and try to publish it. I love it that much.
I do love the Salacious Saga and a ton of my heart and soul has gone into this series - it’s strenuous but I think it’s some of my best work.
My fic with the most kudos is, predictably, Salacious.
Things I don’t like about my writing:
Fucking excessive comma splices, dashes and semicolons. I had a college professor - who loved my writing - call me the Comma Splice Queen. In one paper, she circled a sentence and wrote a note that was something like “while this is technically grammatically correct and I can’t demerit it, please know that I hate it.”
I once had a friend describe my writing as “cold” and he genuinely meant it as a compliment but it has bothered the fuck out of me ever since he said it like eleven years ago.
I’m old enough now that I appreciate my own wit without being precious about it, which is nice. I feel like I give a good balance of exposition vs action but y’all are better judges of that than me.
(thank you, this was a blast, sorry it was long but y’all know I can’t just answer a damn question)
