ao3 wrapped [writers edition] [2024 edition]
11. What work took you the longest to write?
there is literally no competition here given the 3+ months i spent attacking my keyboard trying to work on glaciers o7 and technically- given that it's not finished yet, you could argue it's taking me 7 months (and counting) to write it, so... unparalleled monster takes the crown!
20. Which work of yours have you reread the most?
this is actually weirdly hard to reply to because i don't... reread my works too much, actually! not outside of like, revising it for editing purposes before i go to post it.
but i've been drawn back to reading pénthos more than once. i know that one's from 2023, but still, it answers the question. i think because it's the only work of mine that stirs visceral emotions within me because writing it came from a place of deep grief
29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?
there are two that immediately come to mind, so i'll put them both down because really, you're asking me, overwriter extraordinaire, to pick ONE line/passage? impossible
"Kristen threads her fingers through Cassandra’s silken locks, touches starlight and shadow and the secrets of the universe. She drags the comb through her hair, smoothening it out, and something in her heart aches — distant, faint, an echo lingering someplace afar."
— something borrowed, something blue
i really just like the way this one flows. i don't usually praise my own descriptions cause i'm more introspective than descriptive, but i think i did good here. i esp love "touches starlight and shadow and the secrets of the universe" i still keep thinking about that nonstop months later
the other one is a full-on section but i NEED to share the entire thing because the build-up does it justice
— glaciers melting in the dead of night (chapter 5)
the thing about glaciers. the THING about glaciers. is that i'm not very impacted by my own writing. at most i feel a sense of sadistic glee like "wrow everyone is gonna scream at me for this >:]" but. But. this section, and the very last paragraph there, is perhaps the only time in writing the infamous 55k downwards spiral of a chapter where i actually felt like i went too far. where i actually thought "ohhh my fucking god there's no coming back now. oh Fuck."
and i think to impact myself that much lands this as one of my favourite passages this year <3
