9. what, if anything, do you do for inspiration?
music! i listen to soooo much music in prep and during the writing process. i generally always pull fic titles from songs, so that helps ground it, but more than that - when i reach the end of a fic i actually find The One Song that is the fic and i put it on repeat and that’s what i bang out the last thousands of words to.
other than that, historically - i’ve used moodboards, chatficcing, plot lines, movies and other lit/fic. i really love looking at art/theoretical choncepts, that’s what my 8 tag on starmotions is about.
in all of these, the most important thing to my process, i suppose, is not refraining from exploring things. i rarely cut anything and i don’t put up no-go blocks on anything. which tends to lead to things like an emotive ship or hot air balloon towns.
18. were there any works you read that affected you so much that it influenced your writing style? what were they?
god. what a question. i feel like, of the top of my head -
conceptually: catch a falling star, babylon, lions and tigers, i see fire, an unnamed massive naruto sci-fi series i shall not reveal lmfao
stylistically: clare, gyzym, mverse that was never meant to be (esp the couch 1,2,3), starlingthefool, steinway verse, this lonely house, W.I.P.E.
24. have you ever become an expert on something you previously knew nothing about, in order to better a scene or a story?
tbqh! solarpunk. i’ve done a ton of looking into it over the course of various stories tho i did have interest in it before. locations - i will always try and put the most real, on-the-ground detail possible so i’m always looking at maps or images of places.
i feel like i tend to go in spirals on very specific things bc my general world building is very vast but mostly imagination based. so i will look up the history of american lipstick or designer clothing collections etc, but not like Became an Expert on Classical Compositions for a fic levels yunno.