Fic Writer Interview ♡
tagged by my sweetest aiboo @pinknephthea thank you aiboo ♡ !!!
tagging: anyone who wants to do this~
01. How many works do you have on AO3? 7 bc i orphaned some aha
02. What's your total AO3 word count? 46,056
03. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? 1: Kingpins (Yooseven) ; 2: Of(f) Balance (Goufubu) ; 3: and i'll see you again (again and again) (Bokuroo) ; 4: third base, fourth base (Bokuroo) ; 5: having seconds (Bokuroo)
04. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? i do! eventually... every single comment has its own place in my heart and they really do wonders for motivation to keep crafting. regardless of length of comment i really do appreciate it all, they're like buoys and anchors for me <3 (literally they save me sometimes and prevent me from mass deleting my works)
05. What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending? there was exactly one (1) time where i wrote character death, but it was suuuper long ago, and was for a friend (we both crode). also it was a crossover fic lollllmao
06. What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending? i think all my fics right now have super happy endings but i suppose the proposal one? excluding threadfics of course... so that would be having seconds (Bokuroo)
07. Do you write crossovers? again, i was crazy when i was a teenager i think... i was pretty into usagi / ritsu (junjou / sekaiichi crossover) and wrote the fluffiest fic ever for them they were married and everything iirc. and then shinobu / ritsu (junjou / sekaiichi crossover again) and that was the birth of the chara death fic just bc i happened to rp that cries
08. Have you ever received hate on a fic? noooope and i hope i never do or i will cry!!
09. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? all things considering, smut writing is a recent development for me but i defo get all up in that business lol! i think my smut tends to get emotional and romantic even when i want it to be dirty as fuck so... also in terms of length they always explode out of control... i want to actually try writing a filthy piece next though without all the excess descriptions and too much feeling i just want FUCKING (can i say this publicly omg)
10. Have you ever had a fic stolen? please, no.
11. Have you ever had a fic translated? no, i don't believe.
12. Have you ever co-written a fic before? i was supposed to with my dearest twinenie !! we had a good setting going and everything.... hmm....
13. What's your all time favorite ship? BOKUROO. i have a shrine in my room and i think that says enough about my insanity... (lots of other ships still in my heart tho)
14. What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will? i had this SUPER FANTASTIC IDEA for sherasou / homuaso from dgs / the great ace attorney and it was going sooo good until google docs (this was like 2 years ago) decided to fucking delete everything i wrote. so. that fic will probably never happen. it was so good too. goddamn. (also probably sylvmitri / dimivain... that i have a whole hanahaki au draft of certain scenes in this blog's drafts rn... every time i read them i'm like hell yeaaaa but i don't think i can ever write the complete fic D:)
15. What are your writing strengths? i'm still figuring that out most days bc my style just keeps changing but i suppose i am a very 'feelings' type of writer which... could be a good thing...? occasionally when i'm feeling extra emotional my own work can choke me up so....... i also detail the super mundane stuff quite intensely which i guess might not be bad either especially for slice of life (?) when i want to focus on everyday life (?)
16. What are your writing weaknesses? i always end up detailing too much and i still struggle a lot with style. i've been trying to write the way most authors do instead of how i used to write (very very very instropection-y instead of having dialogue / action) but most days i still hate how i write and it's something i'll probably work on forever. i also think for way too long about every single sentence / behaviour that my characters exhibit (i.e. whether it fits their personality at all) like fuuuuuck this is why i write so slow. a more specific one would probably be tenses? i love writing in present tense but it fucks me up sometimes with all the "had" "had had" lmfaooo
17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogues in other languages in a fic? i really like the cliché trope of someone confessing in a language the other person doesn't know but eventually searches up the meaning of and all that but i don't have the confidence to write dialogue in other languages besides english... all the kudos to the bi/multilingual authors that do that though!! big respect and enjoyment!!
18. What was the first fandom you wrote for? inazuma eleven yippieeee!! they will forever have a special place in my heart <3
19. What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to? again, fe3h (sylvimitri) or maybe when i finish run with the wind and if it hits me hard enough i might want to... i have this nasty habit of writing for fandoms that are already half-dead though lmaooo i always join too late ToT (hq the only exception; though i still joined late considering it's been here since like 2014...)
20. What's your favorite fic you've written? ah this is hard bc i'm really hard on myself and usually get the urge to delete my fics again and again across time... but maybe right now it would be and i'll see you again (again and again) (Bokuroo) i really poured my blood sweat and tears into that fic, just a lot of personal investment in it :')