Oh I am desperately curious about a few of these fanfic asks so here you go:
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Apologies for so many but I am so very interested
📚 What grammar mistakes do you always make?
Hoooo boy! 😂 So, aside from the typos we all make (that I usually spot at some point and correct), I have a bad history with dialogue. Not the actual dialogue itself - hopefully that's okayish - but dialogue tags, knowing whether or not to use commas or full stops, and whether any prose can come between the same character speaking in one paragraph... or whether the speech will need to be a new paragraph, even though it's the same speaker? I think I've recently got a better handle on it, so that's one of the things I'm going to correct in ABC. I've also recently been wrestling with the Oxford comma, which I never used to use, but now feel I use about 50% of the time. 😂 So I need to start using it properly.
Oh. And adverbs. My sworn enemy. I will be slaying many adverbs in ABC. I knew they weren't great and the amount made my writing sound mehhh when I read it, but Stephen King explained it best in his memoir/writing guide: basically, he says, unconfident writers often use adverbs because they don't think what they've written is enough to get across to the reader the way in which the character does something. What writers should do is trust their writing, and that the reader's subconscious will infer the tone. Adverbs are like spoonfeeding the reader when really you can let them eat by themselves.
💕 What is the WIP that you are most excited about?
Hehehe. You probably know about more of my WIPs than most people. 😂 This is a tricky question! My favourite WIP changes depending on my mood. At the moment... it's probably something called B'Stardly Principles. Shockingly, this involves Alan... and it also involves Rick. Oh dear.
🗑️ What is one fic idea that you loved at first but then scrapped?
In 2019 I had a crack fic idea to parody The Little Mermaid with Rivyan and set it in Blackpool. I even developed a whole mermaid lore. However... it's probably not gonna happen. 😂 It's at the very bottom of the priority list. There are a few other WIPs (maybe 4) I mentioned on Tumblr some months ago in an ask game that I'm also feeling kinda meh about these days, but I think I will write them at some point. Just might be a while.
👀 Do you have any words/phrases you use habitually?
The thing is, if I was writing or reading back what I've written right now then I could tell you. 😂 The only one I can think of now is: "Character knew they *insert thing they know*, but then, *question*?" I don't know if that makes sense, but there you go. 😂
🙅 What is one trope you refuse to ever write?
Hmm. I don't think I'd ever use that trope where a writer makes Character A out to be irredeemably horrible just so they can pair up Character B and Character C. I believe TV Tropes calls it Ron the Death Eater - character bashing, basically. I can't really see that being an issue with the fandoms I write for now, because they're all bastards anyway, but I think it's a kinda tired and petty shipping war mentality. That said, when parodied? Fucking hilarious. 😂
(And just to clarify, I'm not saying writers starting with one ship, breaking them up, and ending with a different ship is bad or anything. It's the leftover person from the first ship being unnecessarily demonised to the point where they're severely OOC and it's obvious the writer just doesn't like them that I find tiring. Haven't seen that in this fandom, thankfully.)
