💖 What’s a trope you love and will never get tired of?
🌟 Where do you get inspiration for your writing?
💖 What’s a trope you love and will never get tired of? (also asked by @kindrewind)
in terms of popular fic tropes or what-have-you, i live for missing scene/fix-it stuff. i love to rework a thing from every possible angle. that is my #1 favorite thing about writing any canon. and i am not immune to mutual pining or hurt/comfort (though, ideally, it is often more like Hurt/Catharsis for me).
ALSO, i love basically any au that is extremely well-characterized, which is useful for rp --- like, that's all i care about. i track lana's tag on ao3 (instead of any pairings) and i will read anything that actually sounds like her to me. i find it gratifying to put characters into wildly different circumstances, because i love getting to decide what their universal truths are. what always stays the same? what's specific to their environment and their particular version of history? i'm not a super plot-focused guy, so most specific narrative tropes are kind of whatever to me: i'm much more interested in what you're able to make sense for the character(s).
🌟 Where do you get inspiration for your writing?
i read quite a bit (usually around 200 books a year). i am verrrrrry interested in people, so in addition to the fiction i go for, i read a lot of memoirs. i don't tend to care much who or what they're about (though i am definitely always on the lookout for things that sound in any way relevant to The Characters™ --- that goes for nonfiction in general! i love homework!). i like to read Writers on Writing, too: even if it's somebody whose work is not really up my alley, i think it's interesting to hear about people's processes and habits. pretty often, i'll end up looking at something in a new way, or stumbling onto an easy fix for a problem i didn't know i had, and that's exciting.
thanks, @grawl1x!












