🎃trick or treat? any JV thoughts and headcanons, perhaps?
hiii and thanks!! and thank you for being the load-bearing JC blogger like. honestly i applaud your dedication. real recognises real, etc etc. and thank you for being one of my go-to hater mutuals we mutually hate sooo much stuff we have so much hate in common asdffgjkklh
so. about JV... what can i say about my good friend JV other than he's an enigma. he's an icon, he's a legend and he is the moment! i think he's lowkey the most blorboesque of all current TPs. he just has the vibe??
i know it can be easily said about ANY team principal but this guys LOVES racing... he's just so passionate about his team and everything he does. AND *taps url* not to digress, but of course he's my guy! he's always been a part of something big and great and now he's building something big and great at Williams.. hashtag Williams' Glorious Comeback Is Real.
ANYWAY. have this picture of JV i found on pinterest yesterday!
hi! have you (or any of your book-loving followers) read anything by Elif Shafak? i keep seeing her books everywhere (the covers are very pretty...), but somehow, i don't know anyone who's read anything by her... any insights?
The covers ARE super pretty! I've never read anything by her, and none of her books are on my tbr somehow, but I'm going to post this and hope someone has insight <3
↻ pick a fic and a different ship and I’ll tell you how I’d rewrite it for: The Worst Alpha and carcar:)
✄ what’s your editing process? (i loooove hearing about people's writing and editing processes)
✦ what was your easiest fic to write & your hardest?
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Hiiii, thank you for the ask 💕
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✄ what’s your editing process?
Interesting question! I'm gonna answer with my writing process a bit, because both are intertwined (and you said you love hearing about writing process, too 🫣)
So for short fics (under 2k I would say), I mostly write the whole thing in one or 2 sittings, with no plan, just an idea in my head. And when it's done I edit multiple times. A first reread to adjust some details here and there, make a few sentences flow better. And then I do a spelling check, with 2 different softwares because English is not my first language so I want to get it covered.
For longer fics, I plan the whole story, I plan the chapters, I plan the scenes. Then I write scene by scene, usually in order. For each scene, I first write it very badly. I write the scene, fast and bad, not caring about beautiful sentences. The idea is just to put words on the page and to block the scene (like in movies). When this part is done, I go back and I edit a first time, going over all this poorly written scene to write beautiful sentences (or as beautiful as I can do), to make it readable, basically.
Then, since it's a long fic and that some ideas might have pop up in the middle of nothing, I do one or 2 full reread, to adjust everything, make sure everything is coherent, make sure the character doesn't realise he is in love 3 times in 3 different chapters, go back to foreshadow an idea that popped in a later chapter, things like that.
And then I can do a spell check on each chapter and that's it! ✨
✦ what was your easiest fic to write & your hardest?
Easiest: Corset ~ The words just flew out of me, and it greatly helped that @moossings worked on their drawing at the same time as I wrote, so I just had to put their sketches into words and that was so much fun.
Hardest: Steal your art (and your heart) ~ The first chapters were so much fun and so easy to write, I wasn't prepared for the enormous block that fell on me halfway through it. Writing the last chapters was so so hard, for no particular reason. I was lucky I had my dear @drspleenmeister writing with me 🫶
↻ pick a fic and a different ship and I’ll tell you how I’d rewrite it for: The Worst Alpha and carcar:)
Oooooooh, that's an interesting one. The Worst Alpha is omagaverse charlos, with alpha Charles experiencing omega Carlos' heat for the first time and having a whole crisis about if he is or not a good alpha. And truly, I think Oscar would fit that role pretty well too.
Oscar is an Alpha who grew with omega sisters. He knows what it is to be an omega. In theory. But he's never been with an omega. So it's all pretty new. And also, he has this massive crush on Carlos, because damn, have you seen that man?? Oscar was doomed from the start. But he's trying to act like a good alpha and not get overbearing with the omega he fancies, so he stays mostly away.
Then Lando shenanigans, probably. Maybe Lando does it on purpose or maybe not, but it makes Carlos and Oscar meet. Maybe, Carlos is in heat, and he usually goes to omega Lando for comfort during his heat but Lando isn't answering. And when Carlos goes to Lando's room, he finds Oscar there because Oscar is waiting for Lando to return too (maybe Lando asked him over and then forgot, or something like that).
It hits Oscar. The smell. Powerful. And so so sweet. Mouthwatering. Oscar is losing his fucking mind.
"Oh sorry, I thought this was Lando's room."
"You're in heat."
"Pff, this guy," Carlos huffs. "I know, that's why I'm looking for Lando."
"He's not here," Oscar answers unhelpfully, but his brain is completely fried. There's Carlos in the room with him. Carlos in heat. Oscar is gonna die.
"Well, tell him to call me if you see him."
Carlos starts to leave but Oscar stops him.
"Do you need help? With your heat? Until Lando comes back," Oscar offers.
"Sure." Carlos has never been with an Alpha before but this one smells pretty nice and also, he is tired of waiting for Lando, so why not? He's not afraid of a little Alpha rookie.
So they spend a little time together, in Lando's room. It's awkward as fuck. Carlos borrows a hoodie from Lando and sits on the couch, to play some game. Oscar stays with him and offers to help, getting him heat supplies that he steals from Lando (he doesn't care). He doesn't really know what to do, how to feel. It's never been like that in his family. Oscar is a pretty decent Alpha, but he never had to fight the urge to bend this Omega in half and fuck him senseless. But yeah, that's what's happening now. He is losing his mind.
He keeps his wit enough to half ass taking care of Carlos until Lando comes back and saves them from the awkwardness. Except after that Oscar can't stop thinking about it, can't stop thinking about Carlos. If he had a crush before, this gets to another level entirely because now, he knows what Carlos in heat smells like and it's too much for him. Too much to stay away. So he tries to get close, to court him very awkwardly (and never saying officially it is courting). And maybe in his quest to get closer to Carlos, he also crashes with him on track a little too much (oops 🤭).
They're not exactly becoming friends but they're getting closer. And Carlos isn't entirely immune to this awkward Alpha who's courting him, without courting him. It's cute. And he likes him more and more.
So his next heat, he doesn't go to Lando, he goes to see Oscar (Oscar once again losing his fucking mind as he refrains all instincts to fuck/mate/breed with the beautiful Omega). And again and again. They spend more time together, spending heats together. But nothing happens. They just cuddle a little, play games. They talk too, getting to know each other.
Until Carlos says he would like to try spending his heat having sex, because it can be fun and a very good time (Oscar definitely loses his mind at that). They almost kiss already, just talking about it, grinding against each other (Oscar is losing his mind, definitely). They agree to have sex next heat.
Next heat comes. Oscar is beyond excited, he cannot wait to be with Carlos again. But he sees Carlos with another Alpha (Charles, or Max, maybe). And the two are not flirting exactly, but they are not keeping their distance either. And with Carlos being in pre-heat, this could really be courting.
Oscar is devastated. He thought he was a good Alpha, but apparently he's the worst because Carlos is choosing someone else, and why wouldn't he choose someone else. So Oscar spirals out of him mind, while Carlos' heat hits and it's way stronger than before and without Oscar there to help him, Carlos is losing his mind too but for a whole other reason.
So a little bit of misunderstanding, and an intervention from Lando before they finally get together and it's all better, it's all okay. And their first time is awkward as fuck but so hot and Oscar is the worst Alpha but he doesn't care because apparently, Carlos loves it (him).
hi!! 5, 20, 21 and 28 for the book asks!! (it's such a fun list, isn't it!)
(such a fun list, i agree!)
5: Which book did you last re-read?
(already answered once, but i am nothing if not a repeat offender so!) The (second to last) book I re-read is The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley, and if you could believe it, I re-read it because I was planning on reading the sequel and I couldn't remember whatever happened in this one... (This is usually the reason for why I re-read books lol).
20: Best summer read?
Already answered as well, but basically anything by Emily Henry and other similar romance authors. I'm outside in the sun, I need something light and breezy to read.
21: Best winter read?
BIG FAT books for winter though! Maybe something like Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor, weird fantasy, a forgotten city, strange dreams (it's actually been quite a while, maybe it's time for a re-read... oh no), or A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (vampires, witches, old magic books and murdered parents, what can go wrong?)
28: How many books have you read so far this year?
So far, I've read 30 books (my goal is 45). I wish goodreads allowed you to set number of pages as a reading goal, because I read a lot of fat books... (picture of all the books I've read below the cut 👀)
hi!! 18 and 19 for the fic writer ask game, if you want?
fic asks 🌟
hello hello!!!!
18. how many WIPs do you have and how many do you expect to finish?
hahahahahahahaha . ha . ha. well. just went into my f1 folder in my drive and there's... well there's at least 100 individual docs/folders for aus :') fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your perspective, i love to start a thing. if i have an idea i'll write it even if i have no intention of finishing it. on that note, re: the finishing...... maybe like 10-20% of that will ever get finished i imagine???
19. how do you get over writer's block?
the simplest answer is like. i let it pass as much as possible? like in the last week or so it's been the type of Bad Block where opening a doc makes me feel like physically ill, and i haven't had all that much time/energy to read other things or watch movies or play games, so it's pretty backed up. typically though that's the move; reading physical books gets my brain stirred up pretty reliably, or trying to write something for a different fandom can help things come unstuck, or even asking for prompts from friends/followers/etc! sometimes my own brain is full of rats and one must bring in the exterminator (the power of friendship, or whatever)
hiiiiiiiii💙💙 i have a couple of questions for you from the fic writer ask game, in no particular order:
Share a snippet from a wip without giving any context for it.
Can you accurately predict how long your fics are going to be? If you can, what's your secret?
Any writing advice that works for you and you feel like sharing?
What was the most difficult fic for you to write (but in the end you made it)?
hello ☺️💛 thank you AND CONGRATS ON THE OMEGAVERSE FEST!!! everything looks amazing and you've done such a great job 🫡 anyway. the questions‼️
28. Any writing advice that works for you and you feel like sharing? — i have a couple of general rules sort of!!! i think these are pretty much self explanatory and quite intuitive, but still are worth sharing lol
1. you have to have something going on That's Not Writing - that's very simple you have to have something to take your mind off of writing! you can do crafts, read, cook, watch TV shows, anything that's not writing. that helps a little with writer's block and soothes the general frustration about writing.
2. DON'T FORGET, IT'S ALL FOR FUN!!! - another useful thing!! whenever you feel like writing seems more like a daunting TASK rather than a fun creative hobby... maybe it's time to take a step back and do something else for a minute.
3. QUALITY OVER QUANTITY - it might seem like word count is everything but it's not. delete that page that feels off (i mean, copy it into another doc just in case you might need it later), it's fine!! there's pleny of words to fill the gap and those words will be better and will fit your story in a way that feels Right.
4. it's okay to not finish stuff - if your WIP is stuck and you feel like you're not going anywhere it's FINE to let it either marinate for a couple of weeks OR let it go completely. it's kind of a "if it means to be it will be" situation.
AND 5. appetite comes with eating - SOMETIMES THOUGH!!! when you don't feel like writing what you Actually need to do is to start writing. I KNOOWWW this is annoying and fucked up, but TRUST ME. you just need to put 10 or less sentenses down just to try it out, just to feel the waters. even if it works 4 times out of 10 it's still better than 0 times out of 10 y'know. just write down the idea or scene. BASICALLY... just write a little something and see where it goes!!!
OVERALL... nothing groundbreaking, if you look too closely it all can be boiled down to "IF IT SUCKS HIT DA BRICKS" and "Sometimes Good Stuff Requires A Bit Of Work", but it is what it is!!!
31. What was the most difficult fic for you to write (but in the end you made it)? — OUUGGHHHHHH... well it used to be my angsty shovson (their own ways) like i honestly have no idea what was wrong with me lmao but i don't even reread it because it's too sad and im not that person anymore!!! SO NOW IT'S my côte d'azur & Kylie Minogue oscmark!!! it was fun to write but it took a minute and it was difficult in a sense that it's the biggest fic i've ever written (in english) and it's honestly quite in achievement.
21. Can you accurately predict how long your fics are going to be? If you can, what's your secret? — i can't predict it, BUT!! oftentimes if i make a word count estimate of a simple plotless sucking and fucking fic it turns out to be twice as long lmao i'd be like "okay this is just 2k words max literally there's nothing to write about" and then i write. and i'm 2k words in and there's still not sucking and no fucking. and the fic turns out to be almost 5k words. yeah that's why i don't think about word counts. (and it also goes both ways because sometimes im like "ohhh i got pleny of words!! oh no wait why is this fic 1.5k words and im done????".. it is what it is)
19. Share a snippet from a wip without giving any context for it. — i dont have any active WIPs going on😭 like yeah i do have a bunch of semi-abandoned shovson WIPs but like. i feel like i've shared the most of them + i'm scared to look at them because... what if they are Not Good. anyway. sorry. no current WIPs and most of my recent fics were written in one or two sittings and they don't exceed 2k words so. there's not enough time or words to be like "omg here's my WIP"
writing asks if you are interested (DO NOT SEND ME ANY I HAVE ENOUGH THANKS!!!)
