tagged by @maychorian (sorry this took a while)
Where do you publish your work?
I’ve been using Fanfiction.net for as long as I’ve been on the internet (it was my gateway to tumblr actually.) More recently I’ve also started posting on AO3.
My user/pen name at both these sites is now sagelynaive
What medium/application/etc. do you write in or with?
A lot of the time I’ll write it out in a notebook or something first, then type it up. I do pretty much all the typing in a knock off of Microsoft Word called Kingsoft Writer. A lot of the time I’ll transfer stuff to Google Drive to share with friends or my writing club as a second set of eyes before I publish.
Do you collaborate with others?
With my own projects, generally no, but my writing club and I write collaboratively on short stories and projects and things on a regular basis.
How much editing do you do before you publish?
It depends. Mostly I’ll look over my handwritten draft and change some stuff, and then change more stuff on the fly when I type it up. And then I agonizingly read it over a bunch of times and change the way I said a certain sentence a few dozen times. And then sometimes send it to other peeps for peer review.
Do you listen to music when you write?
Yep. I listen to music whenever I do anything requiring any type of brainwork, because I have 5 younger siblings who spend 87% of their time talking over each other, and the door of my room isn’t enough to keep all that out. I need music to mask the din so I don’t go insane, or worse fail 12th grade.
How do you decide what to write about?
I just write whatever I get an idea for and run with it?
Whenever I think about it and am feeling motivated and have time to.
Not half as often as I should. It used to be that I would write something or other everyday, but it’s been so much harder to get time as high school got more busy. Plus I spent a lot of time over the past few months doing more drawing than writing. I don’t really know why, but it was weird. I’ve started writing more often again this month though, which has been incredibly nice.
Do you take requests? why/why not?
Theoretically yes, but a lot of the time I have trouble finishing prompts other people give me and feel really bad about it, so it’s really seldom that I actually get grabbed enough by a prompt to finish something. I’m really guilty about that tbh, it’s something i’m working on.
Is there any genre or type of story you want to write but are hesitant to?
Not that I can think of atm.
Any inspirational quotes, videos, tricks, articles, etc. that help you stay motivated?
No :/ I should probably find something like that tbh, I’m horrible at staying motivated.
Go to page 7 of your WIP, skip to the 7th line, and share 7 sentences.
Ok so my current WIP is a short Steven Universe fic that doesn’t have 7 pages, so I’ll just go to the 7th paragraph
Steven looked down a little, apprehensive and unsure of himself.
What if I can’t do it? He wondered, biting his lip, It’s never worked before. So much was riding on this small chance. Then he breathed deeply and pulled a smile on. Nothing ventured nothing gained. This was a chance.
Tag more writers to continue the challenge:
@grungekitty-77 (you don’t have to do this if you dont want to but you
re one of the few people who I know for certain writes so I tagged u), @htgr8, @anyone else who considers themself a writer! :D