I was tagged by the lovely @kitwillan, thanks hon! <3
Tagging (feel free to ignore) @wchwriter @ava-burton-writing @fdicenzo and @possibledreamswriting to answer the same questions
1. What are your favorite genres and/or styles to write in? I’m definitely a fantasy/soft scifi kinda gal. That’s not to say I won’t experiment with other genres, but SFF is my home--I was raised with it and always return to it. I like not feeling constrained by whether my writing is “realistic”.
Style-wise... I’m unflatteringly verbose and, like most pretentious assholes, I enjoy my prose. I’m a character-centric sort of writer, so I (try to) write in first or close third PoV and focus on my characters rather than the action.
2. What was the last writing project you finished and felt successful with? I am... unspeakably terrible about abandoning projects halfway in. The last finished thing I have is this short prose poem thing, and before that I semi-recently wrote a McHanzo drabble for a friend that I felt was okay.
I’ve never actually finished a long WIP. I’ve written a few that have hit six digit word counts, but... never made it all the way to “the end”.
3. If you have a WIP how do you feel it’s going? What stage are you in? My main WIP, Eosophobia, is early in its first draft right now. My first draft stage also includes outlining and worldbuilding at the same time, so there’s... a lot of things going on and I don’t know that it’s actually going well, but I’m enjoying the process!
4. What is your favorite place to write? In bed.
5. Do you prefer to write long hand or type? Or some other method? I prefer typing by far, but I write long hand when I’m stuck and need to push through the plot--my brain works faster than I can write by hand, so it forces me to cut the prose crap and just get the basics on the page.
6. Do you remember your first character? If so can we meet them? YOU DON’T WANT TO. FIRST CHARACTER WHO?
Meet Laurence. Laurence, bless his fucking soul, was a quiet, street-smart, hard-hitting asshole with “cotton-candy blue” hair. Tall, lanky, pale. Yup. He was what I called a “Skocio” (I don’t remember why that was the term), meaning that he was one of the rare souls who couldn’t be judged by the fates and was condemned to be reborn again and again, hunted by both archangels and reapers for his power to jump between the three dimensions of “earth”, heaven, and hell. Laurence ends up joining forces with Parker, a reaper trying to take over hell, and at that point the story devolved into a guilty-pleasure angsty romance and that was that.
7. Where do you get your inspiration? Most of it’s from video games. Eosophobia was inspired by Fallout: New Vegas. Alight in Ashes? Witcher 3. Even God is Entertained? Amnesia: Dark Descent. The Rotted Rose? Sea of Thieves. Infra.Red? Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. I love the atmosphere these games convey--the aesthetics, the soundtracks, the colors, the stories.
It’s not surprising, though, considering that my writing background is in Legend of Zelda fanfiction.
8. Do you outline a story before writing it, or does it all live in your head until the first draft gets put down? Ahhh... both? I sort of skip around and loosely draft the scenes that come to me, and when I’ve exhausted those I have to go back and start outlining so that I can stitch them together into a cohesive story.
9. Where do you go/what do you do when your feeling stuck? I usually just stop what I’m writing when I get stuck and start working on another writing project--that’s why I like having a lot of projects at once. If it’s not a story-problem but a “words won’t work” problem, I step away--read a book, play a game, cry in the shower... whatever I’m in the mood for. Beyond my daily quota of ~450 words, I don’t force myself to write if I can’t, and even those 500 words are allowed to be entirely nonsensical.
10. What got you started writing/doing art? (Because I always love origin stories) I started writing because I was a huge bookworm when I was younger, and I naturally wanted to have one of my own!
3. Have you ever adopted a character or gotten a character from someone else?No, but that sounds like a lovely idea! Like, authors legit giving away their characters for other authors to look after. Damn. How beautiful.
23. Introduce OC that has changed from your first idea concerning what the character would be like?Stefan. When I first started developing him, he was so incredibly different to who he is now, even his appearance has changed.
33. Your shyest OC?From my current wip? Prooobably Stefan. I wouldn’t exactly describe him as ‘shy’, but he’s certainly the most reserved of the four.
