minaaaa~ please tell me about 2, 4 & 10!! 👀🥺🥰
Ahhh Evie~ thank you so much! 🥺 These were fun to answer, and have made me want to get back out of this writing rut I've been in. Sending you all the warm vibes and bear hugs. 🥰💜
2) Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project
Ahh, this question. I don't have anything I'm really actively working on.. After finishing my most recent fic, I kind of ran out of steam and didn't know what to do with myself!
But there's a fic idea that's been in my brain for years (it's actually a fic I started writing years ago and then abandoned).. it's an idea for a OT7 fic..👀 It's something I dream about all the time but just don't have the confidence to pull off at this point.. But I would like to at least try some day! Other than that, I'm just hoping to get back into the habit of writing again because I really don't want to lose it again after finally rediscovering it.
4) Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)
Ooo, this one is interesting but also so hard for be because I'm still quite unconfident in my writing.. but I would have to say overall the entirety of "being together" makes me really proud because it was the first time I wrote anything after years of struggling to write anything after a traumatic experience, and it pretty much just wrote itself and I actually still quite like it. And also there are a lot of parts from "take me home" that I really like because I really pushed myself with that fic and really tried to break out of myself with it. I can also just really relate to a lot of what was going on in the reader's head. I think if I had to choose one paragraph it would be this:
"He had been reeling from a break up that had ripped open his heart, and I was just the new friend who wanted to help. I remember how hard I tried to take his mind off things when it got too much. I remember how many hours I spent listening to him lay out all the insecurities and fears that she had left him with. I remember how hard I tried to convince him of just how amazing, how strong, how kind, how worthy he was, all while falling in love with him myself."
I don't know why, but I just like the way it sounds, especially the last sentence.
10) How would you describe your writing process?
An absolute mess. There is no plan. There is no order. Half the time there isn't even a general idea. I literally just sit down with my notebook (yes, I still do most of my writing on paper first.. it's a habit I've had since I started writing fanfiction in middle school) and just write whatever comes to mind. Usually it starts with a scene, and then it kind of flows out from there. Then when I have most of it written, or I start to get stuck, then I start to type it up onto the computer and edit it as I go. Usually the edits are small things like word or grammar changes, and I also add some details here and there to just flesh things out. But I really spend minimal time editing, and most of my writing is really just write and go. What comes out onto the paper is pretty much what gets posted. This is mostly because I’m trying to ease myself back into things, and I know if I overthink things I might lose momentum again.
The only exception would be "take me home". I had the idea for that fic for literal YEARS. It's actually based off of an IU song, but I could never bring myself to write it. I had an overall idea of what I wanted to do, but no idea how to do it. And I struggled a lot with writing it because I really wanted to push myself to really write dialogue and interactions because I have a tendency to just monologue in my writing. It took me a long time, and a lot of edits went into it, but I'm really proud of myself as a result!
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