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[animalids]

Mexican mole lizard (Bipes biporus)

Photo by Michael Cravens

[animalids]

Mexican mole lizard (Bipes biporus)

Photo by Marisa Ishimatsu

[erisenyo]

For the ask game: 7, 18, 19,and 74?

7. How do you choose which POV to write from?

Usually the person who knows the least in a given scene, or whoever is learning something in a scene, having a realization, processing something. That's where the narrative interest in a scene sits, as I think about it.

The only exception would be if I'm playing around with the narrative tension in terms of some dynamic or piece of information the audience knows but someone in the scene doesn't--so external POV stuff, or when I write S1 Zuko its often fun to write from the POV having a lot of incorrect assumptions about his past or motivations (thinking that he's a spoiled daddy's boy, for example) and then to use that to build conflict or tension or moments where the reader can see all the ways a comment or action is landing wildly wrong.

18. Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with titles?

Almost always after, its usually my white whale at the end of the editing process haha. Sometimes I have a line that I want to use as a title, sometimes its riffing on a theme and looking for poems or lyrics that inspire some imagery or phrasing I can riff into a title. Usually I end up with like 3-6 options and put it to a vote (aka, asking for help from the collective haha)

19. What is the most-used tag on your ao3?

Already answered here!

74. You’ve posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you’d written it?

...probably the prevalence of cross-talk style dialogue and the number of moments where the surrounding narration--

"cuts to some moment"

--and then back into the framing narration. And the competency kink. Lots of competency kink in what I write...I also have a list of words I use for given character POVs/action descriptions, but I don't know if anyone except me pays attention to that to notice it haha

For the Get To Know Your Fic Writer ask game!

[immoren]