RULES: Copy and paste this into a new text post, fill this out, and then tag 3 authors that you want to know more about!
I was tagged by the lovely @alianne. Tagging @controlofwhatido @alittledizzy and @lovetheblazer if you haven’t done this yet!
Where do you publish your work?
These days, it’s all AO3. I do have some older stuff on LJ (and some older/previous fandom stuff on ff.net and a now-defunct HP site), but I tried to clean everything up when I moved over to AO3 and I prefer people to read there.
What medium/application/etc. do you write in or with?
Scrivener to draft, then I export and use OpenOffice to edit. (It helps me edit when things /look/ different. Sometimes I even print and edit on paper.) Then upload to google docs for betaing.
I also do a lot of random scribbling on scraps of paper or in the backs of notebooks when I’m not at a computer. :)
Do you collaborate with others?
Usually no, but I did recently have a blast doing two collabs with @controlofwhatido! We’ve both been busy, but I know we have other ideas. ;)
How much editing do you do before you publish?
Oh lord. Too much at the beginning, not enough at the end. I edit so much in the early stages of drafting a story that it will often slow down my momentum. I need to figure out how to just keep writing instead of constantly going back to tweak things. Then, at the end, I just want to get done or I’m trying to meet a deadline and probably get too lax.
Yes, but I’ve gone through a lot of iterations of this. I used to like writing with movies playing quietly in the background -- old movies that I knew by heart and have seen 1000 times so I wasn’t paying constant attention, but they set a mood and provided background noise. That got distracting. Then I went through a phase of making playlists for every story, but I found I was getting too caught up in finding the perfect songs and it was keeping me from actually writing as much as I wanted. Now I listen to instrumental music -- either the classical radio station or movie soundtracks.
How do you decide what to write about?
I have no good answer for this. It feels like the ideas pick me.
*quiet muffled laughsobs* never.
But seriously, I write best in the morning, and sadly almost never have the opportunity to write in the morning. So it’s most often at night or on weekend afternoons.
BUT SERIOUSLY, a few times a week. For a while there, every day. I should try for that again, I guess.
Do you take requests? Why/why not?
In theory, yes. If you don’t mind that I might not be inspired by your idea, or I might be inspired by it six months from now, or I might be inspired by it but not be /able/ to write it for six months, or... you get the idea. I’ve written a lot of prompts and ideas given to me by friends, but I’m afraid I can never make any guarantees!
Is there any genre or type of story you want to write but are hesitant to?
Something with really involved world building, like sci fi or fantasy. I have about 15K of a dystopia Klaine fic that I’m never going to finish, and of the things that I’ve actually started, that’s one makes me saddest to leave undone. It’s not exactly sci fi or fantasty, but I did a lot of thinking and planning about that world. Backstory is very, very important to me, even if I’m writing PWP.
Any inspirational quotes, videos, tricks, articles, etc. that help you stay motivated?
I wish I had something to share here. I know I’ve read some really great, inspirational stuff around these parts, but nothing is springing to mind. Maybe the thing about how all a first draft has to do is exist. If anyone has anything that’s successful, please feel free to send it my way!
(I did think of one thing. When I’m working on a large project, I love using Pacemaker: https://pacemaker.press/)
Go to page 7 of your WIP, skip to the 7th line, and share 7 sentences.
My current WIP isn’t 7 pages long yet, heh. So I shared the first 7 sentences starting at the 7th paragraph.
He snorts. “You should learn how to cook and come visit,” he volleys back, crossing the room to pull a bottle of water out of the otherwise-empty fridge.
“Your father would drop dead of shock.” She caps the iced tea and sets it aside. “He’s not back yet?”
“Nope,” Jack says. “He called. They were out of big fans at the hardware store, so he had to go somewhere else.”
Okay, so that’s actually eight sentences. Riveting stuff, huh? :)
