1, 4, 5, 12 for the writing ask thing :p
1. Tell us about your WIP!
I have several WIPs, but the ones I most need to work on are He Who Invites chapter 7, and No Rest In Waking chapter 4.
He Who Invites is a For Want Of A Nail AU for Persona 4 where Dojima joins the Investigation Team after seeing Izanagi in the real world. There’s more going on under the surface than just the main plot of finding the killer that I’m still really excited to get to even if I haven’t updated since last year.
To be honest, I never really wanted to take such a long hiatus from it, but it’s just that I wanted to keep the timeline as close to the game as possible since the point of divergence has nothing to do with what happens everywhere else around Inaba, which would require me to look into let’s plays in order to get a refresher on everything that goes down in the story. Which, if you’ve played Persona 4, you’ll know that trawling through its events is a massive undertaking.
No Rest In Waking is a pre-canon fic for Detective Pikachu that deals with something completely unrelated to the plot of the movie: trying to find a house in the city. I would say that the main draw for No Rest In Waking is the worldbuilding since I’m not 100% on my characterization and stuff, but I’m having a lot of fun fleshing out the world of pokemon and the various customs and legalities that would arise from living with superpowered animals. Also I get to make up website names and anime titles and that’s really fun.
While i’d hope that No Rest In Waking is an enjoyable read, so far my main priority is getting it finished rather than getting it to absolute perfection.
4. Do you have any writing habits/rituals?
When I was feeling better—in that my parents weren’t home and i wasn’t as depressed since the main source of my anxieties was gone—I started taking a notebook and heading to the living room to write on the couch for a few hours without looking at my computer screen. If i needed to know what was happening in a particular scene, I’d print out the chapter as it was written so far and take that with me to parse through. The idea was that it’s harder to focus when writing on a screen because there’s so much i can do on my computer, and being able to see everything all at once distracts me from what I’m doing now.
I miss doing that. I want to start doing it again as soon as I can start waking up before 1 pm.
5. Top five formative books?
Uhhhhhhhhhhhh. That is a very good question because I have no earthly idea.
Probably like the Deltora Quest series as a whole? The parts I’ve read of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This series of books I read in middle school because they were about dragons that were kind of hard to get through at times because they were Very Christian and I read them after deciding I was an atheist. A book of school-focused poetry I read as a kid that shaped my entire poetic style. This book for beginning readers about an adorable black cat that I found as a kid in my school library that is literally the entire reason I started wanting to read.
12. Which story of yours do you like best? why?
In terms of individual stories that I’ve written, my favorite is The Bat And The Billionaire, because it’s just a cute, fun little thing about Bruce being a good dad to his sons and having a good-natured laugh about shipping. And I get to make a shitty pun.
In terms of stories as a whole, my favorite would be Everything Stays, since it’s the first multi-part writing project that I ever actually completed, and it holds a special place in my heart for that.
In terms of stories and concepts that I haven’t gotten around to writing yet, it changes based on my current hyperfixation, so my current favorite is Cadmus, which has evolved from being one single story to a big sprawling AU made of many smaller stories that ultimately has three different endings because each of them is valid and I couldn’t bear to just pick one.
