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📜 and 🍪 for your longfic!
For the fic writer's ask game (original link here).
📜 Describe your writing style in 3 words or terms.
Slow burn - I never would have thought I'd be this long winded as a writer, but every scene seems to go from from bland to engaging when I flesh it out and let it breathe. I'm really enjoying the journey of letting this relationship develop slowly - especially because post-BOTW Link and Zelda now have the time and space to let their relationship grow naturally.
Domestic Fluff - I swear, half my story is them chatting while cooking and eating together. Most of life happens in mundane moments, but those can be the most important. I think more romance can be had while getting ready for bed together rather than a dramatic rescue from certain death.
Yearning - I suppose this goes hand in hand with slow burn. The way I love to have my characters pining for each other when they're sleeping, always wanting more but holding back. It's such delicious angst, and makes the eventual payoff so rich.
🍪 What's been the most fun part about writing?
Doing read throughs for my husband/beta reader. It's often my motivation to finish a chapter, so I can see his reaction. I used to just have him read it, while I sat and waited. But at some point, I switched to reading it aloud to him, and I LOVE it. These times have become so special to me. I'll practice, and then we'll put time aside for it, like a date. I've gotten to the point that I set out mood lighting and turn on ambient sounds specific to the setting, lol. I'm sure comments are wonderful (I'm looking forward it), but hearing someone next to you laugh at the right parts is a thrill you can't get through a screen.
I'm now seriously thinking of recording a podfic when it's done. I think hearing the author's intended nuance might be the best way to experience a story.
Actual conversation I had with my beta
Me: Ya I write a lot of angst
My beta: *looks me in the eyes* I write sins not tragedies
Me: *chokes on water*
my beta reader needs to stop being so wonderful!!!