For the ask game: 2, 8 & 17?
2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project
In my incredibly long-standing WIP (seriously, I penned the first section of it while on a flight home from London in 2010), there's a pivotal scene that I've been driving at for most of the fic. The scene itself is actually already written, but I'm looking forward to hooking it up to the rest of the narrative (and it will no doubt change). It's Carlisle finally confronting his grief over losing Edward and it's full of sensory imagery, literary symbolism, and all the stuff I love to do as a writer. There are also three major plot twists that hit in fast succession and honestly this is why I think I've been stuck on the scene I'm currently writing for like, six months--as soon as I tip this domino, the rest of them go and I have to make good on this plot in my head and that's scary AF.
I suppose I'm not actually looking forward to writing it, but I'm looking forward to it being written!
8. Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?
Yes! In a big way. I read exactly the kinds of things I write. In nonderivative work, I read fiction with deep theming and imagery, mostly standalones. I don't read genre fiction for the most part. In fic, I sink into stories that are about the canon characters, in the canon setting, and usually canon compliant or a very close canon-divergent AU. I don't typically read the "What if Bella was the vampire" or "What if Bella met Edward in college" AUs; I like the ones that spring naturally from some complication in canon.
Sometimes I branch out a little, but that's the wonderful thing about fic and fiction more generally--there's so much of it, you can keep yourself occupied reading only exactly what you like, virtually forever.
17. Do you think readers perceive your work - or you - differently to you? What do you think would surprise your readers about your writing or your motivations?
I think in the renaissance, this is easier and I think more people perceive me more accurately. In the early 2010s Twific heyday, one thing that people misunderstood about my writing is that I am sincere. Looking back with the advantage of time, I can see how a ficcer who is always talking about fanfic as being worthwhile, who talks about things like craft, who had zero interest in the popular fics at the time would seem really pretentious. So a lot of people who didn't take the time to get to know me thought I was a stuck-up bitch, and I don't blame them in the one sense because bless them, they thought I was a normal person! 😂 But actually I am just a REALLY BIG NERD and I especially love to nerd about writing. I really do think these silly sparkly vampires are interesting I don't care who thinks that's dumb or immature. I like that in the renaissance, there are far more people who want to have actual conversations about the source material and that is thankfully less weird than it used to be.
Thank you for the asks!
