8, 12, and 28 for the fanfic writer ask!
8. Tell us your shortest and longest titles of all time.
Shortest: Rage (also a drabble, so it’s one of my shortest fics as well)
Longest: something in the way you move (makes me feel like I can’t live without you)
(but a very close second is in a way that can make you change (fall in love again and again) )
12. Do you write in order, jump around the draft, or a mix? Something else?
Definitely a bit of a mix. I think lately I’ve tended to jump around a lot more than I used to, which is both good and bad for me. Assuming I have a solid idea for the fic, I usually start from the beginning, but then sometimes I struggle to write so skip to a later scene and then go back. Sometimes writing what I think is the first scene makes me realize that I actually don’t want to start it that way at all, and maybe something I got to like 5 paragraphs in gives me the idea for the “real” beginning. Sometimes I have a solid idea of a particular scene I want to write, and I’m having trouble figuring out how to lead up to that scene but I know it’s not the first scene, so I write that scene first, then figure out a lead up to it, then sometimes change up the pivotal scene based on the backstory or the lead up I wrote later. And then there are things where I have a very clear picture of where it ends up, and I have a sense of some of the other stuff, but I spend a lot of [scene where this happens] placeholding kind of stuff that I then have to go back and write.
28. You’re out and about, nowhere near your home, when a fantastic story idea pops into your head! What do you do?
I get a lot of my story ideas when I am nowhere near my home, because being out and about makes you have experiences or see things or have interactions that give you new ideas. Generally, as long as I’m not driving (I do get lots of story ideas while driving, because I listen to music and think about things while driving a fair amount), I would likely pull out my phone and make a note in my notes app about the story idea. Sometimes I trust that if the story idea is good, it will come back to me if I forget it — I often have way more story ideas than I know what to do with. But if I thought it was a fantastic idea for a story I would likely write it down and come back to it later on.
