1, 7, 18, 26, 28, 47, 58, 70, 84, 89, 100 :3 <3
do you know how you want the story to end when you start, or are you just stumbling through the figurative wilderness hoping to find a road?
usually i am stumbling through the figurative wilderness looking for a road. there are a few fics/stories i have begun with a specific climax in mind, but almost never an ending. i almost never know how a story is going to end, i am figuring it out as i go along.
7. tell us about the plot of the first fanfic you ever wrote
so uh. i was in second grade. it was for Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. The plot was that Mrs. Frisby and her kids got captured by the NIMH scientists and put them through all kinds of experiments. But then Mrs. Frisby gave birth to a new daughter, and the daughter was SO cool and clever and sharpened a needle into a sword and cut her way through the cage and saved them all. so that's the kind of story i was writing when i was eight.
18. what is your most and least favorite part of writing?
most favorite is... i guess getting inside a character's mindset? i really like figuring out a character's voice or internal monologue, how they talk inside their head to themself as the narrator, how they react to the stuff going on around them.
my least favorite part is figuring out what the fuck comes next.
26. do you like to write one-shots or series, and why?
oh god. both? neither? i prefer to write one-shots (like legit one-shots, not 50k one-shots, in my mind those are basically series but as one fic) because they are easier to complete. i like one-shots because i like being able to say "there it is, it's DONE, i did the thing and it is over!"
but i like series because i almost always come up with ideas that are very intricate with many characters and different viewpoints and various scenes that interest or excite me that require a lot of plot/connective tissue to go together in a way that makes any kind of sense.
in an ideal world, i would make series of connected one-shots. no clue why i've never actually done that.
28. handwritten notes or typed notes?
both? i tend to wind up using typed notes most often for fic because it feels easier, but i actually prefer handwritten notes for the most part.
47. what story are you most proud of?
i was gonna say Smells Like Belonging, but really, i think it's actually All the Memories of All Our Lives, if only because all the memories is fucking FINISHED, ACTUALLY unlike slb.
58. what is the last thing that a fic made you google when you were writing it?
the last thing? "20 miles to km" according to my search history.
since that's a boring answer, the previous one before that was "how far can a human walk in a day"
70. are you very critical of your own writing? how much do you find yourself editing (either during the writing or after the fact)?
god. it depends very much on the specific fic? for shorter fics i usually do a couple passes for grammar/consistency and then post it without thinking too hard. for longer fic, i usually write and re-write sections over and over again, trying to get things to work out exactly how i want them. my cut/deleted/re-written scenes doc for smells like belonging is almost 70k words.
84. answered this one earlier!
89. sarcastic narrators: entertaining or overdone?
EXTREMELY entertaining. love them so much.
100. open question to the writer.
i think you're supposed to like, actually ask a question, es. if your questions is ":3 <3" then of course my answer has to be ">:3c <3"
