1) Tell us about your current project(s) – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?
I have two projects I am very excited about!
A Most Edible Thistle is a 20k word Josie/Vivienne (Dragon Age) fic that covers weird food history, assassins, and the delicate process of falling in love. I’ve been working on and off on it since April, and it’s in its second draft. I’m just waiting for Black Emporium to wrap up before sending it to a beta. :)
I also have a Borderlands fic! The working title is never gonna say I’m sorry but I fully admit it’s a working title only and I may change it before it’s done! It’s an Amara/Tyreen fic where Tyreen’s brother betrays her, and Tyreen’s captured by the Crimson Raiders. She’s an angry gremlin and absolutely not ready to join the good guys, but ends up falling in love with Amara and having big feelings all over the place. It’s fun because Borderlands is such a goofy canon to play with, and I like writing Tyreen as messy and terrible.
15) Which is harder: titles or summaries (or tags)?
Titles! I can give a quick summary (or just post an opening paragraph or something) in the summary section, but a pithy title? Man, get me back to the drawing board.
Also, tags are easier because usually I just list out the tropes and kinks as I reread my own fic. :’)
(Also, fully admit that this answer is cross-posted from Tumblr!)
25) What part of writing is the most fun?
Everything is fun until I have to actually write!!!!
Jokes aside, I love when I first get the inspiration and start shuffling ideas into order to make a loose outline. If I’m lucky enough to have time, energy, and inspiration all strike at the same time, those are really good flow days. I can write a bunch of words and it feels easy, effortless.
Unfortunately, most days aren’t like that for me. But there’s a different kind of satisfaction in when I’ve started stitching things together and it’s recognizable as a story. Maybe not the exact story I had in mind with the dramatic whooshes and musical accompaniment or whatever, but I can start to recognize it as something Not Terrible and that I would love to read, if I hadn’t written it myself.
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Date: 2020-09-07 11:24 pm (UTC)I have two projects I am very excited about!
A Most Edible Thistle is a 20k word Josie/Vivienne (Dragon Age) fic that covers weird food history, assassins, and the delicate process of falling in love. I’ve been working on and off on it since April, and it’s in its second draft. I’m just waiting for Black Emporium to wrap up before sending it to a beta. :)
I also have a Borderlands fic! The working title is never gonna say I’m sorry but I fully admit it’s a working title only and I may change it before it’s done! It’s an Amara/Tyreen fic where Tyreen’s brother betrays her, and Tyreen’s captured by the Crimson Raiders. She’s an angry gremlin and absolutely not ready to join the good guys, but ends up falling in love with Amara and having big feelings all over the place. It’s fun because Borderlands is such a goofy canon to play with, and I like writing Tyreen as messy and terrible.
15) Which is harder: titles or summaries (or tags)?
Titles! I can give a quick summary (or just post an opening paragraph or something) in the summary section, but a pithy title? Man, get me back to the drawing board.
Also, tags are easier because usually I just list out the tropes and kinks as I reread my own fic. :’)
(Also, fully admit that this answer is cross-posted from Tumblr!)
25) What part of writing is the most fun?
Everything is fun until I have to actually write!!!!
Jokes aside, I love when I first get the inspiration and start shuffling ideas into order to make a loose outline. If I’m lucky enough to have time, energy, and inspiration all strike at the same time, those are really good flow days. I can write a bunch of words and it feels easy, effortless.
Unfortunately, most days aren’t like that for me. But there’s a different kind of satisfaction in when I’ve started stitching things together and it’s recognizable as a story. Maybe not the exact story I had in mind with the dramatic whooshes and musical accompaniment or whatever, but I can start to recognize it as something Not Terrible and that I would love to read, if I hadn’t written it myself.