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Tell us about your current project(s) – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?
Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project
What is that one scene that you’ve always wanted to write but can’t be arsed to write all of the set-up and context it would need? (consider this permission to write it and/or share it anyway)
Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)
What character that you’re writing do you most identify with?
What character do you have the most fun writing?
What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?
Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?
Are you more of a drabble or a longfic kind of writer? Pantser or plotter? Do you wish you were the other?
How would you describe your writing process?
What do you envy in other writers?
Do you want your writing to be famous?
Do you share your writing online? (Drop a link!) Do you have projects you’ve kept just for yourself?
At what point in writing do you come up with a title?
Which is harder: titles or summaries (or tags)?
Tried anything new with your writing lately? (style, POV, genre, fandom?)
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?
Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.
Is there something you always find yourself repeating in your writing? (favourite verb, something you describe ‘too often’, trope you can’t get enough of?)
Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)
What other medium do you think your story would work well as? (film, webcomic, animated series?)
Do you reread your old works? How do you feel about them?
What’s the story idea you’ve had in your head for the longest?
Would you say your writing has changed over time?
What part of writing is the most fun?

Crossposted from Tumblr, via

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Hi! I'm curious about these questions: 1, 15, and 25? :)

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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