soft asks - 13, 29
13. Hugs or kisses? Hugs.
29. Who is your favorite fictional character? Hmm. Of all time in any media? The Doctor.
writing ask - if you haven't done them already: 21, 29
21. What is your best piece of advice for writing romance scenes? Watch a bunch of your OTPs best, most shippy scenes for inspiration. Then when that overwhelming feeling of wanting to smush their faces together while you shove your fist in your mouth, channel all that schmoop into spilling your feels all over the page in whatever form is required. Then walk away for at least an hour, go look at Tumblr, go get a snack, whatever, and come back to it. Somewhere in that explosion of feelings is usually enough to work with. At least there usually is for me.
No, but really, rewatching those moments that made you want to scream because you just loved them so damn much is often helpful for trying to get in the right frame of mind to be romantic and a bit sappy, especially when that doesn’t come easily to you in the every day.
29. How do you plot your stories? Badly. :D Most days I would rate my plotting about a B-/C+. It usually starts with one idea or scenario. Once it’s in my head I make sure to 1. write it down on my WIP list Google doc, and 2. let it consume me for the next several hours. I mull it over while I’m commuting to work, and if it’s going to spawn into something, I start outlining by writing down general things I want to happen with the characters, everything from scenes between them to their individual backstories and baggage they are bringing to the story. At some point it either drags me kicking and screaming to start writing it immediately, like Killing Time and In All Things did, or it has to marinate for a year or more before it starts to really come together like my Golden Lace in Vegas fic has been. It’s all or nothing, never a happy medium.
But I really strongly recommend writing your ideas down because it cements them in your brain a bit better, it makes them more real, and any time you have any inkling of something to add to it, you write that down too. This is why Google Docs is so great because you have zero excuse not to write something down. The only exception might be driving, but honestly, I have used long stoplights to jot down notes on my phone. If I have a fic I’m really into and working on in my brain, I’ll open it on my phone before I leave home, or pin it to one of the screens so I can access it easily (never the main home screen, but one of the other ones that people aren’t likely to see at work - and I sync them offline so I can open them even when I have no data/wifi).
fic ask: november, tomorrow
november: do you have any rituals or requirements for getting in the mood for writing? The only thing other than uninterrupted time that I require is some form of background noise. I usually opt for a TV show that I’ve seen a thousand times so that I don’t have to actually pay attention to it.
tomorrow: favourite ways to write fluff? I primarily write fluff in short one-shot ficlets. Outside of that, in longer stories, fluff happens as a break from the angst and plot.
EoY asks: 7, 8, 17
7. Which fashion trends did you love? Animal prints and tartan, they are classic and I don’t think they should ever go out of style especially snakeskin and leopard print, and tartan is like fancy plaid but the bolder colors that they came out with were really interesting.
8. Which fashion trends did you hate? Puffy shoulders/sleeves, fucking bike shorts as pseudo leggings (???), and micro anything - sunglasses or handbags micro shit is fucking useless and stupid.
17. Did you make any big permanent changes this year? Nope. I did cut about 3 inches off my hair for the first time in about 7 years, but that’s hardly permanent.
why did I have to see that woke!bob post with my own two eyes??????? whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy lindsay whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy XD
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