Hold for Crime Wives

Okay, so, off the top of my head... it would probably be an overly indulgent mild-to-moderate angst fic with lots and lots of pining, obviously a happy ending, far too many sentences that run like 4-6 lines long, and perhaps slightly too much description of facial expressions. It would probably spring off an episode or canon event and diverge from there, giving space for more emotions. Oh, and I have clear and obvious mommy issues, a sprinkling of religious trauma, and a penchant for some power dynamics, so there's a lot of Constance and Angela being slightly less awful and a handful of quasi-religious phrasings.

This is such an easy question to answer when I'm revising a chapter and annoyed at myself for saying whatever thing forty times but really hard to grasp when not actively nose-in-document.

I'm an angst-fiend, so angst is in basically everything I do—a drop or an ocean, it's always there. I really love to rag on the men of Rizzoli and Isles and I especially love a jealous, possessive Jane so there's that: a lot of dragging Maura's men through the proverbial muck to put Jane in that mood. I write a lot in Maura's house, I realize. Jane's apartment barely exists to me.

16, 18, and 24 for the Get to Know Your Fic Writer asks. Please and thank you!

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16. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

Ideas are something I'm almost never short on. I have several brewing at a time. I would guess like 5-10. The one I've been poking at recently is an old unformed idea now formed, but essentially it features Maura as a prison psychiatrist who saw Hoyt a few times  before his escape, which brings Jane around asking questions about what she knows and it all takes off from there. 

18. Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with titles?

I title them as soon as possible! Even some of my ideas and summaries have titles attached (prison psych Maura exists in Variations on a Theme, a title that comes from a line in one of the Tess Gerritsen novels). I feel like titles are part of the brainstorming process for me and part of setting a tone, themes, etc.

I hate coming up with them, though. It's so hard! I use song titles a lot because it's easiest, but when that's not working for me I'm wildly grasping at thenes and motifs and symbols and crossing my fingers. Or stealing lines from a chapter and using it for a chapter/work title.

24. Worst writing advice anyone ever gave you?