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https://archiveofourown.org/works/80895276

I’m really angry anyway, but I get angrier every pride month. I truly don’t understand how these people are allowed to hold office and how people still elect them.

1. Do you daydream a lot before you write, or go for it as soon as the ideas strike?

Since emmlef beat me to 18 🤣 how about…

25. What’s your favorite part of the writing process (worldbuilding, brainstorming/outlining, writing, editing, etc)?

46. If you could only write one type of AU for the rest of your life, what would it be?

1. Hmmmmmmmmm depends. I think both. I have to write down what I call my “tone setter” before I start a project (or a chapter), like i have to get the feel of the world where I know what it tastes like and sounds like and would feel like in my hands. Does that make any sense? So that part gets put on paper pretty quick so I don’t lose the aura or the colors.

Certain projects I can get into more immediately like the college au or something lighter, but if it’s an important moment in a longfic or a heavier oneshot, I have to let it stew in my mind a little. Not necessarily actively think about it, but just let it simmer and the ideas will come to the top more fully formed. Daydreaming specifically happens the most with my zombie au and I don’t know why. I think it’s because it’s the most outdoors and the setting is very earthy and I can feel myself in it.

But there are absolutely times when a demon possesses me overnight and a oneshot is completed in 6 hours

25. I feel like anyone who says anything except world building or brainstorming is lying. Worldbuilding is super fun especially in stuff like the zombie au and even in lighter stuff like the college au, just little tidbits. Brainstorming can be fun with a friend and you finally figure out the big twist or a character’s motivation and it feels like you discovered electricity.

Writing is fun if I hit a groove, or I just really nail something I want to say or the tone and setting and color is exactly what I want it to be. Editing can die and I don’t really do it ever and you can probably tell

46. Hm. I want to pick a versatile au so I could cater to all the genres I like to write, like venture into satire/comedy/mystery/introspection in the same au, but you could do that with all of them. I guess I’ll go with a classic college au, but honestly thinking about how much fun my knight and zombie au’s were, it’s a tough call

18. Do you enjoy research?  Which fic of yours required the most research?

Yeah I’m gonna be honest I do pretty much 0 research and planning and I keep 0 notes other than the ramblings of like 1-2 people’s DM’s. I can’t even think of what fic required the most cuz it’s like… none of them…

61. In [insert fic], what’s your favorite scene that you wrote?

This is very hard bc I’ve written A LOT across a lot of genres and tones… I love comedic/fluffy stuff like the college au but I do feel the most fulfilled with a deeper, more introspective tilt like in 75% of my oneshots and the last part of All of My Devotion Turns Violent.

From my long-form aus, the 3rd and 9th chapters of In Perfect Time are very synesthetically pleasing to me. From the college au, I love the bathtub scene, the (second?) party, the corn maze, and the kickball chapters.

This is cheating and way too long of an answer, but the last like 7 chapters of the zombie au is some of my favorite stuff— the longing and the depth and the seriousness, I guess. That first kiss caused me months of stress from the buildup. I got in my bag. I love them. Spoilers under the cut