Okay, ambushing you with an ask game to (hopefully) alleviate the car-ride insanity somewhat.
Go ahead and any answer any of these questions that you want (I'd truly be interested in hearing any and all of them), but to pick a few:
1 ⧽. if you could sit down and finish any one of your wips without anything stopping you (time, tiredness, etc), which fic would you choose?
3 ⧽. what's something you like about your writing?
4 ⧽. is there an au or trope that you haven't written before, but would want to try?
18 ⧽. how do you want your writing to feel to your readers?
No worries if you're not in the right space to answer these, of course <3 Feel free to answer later, or never, lol.
Oh my god, we've been driving through absolute nowhere with no service for over an hour, so I only just saw these 😭 You are an amazing person, thank you so much for this 🩵
1. if you could sit down and finish any one of your wips without anything stopping you (time, tiredness, etc), which fic would you choose?
Ha ha, I'm torn between cheating and picking some really long fic that I've barely even started just to get a full story out effortlessly—and Arbiter. I'm over 7000 words into it, so it really shouldn't need that much more, but it's been fighting me every step of the way 😛 It's going to feel really good to finally have that one wrapped up, I think.
Then again, what's also kind of needling me about Arbiter is that it more than anything else I've written is pointing *really hard* towards a sequel. I even have some ideas for one that feel really promising—but knowing how long it takes me to write and feeling the way I do about TotK, I'm really kind of torn about pursuing them? So I think it might be worth it to suffer and strain through the last few thousand words of Arbiter if I could just breeze through whatever comes next 😂
3. what's something you like about your writing?
Ahhhh I wish this question didn't stump me 😭 I like when it gets a bit ethereal, I guess? Like—I was reading through Again recently, and I think it has some pacing issues, but I still like how it's kind of. Atmospheric. I feel like Sunrise, Somewhere also had that quality to it, and maybe Crystalline, too? The part in Crystalline where they're dueling at dusk in the desert with crystals scattered through the sand is an image that sticks with me still.
Oh, I think I was also kind of proud about how I managed to portray environments with Link in BBN when I couldn't rely on sight as a descriptor? So—imagery. I like my imagery :)
4. is there an au or trope that you haven't written before, but would want to try?
I always did kind of want to write an OoT/Majora's Mask AU with Ghirahim as the gilded sword, but I could never quite put my finger on the story there. I'd also like to write... like a traveling story, I guess? I'm noticing an odd trend in my stories and WIPs (not all of them, but a lot) where the characters are either stuck in or keep returning to the same spot—Pinesong, Arbiter, Again, the Horned Statue fic, this other old revalink WIP I've posted a bit of. I don't know why I keep doing that, but I'd like to break myself out of it somehow 😛
18. how do you want your writing to feel to your readers?
Like—like there's something caught in your throat, or like your heart is a few inches higher in your chest and you feel like you believe in something. Like it's nestled in your head somewhere and pokes out in quiet moments. Like you're staring at the ceiling or the sky and not seeing it. Like how it felt while writing it. Something like that.