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4. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?

Oh gods. Um, this is gonna be embarrassing. I’ve got at least 8 different fanfics going at various speeds and at different levels of completion. Then in the Original verses, I’ve got 3 different ideas. The one idea that’s currently taking over my life has been a FFXV Zombie Apocalypse AU with Prompto, Iris, and Talcott taking center stage, but it’s still stewing and I’ve only written a couple of disjointed scenes. Still, it won’t let me go.

9. Which fic has been the hardest to write?

Out of my solo works, Isolation. I lost motivation after the fourth chapter, and I’d planned it to be as long as its prequel, Alone, but I just couldn’t do it anymore. The story got bigger than I wanted to write and high school became too much. For almost a year in the middle of writing it I considered deleting it and fixing the last chapter of Alone so that it didn’t allude to a sequel.

rn, I’m trying my damnedest to finish a collaboration with a high school friend and it’s definitely in the running for hardest fic to write. I’ve literally been trying to beta the second to last chapter for almost 5 years now and I just can’t seem to make myself do it; we have such different writing styles and trying to find middle ground, plus the fact that she wrote almost 20,000 words for this ONE CHAPTER is just daunting.

12. Is there an episode above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?

1.     How do you feel about golden oreos?

2.     What is your favorite dessert topping?

3.     What is your favorite flavor/brand of bubble gum?

4.     Favorite cheese?

5.     Favorite Lunch Meat?

6.     Favorite ice cream flavor?

7.     Best looking food?

8.     Best food to put cheese on?

9.     Best sexual food?

10.   Best tasting drink in the summer?

11.   Best tasting drink in winter?

12.   Best food for a night out with friends?

13.   Best foods to eat with a roll?

14.   Messiest food, in your opinion?

15.   Easist food to prepare?

16.   Cheapest food you ever ate?

17.   Most expensive food you ever ate?

18.   Stinkiest food you ever ate?

19.   Favorite dipping sauce?

20.   Best pizza topping?

21.   Favorite potato chip flavor?

22.   Most toxic substance you ever ate?

23.   Most calories you ate in one meal?

24.   Favorite soda?

25.   Favorite flavor of juice?

26.   Favorite Vegetable?

27.   Favorite fruit?

28.   Worst canned food?

29.   Best side dish?

30.   Worst fast food restuarant?

31.   Best restaurant?

32.   Best smelling food?

33.   Favorite appetizer?

34.   Favorite cookie flavor?

35.   Favorite cake flavor?

36.   Favorite pie flavor?

37.   Chocolate or rainbow sprinkles?

38.   Ketchup or Mustard?

39.   Best food to have on a date?

My favorite texture happens to be a bed made up with freshly laundered sheets. There’s just something about crawling in on top of soft, cool sheets and experiencing that same feeling on top as well that just feels wonderfully calming.

And the fact that I get around to making up my bed only after washing my sheets helps with how few times I actually experience it.

When I was in 8th grade, we were being taught using the Shurley English method. My English teacher at the time had one of those transparency projectors and would classify the sentences there. And sometimes she would let one of us students sit there and do it in front of the class.

I always liked doing this because I could move at my own speed and for once the others would have to keep pace with me.1 Well, this one time I got some small thing wrong. And the teacher called me out on it in front of class. Combined the very public nature of my mistake, the fact that “Jacob Roeland never makes mistakes”, and (that I’ve now come to learn) that as an introvert would rather a mistake be pointed out to them in private if possible, I almost had an emotional breakdown. I was really *this* close to crying over a mis-classification of a word.

Since then, I think I’ve gotten better with criticism. It still bothers me probably more than it should, but I’ve gotten better with blocking out the illogical sadness and disappointment that comes with it and instead focus my energy on taking it in stride and doing better next time.

That seems really conceited, but that truly was my reasoning.

Nota bene: I’m interpreting this broadly and choosing to do my life at the moment.

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