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2. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?

I really like the lovable snark type of character (e.g. Nick from Zootopia), but I can’t seem to pull it off because I’m Too Serious.

3. Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?

There will be no Dead Lesbians.

5. Share one of your strengths.

I guess I’m pretty good at dialogue?

6. Share one of your weaknesses.

Action. I’m bad at action. And I have a nasty habit of moralizing, as well as falling into the same narrative tropes over and over :P

7. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

Everything was bathed in silver starlight, which poured down from overhead in sheets and curtains, and where the world was not silver it was black, and everything grew sharper and sharper until he felt certain he was looking not at natural desert but at paper cut-outs of an arid setting in some elaborate scale-model.

This is from the one and only Dr Who fic I ever wrote, back in the far-off year of 2010, but I still love this bit because it’s just so pretty.

8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

“What makes you think I did?”

I worked on that fucking scene about twice a week for over a month, fixing it and fixing it and fixing it until it was juuuuuuuuuust the right amount of creepy and all the characterizations lined up with Future Plans. Damn if it wasn’t worth the work, though.

27. How do you feel about collaborations?

I am ..... super bad at them. Too much of a control-freak.

38. Talk about a review that made your day.

And I quote: “FUCK YOU, FUCK YOUR CARTOON POOLBOY HUSBAND, FUCK HIS CAT MASK AND HIS BAND OF VILLAINS, BLOCKED.” I think about that every goddamn day :’)

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

All I think about is ALDIP, but I have plans, oh, such plans.....

13. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?

It boils down to: no writing is ever wasted. Write a lot of shitty things. Write as much as you can and don’t worry about how it’s going to turn out. You learn infinitely more from doing than from thinking.

39. Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them?

Every so often I get one that rubs me the wrong way, and then I either ignore it or delete it completely (if I feel like it’s going to upset other commenters).

40. Write an alternative ending to [insert fic title] (or just the summary of one).

The alternative ending to Vital Ruins is that AHMA was never written and Sanguimancer gets to be a nice, solid, stand-alone fic but I’m not bitter

1. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.

Lots of angst, lots of dialogue, minimal action and a plot that’s 98% character-driven. A Dark Sitcom, if you will.

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15. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?

MWDF, hands down.

21. How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

It depends on the fic/chapter. Most one-shots get a once-over before they go up. Chapters will usually be read two or three times over the course of a couple weeks, and then get a final check before they go up. Really important or impactful scenes/chapters get picked through a dozen times or more.

9. Which fic has been the hardest to write?

A Hundred Mornings After turned out to be the most painful slog through the muck I’ve ever put myself through. I hated it while I was writing it and I still hate it now. It’s a bad story.

10. Which fic has been the easiest to write?

Either MWDF or Powered. Just flowed right off the fingertips, them~

14. What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever come across?

“Said is dead”

22. Choose a passage from one of your earlier fics and edit it into your current writing style.

Oh Jesus why would you do this to me

(half an hour later)

Original:

Sheriffing was a damn boring job.

Too damn boring for a man like Strife, the only exception being when it was too damn exciting. It was either whittling stacks of paperwork at his desk for four days straight or it was picking bullets out of his teeth. There was no in-between.

The Scot boy tapped on the bars of his holding cell for the thirtieth time that day. Strife frowned and readjusted his feet on his desk, so his boots would block the grubby little full-moon face peering hopefully out at him.

“Er,” the boy began.

“How many times I gotta tell you to keep quiet, boy?” Strife snapped.

Fixed:

If the rail-boy didn’t stop tapping on the bars, Strife was going to kill him.

Sunlight seeped into the room through the cracks in the shutters, drizzling all over the floor like molten steel. Flies lounged on Strife’s desk, wandering over the mountainous landscape of paperwork on lethargic pilgrimages to nowhere. Strife kept his head down and his boots up on the desk. His fingers were blackened with grease, sore and stiff.

He’d given up all pretense of cleaning his gun about half an hour ago, and had moved on to spinning the chamber round and round, listening to the whisper-quiet whirr, smooth action prolonged by proper maintenance. His eyelids drooped, his chin sank towards his chest, and—

The boy tapped on the bars again, fingernails on iron. Strife flicked his gun shut and slammed his feet onto the floor hard enough to startle the flies.

“One more and I’m gonna break your goddamn fingers,” he snapped.

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29. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?

Mmmmm this is the point at which I must once again reveal that I don’t read much fic. I really can’t think of any! Everybody I’ve read has done a good job of wrapping up their stories ^_^

And I'm incredibly bored. So..yeah.

1. Three things I want to say to three different people.

You were my first same sex crush, thought you should know that.

I adore you both.

You're amazing, fancy a drink sometime?

2. One of my insecurities.

Like everything to do with my body.

3. What turns me on.

Well, if my other blog has thought me anything it's stocking/garters and redheads are chief among my personal kinks.

4. One of my bad habits.

I don't exercise enough/at all.

5. Who I wish I could be.

I wish I could be ideal me. I've actually met someone who is basically ideal me, but blonde and Australian. So, I'd like to be that guy except not blonde or Australian.

6. Where I want to be right now.

Any place where I won't feel terrible anymore.

7. The last thing I ate.

Some Mexican cookie.

8. Sexiest person that comes to my mind immediately.

Lots and Lots. I know a lot of very pretty people. Though the first celebrity to come to mind is David Tennant so I'll go with him.

9. What song I’m currently listening to.

Why does the Sun Really Shine? -They Might Be Giants

10. The last time I cried and why.

This summer/depression and health worries.

11. Something I’m excited about.

The new Les Misérables film!

12. 5 things I like about myself and 5 things I dislike about myself.

Good:

I'm fairly intelligent            

My beard                          

I have really nice hair         

I'm funny                         

I have a decent singing voice according to Cami

Bad:

My body

My complete lack of will power/ambition/faith in myself

My ineptitude in romantic matters

All my aliments

My inability to ever fix my problems even when I actually try

13. Three things I want right now.

Good Health, a good job, and a social life.

14. Are you wearing a necklace, who got it for you, where’s it from?

Nope.

15. How long was your last phone conversation?

A few minutes.

16. What are you looking forward to?

Django Unchained!

17. Did you get anything off your chest today?

No.

18. How many rings do you usually wear?

None.

19. Would you rather go to Canada or California on vacation?

Canada! Montreal!

20. Are you wearing jeans, shorts, sweatpants or pajama pants?

Just boxers right now.

21. Do you call it fall or autumn?

Autumn because it sounds prettier.

22. Are you an emotional person?

Somewhat, but I keep them all to myself for the most part.

23. It’s 2 in the morning and you get a text message, who is it most likely from?

Carolyn most likely since it would be 9 in the morning for her.

24. Do you like long car rides?

Nope, they hurt me bum.

25. Do you have an adult you can talk to about anything?

I honestly don't know.

26. Last time you saw your dad?

Few hours ago.

27. Have you ever kissed someone in a vehicle?

No.

28. Do you do your own laundry?

Yes.

29. Would you like the ability to read minds?

Only if I could control it. It would suck otherwise.

30. Has the last person you kissed ever seen you cry?

No.

31. You’re thinking about a certain person right now, aren’t you?

Of course you asked me to.

32. What will you be doing in five years?

I have no clue, dying probably with how things have been going recently.

34. Last 2 people to text you?

Diego and Carolyn

35. Do you know what you want to be when you grow up?

I am grown up and I still have only the vaguest of ideas.

36. Do you like to cuddle?

Cuddling is the best!

37. When angry, do you get loud or quiet?

Quiet. I hardly ever get angry, but when I do I just go quite and start to just fume.

38. Did anyone see you kiss the last person you kissed on the lips?

Don't think so.

39. Have you ever had a best friend of the opposite sex?

Yes, Cami of course.

40. How’s your hair right now?