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3. Describe the creative process of writing a chapter/fic

Get an idea. Obsessively write the idea for a while (an hour - several days). Forget about it for a while (several days - several months). Find it again. Either finish it or repeat the process.

sdfksdf in all honesty, once I get the idea, it's just like,,, work on it til I can't anymore and then take a break. And if I come back to it, it's a miracle. Sometimes it's done within the first "get an idea and write" phase. Sometimes it takes several loop arounds. Sometimes it only takes two!

14. How do you write emotional scenes? Do you ever feel what the characters feel? Do you draw from personal experiences?

i put my ENTIRE heart and soul into all of my writing, but especially the emotional scenes. it's a full one man play over here. i am going through the Motions. i am Feeling. i am Actively Crying on the google docs.

in terms on drawing on my own experiences: yes? kinda? In the way of like,, "i've felt this emotion before so I'm drawn on what i know it feels like". I've written some things that are like 1-to-1 of what I've gone through, but most of those never get posted sldfksd.

67. Do you prefer prompts and challenges, or completely independent ideas?

37. How do you choose where to end a chapter?

IT'S SO HARD god. i struggle so so much trying to decide this. i actively agonized over it with the final few chapters of rhapaw but also for say it with flours. trial of lucretia was easy because the chapters were so self contained. i'm trying to get better at it but alas.

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

so i usually write, edit while writing, send the thing to hali (if i'm patient), get ready to post it, read through it one more time, and make last minute edits. but i tend to just edit as i go usually!

72. What order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?

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3. Describe the creative process of writing a chapter/fic

Depends on the fic, tbh? 98% of the time, the creative process is: -oooh that's a cool idea -write it down/write the thing that's in my head -forget about it for a while -come back and write a Ton -lose focus, forget about it for a while -come back and finish it

i usually don't do outlines or anything. i will sometimes make an itty bitty outline of "here are things that i want to happen" or "things i have already written/plot points i want to connect". but most of the time, I'm just wingin' it. guidelines stress me out, even if they're my guidelines slkdfsd

46. How would you describe your style? (Character/emotion/action-driven, etc)

oooh, good question. i would probably say emotion-driven? I'm a very emotional person, which ig makes it easier to write emotion-driven things sldkfsdf. a lot of my fic ideas stem from "but how do they feel when this thing happens?", n then the feeling turns into action, etc etc.

as far as character-driven, most of that for me tends to tie back into emotions slkdfsd. i want to write about This Event? which character is going to give the type of emotions i want to write about? and then what will they do about those emotions? will it make a good story? or a good character study, at least?

omg hiiii Peri!!!!!

i just think you're so so lovely!!!! your writing has such pizzazz and character and feels so true to the source!!!!!! and your meta???? you have the Biggest brained takes out here holy shit!!!!

also youre just so delightful! like I just wanna get into anything and everything you post about because I trust your taste so very much!!!