#autumnwander

TREAT!MDUMBO OCTOPUS!!

Thank you for the questions autumnwander! :)

🔥 Fireplace: what type of scene are you most comfortable writing? Emotional, action, dialogue-heavy?

I gotta say, I do like writing action scenes! Dialogue is something that I feel comes easy to me (especially for Ice Age fics becos I can "hear" Manny and Diego "speaking" to me, so well, for instance) but I don't like dialogue in a vacuum so oftentimes dialogue will come to me, sort of "out of context" and then I build a scene around it.

An example of this is the little missing scene btwn Manny, Diego, and Roshan in L23 where Diego, baffled, asks Manny for clarification about why he's so protective of Pinky because I definitely feel Diego nosed into or had questions about Manny (especially wrt Pinky!) before the cave paintings reveal the depth of his great tragedy and this was also teased a bit as well in my first fic ever posted, Peekaboo!

🥶 Ice: what’s been the most difficult scene for you to write?

Uh.... probably the death scenes of [redacted] and [redacted] in L21, or finally writing out the scene I had in my head for years of Diego dry sobbing at Half Peak as he loses everyone dear to him in Lacrimosa. Ngl those scenes made me actually and physically cry haha :'(

And yes, that WAS gonna be the original ending!! (Back when I thought that uncontrollable fic was only gonna be five chapters - I really wanted to write/get onto CI back in 2011 - but nooo it just had to be LONG. /grumble grumble).

Oh, and my fic, Tiger's Heart... the entire latter half of that fic were difficult scenes to write and writing that fic legitimately made me break down, and cry too, especially since I can see my CI-verse foreshadowing in it that I think is missed by most readers. 😭😭😭😭

🌟Night Sky: what are your writing goals for 2023? Or: how did you feel about your writing in 2022?

I'm going to answer this one first. Well, first of all, my writing goals for 2023 is officially and finally getting Cruel Intentions (bk 1) off the ground and getting it posted. Lacrimosa's L24 is halfway written atm (at 3k words :s) but I already have a good chunk of 20k material to alter and revise and chop it up into at least 1-4 (?) chapters for Cruel Intentions (1) for next year.

How I feel about my writing for this year? I am overall very happy! I am SO CLOSE to achieving my goal of reviving Lacrimosa - out of its 8 yr ffn hiatus - and completing it within 2022 like I planned when I revived it in Nov 2021. That alone makes me ecstatic! :D

🛷 Sled: how has your writing process changed this year? Or: are you going to try anything new in your process in 2023?