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7. Coffee or tea while you write?
I don’t drink coffee at all, actually! I hate everything about it; taste and smell makes me sick and caffeine makes me hypomanic!
I do like some teas, but tea and writing isn’t really something I do. I usually write while laying in bed or while I’m in like a waiting room or something, neither of which are good positions to drink tea in.
11. What makes a fic 'successful' in your opinion?
Wise mind answer: When it tells the story the author wanted it to tell.
The little cognitive distortion devil on my shoulder, about my fics only: When the numbers go up… also, vibes… (<- Highly conditional and not static. The same fic can be the best thing I’ve ever written or total dogshit on any given day. Which is why we do not listen to cognitive distortion devil.)
By my preferred metric, I consider just about all of my fics from 2023 onwards to be successful. The rest, I have not given up on.
Sometimes the story you want to tell cannot be told through the characters you were given, and you have to make your own, and that’s ok, too. That’s not a failed fanfic, that’s a story waiting to be moved into an original fiction where it can grow properly. And it may or may not be what happened with one of my not-yet-successful fics.
19. How do you get over writer's block?
I’m gonna be honest, I have no fucking idea. I think I’m finally past my block that’s been here since fucking April of last year, but I’m not 100% certain.
Got very rambley and a little venty so I’m sticking this under the cut:
