#cypresstrees

oooh interesting selection! some of these are gonna take real thought lol

7—your preferred writing fonts

when it comes to working fonts in Libreoffice and google docs I tend to use Atkinson Hyperlegible, which is just odd-looking enough that I can tell right away if I've done the formatting on a chunk of text—if I pasted something in from another source, it usually shows up in arial or something, and I know I'll need to check that chunk for things like two hyphens instead of an em-dash, or straight quotes instead of typographer's quotes. (also the odd "hyperlegible" features make it easy to read at small sizes, like if I'm editing something on my phone)

My favorite typesetting font (because I do that sometimes too) is Sabon. Idk why exactly it just looks and reads nice.

14—where do you get your inspiration?

I feel like this is a hard one to answer because kind of everywhere? I'll be thinking about a random think or another book or something, and then it'll mutate into a fit idea, usually by a ship-of-theseus process where every part is replaced until it's no longer recognizable as inspired by a specific other thing. Also brainstorming happens organically when talking with other fans. @elexuscal is half my Temeraire inspo. (also it occurs to me now that I never told her why I change all our shared documents to a weird font...)

23—pick three keywords that describe your writing

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm its so hard to assume an outside perspective on my own work! I think "Dialogue-forward" is objectively true, since I write a lot of talking heads scenes. Also "Untrendy"—I have no idea what's popular in fandom as a whole right now and even if I did know I wouldn't have the first idea how to write it. uuuuuuh otherwise... Direct? I guess? I tend to not have a whole lot of subplots, at most multiple threads in the main plot.

27—your favorite part of the writing process

that moment when the ideas are first really going and you're writing and you can't even pick which scene to start with because you have just so many all crowded in your head ready to go—

omgomg okay so this fic is wholly and completely @nart-is-a-monster and @gayleafpool's fault, because i said "here is a pwp omegaverse fic that is all about smut and literally nothing else" and then those inspirational mofos got me talking about it and thinking about and oops i accidentally plotted all over the place

(popping the rest of this under a cut because im not going into detail but there is some mentioned and implied fantasy sexism. omegism. omegasogyny)