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Helloooo, love! Thank you for these!

8) what time are you most productive?

Mostly at night. Occasionally, there are times where I’m so inspired I’ll sit for hours during the daytime and write, but most of my inspiration comes at nighttime when I should be sleeping. It’s been that way since I was in college. My roommate would be fast asleep and I’d be up at my laptop, writing.

23) least favorite story you’ve ever written

It’s not my least favorite in the sense that I don’t like it or regret writing it, but probably Thinking Underage. It was the first story I posted on JBFA (actually, the second - I hope no one remembers the actual first story I posted and soon after deleted). It’s one of those things where looking back on it, there’s a lot I would change and most of the writing makes me cringe because I’ve learned a lot about how to write and myself as a writer since then. Shae and Nick will forever be my babies, though. I put them through a lot of shit but their dynamic was a lot of fun to write about.

26) story you’re most proud of

I have to pick just one? Honestly, my heart is set on like, three: This Christmas, Remembrance, and The Boat. TC and Remembrance are both works of fanfiction while The Boat was an original piece, and I think I’m most proud of them because I got to pour a lot of myself into writing each one, Remembrance and The Boat especially. 

My summary for TC is much more eloquently stated, haha, but it’s about a couple, Joe and Margie, whose complications in their marriage are interrupted by an invitation to join Joe’s family in Dallas for Christmas. They’ve reached that point of “something’s gotta change” and go on this trip intending to keep their problems under wraps while trying to work through them quietly, but is that ever an option? Basically, it’s about mending fences when you’ve put the holes in them yourself. I drew inspiration from the idea of breaking that image of a “perfect family,” because families aren’t perfect and problems don’t just disappear because it’s “the happiest time of the year” and if you really want to change things, you can’t just sit around and hope they’ll get better. While I’m sure that now it could use a few touch-ups, I still feel that it’s some of my best writing to date.

Remembrance is a piece in which Kevin is reflecting on his life and several moments that have stuck with him that played a part in getting him to where he is at the end of the story, which is the present day. Some of the personal experiences of people close to me as well as some of my thoughts about life and how we deal with everything it throws our way went into writing this story, which makes me feel close to it. It also struck a chord with a lot of my readers on a deeper scale than anything else I’ve ever written, which was completely unexpected. I’ve actually been thinking about polishing it up and re-posting it here, but we’ll see.

The Boat is about a girl named Claude who is at the beginning of her journey with dealing with her depression. I began writing it maybe a couple of months after I graduated from college, and it took me literally years to finish it because it was very personal for me and I was so worried I’d screw it up. Depression is one of those things you don’t understand unless you go through it, and I’ve always wanted to write something dealing with it but lived in that constant fear of “what if I can’t get it right?” because everyone’s experience with it is different. The way Claude views herself and the way she feels about her depression is drawn a lot from how I felt before and while I finally started dealing with my own, so it was an incredibly personal thing for me to write, even if Claude’s story varies from my own.

40) which one of your stories would you most like to see as a movie/series

Oh man. Maybe…I don’t know! Maybe This Christmas? I feel like it would make for a great film, perhaps.

44) do you write linear or do you write future scenes if you feel like it?

2) Is there any specific ritual you go through while/before/after your writing?

Usually, I have to reread whatever I have written of a chapter before I pick up where I left off writing it. I can’t just start writing again; I have to review my previous words, I guess to get myself in the right mindset. I write a lot of my dialogue by reciting it out loud first, just to make sure it sounds natural. I used to have to listen to music while I wrote (a LOT of Jason Reeves), but lately I’ve found that I prefer the silence.

7) Inspiration, time, or motivation. Choose two.

OH GOD THIS IS HARD. OKAY. I guess inspiration and motivation, because if I have both of those, I’ll find time in between moments of fauxdulting.

19) Why did you start writing?

Writing is something I’ve always enjoyed, but it wasn’t until my grandfather passed away when I was thirteen that it became super important to me. His death was devastating, and I was depressed and wasn’t grieving and I threw myself into writing anything and everything I could to escape my emotions - journal entries, poetry, stories about me and my friends.

briana!! i was just going to send u the same fandom n*ce

lowkey otp: does it count if it’s an ot3 bc my trash heart wants bellamy/clarke/raven more than air

highkey notp: RAVEN/FINN TBT TO MY LIVEBLOGS WHERE I DRAGGED FINN EVERY DAMN DAY

[softly] don’t notp: jasper/monty (romantically) and also.............................clexa

highkey otp but i’m scared of saying it because it’s not a very popular choice: i actually don’t think i have one??