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jgajsdfnasdkg b r o lmfaooo don't disparage dani like this in MY OWN HOUSE skdglasdff

Dude oh my god it is an honor thank you for maiming me in such a way that I will be thinking about how you managed to accomplish mutual pining and unrequited love simultaneously for a good long while

oh hey

4. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?

hmmm not a huge amount, i think i tunnel vision a tiny bit when i have a WIP on the go. i do kind of have an idea for dani/jamie fic which is a she loves me (/you’ve got mail i guess) au but like....COULD i get any more niche...i do think jamie as a grumpy shop worker who moonlights as the world’s biggest romantic is pretty accurate though so who knows! it might work out 

13. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?

ahh! great qn, would say it’s this quote: 

it’s one of my favourites and i am always coming back to it:) 

it absolutely does. thank you

18. do you like historical books? which time period?

i tend to read historical fantasy/historical magical realism more than books set in the regular degular 1800s. otherwise the ones i’ve tried veer depressing or ignore the norms of society in that era to such a degree that i may as well be reading a contemporary novel. that said, books that were set in the 1920s and actually written in the 1920s tend to be more enjoyable than historical settings by modern day authors

19. most disliked popular books?

-i’m going to extend this to whole series bc i did not enjoy the locked tomb! i think muir’s prose is wonderful, and i certainly finished it and its sequel quickly. but look me in the eyes and tell me what happened in either book. you can’t -on the other hand, i waited months for iron widow to become available from my public library bc i liked the idea of the plot, then didn’t vibe with the prose one bit -the house in the cerulean sea. the next time i decide i should read something tumblr is creaming itself over please just spray me with water

20. what are things you look for in a book?

classic

1. Favorite scene or line from (fic name)?

hmmm great qn!!! i'll be honest lol there's a few zingers that im kind of proud of lol mostly cause i read them and im like wow..am i...funny? and then i promptly remember that I Am Not and it was a moment of insanity <3 but still! probs the one that im proudest of is the whole end scene of chapter 9, the scene where emily and sue are in the kitchen!!

i am particularly proud of this line mostly bc i felt it was like. the thesis statement of the wholeeee thing (lol i say this ab everything as u know but i do actually mean it for this), like this idea that actually there can be love that feels good and love that feels bad and this was mostly the journey to the former, love that you just love having is. imo a true gift and one that we take for granted and i think sue's problem is she just doesn't see herself as someone for whom that is a thing. so that was a main driving force in bwmh and honestly i wrote this line and the following description ab austin and emily and lavinia months before i wrote the rest of the chapter or even the two chapters before it (which u also know cause i sent it to u)! but it felt right to do because then i had a kind of. idk a climax point. i see this really as the climax of the whole thing, even though sue's own love "confession" (inverted commas bc confession implies no one knows lol) is v cathartic i think this for me was like. the high point :)

2. Did you have any ideas that didn’t make the final cut of (fic name)?

pahahaha actually no not really!! i think in the interest of brevity/keeping it interesting i ended up spending way less time on the actual play element than i envisaged, but i didn't really have any ideas for that per se, and i'm kind of satisfied w the balance of it as it is...? i think there was like. probably more snogging and sex in a lot of earlier versions of scenes LMAO and then i was like hmm..no! like at the beginning of chapter 7 (which chronologically is after they sleep together in the present/chapter-wiseis after the interval) when sue wakes up/goes into the ktichen they were originally gonna at least snog again fdlgjflkgj but then i was like.....errr no. so. lol. also! the scene after dinner in that chapter emily was gonna be like generally...less angry and more horny flkgjdflgj but then i was like no bestie needs to say her truth lmao

16. Favorite thing about (fic name)?

KLJDSGLKFJGLKJF i love that this is part of your agenda to get me to Like My Work more like.....stop trying to make fetch happen,....

anyway i guess i probably like that i pushed myself to experiment w form and chronology. ive never done that before with a fic and it was fun! otherwise, i kind of like how referential i made it, usually when i do that stuff it's mostly just for my own satisfaction lol but it was so nice to see other people interested in my own little freaky nerd shit lmao