#haveievermentioned

I KNOW NOW WITHOUT A DOUBT KINGDOM HEARTS IS LIGHT

uuuuh okay, well thankfully theres not a ton of prime numbers to choose from lmao SO

3: What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written?

depends on how you're quantifying "favorite". the one i still point out as a good entry point to my writing is HORNY FOR CHRISTMAS, my modern au christmas kylo fic. i point to this one because its a good novella length, so you can read it in an afternoon or two, and for being very slice of life it has distinct character arcs and a solid b plot, plus i really enjoy the worldbuilding i did and the character dynamics between everyone involved AND the smut is filthy. theres definitely something on a technical level that i could nitpick (like sentence structure and word choice, more than actual plot etc) but overall its very good

broadly, one of the things im most proud of in my writing is the section of ch 31 of COPING SKILLS where essek retells a xhorassian fairy tale. it's heavily based off one of my favourite fairy tales as a kid (which i have not reread since i was like, 12? tho i think i still have the book) with an exandrian flair, but i really enjoy the way it FEELS like someone retelling a story from memory, a little rambly with some missing details and some back tracking and some conflicting details, and i also really like how it feels like a fairy tale as a whole, which is a type of writing im not all that experienced in (but cherry is!) so it was a fun challenge that i feel i knocked out of the park

13. How much planning do you do before writing?

depends on the fic!! the longer it is, obvs the more i plan, but i tend to really loosely sketch out my ideas and then fill in the blanks, both in prose and in my outline, as i go forward. cs has the most planning ive ever done for a fic, with several documents for the outline and the timeline and the bg notes of the worldbuilding and various characters and their relationships/jobs/whathaveyou, but the outline for the latter chapters of the first section are very bare bones The Main Plot Beat, though the next couple of chapters i have to work on have like, a page of notes each since ive brainstormed some distinct ideas including dialogue i love and wanted to keep track of it

the chapter i'm actively on tho? 0 notes lmao it was literally just "more porn here???"

with shorter things, especially smutty one shots, i tend to break it down into: The Vibe + 1-3 kinks to explore + 2-4 sex acts + associated positioning, and then otherwise just roll with what wants to happen

so: plantser

21. Have you ever deleted an entire scene after spending hours laboring over it? If so, why?

yep! the first actual sex scene of cs was completely rewritten. i originally skipped ahead to write it fairly early on (i think i was chronologically around ch8 and the sex happens in 22?). i knew when it was going to happen, approximately what lead up to it, and roughly the vibes, and it was a GREAT exercise because it allowed me to feel out the wizards starting sexual dynamic in this universe so i could go back and fill in the tension appropriately. however, i am really not the sort who can write scenes out of order, so by the time i got to what i had written, it didn't fit the trajectory anymore, largely because my skills had improved hand over fist lmao. so i scrapped it, but i did reuse a lot of individual lines and the new scene fairly closely follows the original, just with the correct amount of emotional oomph and better technique

Jim, I’m a writer, not a mathematician.

FOR HALLOWEEN!

WHEN GHOSTS AND GOBLINS BY THE SCORE

RING THE BELL ON YOUR FRONT DOOR

YOU BETTER NOT BE STINGY OR

YOUR NIGHTMARE WILL COME TRUE!

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BOO!