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hey there friend! :D thank you for the ask! i’ve already answered 1 and 9 here, but i’ll happily answer the other one for you!

17. what’s the best engagement/ interaction/ feedback you’ve received from someone who’s read your work?

i’ve been lucky enough to get some absolutely wonderful comments on some of my work, and i’m truly grateful for every single comment. i always appreciate when i get comments that pick up on little things i’m trying to do in my writing, but my favourite ones are when i’ve clearly really resonated with somebody and they leave a comment with how a fic made them feel. to this day, i regularly think about two little comments, one from a fic i wrote 7 years ago, one from a fic i posted in january. the first one described reading the fic as “sitting with a cup of tea in the afternoon light, watching dust motes flutter in the sunbeams” which just melted my heart (how lovely to find such wonderful prose written about something i wrote! how deeply touching to know someone felt that way about it!) and the other, left on everything but the (a somewhat recent sidnate pwp), said “so steamy and sweet, i am in a porny hot chocolate” which i also adore.

hey there friend, thanks for the ask!! :)))) 💕

i answered 😈 already, but I’ll answer the other two!

💖 What do you like most about your own writing?

I think i like most that if i manage to really hit the gut feeling or atmosphere i really want to hit, it really hits. sometimes i’ll read some of my own writing back and be really impressed by how much it’ll punch me in the face. like, emotionally. to me, the type of works and fics that got me into writing and posting are things that made me feel something, that grasped my guts and stole my breath like it was never mine to own. so if i manage even a fraction of that when i read it back, that’s awesome. that’s really what i want to do. it’s really hard and takes a lot of right-mood-writing to get that right though. i don’t manage it nearly all the time, and i definitely still have a long way to go because i don’t think i’m that great at it yet, but i like where i’m going and i like when i can see that i’m on track to get there.

I’ve also recently been told that certain characterisations that i write are very enjoyable, and i do like that quite a bit too.

📝 What is one growth area you have for your writing?

oh man, what don’t i have as a growth area? there’s a lot, definitely. but first and foremost i want to be word efficient so fucking bad. being able to express complex feelings and atmospheres and themes with little more than a handful of words is insane and masterful and something that i really, really want to strive for so fucking bad. there’s so much space to express so many complex feelings and so many grey areas (as life often has) with more word efficiency. it’s the number one skill i’m in awe of.