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thank you for the tag @negotiator-on-site :) Super fun qs, loved reading yours...had to do it :)

Q: What is your coffee order?

At Starbucks I used to get the green tea frappachino, or the chai tea frappachino. but since going keto (and I’m on very very loose keto RN...but I’ve been clean for three days in a row so I’m going to try to keep this up :) ) But now what I do is I get a passionfruit tea, unsweet with heavy whipping cream and two pumps of sugar free vanilla. Voila, a keto pink drink. All you need is the stevia sweetener. 

Or I get just a plain green tea or regular coffee. also the caramel apple spice seasonal thing is good <3 i love starbucks

Q: What is the coolest thing you’ve ever done?

hhmmmmhmhmhm When I was 16 my dream of traveling to Italy and France came true. I loved Rome, I loved Florence, and then I got to go to Paris. (which.....you could probably tell by my name....place I adore <3) anyway I cried on the river seine and then when I thought things couldn’t get more perfect, the eiffel tower started to glitter. Also I sat on the Ponte Vecchio in florence and just breathed and lived and loved. It was perfect. Then I wrote it all down in a story called At the End of the Summer. I haven’t written any creative nonfiction since either, ha.

Objectively the coolest thing I’ve ever done is probably write/direct a ten minute play, with two actors who I wanted and were super amazing. It was such a spiritual experience, like sharing your writing with other people and then have us all share it on stage. doing that play was such an important, spiritual moment.

Q: Who has been your biggest mentor?

I’ve had a lot of teachers who have really helped me personally and scholastically....but it’s my mom. I mean...I still cry in her chest when I’m sad. My mom is a good person, a good woman who is very kind, and she deserves a lot more than what she got....if I could make enough money one day to get them a new house and a trip to Hawaii that would really make me happy.

Q: What has been your most memorable writing project?

You could say the aforementioned ten minute because I saw it and I brought it to life, but honestly I think it’s a thing called Our Immortal Longings :p

Obviously it’s a fanfic, but I write this relationship these two have and it feels realer than any other I have written...even wholly original works. I think part of this is helped that it’s similar in feel to something I would want to write that’s not a fanfic, and there’s this added sense of longing and preservation and becoming that I love to write and discuss, as my presentation on Antony and Cleopatra let me know last week. It’s honestly a lot of small things that make it very special to me. It’s sophie’s character, Connor’s character (the way I remind him partially reminds me of my favorite character from my favorite book.) the dialogue they have, the discovery, how much their story is an ode to other romances...

I didn’t think when I began writing this story it would mean that much to me. Hell, I didn’t even like AI or stories about AI getting a will of it’s own that interesting before this. But here I am, and....yeah. I love it. 

Q: What does your writing path look like, from the earliest days until now?

My earliest days were just me. (only child, ha.) I told elaborate stories to myself, and then later I told elaborate stories to my cousin during long car trips.I didn’t write a traditional “story” though until the fourth grade, and it was very much inspired by the last unicorn, of which I was obsessed at the time (still am it’s f*cking amazing. and now that I think about it it sstill inspires me to this day. One of Connor’s lines was inspired by a line from the movie!) My grandma always told me I should be a writer, but as a kid it was just something I liked to do versus a calling, I guess? I also was obsessed with being an actor. That turned out so well! (sarcasm.) but it was also something I needed to do to be a functioning human.

anyway, I just always liked to write stories. then in college when I was obsessed with Dragon Age and in a creative slump, I was like...hey. maybe I could write about Cullen and my Inquisitor from Dragon Age. and here we are, two fandoms later :) These days I’m just writing fan fiction, though I would like to write my original ideas I have. Still need it to be a functioning human though. that is probably always going to be true :)

Q: What is your favorite part about writing?

D I S C O V E R Y. About me, about my characters, about what I want and deem important. Seriously, I learned something new about me writing an academic essay on Romeo and Juliet and it was such a cathartic moment. And also? living vicariously through another. going into another time. 

Q: What does a typical day look like for you?

coffee. Write, read for school/write for school/school (only on certain days though)/ write or game when I get home. or watch shitty TV. Job hunt. have an existential crisis. Commissions (thank you all for commissioning me :) ) sometimes gym.

Q: What does your writing process look like? 

it varies. usually I research as I go because I’m like...so excited to start. With my first fic I took a while to post, planned on writing the whole thing before posting...but I ended up craving that sweet sweet validation(tm) so posted before it was done. Oh god, so much changed too as I began posting. It’s really nuts how much time I spent on that damn story. I do love it but I also have a weird relationship with it (not including what happened today either...I always had a weird romance with it.) 

but usually, I write, I marinate, I edit, I edit, I marinate, I live in the world for a bit, I edit, I post <3 all depends of course. don’t even get me started on writing an academic article. 

Q: What’s the best advice you’ve gotten?

Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more. (Shakespeare)

Q: What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned?

this is more about me, but an emotional reaction is more important to try to bring out than an intellectual one. I’d rather make someone have a real emotional reaction than anything else. sometimes the zaniest ideas are the ones that endure.

Q: What advice would you give someone who wants to start writing? 

Read

Read

Write 

practice writing some more

that totally ridiculous idea you have? write it!

.don’t worry about writing like someone else. write what you believe in

Love what you’re doing

read

write some more

Perservere and understanding that no one just rolls out a perfect Donna Tartt level piece on the first go. 

daydream. live in your story for a bit before writing it down. ;)

had some more life stuff to attend to.

I am not making the same mistake of last time and make it sound like I will regularly post on this site. that is a dream on this Hell-site.

other than that...

PIPELINE OF THINGS TO COME... Eventually

Here on the main blog...

Characters rated in 10 words or less

More Crackpot theories

MAGP episodes rated in 10 words or les

Over on @the-omndell-chronicles...

more character dossier

Late gifts (you will see in due time) [they aren't really Christmas gifts anymore]

Answering asks

Other projects

Still thinking of posting my writing related to @the-omndell-chronicles as another side blog

honestly I might post what my theories relating to MAGP were in shorter term MAGP released episode faster than I could write

had some life stuff to attend to.

But that is besides the point. what does matter is that I wish you all a Happy Holidays.

other than that...

PIPELINE OF THINGS TO COME

Here on the main blog...

Characters rated in 10 words or less

More Crackpot theories

Over on @the-omndell-chronicles...

more character dossier

Late Christmas gifts (you will see in due time)

Answering asks

Other projects

Thinking of posting my writing related to @the-omndell-chronicles as another side blog