oh yeah!!! i love my drow, he’s a bundle of drama and bad mistakes and ended up getting named Rat. i love my rat son

“I’ll take care of it.”

Being Hollence trash is also particularly difficult this season. And not even gonna lie, I hate the new set.

Wow.  I didn’t know if I’d get one of these! Haha.  Thanks!

1. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.   Probably a quick one-shot, something humorous-a little bit of a farce (a little slapstick) with a punchline.  I really like stories that offer the possibility of what could be-without explicitly giving an ending.

2. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?  I’ve never really done the baby fic…?  That’d be pretty cool

6. Share one of your weaknesses.  Haha, my crippling lack of self esteem.  Ha…haha.

8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.  Probably from my original story ‘Ghostwriters’.  Prue and Sadie are the main characters.  But what was neat about it was that I started it as prose, decided to develop it as a screenplay, and the economy of writing the screenplay made me go back and revise the first chapter-and make it a lot better and more streamlined.

Other than that, I had a conversation in my head the other day with Brooke and Sam (from Popular), and Sam said something to irritate her, and Brooke went on a little diatribe describing how hot Sam is and how that saucy curl of her lip makes her weak in the knees, but sometimes when she opens that mouth to talk Brooke wants to smother her with her pillow.  Brooke will always be my favorite character to write.  

13. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?  Write very day.  Write even when you don’t ‘feel’ it.  Oh: and read.  Something I don’t do enough of.

19. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?  Haha.  Not really.  I have the ‘Prose Fairy’-a creature that will sometimes abandon me for months without end.

22. Choose a passage from one of your earlier fics and edit it into your current writing style.  It would probably be one where I came up with 8 million other words for ‘said’, haha. 

28. Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.  Gosh there are so many.  Redlance - who I just adore, Della Street, GFayneFan, Missy Good (of course), Green Quarter, Mysensitiveside, Poetzproblem, Kelsey, and currently I’m reading the wonderful ‘Hearts Left Bleeding’ series by Coalitiongirl.  Which I’m totally enthralled by.  Love it, love it.  And they probably all have the common thread of: when I read their fics, I hear the characters speaking in my head.  Like Coalitiongirl just GETS Regina, and writes such a great balance of her conflicting sides.  Can’t say how much I love it.

30. Do you accept prompts?  I’d love to.  The problem is I just have so little time to write anymore-and I’ve been focused on developing some new screenplays.

34. What are your thoughts on non-con and dub-con?  No, I don’t go for any of that.  I am much more fluffy.  I think I sad once that I don’t read fic for gritty realism.  I’ll watch the news if I want that.  Fics are escapism.  They’re fun.  Now, is there a time where an event like that could serve a story?  Possibly.  Never say never, but I don’t like that sort of thing as a rule (to read or write).  I so rarely write actual sex anyway.  I think the one time I did it was on a dare.

36. Which is your favorite site to post fic?  Well, I’ve done P&P (Ralst) and FF.net.  I haven’t done AO3 yet-but that’s just cause I’m lazy.  Oh: and Livejournal back in the day!!

40. Write an alternative ending to [insert fic title.]  Strangely I was thinking about this the other day.  I’m a big believer in delivering the moments, be it the big emotional moment of a story or the ending.  That’s pass or fail for me, and I pretty much grade everything like that: did you deliver (and I’m looking at you Star Wars prequels)?

And I had two fics where I didn’t quite deliver.  The moment in ‘Fate Accompli’ where Brooke gets Sam to stay: I didn’t earn that one.  She stayed because the plot needed her to stay-not because of anything Brooke said or did to convince her. 

And also-and this is kind of a big one because I had this story in my head for about 18 months until I came full circle to writing it-the fic where Sam proposes to Brooke and then the Parentals arrive.  I heard from a good friend Krumnut that she felt it was too easy.  That the story kind of bailed them out.  So that’s always stuck with me.  

Now, you wanna hear a story about the opposite?  I wrote this silly little fic where Sam and Brooke had stolen the family video camera but didn’t think they could get it to work. Well its turns out they did-and the tape cuts in of the two of them making out when the family tunes in to watch the vacation video.

Bam, so I set up this scene.  Its turning out pretty funny, but I don’t quite have the punchline.  So I sit on it.  

And this fic is mayyybe 1500 words.  This isn’t War & Peace.  This is just this little one-shot.  But i sit on this thing for three days, and then finally-when I’m in the shower-I come up with it.

And there’s the family watching Sam and Brooke making out on screen.  The Parents are watching-mortified-Sam is beside herself because she never wanted to actually a porn star.  If there’s a God, one of those earthquakes that California’s been known to have will swallow her up.  And Brooke…

Brooke stares at the screen, and goes: ‘Wow.  The camera really does add ten pounds’.  And-bam-there I had it.  That was my punchline.  So the lesson was: wait until you know its good.  I didn’t always follow that, but I tried!

Jenny. Jenny. This is not a drill. I have that exact case in green. It also contains Pete.

And surprisingly, I'm doing the thing lol and she said this is how you thing: So you answer the questions then write 10 of your own and tag 10 people to answer those 10 questions… okay? okay.

1. Name your guilty pleasure tv show. Doesn't have to be present right? Because I had so many growing up! LOL e.g. Beverly Hills 90210 (1st series), Baywatch, Marimar (look it up, it starsThalia lol)

2. You can only watch one movie for the rest of your life. What is it? Sound of Music

3. Favorite song of right now? I'm Not The Only One - Sam Smith

4. Pancakes or waffles? Waffles

5. Most embarrassing song you know all the words to? Almost all Michael Learns to Rock songs damnit

6. Who do you stalk on twitter/tumblr/facebook? I don't stalk *shifty eyes*

7. If I said to you “I’m gonna go skydiving” would you want to go too? Duh

8. When you’re outside and it’s dark out and you get nervous, what are you afraid will happen? Idk. It's the unknown that scares me. If there's totally nothing there but you get the creepy feeling that there is and you don't know what it is.

9. If you had to pick one bad habit you would have until you died, what would it be? Smoking lol (funny but not funny)

10. What genre of books do you like and why? No specific genre but most of my favorite books can be considered Fantasy

And here are my questions for friends tagged below:

1. Upper lip or lower lip?

2. Which Faberry fic would you like to live?

3. Follow up question: As Rachel or as Quinn?

4. If money/time/work isn't an issue, where would you like to have a vacation right now?

5. And for how long?

6. And what would your itinerary be like?

7. What movie have you watched recently that surprised you in a good way?

8. Who are you best friends in your fandom/s?

9. For some reason or another, which fandom would you like to be a part of but aren't?

10. Which fictional character is the epitome of a would-be perfect partner for you?

Yes to ALL of this.