For the yet another writing ask: 18, 30 and 36 please!
18. First, second, or third person?
Third! I've dabbled in first but I'm not very good at it--I don't know why it feels so different from the extremely-close third that I usually use, but it does. I haven't even attempted second person, mostly because I haven't had any ideas that I thought would be good for experimenting with it, if that makes sense.
(I will quite happily read all three--I know a lot of people don't like first person, for some reason, but I do! I'm just not good at writing it.)
30. Describe a fic that almost happened, but then it didn't.
I have a half-started Celrond fic somewhere that I wanted to write for the SWG's bake-off challenge last year that was going to explore Celebrian's decline and eventual decision to sail via baked goods. It might still happen someday, because I haven't deleted it, but I got stuck almost immediately and abandoned it. I can't remember now what I did write for that challenge.
36. How do you come up with fic titles? What's the one you're most proud of?
Mostly it happens at the end when I realize I'm ready to post and don't have one, and then I scour my playlists and poets.org for something that fits (this is often how I get the epigraphs as well--I love a good epigraph). Lately titles have been popping up much sooner in the process (High in the Clean Blue Air and A Hundred Miles Through the Desert in particular were quite easy because I already knew I'd be taking them from "Wild Geese", after having written Clear Pebbles of the Rain), but it's still mostly a matter of song lyrics or poetry. Trying to find a title for A Thousand Winds that Blow was a days-long struggle.
I think my favorite title might still be Improbable Beautiful & Afraid of Nothing. It's from another Mary Oliver poem, "Starlings in Winter", but I think it fits Dior really well.