8, 12, 18 for writer asks!
8. Tell us your shortest and longest titles of all time
For my main body of Forgotten Realms fanfiction (and even some that don't make that canon worldstate cut), i like to format the titles like Naruto episodes, so i come up with a lot of long ones there. There is currently a tie if you are going by character count, but with our word count tie breaker, Stone That Walks the Earth: A Priestess of the Grave sneaks ahead by exactly one. It's a PC backstory fic for an earth genasi cleric i once played for a prison break one-shot, so it's definitely one of those fics i write for me and about four other people i share a Discord server with lol.
The shortest title is the seven character long Tangled, a Morriwarden fic from before i decided that Morrigan and Novhen were more interesting as just friends, but it's still one of my most read fics!
Hm. Clearly, there is some sort of inverse correlation between title length and audience interest 🤔 This must mean i should write shorter fic titles. I can't imagine any other factors that could possibly be at play here 🤔🤔🤔
12. Do you write in order, jump around the draft, or a mix? Something else?
Oh, i jump around SO much. It tends to leave a lot of literal gaps in my WIP as i spam the enter button to separate the chunks.
For one current WIP which i expect to result in my longest work to date, i had to break out a whole new txt file to avoid polluting the main WIP files* with scenes they wouldn't be ready for until several chapters later. There are enough gaps from jumping around already with just the stuff actually supposed to be in this chapter, and there is a small amount of coding involved which adds an extra layer of complication.
*I'm also typing this story in distinct files for each chapter + a few more on the side for keeping track of other notes which is very different from my normal workflow of "Shove it all together into one document, sift it out later, and pray that you didn't start writing a second or god forbid third fic in the same file before you finish the first".
18. If you have noticed themes emerging in your writing, what are they? What broad themes and topics do you enjoy exploring?
I love to write about rogues doing rogue things. Burglaries, heists, scams, you know the drill.
Fun fact! When @heniareth and i were first figuring out DA Rogues Week, one of the earlier forms suggested for the event was that the goal would be to write a heist fic (collaboratively or otherwise) where each day's prompt would guide the next chapter of the heist, but i think abandoning that angle of "Everyone writes the same kind of general plot together for seven chapters" worked for the benefit of the more open/annual event style, especially for a fandom like Dragon Age which 1. already has so many events competing for air and 2. probably won't be getting any new games to keep the fandom alive without some massive IP shakeups. We ended up settling on a pretty standard fandom event week in the end, but i still like to keep a narrative flow between the prompts to appeal to my personal artistic sensibilities~
