#senditothemoon

OKAY THIS WAS HARDER THAN I THOUGHT AND I CAN'T PICK

I'm going to take this opportunity and your kindness to babble long and hard about my babies so forgive me

I really REALLY like The Artist and The Captain. Nations seen and described from mortals' perspective is just d e l i c i o u s and I think I did a good job with these. I want to do more!

I also really like Fatigue. I've written a lot of FrUK conversations abut serious topics, them being introspective and intimate and quiet with the weight of history around them, but I think I finally got close to hitting the nail on the head with this one

I think Lightning Storm is my favourite Arthur Matt interaction as it's them both realising, for the first time, that their relationship power balance is shifting. Arthur isn't this untouchable thing anymore and Matthew isn't a child. But I think my favourite interactions, or them together in general, come from It's All About the Delivery which is my baby ;u; There is too much I love about this fic to list

I think the funniest things I've ever written are All Tied Up for FrUK and Road Trip for the UK bros. Both I've reread so many times and make me chuckle, which I've very happy about

I really like Morbid Fascination because it's the only time I've written the BFT and I think I nicely touched on both Gilbert's mortality, and how the rest of the trio feel about it.

I really like Reflections because it's soft FrUK without FrUK even speaking in the story at all. It was also a good challenge to write something intentionally from someone else's perspective and I really like how this came out

LASTLY I PROMISE, I really love Wake and Reminders. I can't pin down why; they're really memorable to me maybe because they're short and sharp and getstraight to the point of what I wanted to stay. I also think like some lines and pieces of desctiption for both

11) what aspect of your writing do you think has most improved since you started writing?

I think description! Or rather, which details to focus on and which is just clutter. I'm still really heavy handed a lot of the time (usually when I try too hard) but I find reading back over my older work painful the longer ago they were which is a good thing

17) if you could give your fledgling author self any advice, what would it be?

'Just write!'

I used to think stories were only worth writing if they were cool, or different, or grand. I used to feel as though there had to be a new point or a concept you were aiming to explore, or a theme- something to say or a plot to work through. Honestly though, for me that makes writing work and takes the fun away. So many of my stories have happened because I started with a prompt, or a line of dialogue, and just began writing with no plan in mind

I still get stuck by these old beliefs and haven't dove into non-fic writing because whatever ideas I have don't feel 'good' enough to be worth it or take the time to flesh out, so maybe I need to take my own advice and just see where it goes

25) copy/paste a few sentences or a short paragraph that you’re particularly proud of

THIS IS HARD

There are so so many I could give you but this one first comes to mind, from The Artist:

'Has seen this face many times before, cast in oil and smoothed into stone. An angel of God, a soldier of war. A nameless face at a dinner scene, ghostly shapes billowing in smokes of charcoal. A face that has been sketched by hundreds of poor souls before him, a body that imprints on the mind like a stain.'