Questions 7, 26, 45, and 50. 28 made me giggle.
7. Any worldbuilding youāre particularly proud of?
as a fic writer i somewhat avoid doing world buildingā¦ the world is there in the source material. but for my longer witcher fics, i did have to work out how i thought magic works in that world, and even though very little of it ended up on the page, i am quite pleased with what is in my head and how it let me feel more comfortable writing ciri and yen doing magic. (thatās probably what makes it good world building in my opinion, that itās not really on the page.)
other things are more like, how do i jam my headcanons about how this world works into the story, which i think is fundamentally different than world building (like when ciri&jaskier talk about being queer in the post season 2 fic).
26. already answered this one (writing fic thatās only dialogue sounds like fun!)
45. Whatās something youāve improved on since you started writing fic?
i think the biggest thing is the ability to write longer works? the fact that iāve written two thinks over 10k now is still absolutely shocking to me.
i think iāve also gotten a lot better at figuring out why a story isnāt working. i used to just wander away from things and not find my way back to them, or chop the bits that were working into drabbles instead of figuring out the whole story. thatās also, on reflection, a big part of being able to write longer stories.
but also a lot of both of these things is less real improvement in my writing and more having a beta reader (you) and how the way i engage with fandom has changed a bit over time/across fandoms.
50. Answer any question of your choice, or talk about anything you want to talk about!
the thing i want to get better at (which i think iāve vaguely talked about in my sprint retro notes), is learning how to create inspiration rather than waiting around for it. itās an interesting self-awareness exercise. like if i go for a long walk or do the dishes while listening to music instead of a podcast, usually my brain does things. what else makes my brain do things and how do i guide the brain-doing-things in the direction of the thing i want to be working on?
(bonus 28, lol, yes. you read my fic before i post it, either when itās almost done or when i need validation that i put words on the page so you get to see my disaster drafts :D and you get to deal with how i didnāt write the two pivotal scenes for the ciri&jaskier fic until very late in my out of order writing process and i had to keep trying to explain what the fic was actually about to you because based on what was on the page it seemed like it was about something elseāin so much as that fic is actually about anything.)
