#tablejeff

13) your strengths as an author

ugh great this backfired now i have to?? compliment myself??? 

okay okay okay i think i’m good at like...very introspective, inside-character-A’s-head writing that doesn’t feel too slow? like one of my favourite comments ever was one on gusts where someone told me it’s really clear how regina feels about emma without her ever saying it or even acknowledging it in narration. which is!! what i was going for tbh!! i mean like 99% of my fics are POV Character Is Pining And In Denial Hell About It. but i think i’m p. good at pulling that writing style off.

24) have you ever become an expert on something you previously knew nothing about, in order to better a scene or a story?

honestly i would like to say yes, because i....write a lot of randomly specific things into my fics...but i will Always rather fudge the details than actually spend time and energy on research, bc i am That Bitch. like my most recent fic (imagine anything so bright) is both set in an American elementary school and features an extended family law case. did i do Any research into either of those things? NOPE!

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

u g h 

fine. from my new year’s fic:

“Love you, moms,” he whispers, shutting his eyes tight and letting the moment sink in, knowing that for this next year, really, he has absolutely nothing to wish for. And then:

“Wanna make out while he’s not looking?” Ma whispers.

“I wish for new moms,” he says loudly,

i love this dorky family!!! im very proud of that fic tbh, it’s only 5k and it doesn’t really have any Big Moments but i wanted to do lots of little snapshot moments and i really like how they all turned out

and this, from imagine anything so bright:

Emma’s hand tightens around the hem of his sleeve, fingertips clutching at the material with an instinctive, wordless need to hold on to him, to anchor herself to him before he rears away; because he will, he has to, Emma has tried to call enough people family to know that they always, always take a step back -

Henry's head falls back against Regina’s chest, eyes wide with wonder. “Oh,” he says quietly, his voice so small that Emma feels it like another tangible crack across her heart, another inevitable pulling away.

 because by this point in the story i was weaving together the emma/henry, emma/regina. regina/emma, AND the emma/regina/henry threads to reach the ending i wanted, and i had to make sure all those elements were addressed properly - it was really important to have regina and emma both there when henry found out, and i needed a way to include henry’s surprise as well as emma’s feelings and her interpretation of what regina’s thinking.

and for old time’s sake bc i feel bad just talking SQ when u were so kind and obliging to indulge my demand for attention:

Her shoes and his, cluttering up the tiny hall, and he’s never seen anything more natural until she’s in his bedroom, letting her dress fall to the floor and pulling him with her to the bed like she’s never been anywhere else.

never!!!!

oh hewwo

the grind never stops

drats! i have been caught yet again! yolo etc. if u want compliments just fucking give them to urself thats what i do, which is how ive grown to be so wise, hilarious, beautiful, sharp and also magnificent. love u. now go the fuck to sleep.