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HIIII BEE waving at u thank u so so much yayyyyyy i love u too<33

17- talk about your writing and editing process

sitting down cross legged grinning and giggling about this one i love yapping about writing and editing and such a Lot. heheee<3

i feel like the best way to describe writing is that it's very much a thing of carving for me🥳it's less that i'm making shit up as i go along ---well. i absolutely Am. plotting & outlining scenes is a personal exception & not a rule. lmfaooo. but as for the way it feels to write--- it's more that i kind of have an idea of how i want the line/sentence/paragraph to go and i just keep fleshing it out rather than that i'm creating something new<3 it's already there. in my brain. i just have to find it you know

as for the specifics of What I Am Writing, i enjoy similes a sickening amount. and metaphorsss. yay!!! i like employing some basic poetic techniques,, alliteration/sibilance/assonance are always fun to throw in there,,, also it takes me a while to write because i get really meticulous about double-meanings of my lines which is one really enjoyable part of writing for me!!!!!!! my favorite part of the process is definitely physical descriptions; i kind of struggle with emotional ones because i find it so hard to demonstrate that in a way that doesn't get repetitive within a story but still isn't jarring. but i still have fun playing around with them<33

i am working on making sense. 😭. giggling so hard rn. i understand that especially in my earlier fics my trains of thought can become a little indecipherable so i'm trying to prioritize coherence in future🫡🫡🫡

AS FOR EDITING!!! i am very much edit-as-i-go. which is funny because i feel like writing tips 101 for getting shit done are always like. Don't Do This. u can't edit a blank page just write. which is so real and true Alas. it's also why i don't generally write in notebooks. i've tried!! but i scribble so much out and my margins get crowded and i end up putting ^ midsentence so i can write a word above it. my essays for school are the same way though i sometimes rewrite them to make them look vaguely presentable. (also because the way i cross stuff out makes it look like i'm censoring a letter from the frontlines in ww2) rip i wish i was kidding. anyways i have lots of belated thoughts or urges to rewrite in some way which is why google docs is a blessing and a curse because it lets me agonize over one particular sentence in lieu of moving on<33333

19 - the most interesting topic you've researched for a fic

i am going to half cheat. and say time loops. because i am in the veryyy early/preliminary stages of planning an original story with time loops but also. i have a byler timeloop fic in the works!!! no major spoilers yet but i'm hopingg that it'll be mean and evil twirling my hair. anyway i say half cheat because i've done barely any research on time loops in the context of the Fic. like a couple of google searches a few months ago tops. but i've been looking into them much more for the original story and i am garnering a pretty decent sense of how to write them from that :]]. even though the way i use it in the original story is a tragedy but i do want the fic to have a happy ending<33 because a happy ending is the best end for the arc i want to portray here AND. tbf. i have plenty of fics that have ended sadly already lol

20 - in what year did you publish your first fic?

while stranger things is not my first fandom it IS the first fandom i've ever Posted Fic for. i posted my first fic in 2023 (july 20th according to ao3? whatever u say beautiful etc) and like. the response i got from it was so overwhelmingly sweet. i feel like it's so scary posting fic in any capacity!!!! especially for ur first one lol. and my nerves about posting haven't really decreased much over the years but truly it's helped so much that everyone has been so lovely to me😭<3 You Included bee you are so wonderful i cherish ur comments love u

I kinda sorta did one at the very beginning of my practice, when I asked for whoever wished to to introduce themselves during a tarot pull, and Apollo and Aphrodite answered (with the same card no less- Page of Cups iirc).

Part of me is like "doing a deity reading would be Bad and Disrespectful" for...reasons? I guess? Pretty classic "it's fine when other people do it but if I do it I'm a Terrible Horrible Person" which is honestly just kinda funny at this point. Like. No?? That's not how things work, brain. We've been trying to re-wire this bit for years now, get 👏 with 👏 the program 👏

I'm having a harder time than usual coming up with words for why it would be disrespectful or dismissive to do, which I think might mean that the idea makes me anxious, which my mind reads as guilt, which means doing the thing would be Wrong, Actually. But the main reason I'm anxious was that initial over-analyzing "hmm, is this okay to do?" (and/or feeling overwhelmed by the prospect since deity readings seem to usually be larger spreads), which I then promptly stopped thinking about because I had other things to worry about and didn't want to add that on top of everything else (even though the answer is really simple, actually).