1, 21, 22, 24, 49! :)
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1). Do you daydream a lot before you write, or go for it as soon as the ideas strike?
Answered here!
21). Do you prefer writing chaptered fics or one-shots?
Ohoho, one-shots FOR SURE. I've tried to write multi-chaptered fic, I really have... but if I don't basically finish them before publishing the first chapter, my success rate for completing currently sits at 50%. I have two multi-chaptered fics that have been stalled for YEARS now. They’re DEFINITELY NOT ABANDONED, and yet... T^T
I am at peace with being a short story/one-shot type of author. I WILL finish those multichapters someday though... I swear!!!
22). Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with titles?
Answered here!
24). How do you choose whose POV to write in?
I write exclusively in third-person omniscient, but I do almost always have a "POV" character whose thoughts and feelings are most transparent to the reader. I never thought about it until now, but that character almost always ends up being the one who has the least information in a scenario, the one who's trying to understand something about themselves or their situation or another person, and thus they have a high chance of experiencing some sort of change or growth by the end of the fic. I'm sure that's a fairly typical choice for a protagonist, and I'm also sure the specific characters I zero in on don't say anything about me as a person, nope not at all :) But like you, I think I'm also most able to write a character that I feel most comfortable inhabiting, so I have to know them really well before writing them! So I guess what I'm saying is I really need to be confident about a character’s uncertainty when I'm making the choice for POV? Interesting if true!
Is gravitating toward characters who struggle with low self-esteem or some sort of invisible-to-them personality flaw also a requirement? LA LA LA OF COURSE NOT, WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT, I'M SURE IT'S NOTHING IT'S FINE DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT!!!!
49). What fic of yours would you say is the best introduction to you as a writer?
Hmm, well! That's a really interesting question for you to ask!! I haven't published any Gargoyles fic yet (but hopefully soon. There are two of them!!!!!), and pretty much everything else I’ve written is for anime, specifically shows that end in "-mon." I think this Digimon fic is the one I’ve always been the most proud of, even though it's—yikes—10 years old at this point! It's just a meandering little walk in the woods with two teenagers having feelings(tm), but like... decent characterization, decent metaphors, good vibes, a little poetic interpretation of existing lore, these are all things I end up striving for when writing something on the fluffy side! But for whatever reason, writing felt a lot easier back then than it does now ^^;
For something a bit more recent: this one, probably—also Digimon. A bit more adult, a bit more rooted in horror, a bit more like the things I'm working on for Gargoyles. Dangit, but I do support women's wrongs... particularly if they're redheads ;D
