Helloooo!!! 💖 ,📊 and 📚 for the fanfic ask game?
💖 What do you like most about your own writing?
Oof just go straight for like the hardest question on there lmao. I guess, after walking away from a fic and coming back a few weeks after posting, I tend to really like things like characterization and imagery. For the first, I try to keep everyone properly in character, despite the fact that I'm typically writing AUs. At that point I kind of have to ask myself, what different experiences has this character gone this in this universe than from canon, and how would that change them? Rather than just writing the canon characterization regardless of the AU or situation. And I always hate everything about a fic during the editing/posting process, but it's usually something I'm proud of looking back. And then I have a hard time with imagery, because I hate unnecessarily flowery language with like, a burning passion. If your language isn't adding something to the story, I've always been of the opinion it doesn't need to be there. So it's a rule I try to stick to myself - anything overly descriptive of using figurative language in my fics is something carefully crafted to add to my story, rather than just being there to be there.
I think this depends a bit on what you class as a WIP? In terms of partially-written things I plan on finishing, only two. The Collaring Scene, which has about 6k and I'm hoping to post by the end of the month, I know you're not the only one waiting for it lol, and something in a document currently titled 'rooftop smoke' which is ShigaDabi(Hawks kinda) ABO with joined-the-League-for-real!Hawks.
There are... a lot more I don't think I'll get around to finishing but do have pieces written for. Like a villain!Izuku ABO AU that turned into a roleplay between myself and Birdy instead, and a bunch of stuff for previous fandoms, mostly FFVII (gen fic that focused on the timeline established in the end of the remake and follows Zack and Cloud) and Kylux. So many unfinished Kylux WIPs.
📚 Do you read your own fic?
I absolutely do! I write them mostly for myself after all. I do have to give myself a period of distance between posting and going back and being able to actually enjoy them, but it does happen eventually. Usually I'll be prompted by either a lovely comment that makes me want to try to feel what they felt while reading it, or I'll just be in a mood for something similar to my fic, and upon remembering I already wrote it, I go back to re-read. That last one happens the most with Morning Melody honestly, when I just want that High-Key Soft.