#wildswrites

11. Books and/or authors who influenced you the most

answered here!

12. Describe your perfect writing space

Comfortable chair at a flat surface with my laptop and ample back support. Headphones, my notebook and pen out for emergency notes, computer charger available, enough room for my mouse. Three to four beverages for me to sip.

13. Describe your writing process from idea to polished

Depends on whether it's an original work or a fanfiction! For fanfiction, because I've done it more often, there's a more streamlined process. If all goes well, it's like this: generate idea, discuss idea to death with either Amanda or Kae or both, structure idea, pour words about idea out, structure those words, minor editing, and then publish. If things do not go according to plan, often ideas will pull themselves out of me and go straight to publishing.

For original works, I have never had a novel that felt fully polished. I'll let you know when I get there.

14. How do you deal with self-doubts?

I have 210 published works on ao3.

15. How do you deal with writer’s block?

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my words are: join, warm, lack, safe, and sturdy

miracle of miracles, all of these words appear in the second draft of wolf's tooth ! so all of these excerpts are from a wolf's tooth for revenge !

JOIN

Kirby raises their joined hands to his cheek, inhaling deeply, kissing Raleigh’s knuckles. Once they leave this car, they won’t have another moment alone. 

Raleigh bends over to knock their skulls together, and Kirby catches him with a kiss. 

WARM

Much later, through the fog of sleep, Raleigh hears Kirby say, “I don’t know what to do. I’ve never seen him like that. Like this. How can I help him?” He sounds heartbroken, and the weight of his tone settles over Raleigh in half-consciousness like a blanket when you’re overly warm; it’s an unignorable discomfort. It drives him to wake.

LACK

It’s well after noon when they park the car, having left the R.V. locked up at a campground some miles back, but Raleigh is bleary-eyed from the lack of sleep regardless. The threadbare curtains that hang across the windows in the trailer don’t dim headlights that flash past while they sleep on the roadside, and sounds seem amplified by the hollow space. Every disturbance in the grass is a footstep, every night sound a warning. Of course, he would be the last to know in the event of a true threat; Raleigh should sleep soundly knowing that his companions are uniquely capable of recognizing such a thing. He finds some peace when he buries his head in Kirby’s side or under his arm, but he rests fitfully at best. So, he unbuckles his seatbelt and sags into his seat until the others have opened their doors and he has to do the same.

SAFE

“We know what you like. Stay safe, and call me if there’s trouble.” Raleigh settles into his seat, letting Kirby lean over him again to look Jacqueline in the face. He is no longer smiling. “If there’s even a chance that we could be compromised, I want a phone call, Jack.” 

“Aye-aye.”

“Jack,”

STURDY

The sunroom boasts a curving wall of windows, a rampant arch that spans the height of two stories divided into thick panes of glass. A long bar table stands on the sunroom’s farthest side, laden with pothos and budding crossandras. Though wolves fill this room, occupying all of the furniture and some of the floor, plants lay so thick that nobody could hope to sit on this table. Two grand sofas– the oldest and most delicate of all of the furniture in the Pedersen pack house –meet at an obtuse angle before the table, flanked by side tables that are themselves flanked by sturdy Irving armchairs. These are choked with werewolves, as are the couch in the room’s center and the coffee table it pairs with; the third armchair beside the bookshelf and its corresponding desk. The room most prepared to host still sees deputies sitting on the floor.

i don't know what the fuck i meant when i described that window as rampant , btw

Hello!! Thanks for dropping in!!

At present, I'm planning a new wip that I'll start drafting during Camp NaNo. It's a fantasy series although only the first book has been planned out yet. This story has been cooking in my head for a couple years and I think it's finally time to put it on paper. I haven't officially introduced it here, but I'm working on a wip intro post now. I'm super excited to see what I can do with this story!!

Words written for this ask: 124

Hi, and thanks for much for the ask!!

[Fallon] couldn’t blame [Hermes] for seizing an opportunity to meet a family he never knew he had.  She couldn’t blame him, but she could envy him.

hi there, kae! thanks for the ask. :3

sending good vibes for a decent day. ~whoosh~

docs ; what’s the longest story you have ever written (pages or word count)?

other than potential multi-chaptered fic wips that would be long?

i think tdrc is the longest at 100k+ words, just had me shookth. maybe it will be less on it's second draft? not sure, but i plan on chopping things.

tropes ; what’s your favorite trope to write?

found family bc i get to explore platonic relationships between my characters, and the dynamics they'd have! ultimate top-tier, you cannot change my mind.

wip ; talk about one work that you’ve recently started/just started!

right now, i've just started blasted scorn again. i did a short as a warm-up for the main story, which i will work on during april. maybe 15 chapters max? idk, but i need to figure out how to write a heist before starting it.

and some heist advice on mah dash has me in shambles, lmao. 🤧🤧🤧

i do not have coherent thoughts! and i do have a braincell! but as @strawberrie-faerie said, its mostly devoted to Science Shit (and also books/writing) and nothing else