Thank you ;O; That’s really sweet, and it always makes me super soft when I can inspire people to continue their creative dreams <33 I know that sounds real cheesy and cliche, but it’s true. It makes me feel like I’m impacting people and leaving my mark that goes far beyond just me. 

Typically, ghost writers don’t write their own works. It IS, in a way, my writing. The small details of a scene are mine. How I bring it to life is mine. The phrasing. The words. The flow. But when I work as a ghost writer, I’m given an outline. I then write the story based on that outline. It’s not my plot. It’s not my characters. Truthfully, I don’t mind that it’s not published under my name bc I have no real connection to them. They’re very basic romance novels with very archetypal characters. It’s like writing an article and having it published under your company’s name. I’m paid for my time and my words, and then I move on and don’t worry about it anymore. I don’t feel like I’m being slighted bc I have no emotional attachment or investment in them. I’ve been told that they’re very good, and that fundamentally, my writing style doesn’t change. But it honestly feels like I turn my brain off when I write them, bc I don’t care about the characters. A friend of mine once read one of my ghost written romance novels and said “I can tell it’s your writing, but it just feels... flat compared to your fanfics.” I am very careful not to put pieces of myself into my ghost written works because they’re not mine. Things that I write for me, my fanfics that you read, the things on my patreon, those have pieces of me in them. Those are written works I care about. Ghost writing just kinda feels like writing something for school.

Also, it isn’t one person hiring me and claiming fame from my writing. It’s technically a company that hires outliners, editors, and ghost writers, and all the work is published under a couple crafted and fake aliases. So the name my work is published under isn’t even a real person, and it’s published alone side work from other ghost writers.

I don’t think it’s weird! I think that kind of open acceptance is something we all crave, and something we fear never having. I hadn’t really thought of it at the time (because I was just like “haha, Lance thinks Keith is a furry”) but my girlfriend is wonderfully accepting of pretty much any kink I bring to the table. It’s taken a while to build up a trust and stop habits/fears/self consciousness from previous relationships. But now we’re at a place where like... I never feel ashamed or embarrassed about expressing stuff I might be into, and she’s almost always willing to find ways to explore it. 

Tbh most of them are done by friends. I’ll use a reaction image and they’ll send it back with blue hair. It’s my favorite thing

I’m not sure I would, and that’s bc of a couple reasons. I love the fic as it is, and continuing something you poured part of yourself into and are proud of is.... daunting. But it’s also been so long since I’ve written it, that I’m 100% afraid that I won’t be able to capture it the same way and won’t be able to do it justice. I also like to put my creative energy into new fics and new stories once one is finished.