Love a good ask game! Making this a share circle? I will also give my answers:
1. "Do you daydream a lot before you write or go for it as soon as the ideas strike?" — Ideas are fickle. If there's an exchange or description that feels full of potential, I write it down somewhere so I can say it exists and have the potential to come back to it.
7. "Post a snippet from a WIP" — "Oh, shut up, Jimbo! We know how knives work!"
16. "Do you write by hand, on your phone? Or on your laptop?" — Phone or laptop, by hand if nothing else is available.
22. "Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with titles?" — Depends on if the fic is more plot or character focused. If it’s the former, the title comes along early. If it’s the latter, I look at the fic through a thematic lens, then come up with a title that reflects the themes of the work in its totality.
36. "What fic are you proudest of?" — There's this Owl House fic called "Life Goes On" that takes place in an AU where Luz is stuck in the Demon Realm with everyone else on the other side of the portal that takes place after the Season 2 finale. It's a nice little character study that has this underlying bittersweetness to it. Also, there is a Slenderverse reference.
43. "Is there a trope or idea that you'd really like to write, but haven't yet?" — Kid from the future fic. I think the approach I want to take with it is this notion of “reframing your parents so that they’re just people”. I think a lot of kid fics focus on how the future parents react to this foreknowledge, but I think it'd be interesting to have the (aged-up, let’s say 20s because that doesn’t happen a lot) child have a bit of cognitive dissonance and hold mistakes that the parents haven't even made yet against them.
56. "Are there any fics you would change or rewrite if given the chance?" — Absolutely. There are plenty of fics in varying qualities I do that for, sometimes as a style exercise (I once rewrote a scene from Life is Strange in the style of Aaron Sorkin), sometimes because the idea is solid but the execution is lacking. Sometimes because I just want to see if there’s a different place for things to go.
67. — "Are there any fics that influenced you to write the way you do?" I like to think when I go for more outright comedy, it's a little bit "Hitchhiker's Guide". Douglas Adams was a huge influence on me. TheNewYorkBrony was also a big one, along with shortskirtsandexplosion. Russell T. Davies (circa 2005-2010) and Steven Moffat, I gotta put Stephen King in there, too. There's one fic called "curiosity" by omegalomania that pretty much set the style in which I’d write the Operator from Marble Hornets, and another called "Under the Floorboards" by TotallyARealPerson that influenced my decision to subvert some character personalities where appropriate.
73. "What do you tend to get complimented on the most about your writing?" — I like to think I'm very good at capturing distinct character voices, because people have told me that in the comments of my writing and I figure it must be true if it's been repeated so often. For example, the quote in #7 is from John Simm's Master; so see if you can read that in his voice.
77. "Why do you enjoy writing fanfiction?" — Because it's an opportunity to explore implication raised by the original work, or just to spend time with the characters that have come to stake their place in your heart. And as a writer, it feels refreshing to do both.
79. "Do you have any writing advice you want to share?" — Any "bad" idea can make a great story, but you gotta understand how to make it gel with the pre-established setting. Everyone would shy away from abruptly ending a series before confirming whether or not your lead character was dead, but The Sopranos made it work because David Chase understood that Tony (presumably) getting taken out in the same way he’d take others out was the only way it could end for him. That ambiguity keeps us talking about him in a reflection of how the real-world mob would. Take the swing; it might connect.
god ideas ARE fickle. you are much smarter than me when it comes to writing them down---i'm still suffering in the 'i'll surely remember this later' haze.
i went to walmart the other day and they've got some kpdh composition notebooks for back to school, and now im wondering if i should try writing by hand again...
ive never seen owl house, but that sounds like an incredible fic. also, one of my favorite fics ive read is a kid from the future fic, but they're... late teens? early twenties? very fun, lots of cool character moments with that exact thing you described
helllllll yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah i love this! fanfiction is a wonderful sandbox, or magnifying glass, or a spun out theoretical. and all you have to do is take a swing
