#and it was like 7-8yrs ago now so ofc i can't remember what any of them were

[misseffect]

For "get to know your fic writer": 23, 56, 72 if you don't mind! ☺️

23. Best writing advice for other writers?

ex👏pe👏ri👏ment👏

Write a different POV, write without using commas, write a child's perspective, write fictional Twitter discourse, write a transcribed phone call, write without using the letter C, write a shape poem, write sentences that get shorter by a word every time. Some of them will be bad! And that's fine.

My undergrad degree was 50% Creative Writing (the other 50% was English Lit) and by far the most valuable part of those 3yrs was being asked to write wildly different things on a regular basis.

I haven't been good at doing this for ages though so I could do with following my own advice lmao

56. What’s something about your writing that you pride yourself on?

Pacing! At least on a sentence level 😅

I like stories with some GO and its something I think I'm good at replicating that in my own writing.

72. What order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?

*nervous laughter*

I'm trying really hard to write more chronologically because otherwise I end up only writing the fun parts never coming back for the rest. It's hard, though, and I've ended up getting bogged down in stuff that isn't important instead. The ideal answer is probably somewhere in the middle but idk how to get there yet.

I'm pretty happy with where I am technique-wise but my process needs a lot of work. Like a LOT of work.

Ask me about fic!!

#thank you!!!!! #ask #i kept all my notes from uni and i KNOW some of them are output from writing exercises. but i didnt write the exercise on any of them 🙃🙃 #and it was like 7-8yrs ago now so ofc i can't remember what any of them were