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3, 24 (any), 45, 50?

Oooh ty for the ask! I honestly forgot I queued up that fic writers ask post and was like ??? but here we go!

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?

Overuse of ‘just’

Introspection & pining but the POV character doesn’t know they’re doing either

overlong luxe descriptions of landscape and interior design (more kindly stated as environmental storytelling maybe)

It should be at least slightly funny. I want people to laugh.

24. Are there any easter eggs in [insert fic], and if so, what are they?

Ough good question… but I don't think I have any fun answers for any of my current fics. I wish I were clever enough to insert easter eggs into my writing, but my brain partitions fandom content into specific little boxes that don’t have much interaction between each other

I DO have one Liufang fic that will probably remain unpublished where Sun Jing and Qiu Tong from Tamen de Gushi (她们的故事) have cameos as Bai Zhan and Qian Cao disciples!

45. What’s something you’ve improved on since you started writing fic?

This is going to sound very funny, but. I have gotten better about sharing my writing lol. Not at autorial things that actually matter, like pacing, or analysis, or rising falling action whatever! I have gotten better at sharing my writing :)

I write a LOT and I share very little. Mostly because I write solely for an audience of one (1) (me). Most of what I’ve written has never been read by anyone besides me, and probably won’t ever have any kind of audience except for me. And I’m totally okay with that!

Case in point:

Moshang WIP word count to date: 192k (excluding 33k of my forays into Bingqiu and Liushang)

Moshang Published word count: 117k

Not bad, actually! (honestly I thought I'd written more lol) Now let’s take a look at my older fandoms

Eyeshield 21 WIP word count: 602k

ES21 Published word count: 14k

LMAO WHAT. I am covering my face with one hand. No comment.

Homestuck WIP word count: 150k

Homestuck Published word count: 0

LOL. again, no comment.

The more I feel like I need to make my own food, the more I tend to write (by god ES21 i am looking at you with wet and pathetic eyes…) and I only publish if I feel like i have something good to contribute. I suffer from an overbearing need for perfection (self-perceived) so if it doesn’t pass my own vibe check/exactingly high standards, I won’t publish it. This means that there are tons of shorter minifics, character interactions, drabbles, AUs etc that simply languish in my docs bc I guess my internal metric for ‘contributes to fandom’ is longfic. I got a little better at sharing my writing with Moshang, mostly because I liked what I had written so much and at the time, it didn’t feel like anyone had done exactly what I wanted to see. Haha perhaps it was only my ego that got bigger, and not my writing skills? :')

ANYWAYS. I would like to try and use my brain more when engaging with things and creating instead of just devouring something and then smashing whatever is in my brains directly onto a doc and being like OOOO WOW!!!! COOL FIC!! I LOVE IT!! MWAH (all themes, motifs, and analysis fly directly over my head and escape like a flock of birds) but also my brainspace is so small and crammed so full of whatever the OTP of the era is that it’s quite difficult for me :’)

50. Answer any question of your choice, or talk about anything you want to talk about!

I am going to use this to answer #46!

46. Do you prefer writing on your phone or on a computer (or something else)? Do you think where you write affects the way you write?

I write almost exclusively on my phone lmao. Lying in bed in the dark, on my phone, on gdocs!

I edit exclusively on the computer, so any writing that needs to be added at this stage is on the laptop. This is the most grueling part of writing for me and makes me gnash my teeth so much. Editing is so hard and so time consuming and spurs the perfectionist in me like someone kicking a horse into gallop lmao.

If i didn't write on my phone, i wouldn’t get any writing done, I think. This is also part of why chapter updates take so long. Always bottlenecked at the editing point!

Thank you for the asks!!! Why was this such a long answer lmao

#mytext #asks #obstinaterixatrix

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