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I did a fic writer's ask meme on tumblr
1. Describe yourself how you would describe a character you’re introducing
She’s sitting cross-legged in a swivel chair, switching across the twenty tabs open in her browser at a dizzying speed. The silence of the room is broken by the hammering of her keyboard as she replies to a friend’s message on Telegram, yelling about some new favourite rarepair or another, before opening her Google Drive, where she pulls up an empty document. She keys in the title, and stares at it for a small eternity, before giving up and opening her writing journal in a new tab. In it, she writes a mini-essay… about being unable to write.
wow this went off on a tangent, I’m sorry
3. What is your absolute favorite kind of fic to write?
Dystopian AU! Post-apocalyptic, futuristic, post-war and the like. They’re my fallback option whenever I run out of ideas to write, because worldbuilding!! is good fun!! I like to explore how people band together in times of crisis in search of survival, so that’s another great thing about dystopias.
Alternatively, I get to go all sci-fi and futuristic (I ever wrote an original piece about a world built entirely underground because the surface got too toxic, that one was fun to explore).
5. How many words can you write if you sit down and concentrate intensely for an hour?
I’ve not tried sitting down and concentrating intensely for an hour in a while… but at least 500 to 1000 if I’m in the mood and the words are working with me! People You May Know took less than a day to complete but besides that I’ve been having trouble writing anything ヾ(`ヘ´)ﾉﾞ
4. Are there any other fic writers you admire? If so, who and why?
SO MANY!
I’ll just list… like… five? I originally put three but then I discovered that it is. Not Possible. I’ll rec one work from each too :D (this list is non-exhaustive… there are a lot more other writers I really look up to, and picking just a few was Death. but these are the writers I will, without fail, pick up and throw their fics at to whoever is just entering the fandom.
aritzen: Rits has this really amazing way of crafting a story and subtly pulling you in, without you realising that you’ve been pulled in?! Her writing comes off as aloof as first, but she builds everything really methodically, and before you know it she’s constructed a whole story around you, brick by brick. I’d recommend Midnight Railway, which is my favourite from her. I think I’ve reread it 6 times or more at this point?
carafin: I think Fin is one of the HQ fandom staple writers, almost everyone has probably read her fics at least once?! She writes gen really really really well, and her other!! fics!!! it’s like she’s weaving magic with her words and the way she writes interactions!!! all her characters have voices of their own, and every single one of her fics, whether AU or canonverse, are all so real and vibrant to me *-* when my friend first got into HQ, I threw Fin’s fics at her first before anybody else’s orz. Have her gen!Karasuno fic - Sunburst.
Tsucchi: how could I not mention Mel when they’re the one who singlehandedly dragged me into Ennotana and Asadai/suga hell? :D Mel does this thing where their characters’ voices are all so clear and… audible, and they have this really good handle on repetition and parallels, which I’m an absolute sucker for - their Asadai, his ace, really displays their skill at drawing parallel references. And not to mention how much care they put into every character, every chapter and every fic, to bring out the mood and atmosphere and the nitty-gritty of the universe they’re writing about.
themorninglark: another HQ fandom staple writer! Lark’s writing has never failed to take my breath away. From her long fics to her short fics, I can say with certainty that I’ve stayed up in bed reading all her works because I couldn’t put my phone down - not when I wanted to know what other magic she still had in store for me. She says a lot in very little words, and I think that’s the most beautiful of all - that in the span of less than a thousand words, I can visualise everything so clearly and feel feelings so deep.
I’d recommend caesura, which is just 633 words long but portrays the Miya brothers so beautifully, ohh my heart.
clandestine7: Maya!!!!! probably one of the first writers that ever made me go “this, this writer is my favourite writer now”. she doesn’t write for HQ but her writing was pretty much what sealed the deal for one of my OTPs in DGM. I can’t quite put my finger on what I love about her writing, but it’s equal parts characterisation and world building and just… how she brings emotions across… it’s like I’m there, witnessing her characters interact, feeling what they feel, watching the world around them as though I’m not just reading words on a screen.
If you’re into DGM, Staples of Vocabulary is one of my all-time favourite fics, regardless of fandom. (it’s DGM-canonverse though, so… u_u)
7. Inspiration, time, or motivation. Choose two.
Time and motivation! I struggle a lot with motivational issues rather than inspirational - inspiration is something I can get from basically anything and anywhere, but actually finding time and motivation to write is my biggest challenge u-u
8. Why do you choose to write?
Hmm, I’ve always been the kind who seeks out more content of things I like - it’s why I even stumbled across fanfic in the first place. So… it’s my way of getting more content of characters and stories I enjoy, I guess! It helps that I enjoy writing and storytelling, so it’s like killing two birds with one stone :D
10. What inspires you the most?
Seeing my readers react to my stories! When my readers tell me that my writing made them feel things - like how they relate it to themselves, or how they were on the edge of their seat for the whole story, or they laughed at a line that a character said… it really feels like my hard work and effort and all the heart and soul I pour into my fics pay off!
11. Weirdest thing you’ve ever written/thought about writing/etc.?
I had a bit of trouble coming up with an answer for this, until I remembered that I have a story planned for Yullen (DGM) as… um. Dinosaurs. Dinosaur AU. Dinosaur love. Yeah……… *shrugs*
15. Your guilty writing pleasure?
Gen and character studies, I think?! But they’re difficult for me to write so I end up writing shippy gen half the time *sweats
16. Do you have structured ideas of how your story is supposed to go, or make it up as you write?
Nowadays I’ve been trying to keep my fics - especially the plot-heavy ones - organised, so most of the time I do have an idea of what’s going to happen - I know what my endgame is, per se, and I know the major events that will lead up to the endgame. But the ‘major events’ are often … not enough so I almost always end up making up new things as I go anyway.
But I’ve kind of realised that I don’t really work well with structuring my fics beforehand, because apparently it gives me extreme writing inertia, like: “I’ve written it all now, no more writing for me!” when actually … all I’ve done is write down my plot points and explaining to myself how I got from A to B… orz
Of course, there are the odd fics like snippets and short oneshots where I literally go, “Oh, I wanna write this scene” and *snaps fingers* I write it without thinking about anything else. I’d love to have more of those fics, tbh u_u
I should (and would!) try writing like that more, except that I know I’ll more often than not write myself into a corner that I don’t know how to get out of.
20. 4 sentences from your work that you’re proud of
From the next instalment of Time Travel AU:
As all humans are, Noya is fragile. Some days, it’s difficult for Akinori to remember his fragility, because of the immensity of Noya’s presence. The force with which he’s ripped a space into Akinori’s life is one that Akinori himself still can’t quite wrap his head around, even after so many years. It feels like it was just yesterday that a curious child somehow found his way into Akinori’s territory on the borders of the forest, never mind that it was a half hour trek away from the town.
That got very long. I'll update this if I get more questions overnight!