#As ever shout out to the gg s2 finale for wounding me so srsly

[sothischickshe]

Did you already write (fanfic or original stuff) before joining the GG fandom? :)

So the answer for me, which I think is true of quite a few of the authors in the gg fandom, is... Kinda but not really?

I've always loved reading and I've also pretty much always loved writing, but my writing always felt very much like dabbling to me? And contrary to basically every piece of advice ever, writing has always been something that I've picked up and put back down and then picked up again. So there have been times in my life where I've been really into it, and then not really written for years.

In terms of things I've written - a friend and I cowrote an entire mad series when we were kids. When I was 15 or so I churned out a bunch of short stories in a whirl then closed the notebook and put it away. Mm I've done nano a couple of times and always meant to go back and edit the end results but never did. There's one elaborate original story I've come back to a few times but never worked through a lot of, and I think I've got different drafts of it saved on various ailing pieces of technology.

I've got a lot of friends who are writers and/or have studied creative writing so I've ended up doing writing workshops and having a lot of free writing fun, or just stealing their assignments and doing my own version, or writing them a story in exchange for one due to being yelled into it.

I had written (but like dabbly v first drafty) a couple of fanfics for other fandoms, and i even started a gg one before the end of s2 (rip) but idk they felt flat to me and I had no inclination to polish them and I never considered publishing them?

Something just... Shifted one day? And I was like... Yea I know how I want to write this thing actually?? And then I did and I was like yea im happy enough with it to post it actually?? And then I did!

I think I'm probably more of an experienced non fiction writer in a way?? Not that I'm supes experienced at that but like articles and reviews and academic nonsense!

Oh and based on my notebooks sometimes when I'm really drunk I write bad poetry about socks, idek how long that's been going on for!! I do have one song writing credit to my name, that's from when i was like 6 though