#ask.margaux

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3) what order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?

4) favorite character you’ve written

5) character you were most surprised to end up writing

6) something you would go back and change in your writing that it’s too late/complicated to change now

7) when asked, are you embarrassed or enthusiastic to tell people that you write?

8) favorite genre to write

9) what, if anything, do you do for inspiration?

10) write in silence or with background noise? with people or alone

oh there was more. omg, 7thkarma, i'm so sorry for the effort you made to ask me and also i appreciate this.

3) it always starts with a scene i can't get off my mind, then i flesh out the how it went there and where its going after.

4) being one of the cliche supernatural young adult girlies from a teenager to a young adult, i was particularly proud of my vampire character who had an unusual thirst, that of dreams but every wednesday, he visits a young blind girl and teaches her how to see through dreams.

5) no character reveals haha but it's number 4. while the idea is good, the writing is really bad. i'm sorry 19 year old me.

6) i wish i stopped myself from creating mary sues. but i think it's common to have that phase. sometimes, you just want to write out self-indulgent things without care, and that's okay. :) we all had that one dream where you're a glamorous undercover spy that's highly intellectual, cool, witty, and might have great weaponry skills and/or rare magic. (Lucius from The Sandman comic said something to that effect, iirc).

7) ehm. depends on the audience. but generally, i'm proud of it. i was a school journalist first before i dabbled with fanfiction and prose.

8) fantasy for prose. but i'm more into poetry at the heart of things.

9) hm. nothing in particular, but a quiet room with good music and a drink helps. but mostly, the ideas are random, and comes at the most inconvenient times. my phone notes are full of clips or rather, i have pieces of tissues/receipts/random papers in my bag or pocket to save them.

10) alone with music only i can hear.