#but parallels is going to have like........ 3 stories in it. dare(d). NSTK.

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🤩 🦅 and 📚 for the writer ask thing bestie <33

hiiiii avie <33

🤩 Who is your favorite character to write? ohhhh thats hard. i've found i really like writing Erik and playing with his personality and perspective on things since it's much more open to interpretation since we don't see him much. but i also have enjoyed writing Andrew despite the Many Challenges i face with keeping his characterization right :')

🦅 Do you outline fics or fly by the seat of your pants? that depends a LOT on the fic and what kind of fic it is.

when it comes to oneshots, not usually unless i have a very specific plan in mind for it. ex. when i first wrote "(why is there) joy in this poison" it was a oneshot, and i wrote lots of notes and background information for it as well as outlining it. but "LVOE." had no outline or plans at all, and i just sort of started writing to see where it would go.

when it comes to chapter fics, i've been trying to do more outlines just so i have a full picture of where the fic is going as well as any major points that i know i have to reach to get to the end. i didn't used to though :') one of my biggest chapter fics, "the beginnings just another end" i had a lot of ideas for random chapters and vague knowledge of how it would end, but no coherency or outline. "(why is there) joy in this poison" as a chapter fic has got a pretty good outline and...... several documents of notes and such. and the parallels au has got a loose outline for dare(d), as well as some notes and quite a few specific scenes planned/half-written, and NSTK has got some outline and scenes sort of placed in order.

📚 Would you ever want to turn writing into a career? i've debated it every now and then but idk. it's not like a huge dream of mine, but my friend wants me to try since i write anyway, i may as well get some money from it ya know? which i get that. who knows, maybe someday i will.

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oh you KNOW i gotta ask 10

and also 11 cause maybe talking about it would help

you are one cruel, cruel fiend, milo. why would you do this to me.

10. 🤡How many Wips are you actively working on?

alexa play "oh my dear lord" by the unlikely candidates

okay. okay. so in the interest of trying to limit what we consider ACTIVELY working on, i'm going to exclude fics that i'm not really sure if i'll ever finish and fics that i haven't actually STARTED writing, but i'm still going to include fics i know i'm going to return to even if i haven't touched them in a while. so let's check the WIP list...

3 for All for the Game (why is there) joy in this poison, Figurative Ghosts, go low

2 for Young Royals Dare(d) To Do It, Not Supposed to Know*

1 for Captive Prince laurent stabs damen

9 for Bungo Stray Dogs blackhole time fuckery, will you be mine? (no sir), The Port Mafia Boss's Most Loyal Dog, me-ow, dazai's job, abo au, outsider POV of corruption, who tf is slug????, not really a college au,

so that is... 15 TOTAL, most of which are currently bsd fics bc i have been bouncing between all of the WIPs there with incredible frequency cus my brain refuses to just STAY PUT ON ONE.

*techinically i haven't actually written anything for NSTK, but because it is one half of the Parallels AU and i have written for Dare(d), which is its partner fic, i'm still counting that as having worked on it. especially since they're 2 POVs of the same story, which means some of the events in Dare(d) will be shown in NSTK as well, so the same dialogue will be used in both for scenes they share.

11. 🛠Is there a scene or anything in the WIP you are struggling with right now?

oh this is about to be so long im so sorry

i think there's something im struggling with with all of my bsd WIPs right now, which is probably part of why there are just so many that i'm actively working on bc if i get stuck on one i can just move to something else for a while ;;;;

largely, i feel like im struggling a lot with figuring out Dazai and Chuuya's characters which obviously affects all of the WIPs since they're all skk-centric!! but they're both such complex characters with a super complex relationship with each other and i really love that about them and i want to be able to get that across, even in the shorter fics!! (this was also a struggle with the torturing kunikida fic, though since it was from Kunikida's POV it was a little easier bc i could show the contrast to what he expected of skk vs. what he saw that day to help get that across)

but just. characterization is ALWAYS an issue for me, especially when i first start writing characters. and i know that it'll be fine bc it always is, i think my anxiety about it causes me to put in the effort to really make the characters work and people usually really seem to enjoy them?? it is one of the things about my writing that people mention most often (and i will never tire of that, see: lots of anxiety about it) so i know i should calm down about it but HHHHHH

on the brightside(?) i do have a WIP that's still very much in the planning stages that will allow me to look at and play with a lot of the more toxic/codependent/generally unhealthy aspects of the two of them + their relationship while also giving me some more wiggle room in their characterization, which i think will be a fun way to help curb some of that anxiety when i actually start writing it.

and outside of that, looking at a specific WIP for an issue im facing currently: Loyal Dog is giving me SO MUCH TROUBLE bc i know what needs to happen and i know overall how the story is going to go and what the main points in it are. but actually figuring out how to write what i need to get down is. a struggle.

like it's just. i know the main plot and the main points and some of what needs to be done to get there. but the finer details are tripping me up. this time i think the outsider POV is working against me here, but also having it from an outsider POV is necessary to the story as i want it told!! idk. it's a LOT stupid little details that i need to plan and decide on while trying to make it plausible that's stressing me out more and hhhhhhhhhh

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