#i’ve gotten similar Qs a few times and the answer is always pretty underwhelming haha

[saturdaynightghostclub]

You've mentioned before that your academic background is in analytical literature. So what made you take the leap into creative writing? Had you been thinking about it for a while before your first post, or was it spontaneous?

Okay so honestly I have never been inclined to try creative writing really, and I still don’t think of it as something I “do” in the same sense that I “do” rhetorical analysis and stuff if that makes sense.

The story of how I got into this is pretty simple though! Basically, my best friend and I had a couple of margaritas and went down a rabbit hole of choose-your-own-adventure content on Tiktok, and I thought “This seems simple enough, I could probably make one of my own” and then I did! I wrote it that night, which is why the first episode is absolutely shot through with typos—sober Toady would never let that fly 🫠

As far as the writing itself, I get a lot of comments about its being “unique” or “distinctive,” which I feel I very much owe to my academic background. It’s why I have such a hard time answering the question of who or what inspired the stories (and why you’ll see me recommending the same things over and over)—truly, I just try my best to write in a way that wouldn’t piss me off if I had to pick it apart for an essay or something!

I love this question, thank you bestie!! 💙