#jos11 is the aftg handle on ao3 if you're interested in that little thing

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For the ask game:

🍣 What helps you focus or get in the mood to write?

🍥 What's your favorite fic you've written?

🥮 Do you have any writing milestones you're working toward?

🍣 What helps you focus or get in the mood to write?

Literally nothing, it either hits or it doesn't. I think if I have been thinking about a scene and have a clear picture of the events that I want to accomplish in said scene, and if I can get started, and if there's nothing that I don't understand about the scene, that's the best recipe for writing something. But if there's anything about the scene I am unclear on, or like the scene requires research because I just don't know something, or I haven't thought through the elements of what I want to write, it is just miserable over here.

Sometimes if I light a candle or it's rainy I might be more prone to writing but I really just need to have a good visual on what needs to happen before I can even think about writing it.

🍥 What's your favorite fic you've written?

I love all of them... I want to say right now that overall, Belleview is my favorite story and has some of my strongest writing, but I think this changes with the season and if you ask the same question when I'm in a fighter-heavy period, I'd easily pivot to that. My favorite Fighter pieces include the whipping one and the 28 hours one, my favorite Belleview pieces include the prologue/intro and many of the River ficlets, I love chapter 1 of Derek's back, I have favorite pieces in many of my old fanfics. I don't think I have a top spot overall, but I think I consider my strongest writing (although not necessarily my overall favorite pieces) to be the intros to Derek's Back, Belleview, and the AFTG fic that is simmering. I like an intro it turns out :)

🥮 Do you have any writing milestones you're working toward?

Well right now I want to write a novel but it's really more in the 'this is a thing I want to do' phase and less in the 'this is a milestone I'm working toward' phase.