#not quite 10 months because the htbhab one didnt finish a total month 3 and i just started month five for firewatch

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11, 12 and 17 for the ask game? :)

11.  Books and/or authors who influenced you the most

real life authors?? hm, i feel like it's hard to say. i'm sure there is a LOT because i used to read voraciously in school around the same time my interest in writing developed, but i do not recall any particular influence. in terms of other media though there are sometimes things that give me away as being a die-hard doctor who fan though LOL (guys i modeled a scene in IBW off of a doctor who shot?? like mentally in my head i framed it that way?? help)

for more recent influences like in the fandom, i very much remember reading theminecraftbee's "to convey a certain brilliance" in like fall 2021 and immediately tried to incorporate pieces of their style (specifically the slightly stream of consciousness-style sentences) into my work. yes i did that and i will now admit it here in 2023. it's hard to explain so i just will pull a single line from to convey a certain brilliance that is the type of thing that caught my eye: "He hears something that sounds like it's definitely, definitely a creeper, and, oh no, hate that, he yelps and dodges backwards."

^^^^ you can 100% see stuff like that in my work ever since, but also i was always writing like this a little. like i promise you i did not straight up steal the style because i can read my older wips and they still very much sound like my current style. i'd more say i just intentionally worked some similar more casually structured sentences into some of my work. Like, here's a slightly similar sentence in Lonesome Dreams to the one i pasted above: "He remembers the Watchers giving them a message but it’s all lost in the blur of the past few hours, and oh no, if he doesn’t remember what they’ve told him then he’s likely to get something wrong and be punished . . ."

i do absolute have my hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy au fanfic wip styled on douglas adams as much as i can xD that was a LOT of fun

12.  Describe your perfect writing space

honestly, i very much just like my little apartment. most of my significant writing progress has been since i (technically) moved here. who knew not being in my parents house would give me free time to write?? wow! but it's nice and cozy and peaceful. easier to focus.

i've also written several firewatch sections sitting outside on the porch at my parents house on particularly nice spring days, but now that we're in Head Advisory Hell for the rest of the summer that might not happen anymore

^^^ example porch view i enjoyed

17.  What writing habits or rituals do you have?

does the whole daily updated writing challenge log count? because i cant think of any other ones! i did it for ~3 months for htbahb, one month last summer (not publicly posted), one month for nanowrimo, and now i'm on my fifth month for the 2023 challenge

that is like...approximately 10 months out of the last 16 months where i have been trying to log word counts every day