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[killerandhealerqueen]

Writer goal ask! 🥳💥🦷

🥳 How are you going to celebrate when you achieve one of your writing goals?

Honestly, either reblog it incessantly or just immediately start working on another fic. But mostly I'll just reblog it incessantly because god damn it, I did that

💥Is there a chapter, scene, or WIP you're most excited to write? Share a snippet or tell us about it!

Oh, I'm excited to write all of my fics for 2025...I can't possibly pick one. All of the ideas are just too good, you know? But, if I had to pick one, I'd say it's a tie between Things About Russians (CSI Miami fic) or Palekiako (Killer and Healer H50 au)

🦷 Is there a chapter, scene, or WIP you're dreading to write (but is necessary to your plot)? Share a snippet or tell us about it!

I'm dreading having to write more of my Killer and Healer rewrite. Not because I don't want to, but because of the emotional turmoil I'm going to have to go through with all the angst and what not. It's going to have a happy ending but boy howdy is everyone, including me, going to go through it first

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[master-sass-blast]

19, 20, and 21 for the writer ask!

19. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?

...Okay, can someone tell me what a muse is, in terms of -like-social context? Because I know I can look up the definition, but I can't tell if we're all talking about the "source of creative inspiration," or a blorbo we enjoy writing for.

20. Describe your perfect writing conditions.

Honestly? At this point, no pain, max energy, no chores to do, no brain fog so I can focus. WIND ME UP AND LET ME GO!

21. How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

It depends on the size of the piece and how much I struggled with writing it. If it was difficult to get the mood of the piece correct, or if I wrote it during an intense brain fog, I revise more to patch things up to catch spelling and word choice mistakes. If I was more confident about the concept and set up, I'll usually do two rounds -one to restructure sentences, make sure the mood and plot details are right, make sure it feels the way I want it to feel, and one to catch spelling and punctuation type mistakes.

[clawbehavior]

Hi friend! I saw your tags on my Mutual Tag Masterlist, so I have added you! I usually use these tags as organizers whenever I'm answering asks so that if people want to go and see more asks asked by this person, they can easily find them on my blog. But for me you can use "sass" or however else you tag whenever you answer asks. Some people use "sass.txt", some people will use "sass tag", some people use my whole username "killerandhealerqueen" but whatever works for you!

Ooh thanks friend

[killerandhealerqueen]

I wish you a Happy New Year! May inspiration never leave you and will only come!

Thank you, Vita! I hope 2025 is kind to you and your family. And look forward to more stories of our boys, I've got a lot of them coming up

[killerandhealerqueen]

Happy new year Sass! Hope this new one is kinder to you than the last one and that all your plans come true!

Sending you a big hug 🤗

Happy New Year my friend! I hope 2025 is also kind to you and brings you everything you could ever want!

[killerandhealerqueen]

Happy new year sass!! I hope 2025 is full of good things for you!!

Thank you Claw! I hope you have a VERY Happy New Year and that 2025 is a much better year for the both of us.

Love you!

[killerandhealerqueen]

send this to all your favourite moots and roll a snowball! KEEP THE SNOWBALL ROLLING!❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️

Thank you!!

[killerandhealerqueen]

send this to all your favourite moots and roll a snowball! KEEP THE SNOWBALL ROLLING!❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️

Thank you darling!!!

[killerandhealerqueen]

send this to all your favourite moots and roll a snowball! KEEP THE SNOWBALL ROLLING!❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️

Aw, thank you jiejie!!

[killerandhealerqueen]

Merry Christmas baby!!! I hope you have a wonderful day followed by a beautiful year filled with good things!! I'm soooo happy we met here

Aw, thank you Claw!! I hope you had a Merry Christmas/Happy Holiday and i hope the upcoming year is bright and wonderful and full of good things. I’m so happy we met here too

[killerandhealerqueen]

Hey just wanted to wish you a happy holidays! 😊

Aw, thank you Dana! I hope you have a happy holiday and a happy new year too!

[killerandhealerqueen]

Hi Sass!! 2 & 18 for the get to know your writer ask meme, please!! I hope you're doing well and having a great day/night!!

Aw, hi Billie! Thank you, I hope you're also having a great day/night!

2. Do you plan each chapter ahead or write as you go?

Depends. If I'm basing a fic off of a manga , I follow the chapters of the manga. If it's my own multi-chapter and I'm not basing it off of anything, then I just kinda fly by the seat of my pants. I'll maybe have an idea for the chapters, but I won't know what I'm putting into them until I start writing

18. Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with titles?

Again, depends. Sometimes, a fic idea will hit me and the title will already come with the idea. Sometimes the title doesn't hit until I'm working on the fic and I find either a line or a piece of dialogue that I like that fits the vibe of the whole fic. And sometimes the damn thing doesn't come to me until I'm on ao3 staring at the "title" line trying to think of what I should call this fic. But yeah, just depends on the idea (but they've certainly gotten better over time than my past couple of fics I will admit)

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[killerandhealerqueen]

Always Been Yours got me here!! I remember scrolling through the Killer and Healer tag on here and seeing your username and going

"OH MY GOD! I know you!! I have you Bookmarked!!" Like an excited puppy, I'll be honest. But I specifically remember Always Been Yours.

And for the 2024 In Review... I would ask number 19 - what's your favorite piece of dialogue

(Also, if i said something that sounded odd, rude or anything like that IM SO SORRY. For as long as I've been here I've never sent an ask in 😭 I just really enjoy your work and seeing you come across my dashboard)

Oh, Always Been Yours! Oh, I love that fic, it's a goody. I sometimes will go back and reread it (but then again, I go back and reread all my fics, I love them so much).

But that's so cute that you saw my username and reacted like an excited puppy. That warms my heart, honestly. I always like it whenever people get excited to see me.

tell me anonymously (or not) what fic brought you to my blog :)

19. Share your favorite piece of dialogue

Oh...I've written so many good dialogues this year...but I think my favorite has to be from Die Trying:

            “You know…I think the reason Keying is so kind and so loving like Princess Ning’an…is because you are kind and loving” he mused, making Chen Yuzhi look at him in confusion.             “What do you mean?  Me?  Kind?  Loving?  I killed innocent people, like the fucking princess, for God’s sake.  How does that make me kind and loving person?” he hissed.  Jiang Yuelou huffed.             “That was the you then.  It is not the you now.  You are a kind and loving person, Chen Yuzhi, whether you believe it or not.  I’ve seen it in the way you treat Keying and in the way you treat villagers.  You care.  Could the you all those years ago say that?” he asked.  Chen Yuzhi was quiet before he shook his head.             “No” he whispered.  Jiang Yuelou nodded.             “Exactly.  You learned how to be a kind and loving person from Princess Ning’an and then took that love and care and kindness and raised Keying with it.  She is a kind and loving child because of you.  You, not anyone else” he declared, making Chen Yuzhi stare at him with wide eyes before he quickly looked away, silence soon falling over the both of them before Jiang Yuelou looked over at him and placed a gentle hand on his thigh.             “You are a good and kind and loving person, Chen Yuzhi.  You are not Zhan Tianqing.  And you never will be” he assured before he pushed himself to his feet and made his way towards the door, just as Chen Yuzhi looked at him.             “Jiang Yuelou” he called out.  Jiang Yuelou turned to look at him.             “Hm?” he replied.  Chen Yuzhi looked at him with glassy eyes.             “Thank you” he whispered.  Jiang Yuelou smiled softly.             “You’re welcome” he replied before he turned and headed out of the room, Chen Yuzhi staring after him as tears streamed down his cheeks.  He had never realized how much he needed to hear that he was nothing like his adoptive father…and everything like the princess he so adored. 

And you said nothing wrong! You're totally fine! Feel free to drop by any time, on or off anon!

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[killerandhealerqueen]

So how do you feel about the pace, or just your general impression, of Under the Skin ss2 so far? Anything you wish it could do as well as or better than ss1? I have heard a fair share of ppl complaining about how the pace changes significantly and the focus is different than ss1, so I just want to hear your opinion regarding this.

So far, I'm quite enjoying it. I am watching it a bit slower than probably most people, since I'm liveblogging it and hitting my damn upload limit every fucking day, but so far, it's good. It reminds me of a combination of Killer and Healer, S.C.I., and Desire Catcher and if any of my dramas do that, I'm happy.

And I'm gonna be honest, I don't remember a lot from S1, so I can't really compare.

I will say that I like that they're focusing more on Shen Yi this season, as Season 1 was more like...focusing on Du Cheng and his overarching case with his mentor. And I'm not sure why people are complaining about S2 because we saw from the trailer at the end of S1 that this season was going to be considerably darker. Like, we knew this.

As for pacing, I think it's just fine. I like my overarching cases, I like cases that take at least an episode or two to solve, I like my procedurals (especially because I now work in forensics/work in a police department so I know how long shit takes). I think they're doing just fine.

I'm honestly excited to see where this overarching case goes, I'm curious to know how it's all going to end. I hope they catch the guy that did that to the girl...and I hope Shen Yi gets some proper fucking sleep.

But also, I like how Shen Yi and Du Cheng have opened up to each other more, are much more comfortable with each other....I don't know, I just like it. I like the growth that I see between them

[killerandhealerqueen]

From the fic game: ☉ what do you do when you get stuck writing?

✄ what’s your editing process?

Oh, great questions, anon!

☉ what do you do when you get stuck writing?

So, what I do...and I know there's a meme post about it somewhere, but basically, what I do is if I'm stuck on one fic...I go work on another. I have so many wips/fic ideas that I can easily hop from one to another if I'm stuck/if the fic is pissing me off. But sometimes, I just have to shut my computer and step away. Sometimes taking a break honestly makes for a better story because you're not trying to fight the fic and the fic isn't trying to fight you. Also, go take a shower or a nap if you're able to...sometimes that can get the creative juices flowing (sometimes even going for a drive while blasting music helps)

✄ what’s your editing process?

Oh boy...so I'mma be honest, I don't really edit. My first draft is usually my final draft, with like...a quick cursory glance over it before I post it, just to make sure there aren't any grammatical errors or sentence errors. But other than that, I don't spend a whole lot of time editing; in my opinion, the more I "fix" the worse my story ends up being, because I start overthinking/overcompensating when it was already good in the first place. So, if I'm happy with how a fic turns out the first time, I don't touch it. Sometimes there will be cases where I'll go back and read a fic and find that I don't like how either it ended or how I worded something and at that point I'll go back and either rework/rewrite the part I don't like or completely scrap the fic and start over (trust me, I've done it before). So...yeah. That's normally how my editing process goes. Or if I need a second pair of eyes, I'll send my fic off to Bills @ahhhnorealnamesallowed and have her look at it if I can't stand to read it anymore since I've been staring at it for so long

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[killerandhealerqueen]

Just checked out the song that you mentioned in the reblog. And now, I have a new favorite!!! You have TASTE.

As for, uhhh, next year, I think your writing streak won't be stopping anytime soon.

Haha, thank you my dear! JT Music makes some BANGERS. Love his stuff. Could totally recommend you some more of his music if you’d like.

As for next year, yeah, I don’t think my writing streak is gonna stop (but it might slow down because of work). But I will do my best to keep writing and creating, even if it is mainly for me and like…3 people