#scarredsodeep's work was what got me to realize how much i love lyrical prose... water closet has affected my narration style...

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🍉, 🥝, and 🥨!

omg thank you!! these are such fun ones hehe

🍉: Are you a pantser or a plotter?

plotter. 10000% plotter. for everything i write i have a planning document sketching out the progression of scenes, Especially if it's one of my longer fics (i.e. over ~50k words). i approach storytelling primarily thinking about the overall structure, so it's easier for me to start by figuring out pieces and shuffling them into a whole picture as opposed to building each piece off the previous one! often times though as i start writing i figure out new things about what the story wants to Be, so then i just have to adjust my plans/make notes in the doc for how i'm going to change things in the second draft lol

🥝: Who are your literary influences, and have they shaped your own writing?

it depends on what i'm writing! but since most of my writing is fic, my influence primarily comes from other fic writers (and often specific stories). in chronological order across the years and fandoms, some of my biggest influences have included: dear_monday; scarredsodeep; still, a great deal of light falls on everything by s0dafucker, muzzlemess (rustywrites); water closet by stillmadaboutpetra; haunted house with a picket fence by erce3; emungere, and zipegs. the latter two are my biggest inspirations rn, aside from the source material of nbc hannibal itself which is having a Huge impact on the way i write! it's the first time i've ever been so influenced by a tv show but it fr unlocked smth in me when it comes to improving my writing

🥨: How do you overcome writer's block?

on a short-term level, by taking breaks and focusing on absorbing other people's art (reading fic instead of writing it, reading books, watching movies, etc). but in the long-term it depends on how far into the fic i am tbh... if i've already sunk a ton of effort into a story and am over halfway through (which for me usually means i've already written 40k+ words), then i'll brute force my way through a lack of inspiration if i have to. i will survive based on pure willpower. if i lose my steam before then though i might end up abandoning that work 😭 (this is usually what happens if i try to take on too many wips, i write SUCH long shit i can usually only complete 1-2 fics for a fandom before the hyperfixation-fueled motivation leaves)

this got very long lol but thank you for these! i love to procrastinate on my writing by talking about writing!!

ask me fic questions!