#tcp on the other hand has at least 3 excel workbooks

[curiosity-killed]

✍️ 📑 and 📚 for the writer's ask game if you'd like!!

:D i'd be delighted, in fact

✍️ What’s your writing process?

uh. chaos ??? I feel like this is so project-dependent lol but in all cases it's basically a matter of "get what's in ur head down on paper as fast as possible before you lose focus and it vanishes into Oblivion"

in practice, that tends to mean I have A Single Source of Truth document on my laptop where I compile all the writing I wind up doing on my phone or notebooks (or sketchbooks) roughly in story order. There's no outline or storyboarding or whatever lol And for things that I need to research/develop outside of the actual prose, I either leave comments in the doc with links or have a spreadsheet with organized tabs called '[Story Title] Bible'. Most of what is known about any given story is ultimately just in my head which is a very dangerous place to be.

📑 How many drafts do you write on average?

average story gets 5 revisions factoid actually just statistical error. average story gets 0 revisions. tcp georg, which is 18 years old and has had at least 10 drafts, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

ahem. for fic, usually, the only draft is the draft you see posted. some stories, like whipstitch or sequence the bones, get actual systematic editing but it still doesn't usually manifest as full drafts. for original fic, it's....complicated lmao in part because most of them are old enough they've been marinating for years but have never had a complete draft. tcp, as the above meme indicates, has had so many versions that I stopped referring to them as drafts and started referring to them as drafts of a specific version (i.e., currently, I'm working on draft 2 of version...9 or 10. i am not actually sure.)

📚 Who’s your favorite author (or a few of them)?

SO MANY. A quick, incomplete list:

Arthur Sze

Octavia Butler

Mary Oliver

Margaret Atwood

Shakespeare

Kafka

Neruda

David Sedaris

....I know I'm missing obvious ones

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