#theres also. ive found. a very specific style of fanfic writing where im like “oh you came from the ranb.oo side of dsmp didnt you.”

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most unfortunate thing ive learned about getting into jr.wi is the overlap with genlo.ssers

[grasslandgirl]

2,5,6,7,23,35,47 !

hi yeah this week on CLAIRE I WOULD DIE FOR YOU 

2: one of your favorite comments/reviews [on this chapter/verse]?

oh gosh i got a comment a while back on Half Rights and Half Wrongs where someone said my fic made them feel like “that vine of that lawnmower flying in the air with like whitney houston singing over it” and they then preceeded to link it in the comments for me (you can watch it here if you haven’t seen it, it’s hilarious) and like. it’s genuinely one of the best comments ive ever gotten it nearly made me cry

and also?? i got so many wonderful comments on the first installment of you gonna break my heart, Sammy? specifically emma ( @lewissimon ) like. wrote an essay and listed out things she loved about it and like... my heart is FULL in this chili’s toniiiiiight !!!

5: do you write scenes in a linear fashion or do you write future scenes/dialogues sometimes?

mostly i write linearly (is that a word? whatever) bc i need the like. drive that having a scene that i Really Wanna Write gives me to power through some of the stuff that i dont really want to write?

like if im writing part A of a fic, and theres a scene thats like part G that i really want to get into and am super inspired about, i have to force myself to write parts B-F before i let myself write G bc then its like a built in motivation? because mostly if i just am like i want to write [x scene] and then jump ahead to do so then i have no motivation to go Back and write all the less interesting but still necessary filler stuff and then it never gets done

like i made myself spend all this time writing the build up in the middle of you gonna break my heart, Sammy even though i really wanted to get into the confession time because i knew if i jumped ahead i just wouldn’t finish the rest!

occasionally if i have like a SUPER specific scene/moment in mind ill go in and write a little bit of it so i dont lose the moment in my brain, but then i always make myself go back and fill in up to that point before continuing forward

6: hardest/easiest character to write for?

i live in constant terror of writing a character ooc or getting their like Character Voice wrong- so ive found that the easiest characters for me to write are the ones that have Really Specific Voices- both in the literal sense of how the talk, but also in the figurative sense of how they think/react/see the world/etc

so like. thats why i find Dylan Maxwell (american vandal) and Taako (the adventure zone) for example to be really easy to write- thier voices are very specific and dynamic and therefore easy for me to mimic/replicate and also easy for me to tell when they dont Sound Right- if that makes sense?

inversely, characters i dont have a specific Mental Voice for are really hard for me to write comfortably- frankly im struggling with Peter and Sam right now a little bit and struggled with thier voices in the second half of writing you gonna break my heart, sammy because its been so long since ive watched av or written for them that ive lost how they sound in my mind- which probably means its time to rebinge american vandal !!

(additionally- PLEASE always tell me if a character is extremely ooc or extremely i guess Not ooc? those kinds of notes are always a comfort to get about my writing bc its something i stress about and am self conscious about!)

7: hardest/easiest verse to write for?

really im a character writer all the way, so the easiest verse to write for is which ever one whos characters are taking up residence in my brain- and vice versa for the hardest verse! it really just depends on how much of that verse-specific content im taking in and how much of my mental energy im putting into that verse that impacts how easy/difficult it is to write for it

23: feelings on epistolary fic?

um not really my style reading- or writing-wise? im not against them and if the premise seemed interesting enough id probably read it, but i doubt id ever write one- most of my writing is pretty thought-, dialogue-, and interaction-centric, which aren’t really things that are common in epistolary works 

35: any foreshadowing/symbolism you wrote that you hope your readers didn’t miss?

oh gosh this is sweet that you think im a good enough writer or forward thinker to include any real or subtle foreshadowing or symbolism in my fics....... i mean if anything just the small moments in you gonna break my heart, sammy where sam is like “oh this is Fake im feeling Friendship Feelings peter likes me as a Friend obviously hahah” as like foreshadowing in the BAREST of terms as to their growing like. deeper feelings for eachother? but those always felt- and were intended to be- kind of glaringly obvious to the audience/reader, mostly as a dramatic irony to sam’s own obliviousness to his own and sam’s feelings

47: story with the most comments?

Half Rights and Half Wrongs by a MILE (83!) but like. half of those are probably my own comments responding to people bc whenever i get a comment my heart grows grinch-like three sizes so! 

claire thank you so so so so so so much for this and everyone else PLEASE feel free to send me a number from this list here about fanfic/writer questions and check out my work on ao3- im grasslandgirl there as well!