#u are going to meaningfully insert yourself into this narrative

[winepresswrath]

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[thequibblah]

G,J,O,T,V for the ask game!(feel free to not answer all of them in one go if u don't want to lol)

G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

i much prefer working start to finish, because i like to know what comes before — otherwise i find myself adding details into later scenes that i have to take out because i introduce them more naturally earlier on. i have written out of order just to force myself to get things done, but it makes me antsy as hell. plus i enjoy narratives that play with time, and i find i can't effectively do that when i write scenes out of order.

but also i plan a lot before i start writing, so even when i write out of order i have effectively "written" in order in my notes already

J: Write or describe an alternative ending to [insert fic].

i am assuming you are okay with me picking any of my fic to do this for, so hmm let's see! i find it hard to envision a different ending for anything once i've written it, ha (aside from come together because i play with a lot of different possibilities in plotlines before deciding what to do). but i guess if we never meet again could've ended a lot of different ways, the most tempting of which was having them make up and confess to each other in the backstage scene, but i resisted because i wanted a full-circle moment in the house.

O: How do you begin a story–with the plot, or the characters?

i guess this is a non-answer, but kind of both and neither. i begin a story with a hook — i.e. the entry-point into a story that makes it "different." (i use "different" loosely lol.) so sometimes the hook is a plot (e.g. "what if they hooked up and he played quidditch and she suddenly starts working with him?") and sometimes it's a character aspect (e.g. "what if lily's a divorced actress on the verge of her big break?" or "if SWM was the first time james asked her out, what does that do to the james-lily equation?")

T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?

ahahaha.

honestly i think i've discovered that i'm more of a purist than i thought — i.e. as long as a trope interacts meaningfully with canon i am likely to enjoy it, and if a trope diverges from canon in a way that isn't really fruitful i will not enjoy it.

but also there are some tropes i just find to be stale — james asking lily out 900 billion times is one of them, i've read a lot of it, i can count on one hand the number of times i thought oh this is actually well-done

V: If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?

oooh this is a fun one. HM! this is so silly and so minor but catch me writing mellow is the man prequel fic that's just lily's boarding school days slice of life baby debate with remus lupin interspersed with one single interlude of james going Who's That Girl

hey @clare-with-no-i give the people (me) what they (i) want

thank u sm for the ask!!

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