#vanity: indulg'd

[dreamcrow]

For the WIP questions please! in my sleep i dreamed of waking: 8; for bodyswap au: 12, 14; Gaggletack Slap Bracelets: 13, 16(if you want hehe); General: 19, 11, 25

this ask walked into my house, watered my plants, completed my skincare routine, and cooked me a delicious meal oh my god tysm as always nico for the delicious ask!! :v

for in my sleep: 

8. when creating the characters for your wip, what came first to you?

i still remember exactly how the first draft of in my sleep began, actually!

When she's in the hospital, after the concussion, she dreams of flying.

Nothing clear, nothing distinct. She's had flying dreams before, though never as clearly as this one. It's not a nightmare, she thinks. The dreamscape, for what it is, is almost relaxing, a soft plain of moonlight-colored clouds below, and a thousand thousand stars twinkling like rhinestones against the blue-velvet sky above. Whatever the narrative is, it stays disjointed and vague: something is happening, something urgent, though exactly what is never clear. Sometimes, she can almost remember a voice, but it's never quite clear enough to make out; on waking, she never remembers what was so pressing.

She can never recall any more than any other fragments of dream, nonsensical, embarrassing, terrifying or otherwise. All that's left, when there's anything left at all, is a series of impressions: terror, exhilaration, freedom.

And even in the waking world, the impressions linger.

parts of this got recycled later, particularly into the escape from the museum. but originally this fic was something much more...art film-y, something jungian and weird, about linked consciousnesses and prophetic dreams. trying to recreate the feeling when—you've just woken up, and you're trying to remember a dream that's already fading. which is still really cool!! all stuff i'm still interested in. just...something to be saved for a different fic, hehe.

for [as yet untitled] bodyswap au: 

12. what part is the hardest to write?

honestly................the plotting in this is kind of killing me, tbh. i've got some great *moments* but nothing to really paste them together? and absolutely no idea how to finish it, lol. the fic starts the day after strickler gives barbara the charm, but the whole bodyswapping thing changes the canon trajectory of events pretty substantially! i got pretty lucky with in my sleep as i could basically just crib off of whatever the actual show had already written, but with this i'm in much more uncharted territory. which gives me a lot of freedom! but which also is vaguely terrifying.

14. tell us about an upcoming scene that you’re excited about.

when jim realizes his mom's not his mom ;)c

for gaggletack slap bracelets:

13. are there scenes that you cut already?

oh for sure. barb finding the amulet, for one (too clunky!); also the old detention scene (nothing happened, and now we...meet someone important :3c). other than that however everything in this au is so preliminary there's not much that's gotten the opportunity to be cut yet! :v

16. give a spoiler.

lenora turns to look at barbara, eyes wide, hands clasped tight around the staff. 

"tell zelda," she says, voice small and sure and brave. "tell her—i love her."

in general:

11. how do you structure your plot?

backwards! most of my fic concepts start with a single Scene, which i can usually envision pretty clearly. once i've got that, it's mostly a matter of putting up the scaffolding that lets us get to that point. as a consequence, though, i'm terrible at coming up with endings ´ A `

19. do you know how your story ends before you start writing?

hmm...usually. at least how i want it to end, lol. though see above re: bodyswap au—sometimes the idea just comes at you, and you just gotta roll with it! (ง •̀_•́)ง but i cling to the illusion of control.

25. what authors and books have inspired you to write your work?

aside from the typical 'authors i read when i was younger' (k. a. applegate, brian jacques, terry pratchett) the shameful fact is that i simply do not read much non-fic nowadays! which is regrettable, but...not sure how to fix it, tbh. (i don't handle audiobooks well, and most of my 'reading new things' headspace is dedicated to my dayjob, for which i read actually quite a bit, but nonfiction, most of which is...not written for clarity, to put it mildly.) every time i try to get back into reading, i end up feeling so overwhelmed... maybe if i just assign myself a single book at a time? or just get back into my library's ebook app. hmm.