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I'm just going to steal these and answer the ones I feel like (ie. the simple ones). Folks will have to comment if they want to hear any of the others.


A. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic. Plot happens. Character A: "Ouch!" Character B: "..." (in this case character B is Nathan, or he'd be saying ouch too). Possible there is Dark Sex or Hate Sex. *~inconclusive bittersweet or slightly downer ending~*
B. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to? Generally they come with the specific ideas.
C. Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole? ABO fic. I think this is the most offensive concept fandom has ever managed to come up with. Do not try and tell me it is clever social commentary.
D. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them? ?2 IDK... I have a long-time plotbunny at the very back of the shelf where Nathan Wuornos' neurologist comes to Haven and it's almost like Oliver Sacks RPF and there's a Trouble to solve and Nathan is getting poked and prodded by Science at the same time. I think this would be hugely fun, but it would also involve a lot of research.
E. Share one of your strengths. I'm pretty good at waking-up-after-being-knocked-out scenes. That'd be the fainting problem I had all through my teens and early twenties.
F. Share one of your weaknesses. Fluffy smut. All the sex is fucked up.
G. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
H. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
I. Which fic has been the hardest to write? The last one. Eurydice.
J. Which fic has been the easiest to write? There are a few that wrote themselves in a few days. Unbreakable was probably the easiest of those to edit.
K. Is writing your passion or just a fun hobby? Shouldn't these two be indistinguishable?
L. Is there an episode section of canon above all others that inspires you just a little bit more? So we're talking current fandom? (Haven) 4.1 Fallout and Duke and Nathan's relationship in 3.4-3.5, when it's at its worst.
M. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across? Even if it's difficult and not cooperating, write a little every day, keep going. Don't worry about mistakes, leave them to sort out in the editing.
N. What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever come across? Nothing specific springs to mind, but I think too much of what Stephen King sppouts belongs up here, considering how much people worship him. Though I'm not sure now if the above comes from him, too. It comes from a few sources I think.
O. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose? Considering the factors of Lucas Bryant and Eric Balfour, I think I have to abandon Body Parts and go for the NC17 Duke/Nathan slash: Unbreakable.
P. If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be? Right now, Duke/Nathan.
Q. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order? In order. Almost always.
R. Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines? Rarely. Sometimes I sketch out locations for fight scenes. Or locations in general.
S. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse? I don't know where they live, but they're an evil muse.
T. Describe your perfect writing conditions. Notebook handy and no-one looking over my shoulder. Usually better in the morning than the afternoon.
U. How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting? About 4.
V. Choose a passage from one of your earlier fics and edit it into your current writing style. (Person sending the ask is free to make suggestions).
W. If you were to revise one of your older fics from start to finish, which would it be and why? It'd be the first one I ever wrote, which I never posted, which was a B7 PGP. I wouldn't touch the ones that are out there.
X. Have you ever deleted one of your published fics? No.
Y. What do you look for in a beta? Being nice enough to beta for me?
Z. Do you beta yourself? If so, what kind of beta are you? Yes. Possibly slightly evil?
AA. How do you feel about collaborations? I've written them. It was fun. I don't know if I'd collaborate on something anymore now.
AB. Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much. Have two, Miah_Arthur and Kattahj, who are also my beta readers, it's true. But they both go for the 'real' in different ways. Too much fic comes from a similar sort of headspace. It's like we reference what we learned from other fiction first instead of our experience of reality. It's streamlined with tropes and acceptable reactions and comfort zones and what people will expect out of that kind of a fic. (I think this is kind of the struggle I recently had with Redemption of Killers and Rogues, because it does things that I do think the mass fictional concensus would find as unacceptable.) Also important to me that they're also both interested in writing disability realistically.
AC. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
AD. Do you accept prompts? Yes, but I can't guarantee I'll write them.
AE. Do you take liberties with canon or are you very strict about your fic being canon compliant? Depends on the fic.
AF. How do you feel about smut? YES PLEASE
AG. How do you feel about crack? YES PLEASE
AH. What are your thoughts on non-con and dub-con? YES PLEASE
AI. Would you ever kill off a canon character? Not casually. Done it a few times.
AJ. Which is your favorite site to post fic? AO3
AK. Talk about your current wips. I do this at least once a month anyway, so no.
AL. Talk about a review that made your day. The long, critiquey ones. When people see something interesting in the story that I didn't deliberately put there, that's awesome, because it makes me read it in a different way.
AM. Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them? Not often; "hahaha".
AN. Write an alternative ending to a fic you've written (specify by title, link or general description].