maplesyrupao3 asked:
40 Questions! 1, 16, 27 😊
Hello my friend *attack hugs* thank you so much for the ask! 🙂
1) Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.
Plotty, I like my plot. I mean all fics have to have some kind of plot to move the characters across the page, I guess what I’m saying is plot with stakes? No that’s still not clear. There are fics which are more about a characters personal journey like Painting Layers of Love, and then there are fics where stuff happens to the characters, and yeah they grow and develop because of it but the stuff is more external than internal. I do love PLL obviously but it’s a stretch for me as a writer, and so my comfort zone is with more plotty things.
I’ll play in all sandboxes but my favourite is sci-fi, though Once introduced me to the wonderful world of magic, but still you know – aliens! 🙂 I like my tech as well which magic doesn’t have. Although yeah this is my answer. My favourite thing to do when writing is to smush genres together. I have a particular fondness for mixing sci-fi and magic.
I started my writing career so to speak with detective stories and espionage and I still love, I just like to mix them with exciting sci-fi and magic these days as they feel a touch boring without you know spaceships and stuff.
Oh man my brain is fizzing. All the possibilities!
16) If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?
Oh don’t do that to me *falls face down on the floor*
I’m not a one pairing writer. I go through like infatuation periods. I never, ever stop loving a pairing but they do stop being the centre of my writing universe as something else takes its place. I’ve always thought of this as a good thing because it increases the amount of inspiration I have, and opens up my writing to new possibilities. Even if it does I suppose ultimately mean I produce less content for each pairing as time goes on.
Please don’t make me choose /headdesk
I think I probably will go with Rumbelle ultimately because I have the most ideas for them, and I’ve already written far more for them than any other pairing (by a few hundred thousand words). There are so many possibilities for them, I mean they had several AU’s within canon! They are the obvious choice. I’m just a little sad now at the concept of never writing anything else. I like exploring all sorts of pairings 🙁
27) How do you feel about collaborations?
Oh dearie me how long have you got?
I think under the right circumstances a collaboration can be an awesome thing BUT those circumstances can be as elusive as a magical unicorn. You see I’m actually having to do a collaboration project for one of my university classes right now – the thing is a trainwreck! I’ve cried, I’ve had multiple panic attacks and it’s week one. The entire thing is making me want to chuck my whole degree in just so I don’t have to do it anymore.
So collaborations can be bad BUT they can also be good.
I’m one of the mods for the inaugural Rumbelle Big Bang. I wouldn’t have worked so hard with my co-mod (jackabelle73) if I didn’t believe that collaboration as a concept was a good thing. I think it can produce fantastic work, and I think if the circumstances are right (to circle back to the beginning) then it can be a very enjoyable and worthwhile process.
Ultimately it depends on the team that is collaborating, whether they are on the same wavelength, whether they want the same things out of the project etc. Also communication, the team has to communicate fully and and in a timely fashion. The team has to gel, they have to work well together and that is not something that can be scripted – it either happens or it doesn’t. I very much hope that for as many participants as possible, the magic has happened and that the Big Bang has been a good experience for them.
Oh and I haven’t even got into how I think collaborations should work. I did ask you how long you had right? :p I think I’ll shut up here because it is a bit of a sore spot right now.