15) Your guilty writing pleasure?
Erm … references, I snigger a lot. It’s like an inside joke and it’s entirely possibly that I’m the only one that gets it but it amuses me greatly. I love working in snippets of dialogue, or things that happened in other shows that I love (especially Stargate) into my Once fanfic. I know that’s probably weird. I don’t know why but I get a kick out of it.

One of the first fics that I remember just flowing, where I thought to myself “man I love writing!” and where I didn’t move all day I just wrote and wrote until my hands were sore – that was a multi-crossover fic. I know, they are the bane of the fanfic world and everybody hates them. It was over a decade ago, it was probably rubbish. I smashed together 4 of the shows that I watched and loved at the time and I had a blast. Predictably it didn’t get any comments but I didn’t care, I enjoyed myself immensely.

I actually miss the easy joy that pervaded my soul when I wrote that fic. I haven’t felt like that in a long time.

17) Would you describe yourself as a fast writer?
Compared to who? Fast is relative. I mean when I’m actually writing (so not at the moment) then compared to some people I’m fast. If you compare me even on my best day to someone like Worry, then I’m pretty slow compared to them. There are some people that do NaNo in November who would make Worry look slow. So it’s impossible to say, plus the inherent judgement is slightly problematic.

I mean if I say “no I’m slow” and somebody else looks at my writing and thinks “wow they are fast” and they hear that I think I’m slow, then it’s possible that might make them feel bad. I don’t think it should because it’s not a competition, we all just do the best we individually can. I cheer for those that write 10x more than me just as hard as I cheer for those that write 10x less. I don’t even know if I’m making sense now, I feel like I’m talking in circles.

Anyway, I suppose I would say that I think I’m a slow writer even on my best day for one simple reason – I think I should be faster. I don’t feel like I’m as fast as I could be and I get frustrated and angry with myself, even on my best day, for not doing more. So no I wouldn’t describe myself as a fast writer.