timelordthirteen  asked:

Time Themed Fic Questions: tomorrow: favourite ways to write fluff? yesterday: favourite way to write angst?

*hugs* thank you so much for the asks! I love questions 🙂

Tomorrow: favourite ways to write fluff?
I’m not sure if this means I’m supposed to write ‘write’ in a different way, or if it’s how I tell the story? *thoughtful face* weeeell I only write one way so I’m going to have to go for the latter.

I think I like to have something driving it. Just fluff isn’t substance enough, there needs to be some kind of precipitating incident or something fun that is the point of the fic. At the height of my rumbelle obsession I was rumbelling everything Idid so crazy golf? Wondered how Rumbelle would play. So that’s sort of super fluff but there’s a point. I like there to be a point.

Yesterday: favourite ways to write angst?
I’m not a fan of angst. I get really bad secondhand anxiety (I know it’s ridiculous) but anyway I can’t read it because I get physical symptoms and don’t feel well. However, I was told that PLL is angst. I’ve never thought of it like that but I guess they are right – and hey I don’t feel well writing it a lot of the time! So yeah makes sense.

Anyway, I’m guessing if I write angst then there has to be a fundamental point to it. The characters have to grow, there has to be a journey, I don’t like pain for its own sake. I also very much prefer external angst generally. So it’s a bit like watching a cop show “oh how will they stop the bad guy this week?” Because the fact that they WILL stop the bad guy is never in doubt.

I’m explaining this really badly. I guess it’s like I want it to be character vs. Situation, not character vs character when it comes to the couples. That way the couple can support one another. They might get it wrong sometimes but they always care and always mean well.

I can’t take sheer unrelenting misery or chronic misunderstandings. I’d rather the couple work together against the bad thing, not work against one another.