14) Your favorite side pairings to put in?
Swanfire is probably the one I work in most often. I ship them 🙂 Snow/Mary Margaret and David are probably a close second. Generally speaking though what side pairings are in a story, kinda depends on what characters are in the story. Given that my stories are Rumbelle-centric, the side characters are generally Bae/Neal, which easily brings in Emma and her family. So that’s kinda why it works out like that.

With some past fics I’ve done for gift exchanges, I had somebody want Ruby and Victor Whale as a pairing, so I did that. I don’t particularly ship it but I did like the convo they had together in season two. There was some common ground there. I really, really ship BraveWarrior. To be honest I want to write fic with them as the main pairing, and I always do a happy dance if I can work it in as a side pairing, or I read it as a side pairing in someone else’s fic.

So yeah basically Swanfire and BraveWarrior are my “other ships” for Once 🙂 However, if the story demands or people want, I’d probably write in almost any pairing for background characters.

18) How old were you when you started writing?
I’m not sure, how do you define writing? I think I started spinning stories almost as soon as I learnt to read, and I was 3 when I started reading. In terms of actual written down stories, it’s hard to remember. I definitely still have some scribbles I did from when I was 8-9, but I think I was probably 11 when I wrote my first complete story. So in the strictest terms I’ve been writing stories for over 15 years. If we’re more generous on what constitutes ‘writing’ then it’s probably closer to two decades. I feel old now.

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I have another art project in mind, one that’s *gulp* even more ambitious. I get pretty obsessed once I start a drawing though, so I’m not going to let myself even start it until after RCIJ. So yeah end of summer/early autumn for that.

Regarding writing. I’m struggling so much right now. It’s like words have just vanished. Although I haven’t actually even sat down and stared at a word doc this month. I love writing, writing is my life really but I got so down on myself about it last month that I’ve been avoiding it really. Everything I wrote last month was like pulling teeth, I just had this constant screaming in my head that it was all awful and why was I bothering, who was I kidding I’m a terrible writer etc. etc. so yeah I should really suck it up and try again.

So projects – WIP’s of course *hides in box of shame and drowns in guilt*, then there’s RCIJ as I mentioned. I have an idea for next months Monthly Rumbelling non-smut prompt that I’d like to write so there’s that. Then there’s also lots of other ideas (I have a big list) but I should really work on my WIP’s. I feel so bad that they’ve been neglected this long. I want to write them, I want to finish them, and I will. Believe me they have not been forgotten.

I hope that answers your question. Thank you so much for asking it! Also thank you again for your kind words *hugs you* it means a lot 🙂