1. Tell us about your current project(s) – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?
My current project is a commission, but outside of that, it's a WIP where Dick Grayson is Batman and Bruce Wayne is just a playboy when their paths cross and then eventual feelings are caught.
2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project.
I'm looking forward to working on my original middle grade ghost story... if I can ever find all my notes on it again.
3. What is that one scene that you’ve always wanted to write but can’t be arsed to write all of the set-up and context it would need? (consider this permission to write it and/or share it anyway)
Honestly, what I really want to do is write the same story with, like, a million different endings/options for scenes.
4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)“Didn’t your mother ever tell you it’s not nice to play with guns?” Batman asked, one corner of his lip turned up.
“I mean it. I’m a crack shot.”
“When you’re sober.”
Wayne put his other hand on the gun, steadying himself. “What do you want?”
5. What character that you’re writing do you most identify with?
Dick Grayson, always. I, too, have a generally optimistic nature around things that could be (and sometimes are) definitely worse than I hope. That and I love puns.
6. What character do you have the most fun writing?
Also, Dick Grayson.
7. What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?
I'd say I have a strange way of looking at things, and that makes for interesting comparisons in my writing, odd turns of phrase.
8. Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?
Yes?? I mean, I only write what I'd want to read, so.... But, like, genre-wise? No, not really.
9. Are you more of a drabble or a longfic kind of writer? Pantser or plotter? Do you wish you were the other?
I'm much more comfortable with flash fiction or short stories than longfic. I definitely wish I could write longer things; big bangs are my favorites, but I struggle with all of them so much. I'm more of a plantser than strictly one or the other. I'm good with the occasional outline for longer stuff, but otherwise I make it up as I go. Otherwise, my brain thinks I've already finished it.
10. How would you describe your writing process?
Lots of thinking about stories, eventually getting down to a computer (or phone, or tablet, or pen and paper, or....) and writing it out, while definitely not reading back until the end, usually only to make sure I didn't already use a particular turn of phrase earlier in the story for the same thing.
11. What do you envy in other writers?
How do y'all write longfic, hhhhhhhhoooooooowwwwwww???????
12. Do you want your writing to be famous?
...they kinda are already? I mean, I'm no Big Name Fan, but I have a pretty damn good readership. And I'm very grateful for them.
13. Do you share your writing online? (Drop a link!) Do you have projects you’ve kept just for yourself?
My stuff is all pretty much available on AO3 (link in the sticky post, I believe). I do have a lot of original work that I don't share, not really in the hopes of publishing, but more because it's not done at all. I do have commissions I haven't shared, because I think they should be private to my commissioner for a while longer.
14. At what point in writing do you come up with a title?
That really depends! Sometimes the title gets me before a fic, and other times I'll be on AO3 posting page trying to think one up while everything else is ready.
15. Which is harder: titles or summaries (or tags)?
Fucking tags, always. Titles come fairly easy, and summaries are a little harder, but gd tags, they kill me.
16. Tried anything new with your writing lately? (style, POV, genre, fandom?)
Last year, I really got into first person plural POV, which is really fun and kinda how my brain works already??? I don't know what this year will do. Oh, also A/B/O stuff? I'm not really a fan, but the more I'm around it, the more my brain comes up with ways to make it more palatable for me, I guess.
17. Do you think readers perceive your work - or you - differently to you? What do you think would surprise your readers about your writing or your motivations?
I'm sure they do. We all perceive people differently than the person themselves. I think what would surprise them is that I really love making friends in fandom, but I'm just painfully ADHD in terms of following up. And that's also the reason most of my longifcs aren't finished. They're not abandoned, just lost somewhere in the background of my mind.
18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.
OH LORDY YES!!!
Just take Superheroes Come To Feast. I have so many alternate endings for that fic, most of them unhappy (whoops) as opposed to the bittersweet happy ending I gave them. All of my fics go through multiple AU versions of the same plot before I settle on the one I finally post. I'm the king of multiple versions of the same story.
19. Is there something you always find yourself repeating in your writing? (favourite verb, something you describe ‘too often’, trope you can’t get enough of?)
Oh yeah... The word "obscene" in sex scenes as a description. I've got certain tropes I'm very fond of that I tend to include. My brain's drawing a blank, but man, I know I have them.
20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)
I really love fic (original or fanfic) that drops arcane and obscure references throughout. Whenever I get quasi-religious original fic prompts in exchanges, my brain goes into a happy place of putting in all kinds of references to the weird things I know. For fanfics, I love using one-off characters from comics or mentioning plotlines that only happened in issue whatever back in 197X or whatnot. I'm a huge lover of the multiversal "everything is canon" stuff.
21. What other medium do you think your story would work well as? (film, webcomic, animated series?)
I'd love to make webcomics or a radio serial or something like that.
22. Do you reread your old works? How do you feel about them?
I absolutely do and I love them. I rarely find fics I can't stand anymore, because I look at them all as places I've come from.
23. What’s the story idea you’ve had in your head for the longest?
It's an original high-ish fantasy novel with pirates and magic and stuff, vaguely Tolkien-esque but with more inclusivity and diversity.
24. Would you say your writing has changed over time?
Most definitely. My sentences are more complex, my references are deeper, my general grasp over writing stuff has improved. But also, I've just also stopped worrying about how my stuff reads technically speaking and learned to love how it reads when spoken or read aloud, how my writing sounds as language.
25. What part of writing is the most fun?
The daydreaming part of it. Getting the words down is a good second runner, but I love just dreaming about what my stories are going to be or could be.
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