bookwormchocaholic asked:
Yet Another Ask Meme: 4, 18, 36
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4) Do you have any OCs? Do you have a story for them?
Oh sure lots. Oneās Iāll admit to? Actually this is me and I have no shame about it so also many haha. I donāt generally write OCās. They get such a bad rap that I save those particular imaginings for the stories I tell myself when I canāt sleep, rather than ones I type up and post.
However, there is one exception that I just could not resist. I gave Jenkins a boyfriend in my and the Sins of Atlantis fic. Mordred. I donāt know why maybe I just didnāt like him having been lonely for two thousand years. I tried not to write it but I had such feelings about it. Iā¦ ok one day there will be (hopefully) a novel series written by me as a Camelot retelling. I have over 50k written towards it already (none of which was in that fanfic). I know, I know, Camelot has been done to death but hey thereās a reason the Arthurian myth has been around for hundreds of years, it captures the imagination. If I want to write my take on Arthurās heroic death, and the uncrowned King Mordred and the Knight who would have ruled by his side, if Galahadās father hadnāt broken the kingdom, then why not?
Admitting to sources of inspiration is probably not wise but I find OCās arenāt a bad starting point for creating original works. Mind you the same can be said for fanfic āwhat ifā as well. So long as pretty much everything about it changes in some form before the final version – well inspiration has to come from somewhere.
18) First, second, or third person?
Third, always and forever. I have attempted to write first in exercises but itās not how I naturally think. From day one when I started writing it was always in third. I mostly only read third too. I will read first as I donāt discriminate when I pick books up. However, I think Iām probably more likely to DNF a book written in first. I think Iām less forgiving or less used to itās foibles I donāt know.
36) How do you come up with fic titles? Whatās the one youāre most proud of?
Answered here
(in recompense for not answering have another one. I was tempted to ask āDescribe a fic that almost happened, but then it didnāt.ā for you but oh merlin so so many and how to choose which to ramble about? Iād be here all weekā¦)
20) Do you work on a single project or many at the same time? How does that work for you?
Back in the day I used to have several WIPās going at once. Even then that wasnāt the wisest as I got discouraged by what felt like slow progress (as my progress was split across projects rather than concentrated).
These days I have less spoons and Iām not really even mentally capable of doing more than one thing in a day. I would love to be able to write and draw in the same day but I canāt seem to make it happen.
Anyway, I find I canāt swap and change at all really now. So I focus on projects one at a time. For example Iām doing the Librarians gift exchange and Iāve had the assignment for weeks and weeks but I only started it last Monday. I spent March focusing on my novel and I regret all my life choices for that because an exchange deserves a quality product that takes ages to make (because Iāve had weeks to work on it) and Iām terrified it wonāt be done in time for the deadline. But I had to choose and I started drafting in January so the novel kinda came first. Anyway, I havenāt touched the draft since I finished it, and I wonāt until the art is done.
It really is sad I canāt balance better :/