The Ladies' Room

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29: What is your current project or projects?

WELL. ACTUALLY. lol. I can say I'm working on something, which is weird, because I've just plain not been very active in writing for like... a few years. This year is by far my lowest-producing, though. But I've figured out that I can write on my phone while walking to and from work (and like, waiting in line, on the toilet, you name it) and IT'S FANTASTIC.

So, right now it's Leverage, an Eliot/Hardison fake boyfriends tropefic. Because I ~can. ;)

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27: Where is your favorite place to write, and do you write by hand or on the computer?

My handwriting is terrible and cannot keep up with my brain nearly as fast as my typing (~100wpm), but there is something charming about writing longhand, isn't there? The modern version I've found is writing on my phone in gdocs; it's just as freeing as writing longhand. And just as slow, lol.

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25: Music: Do you listen to music while you write? Do you make playlists to get into a certain "mood" to write your fic? Do you need noise in general? Or do you need it completely quiet?

Weeellll. I'm ADHD so I have to have some sort of aural stimulation or else my brain sputters out. But I'm also a musician born and bred so it has to be something particular or else it distracts me. So, either something I've heard a zillion times, or something with no English words. E.g. I'm really fond of the Baroque Choral channel on Pandora, or the Anonymous4 channel.

Do I make playlists? If I have time for such procrastination, lol, yes I do. Or if a song just keeps banging at my brain while I'm writing, I put it in the notes somewhere. Or steal the title from it. XB

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23: When you post, where do you post to? Just your journal? Just an archive? Your own personal site?

This question is fascinating, considering how long I've been in fandom.

First was fanfiction.net, and I will not even lie about it. It's where stuff was. Particularly, Harry Potter stuff. There, someone from a Ron/Hermione archive invited me to start posting at said archive, which I happily did. I posted my HP stuff at a couple archives. (I think it's still up at a couple, even, lol.)

Then livejournal happened, lol. And other fandoms, for which I did not have a place to post other than livejournal, such as Sports Night. There were livejournal communities for everything, sometimes multiple, so I posted to the most applicable one directly and linked everywhere else. This was something I did that was apparently unusual? Most people posted to their personal/personal fic journals then linked at communities. I don't regret it though; having all those comments archived at pinecity is literally priceless -- some of them are from a friend who is now deceased. I did end up posting at my own journal then linking elsewhere (because it's been an issue since I went f'locked, lol) but I'm not really sure why. Just withdrawing, I think.

At times in there I tried to post to others, both insanejournal and dreamwidth, but wow did I not like both platforms, and what was the point? I've had a livejournal since 2003. It's for better or worse at this point, and I ain't even mad.

Then AO3 happened! I resisted, because the ease of giving something kudos would and did lead to the dwindling of comments given, but in the wake of Tumblr AO3 is a magnificent place. So all of my things are there, minus I think maybe some really twee drabbles. At this point, I expect to be an unknown author, as fandom fame involved Tumblr and way more time than I have right now, so I just like having all of my stuff in one place for my own sake.

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