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chelseagirlAfraid my answers are going to be rather repetitive this year. That's the problem with working on book-length projects.
Favourite work: Courting Anna -- how could I not love my first published novel?
Work you're most proud of: Again, my first book-baby: Courting Anna!
Your most under-appreciated work: My primary writing fandom is pretty small, so the works in it have fewer kudos than my forays into other fandoms -- so if you look at my numbers, this won't necessarily make sense: I think probably "Harlem's Purgatory" -- it got, for me, a decent number of kudos on AO3, but considering the intensity of the reactions I saw to the final season of Jessica Jones, I would have expected more.
Your most over-appreciated work: "Business As Usual" -- an Agent Carter story that I like, but which never felt inspired.
Favorite title: "Harlem's Purgatory" for a Jessica Jones post s. 3 story, where she goes to visit Luke at Harlem's Paradise (of course).
Least favorite title: "Business As Usual" -- it's just kind of blah. Or "Emily" which is descriptive of a character I don't particularly like.
Where do your titles come from and what type of title do you use most often? I don't have one answer to that: songs, literary references, wordplay, just something descriptive.
What kind of working titles do you use? Could be as simple as "Current Project" or "The Mystery" or etc. For Camp NaNo, I came up with "Death Uptown and Downtown" for my current non-fanfic WIP. I don't love it, but nothing else has suggested itself yet.
Project you had the most fun researching: Death Uptown and Downtown, the current WIP -- I'm going on walking tours of Gilded Age Manhattan, reading about the 19th century criminal underworld and about the corrupt law firm that's defending half of it.
Project that was the most difficult to research: Death Uptown and etc., because I could spend a couple of years just doing the background reading . . . .
Project that was the most difficult to write: Death Uptown and etc., because I'm learning how to write a proper mystery plot, and it's complicated!
Project that's been a work-in-progress for ages, that you just can't seem to finish: Death Uptown and etc.; still going steady, though.
Work you want to write one day, but haven't yet started: A book tentatively titled Saving Sarah, which would be a sequel to Courting Anna. It would be about a young woman, who's gotten out of an abusive marriage, learning to overcome the social stigma against her as a divorcee, while also meeting her father (a Native American who for Plot Reasons never knew about her) and learning about his culture, and also falling in love. But in the end, it also fits the Princess Saves Herself trope. Only I'm scared of messing up the Native American part; will definitely find sensitivity readers.
Work you thought you would never write, but finally did: "Interlude in New Orleans" which filled a gap in a fanfic story sequence I never knew I would come back to fill.
Genre you write most often: Historical: might be historical romance, historical mystery, historical fanfic.
Genre you thought you would never write, but finally did: Not never, but I hadn't written explicit het in a long while, and I put out two stories that were sidebars to "Interlude in New Orleans" which were. (Actually one of them was posted in 2018, so kind of.)
Genre you'd like to write more of: Mystery -- considering I'm trying to start a mystery series.
Longest amount of time passed between starting a project and finally finishing it: *cough* I resurrected a couple of fandom projects from the 90s . . . .
Favourite character: Nick Powell, Anna's rascally legal opponent and frenemy.
Character who is the most difficult to write: A character in Alias Smith & Jones named Michelle Monet. I don't like the character in the series, and she fit into "Interlude in New Orleans" and it was hard not to just do character assassination on her. (And this from someone who is all "yay female characters!!")
Character who simply writes themselves: Jessica Jones. I may have been frustrated by the series, but Jessica's voice is so distinctive.
What's more difficult, plot or characters? Plot, especially if I'm trying to write a credible mystery.
Favourite opening line: Probably this, from "Harlem's Purgatory": "Boss, there's some crazy white girl here, in torn jeans and looking like she doesn't belong in the Paradise. She's sayin' she needs to see you." (Because honestly, Jessica & Luke 4-Ever, darn you Netflix!)
Favourite ending line: In "Refuge": "And then, and only then, she wept" (Er, you'd have to know the context. It happens after hot deflecting-of-feelings sex, when a character is finally able to open up and express her feelings about something that has devastated her and that is unrelated to the relationship in which the hot deflecting-of-feelings sex happens.)
Setting you managed to write about without ever having visited: So embarrassing, but Montana, where Courting Anna takes place. Next book is in late 1880s NYC; different time but very familiar geography.
Favourite POV to write: I love writing in 1st person.
POV you would never consider writing: (if any) Probably 2nd person, but other than Bright Lights, Big City, I've read very little actually written that way.
Do you mostly write for challenges/contests/fic exchanges/publishers' calls for submissions, etc. or do you mostly write in your own time? Combination: Courting Anna was in response to a small publisher's call for a new series called Women of Destiny. My Agent Carter story was part of an exchange, and I'm currently involved in an Alias Smith and Jones Advent Calendar (but I'm not allowed to post stories here 'til after New Year's). My other fic was self-generated, and "Harlem's Purgatory" was rage-generated.
(If you write stories with relationships) Mostly first time or established relationship? or something else ? I like established relationships; I like exploring the complications that occur and the ways people find to be together.
Oneshots/standalone stories or series? Love to write series and have things build on each other. I think that's one of the reasons I'm drawn to writing mysteries -- come for the whodunnit, stay for the character development.
Is there a type of story you read but would never write? Or maybe one that you've written, but rarely read? I love science fiction and the fantastic in general, but I'm not moved to write it. No idea why. Except for my Penchant for Obscurer TV-Based Marvel Heroines. (On the other hand, I adore Carol and have absolutely NO ideas for Captain Marvel stories.)
Favourite work: Courting Anna -- how could I not love my first published novel?
Work you're most proud of: Again, my first book-baby: Courting Anna!
Your most under-appreciated work: My primary writing fandom is pretty small, so the works in it have fewer kudos than my forays into other fandoms -- so if you look at my numbers, this won't necessarily make sense: I think probably "Harlem's Purgatory" -- it got, for me, a decent number of kudos on AO3, but considering the intensity of the reactions I saw to the final season of Jessica Jones, I would have expected more.
Your most over-appreciated work: "Business As Usual" -- an Agent Carter story that I like, but which never felt inspired.
Favorite title: "Harlem's Purgatory" for a Jessica Jones post s. 3 story, where she goes to visit Luke at Harlem's Paradise (of course).
Least favorite title: "Business As Usual" -- it's just kind of blah. Or "Emily" which is descriptive of a character I don't particularly like.
Where do your titles come from and what type of title do you use most often? I don't have one answer to that: songs, literary references, wordplay, just something descriptive.
What kind of working titles do you use? Could be as simple as "Current Project" or "The Mystery" or etc. For Camp NaNo, I came up with "Death Uptown and Downtown" for my current non-fanfic WIP. I don't love it, but nothing else has suggested itself yet.
Project you had the most fun researching: Death Uptown and Downtown, the current WIP -- I'm going on walking tours of Gilded Age Manhattan, reading about the 19th century criminal underworld and about the corrupt law firm that's defending half of it.
Project that was the most difficult to research: Death Uptown and etc., because I could spend a couple of years just doing the background reading . . . .
Project that was the most difficult to write: Death Uptown and etc., because I'm learning how to write a proper mystery plot, and it's complicated!
Project that's been a work-in-progress for ages, that you just can't seem to finish: Death Uptown and etc.; still going steady, though.
Work you want to write one day, but haven't yet started: A book tentatively titled Saving Sarah, which would be a sequel to Courting Anna. It would be about a young woman, who's gotten out of an abusive marriage, learning to overcome the social stigma against her as a divorcee, while also meeting her father (a Native American who for Plot Reasons never knew about her) and learning about his culture, and also falling in love. But in the end, it also fits the Princess Saves Herself trope. Only I'm scared of messing up the Native American part; will definitely find sensitivity readers.
Work you thought you would never write, but finally did: "Interlude in New Orleans" which filled a gap in a fanfic story sequence I never knew I would come back to fill.
Genre you write most often: Historical: might be historical romance, historical mystery, historical fanfic.
Genre you thought you would never write, but finally did: Not never, but I hadn't written explicit het in a long while, and I put out two stories that were sidebars to "Interlude in New Orleans" which were. (Actually one of them was posted in 2018, so kind of.)
Genre you'd like to write more of: Mystery -- considering I'm trying to start a mystery series.
Longest amount of time passed between starting a project and finally finishing it: *cough* I resurrected a couple of fandom projects from the 90s . . . .
Favourite character: Nick Powell, Anna's rascally legal opponent and frenemy.
Character who is the most difficult to write: A character in Alias Smith & Jones named Michelle Monet. I don't like the character in the series, and she fit into "Interlude in New Orleans" and it was hard not to just do character assassination on her. (And this from someone who is all "yay female characters!!")
Character who simply writes themselves: Jessica Jones. I may have been frustrated by the series, but Jessica's voice is so distinctive.
What's more difficult, plot or characters? Plot, especially if I'm trying to write a credible mystery.
Favourite opening line: Probably this, from "Harlem's Purgatory": "Boss, there's some crazy white girl here, in torn jeans and looking like she doesn't belong in the Paradise. She's sayin' she needs to see you." (Because honestly, Jessica & Luke 4-Ever, darn you Netflix!)
Favourite ending line: In "Refuge": "And then, and only then, she wept" (Er, you'd have to know the context. It happens after hot deflecting-of-feelings sex, when a character is finally able to open up and express her feelings about something that has devastated her and that is unrelated to the relationship in which the hot deflecting-of-feelings sex happens.)
Setting you managed to write about without ever having visited: So embarrassing, but Montana, where Courting Anna takes place. Next book is in late 1880s NYC; different time but very familiar geography.
Favourite POV to write: I love writing in 1st person.
POV you would never consider writing: (if any) Probably 2nd person, but other than Bright Lights, Big City, I've read very little actually written that way.
Do you mostly write for challenges/contests/fic exchanges/publishers' calls for submissions, etc. or do you mostly write in your own time? Combination: Courting Anna was in response to a small publisher's call for a new series called Women of Destiny. My Agent Carter story was part of an exchange, and I'm currently involved in an Alias Smith and Jones Advent Calendar (but I'm not allowed to post stories here 'til after New Year's). My other fic was self-generated, and "Harlem's Purgatory" was rage-generated.
(If you write stories with relationships) Mostly first time or established relationship? or something else ? I like established relationships; I like exploring the complications that occur and the ways people find to be together.
Oneshots/standalone stories or series? Love to write series and have things build on each other. I think that's one of the reasons I'm drawn to writing mysteries -- come for the whodunnit, stay for the character development.
Is there a type of story you read but would never write? Or maybe one that you've written, but rarely read? I love science fiction and the fantastic in general, but I'm not moved to write it. No idea why. Except for my Penchant for Obscurer TV-Based Marvel Heroines. (On the other hand, I adore Carol and have absolutely NO ideas for Captain Marvel stories.)
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