B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?
The roadtrip fic started out loosely based on my own travelling in the US, though I travelled by train and mainly covered the south-west so I was on shaky ground when Rob and Felipe left New Mexico in the fic, lol. But some of the stuff they did earlier in the fic happened to me, especially the entire episode in Flagstaff with the annoying guy and eating Japanese food and getting enraged when they wouldn’t accept my UK driving licence in a bar where I didn’t even want to drink, lol. I guess Fools of us All also took in my experiences of struggling and ultimately failing my PhD, but not really caring enough to do anything about it, lol.
P: Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an “architect” or a “gardener”? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)
I very much let the story go where it wants. It helps if I actually have a destination, but I find you have to build as you go – for me, it makes for a richer story and things occur to you that you might not have seen if you hadn’t followed the path all the way, if you see what I mean. That said, there’s fics I’ve had to abandon because I just didn’t have a plan for how they were going to develop and finish >< And there’s other fics I have extensive plans for, but now I have the whole plan, I don’t really have the motivation to write it out, because I already know what’s going to happen! Which is how I feel about life as well tbh lol, I regard detailed plans as spoilers and avoid them as much as I can XD
S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?
I love really simple stuff – domesticity, friends to lovers, meeting in everyday situations and falling in love, all that soppy stuff lol. I also can never resist some stuff that I know a lot of other people flee from, like genderswitch and mpreg. The latter is hard to do well, it’s true, but more people should try >.>
Thanks! 🙂
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