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1. What was your first story? When was it published? What was it about?
Holy it was a self-insert story I made with my best friend where we are foreigners??? In korea??? and our biases in suju just all of a sudden fell in love with us for no apparent reason????? and there were love triangles?????? It was awful. But to be fair I was 12 and I was still an #angstyteenager lol idk it was awful. And the title is 'Forgotten Dreams' lmao me and my friend legit burned the papers where we originally wrote the story it was tragic.

2. What's your favorite story you've written? And what's the plotline?
"The Mid-Winter Knight's Dream". I for sure know it because it's legit the first chaptered story that I've ever finished NOT BECAUSE I'M LAZY AND I'M STUCK IN AN INESCAPEABLE PLOT HOLE (*cough*godofmischief*cough*) but because I've wrapped up the story and it just naturally ended. I enjoyed writing this story so much omg, I never met a plot-dead-end (in fact, the plot just seemed to grow itself in the most chaotic-fun natural way).

I guess I owe all that to the genre of the story (medieval fantasy romance), because it's my favourite genre to read and thus I never lose inspiration to keep on going with it. Besides, the simple plotline (romantic attraction between a princess and her dour knight) just writes itself tbh.
 

3. Have you ever written for a holiday/special occasion? 
Yepp. Christmas (Santa's Little Helper/7th Day of Christmas) and Halloween (Itsy Bitsy Spider). And new years (Forward Unto Dawn).

4. What username did you publish your first story under?
loveapple

5. How many stories do you have (published) on aff? How many are complete?
30 ish I think, but I always delete stuff that I'm not happy with or I know I won't ever complete. As for right now, out of my 20 existing story on this website, I have 9 that are complete.

6. How many aren't published? 
LMAO A LOT. I have this habit of planning and writing snippets for a story but in reality wrote a completely different one and ended up promising myself that 'that plot will surely be the next one.' But it never happened. Let's see...
Who's Cinnamon Roll, an untitled Kingsman AU, Chatshire, Westbound Sunrise, Adagio, Rumour Has It, They say we are what we are, Jin the Jin, The restorer chronicles, and a lot more i'm too lazy to check my plot book.

7. What helps you think or inspires you when writing fanfiction/stories?
Read other people's work. Watch movies. Synthesize existing, interesting plots and applying it to the context of my story. And just clear my mind out of all the complicated way of my obsession to relate everything I write to something that happened in real life. I'd really like my work to be an extension of my existence (wow deep) but I know, the more I force it, the harder it is for those organic thoughts to come through (just like constipation). So I've found that the best way for me to write is to have no personal, cathartic goals in writing the story. The more detached the story is from myself, the easier it is for me to write it. But it's always funny how those types of stories always end up mirroring my life in the weirdest, subtlest way.

8. What date did you join aff?
28 June 2012.

9. What was the first tag you looked up when you joined aff?
Probably horror or thriller (because i love those)

10. Who are your top three favorite authors, and why?
Maan I don't really follow authors.....
But I love Soyjac, although she deleted almost all of her stories (due to some reason and another...?) But her works are such a delight to read I wish I live in a world where she completed Apocalypse Now and that spaceship fic that's like so fun but I forgot the title....
I love kitoki from AO3, her Suspian fics are the best
And uh... Eric Heissner, The_Dalek_Emperor, Red_Grin and Slimebeast?? They're great horror writers and even Eric Heissner has gone out and make screenplays for my newest favourite movie, Arrival, like what else do you need.

11. What is your opinion of kaistal? (I'm being serious, guys)
They do their thing lol I don't really care? Although because of it I have lessened interest to write stories where Kai is the main character LOL

12. What type of story are you most in your element writing? Is it something you write often?
Fantasy. Medieval. idk why but I love them so much? World building (although I at it). They're just like an open sandbox and I can do whatever I want BECAUSE ITS MY WORLD AND NOBODY CAN SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE GENDER ROLES OR THE UALITIES OR WHETHER OR NOT A QUEEN CAN DETHRONE HERSELF JUST BECAUSE SHE'S TIRED OF DEALING WITH EVERYONE'S . ok I'm sorry but yeah original-world-fantasy is so much fun.
/and /. /yes /

13. What type of story are you least in your element writing? 
Straight up romance with no magical/fantastical/ty element to it. Like just a straight girl meets boy kindda thing with no twist at all. Nah. Not my cup of tea. I also can't write angst lol. Like my type of angst is I guess a bit different from what's readily available but I don't like those mopey story about well... angst.

14. What is one thing you hate seeing in comments? 
Those that are so clearly copypasted to 10 different stories. Like, why do you even bother getting my hopes up but dropping it and stepping on it with a dirty boots like please stop.

15. What sort of author's notes do you make? 
Just fun facts and me rambling on about what inspired me to write the story.

16. Name three things you love doing when you write/update:
I need complete silence when I write/edit (because my brain is so linear it can't, like it just can't produce coherent sentence if I write while listening to some music. Movie scores arent's as bad for writing but I just can't listen to anything if I edit AND EVEN THEN I STILL SO).
Checking google translate/thesaurus every 5 seconds
Procrastinate and watch youtube videos and only really doing my editing 5 minutes before midnight
 

17. What are you most insecure about in your writing?
Grammar lol it's awful. Like, it's really awful. tbh i think i need to take grammar clasess i don't even know the 'scientific' difference between verbs and adjectives.

18. What is your favorite band/pairing/whatever to write about? Why?
Currently my favourite is BTS Suga. Man IDK what I see in that guy but I enjoy writing him so very much. Maybe because I headcannoned him to be this grumpiest, sourest, secretly-soft-and-sentimental person that I just... I love writing Min Yoongi so much man you don't understand.
I like to pair him with either Jin or Jieun (IU) because reasons. Seriously. If one's featured in my story, the other two will follow suit not long after.
 

19. And your second favorite? Why?
My Redvelvet baes. Because they're my go to group for some femslash action LOL

20. Name something you see in comments rather often. 
IDK i think my comment section is pretty varied that I've never spotted some sort of pattern... But ofc in my fics I see a lot of 'omg this is hot' LMAO

21. Name a story you've (probably) neglected
Uhhh... All of them that still doesn't have the 'completed' mark and haven't been updated since like 10 years ago?