Q: Tell us a little about yourself! What's your favorite kind of writing, and does it differ from your favorite kind of reading material?
A: I’ve been writing ever since I was young. Nothing came from it except some truly terrible scenes I’m glad no evidence exists of, but I always trended towards writing stuff for other works over original material. When I turned thirteen, I became hyperfixated on pokemon for some reason, ended up searching the web to see if there was anyone else who shared my weird writing tastes but pokemon, and whoops there were thousands actually. I’ve spent the last five years bouncing around the different pokefic sites and circles, and reading all the different things people have come up with. Two years and some change ago, I decided I was finally up to the task of publishing something myself and now I can’t get out, help,
I started writing mainly because the things that I wanted to read weren’t out there, like, at all. So I guess what I like reading is similar to what I like writing in that aspect. I generally tend to draw elements from the published fiction that I like for my own writing, which includes things like
Stephen King’s IT,
Battlestar Galactica, the
Harry Potter books,
Attack on Titan, and recently the
Animorphs series. My writing style tends to center on things that should be absurd instead played down-to-earth, child characters who have to deal with things way above their paygrades, far-reaching worldbuilding and adventures, and also economical/political conspiracies because for some reason, it worms its way into literally everything I write no matter what. The one thing I will generally always go for in both reading and writing is some kind of mystery. Mysteries are engaging to me, and are the number one most effective way to keep me page turning or writing more pages.
Q: What piece are you the most proud of from your body of work?
A: I only really have one fully-fledged work right now, but if I had to choose one thing from within that work… probably Part II of my main longfic, Psychic Sheep. I got to tell a self-contained “slice of horror” story, with that
Stranger Things/Animorphs-esque Kids Solve A Mystery In A Small Town setting I really like. The cast was reasonably sized and all in just two or three places, the slow buildup to the horror-themed finale sequence was something I had a lot of fun working up towards, and the elements that the setting in particular offered fit the vibes I like perfectly. It’s probably going to remain my favorite stretch of the story to write for a long while.
Q: Do you have anything you're excited about planned for this year? Any goals or major milestones?
A: My hope is to churn out the remaining nine chapters of the arc I’m in the middle of by June. If I can do that, I’m halfway through Psychic Sheep! Otherwise… not too much. I had an idea for doing a medium-length fic adapting Pokemon Scarlet and Violet before they come out and seeing how much I get wrong, but the more I look at my schedule the more of a pipe dream that becomes.
Q: What was the most challenging thing you've had to write?
A: There were four chapters of Psychic Sheep in particular that were terrible for me to write. They’re all finale chapters for mini-arcs within the fic, and while by some miracle complaints for these chapters are nonexistent, making sure the chapters did what they needed to resulted in a lot of work and roadblocks for me. Not eager to repeat that.
Q: If you could tell yourself of the past any one thing regarding your work, what would it be?
A: Don’t get caught up with mentioning and writing every little nitty gritty scene and detail, because you’re just going to be cutting half of the content you wrote later on. Also whatever you do please don’t use semicolons in place of commas, this is not a joke I’m still finding them everywhere please save your future self a boatload of trouble
Q: Sell your work! What's one thing you want people to know about your writing?
A: I advertise my work as a breakaway adaptation of an obscure game that’s barely been written for, but I think the real biggest selling point is that it’s just a fun, out-there, and mostly original ride in a way the source material never was. It’s well-paced, well-characterized, has a unique atmosphere, and most importantly is easy to get into no matter what corner of the fandom you come from.
Q: Anything else you want to mention?
A: I have a weird penchant for sticking relevant, extremely thought out music themes on the end of my story chapters, and I await the day I meet someone who also does this incredibly specific and niche thing so we can nerd out together
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Thanks for the interview, Espy! But I'm going to surprise you with one last question: What music theme would you give THIS interview? She, of course,
answered.
