setting - somewhere in the future, demacia and noxus are in full blown war, jarvan iii not dead yet and crown prince jarvan iv is holding an important choke point on the warfront. the battle is not going well for demacia

i cut a bunch of jarvlux scenes from my fic to preserve the self-acknowledged jankiness of its structure but it physically pained me so im dumping them here.

continued from here / @lightshiield

Sometimes I feel as if you stare right through me. Tell me, what did you find beyond the Great Barrier?

#1 Is there a story you’re waiting to write?

Lots. A few main ones, a few pet projects, a few funny day dreams. Right now I really want to finish my omnibus Lux fic haha.

#2 What’s your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite writing genre?

I appreciate good writing in any form, honestly if the writing is good and I somehow come across it, I’ll read it.

When it comes to genres though, I lean hard for fantasy / YA Lit / historical non fiction / historical / cook books ( a very specific kind ). YA Lit is ... like, I want to love it but objectively I feel like most of it is bad either in writing or plot or characters or, usually, all three. But there’s something about the genre that engenders my goodwill.

#3 What is one aspect of writing you’re really good at?

I think I’m good at distilling feelings into short pieces, a few sentences. #4 What is one part of writing you could do without?

I don’t think there’s anything I’d change about writing. I like it as it is. I will say though that I am pretty terrible at writing long things.

#5 Do you like telling people about your writing or do you keep it to yourself?

I don’t like talking about it.

Part of this is because I think writing is largely for me. It’s something I do because I enjoy it and because there are things I want to write. I believe that writing should stand on its own merit but as a result a lot of things I write I don’t publish because I never bothered setting the scene or introducing characters or shit like that. It’s not something for reader consumption.

#6 Which one of your OCs is least like you?

hahahahahahahaha.

I try to make my OCs more interesting than me because I’m quite boring!

#7 Have you ever based a character/scene on real life?

Yes. Even when you’re writing something removed from the reality of this world, the truth is that we can only ever see things through our perspective and that is the perspective with which we understand the world. Everything I say or write is a reflection of this perspective and the life that I have lived and as I have understood it.

(tl;dr philsophy student says yes)

#8 What do you do when you have writer’s block?

Either I slam away at it and force myself through it, or I wander off and do something else.

#9 Do you write to music? If so, lyrical or musical?

Sometimes. Before 8tracks, I used to write to OSTs and other lyricless music or japanese music lmao. Then I listened to whatever was on my 8tracks feed. And then I (1) became fluent in japanese and (2) 8tracks went to shit so I just listen to uh ... whatever runs on youtube.

I don’t need music to write though, so ig most often I haven’t been writing to music because 8tracks is an unfunctional piece of shite.

#10 Do you write short stories?

Yes - 600ish word drabbles for everything.

No - I don’t actually write short stories in the literary sense. It is a short bit or the whole god damn shebang.