20. What are your favorite character interactions to write?

I really love writing snarky dialogue, though I'm not nearly as clever about it as I'd like to be. I like writing about people who think they like each other discovering more reasons to like each other. I like writing the comfort part of hurt/comfort. I really, really love writing sleepy just-before-bed or just-woke-up intimacies, things like cuddling and nuzzling. I like combining these things. Probably my favorite way to write snarky dialogue is in the middle of sex, like, there's too much between these two people that they literally just can't shut up about each other while they're all over each other. I'm actually kind of really fond of writing characters interacting with their relations-- Dewey with his mom and sister, the McCarthy triplets, Trent and his uncle, Jeff and his son.



21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?
22. Tell us about one scene between your characters that you've never written or told anyone about before! Serious or not.
23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story—from planning to writing to posting (if you post your work)?
24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What's the most interesting way you've killed someone?
25. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.
26. Let's talk art! Do you draw your characters? Do others draw them? Pick one of your OCs and post your favorite picture of him!
27. Along similar lines, do appearances play a big role in your stories? Tell us about them, or if not, how you go about designing your characters.
28. Have you ever written a character with physical or mental disabilities? Describe them, and if there's nothing major to speak of, tell us a few smaller ones.
29. How often do you think about writing? Ever come across something IRL that reminds you of your story/characters?
30. Final question! Tag someone! And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!


Day 7 — Your Ex-boyfriend/girlfriend/love/crush

Dear Scott,

it is probably stupid of me to do this because I'm fairly certain you still look in on Livejournal once in a blue moon. Well, if you see this, it's all honest, for whatever that's worth.

I never should have broken up with you. I don't know if we'd still be together now if I'd kept the long distance thing going instead of breaking it off when you went to college. Probably not, but you would have kept me from making some of my more idiotic relationship mistakes (namely Tai and Abram), and I would probably be better-adjusted now if I'd learned to cope with you being six hours away.

Maybe it's just the vagaries of memory playing their tricks, but I remember being honestly happy with you so much of the time we were together. You understood me in a way nobody's come close to replicating since, except maybe Kristin. The time we had together was good, and I pretty much look back to those months as the standard for happiness in a relationship now. It has rarely been approached, let alone met.

One of my top five lifetime regrets was not giving you my virginity. Seriously, I will never stop kicking myself over that. You were the only guy I would have trusted with it; instead I practically threw it away, and I bet I would have fewer sexual hangups if my first time had been an act of love and not a drunken mistake.

I don't think of you too terribly often, but when I do, I hope that you're happy out there in Colorado, doing whatever it is you do for the government and playing your ukelele. Some small part of me wants our story to play out like some romantic comedy, like one day we'll meet eyes across a crowded airport and suddenly we'll be in love again, older and maybe a little wiser and definitely, on my part, better able to handle the long distance thing. It's ridiculous and childish and silly, I know, but. But some days I remember the texture of your red hair and the specific gold tones in your amber eyes and all those freckles, and part of me says "you will never find another person who loved you the way he did," and it's all very melancholy and self-recriminating.

Just... I think of you fondly, when I do think of you. And if I had a chance to see you again, I'd grab onto it with both hands, because maybe nothing dramatic will come of it, but it would still be nice to see you for a little while, to talk to you about how you've been and what you do and where you want to be. And I would ask if you're happy, Scott, because I really do care, and I hope you are happy.

Love,
Danielle