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1. Of the fics you’ve written, which is your favorite and why?

You can’t make me pick a single favorite kid. I love Blind Dating, in large part because it was a story I had wanted to write and had tried in various iterations to write since I was a teenager. It has a feeling to it that none of my other stuff has. It’s generally a happy story, taking place in a mostly non-angsty life stage from the perspective of the two leads. It’s hopeful. I recently and pretty briefly considered a sequel exploring Zach’s relationship with his family and memories of dealing with the accident and becoming blind, having recently gone through some shit myself, but… honestly, I don’t know that I really want to go there. Go back there and chronicle the shittiness of dealing with debilitating pain and loss of independence. I’ve gone through it. It fucking sucks. Things got better, and that’s the story I wrote. I dunno. It was an idea that came to me as I was coming home from surgery, and maybe it’s best left there.

I also really love Princess. I was apprehensive going into that one because it was just really fucking complex, plotwise, and I’m pretty thrilled I pulled it off and it worked out pretty much as I intended.

And I love Failure to Communicate, because that was one of those extremely rare stories that grabs you by the ass and demands your write it immediately, this way, right now, these words. And it poured out like a faucet exactly as I wanted; specifically part one. It just worked. Those stories are so rare, and the feeling you get while writing them is even rarer.

I have some others I really like too, older things in other fandoms, WIPs that are still unfinished and deserve to be. My med leave was sadly not long enough to get my writing bug to return and finish All the Things like I wanted.

2. Which scene was your favorite to write in [title of fic]?

The Big Thanksgiving Reveal, of course. I live for that one moment where everything comes together and is explained.

3. Which part of [title] was hardest to write?

LOL the sex scenes. Sex is fucking hard to write. I have no idea how people do it in every chapter.

10. What are some facts readers may not know about [title]?

I don’t personally know anyone who is blind, but my mom knew a woman when she was in college who lived very much the way Zach did. The trope of Blind Character Regains Sight is such an over-done narrative. The first time I wrote this story when I was a teenager, yeah, it seemed romantic at that time, but as an adult, it’s just not realistic. And it does a huge disservice to blind and disabled people who live it everyday. When I saw the movie I stole the title from, I rolled my eyes, and then did what fanficcers do, I fixed it.

Thanks for answering!

I love the Thanksgiving reveal as well!

I love the sex scenes, so yeah, maybe you struggled, but they came out great!

I love that you kept it realistic… Zach is so capable as you wrote him, and worked so hard to get there, I agree it would have been a disservice to have him “healed by love” or a knock on the head or whatever.

And thanks for all of these stories!