Thirty Days of Fanfiction: Day Twenty-Five

25 – Music – Do you listen to music while you write? Do you make playlists to get into a certain "mood" to write your fic? Do you need noise in general? Or do you need it completely quiet?

Music distracts me when writing, so I don't listen to it then. During breaks, absolutely. And then it can influence me or mean I connect characters with certain voices or songs. Doesn't always happen, but it happens. However, I can't both listen to music and write at the same time.

Also, I envy people who can make playlists and fanmixes; I can't. Except that one time where it was a prompt and I made Marshall Flinkman compile the soundtrack of Arvin Sloane's life. That was fun. :)



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Thirty Days of Fanfiction: Day Twenty-Six

26 – What is the oddest (or funnest) thing you've had to research for a fic?

In a competition between the Colombian drug trade in the 80s for Sacrificium (Alias, Jack and Arvin backstory) and the ways a Roman woman (well, a Roman woman who could afford a midwife) gave birth for Survival (Rome, and it's Atia giving birth to Octavia), the Romans win. It's the right foot of a hyena that gives them an advantage.




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