Hello again!

This is my response to u/Nyaanneko 's Wanton Writer Questionnaire!

I know it might not be the most normal thing to see a newbie script writer fill a questionnaire, but writing the responses helped me get to know this new side of myself more, and I hope it will have the same effect on you!

1. Where do your ideas come from?

So far, my own fantasies. Boring, right? I think that's always going to be a writer's best source of inspiration, though. This having been said, just by observing contributions by other writers and/or performers, my horizons have certainly broadened. Lots of fun stuff going on around here.

Observing other people's work is also a great source of inspiration for me! Hopefully that won't cause me to accidentally plagiarize someone's content. Yep, that's a huge fear of mine. Add it to the list. HALP!

Finding scenes of your daily life (and twisting them, of course) is, I think, also a good place to start. You'll have a decent idea of the setting, and the people involved can help shape your characters.

I'm pretty sure everyone's already heard these things, but that's also probably why they're so true. They've definitely helped me start out.

2. What inspired you to start writing erotic scripts?

You all did. Nothing more, nothing less.

For me, finding this community was an incredibly refreshing feeling. I hadn't had anyone to even consider sharing my kinks and fantasies with, which made me think they were abnormal and almost scary. And then I found GWA. A massive group of humans, just like myself, each one with their (somewhat) normal life and story, united by some of the same characteristics that I had wanted to reject in myself. As an example, and I know I keep bringing them up, MONSTER GIRL KINKS! I'd thought of anthropomorphic animals for a while, especially those without much fur to speak of, but rather with other animal traits. I was aware that it was something I found attractive, and I was almost disgusted with myself for that reason. Until I found out that monster girls are a thing people are into. A pretty common thing, actually!

For a long time, I didn't do much more than occasionally search for a few tags and find audios that I enjoyed. I upvoted and saved them, sure, but it wasn't until recently that I started taking note of the username beind the script or the performance. That, more than anything, made me decide to try to give back to the community.

3. What tags/genres are easy to write for you? Which ones are challenging?

This has a lot to do with te first question, i think. If I like it, I can find inspiration with relative ease. If I can find inspiration, I can write about it without too many problems.

Me personally... I love monster girls. Out of what i like, I think those are the easiest for me to write. I think it's interesting to use what we know (or think we know) about the source animals to help shape monster girls's personalities. It still gives us a lot of room to play. Sure a catgirl can be cute and cuddly, but she could also be proud and self-sufficient. A girl with dog traits is usually going to be portrayed as being subservient and easy to control, but we all know dogs can be protective and fierce when they know what they want.

Because I've been on both ends, I also find it enjoyable to write scripts where one of the characters has to take the initiative, due to the other being slightly more shy and/or unexperienced. I truly enjoy writing both perspectives.

I think this will definitely expand the more I write and get to know my own style.

Of course, the most challenging tags for me to write are the ones I'm not into. While I do want to eventually branch off of what I've been doing so far, I don't intend on forcing myself to write something I have no interest in, mostly because I doubt I can write something enjoyable when I don't enjoy writing it.

4. Are you regimented or do you write when inspiration strikes?

Very much the latter. I'm the least organized person you will ever meet. My scriptwriting is no exception to this.

I have a separate section on a notes app for my scripts. It has all my finished and WIP pieces lined up, but it also has a scratchpad. I have a hotkey assigned to it, so that I can quickly switch to it from anywhere in case I get an idea for a script i want to start working on at some point, or a specific concept I want to integrate into one script or another. This gives me a pool of ideas to pull from whenever I want to write.

5. What are some things you're working on now? How long is your idea list?

My main project is a script where the listener is a new and VERY shy foreign exchange student. The performer plays the part of a more... curious girl, who notices him despite his ability to fade into the background, and gives him a more thorough orientation session.

Another possibly interesting idea I have lined up is centered around a hookup in a muic practice room. As a classical pianist, I spend a lot of my time locked in a room at school with nothing but a grand piano and a couple of music stands. Sometimes you meet cool people when you switch rooms with them, and I've always wondered what could happen in a closed, soundproofed environment like that.

A more long-term project of mine is a script from a hen girl's perspective. For some reason, though, I've never been a fan of the feather and wings aspect of hen harpies, and have always been more fascinated by the egg laying. This is probably the most niche out of all of the ones I have in store, and I don't expect it to be of interest to more than a couple of people, but I know what it would mean to me to find a script based off of an idea I'd never thought anyone would find attractive.

6. What are some ideas you've abandoned?

None thus far. There are of course ideas in my list that haven't had a single line written, but I haven't started anything that I wasn't able to finish. Not that this means much for someone who hasn't released more than a half dozen scripts. :p

7. What's your writing process? What programs/apps do you use? Or do you write by hand?

I, of course, write by hand. I find, however, that the traditional ways of writing are much too detached and sterile. This is why I write all my scripts in Braille, a writing system much more linked to the sense of touch, which is of great importance in this genre. It goes without saying that brailler machines are an absolute abomination, nothing more than chunks of noisy scrap metal that tend to leave unclear marks on the page. I use a classic twenty-seven character Braille slate manufactured in the 1930s, with a custom-built, titanium-tipped marble stylus, my most loyal companion for more than a dozen years.

Actually I have all my scripts in .TXT files in a very arbitrarily named encrypted folder on my hard drive. I edit them with... Uh... Notepad. I can read and write Braille, but I hope never to have to use it for this task.

My writing process is never the same. I've started most of my scripts from the beginning, but a couple of the ones I have released were put together from different, almost mismatched parts I had written over a day or two.

8. Do you have a particular voice or accent in mind when you write?

I always have an idea of the voice I imagine my character having, but I also look forward to being surprised. I know that my take on my scripts won't be the final one, and voices are, of course, extremely diverse. For me, part of te thrill of getting a new fill is seeing what kind of voice my character will have. Of course I'll be happy if it matches my idea, but in a way, it will make me even happier to hear a completely unexpected voice type that ends up working way too well! :)

This is amplified when i write bilingual scripts, as I never know what the second language will be once it gets filled.

9. Tips for voices while performing scripts?

I know I speak for more than just myself when I say that scripts are just a guide. If something feels unnatural, and you say something that has a similar meaning but doesn't exactly match what's on the page, THAT IS OKAY! It's more than okay, actually. I much prefer to hear something that sounds natural and o know that you're having a fun time, than to notice that you're struggling to read the words.

10. Walk is through your thought process: Erotic moment 10 word challenge: e.g.

"No, 'slugs' is not an appropriate safe word. Try again."

i feel that this question may be slightly out of my reach right now, but I decided to fill this questionnaire anyway because I want to save it for later. I'm curious to know what my own answer will be after I become more experienced.