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I want to ask a lot, so feel free to only answer the ones that most interest you: 3, 5-8, 10-12.

3: Something you wish a commenter had called attention to, but got ignored - Hm. There’s probably lots of instances, where I work hard to make details mesh with canon. I remember one time I made a couple references to what I thought were well-known authors in a Harry Potter chapter and even asked readers to point them out if they saw them, but no one got them.

5. Something you hate to see in smut - I am very not a fan of certain kinks and several of them tend to tie into the master/slave aspect of BDSM: humiliation, spanking, age or pet play. I also avoid A/B/O as a rule because I don’t need all the squishy details that some authors revel in.

6. Something you love to see in smut - Tenderness. When there’s a pause to caress or admire or kiss, I just melt.

7. Something you hate to see in dialogue - When someone tries to mimic a character’s accent or speech pattern and overdoes it. Basically the Rowling effect with all of Fleur’s zzz’s and Hagrid’s dropped H’s. A little goes a long way and I prefer when someone takes a sentence to describe the accent rather than convey it through spelling.

8. Something you love to see in dialogue - I like when an author feels confident enough in the rest of their storytelling that they can be sparse and focus on just the important things that need to be communicated. No extra exposition. No “as you know” phrases because the *reader* needs to know a thing. Even better if the exchange can go on for a few lines with nothing else around it but pure dialogue.

10. What's your least favorite part about posting? - Dealing with FF-Net’s awful interface.

11. What "don't ever do this" writing rule are you guilty of constantly breaking? - I’m honestly not sure, because for the most part I tend to roll my eyes at a lot of stylistic rules - there’s always a place where breaking the rule makes for a better reading experience. I probably use adverbs more than Stephen King would like (but definitely much less than the Potter author). And one of these days I should probably sit down and figure out a more consistent system of choosing between a semicolon, an em dash, or a conjunction other than “looks good for this instance”.

12. What writing rule do you refuse to break? - I WILL have proper capitalization, thank you very much (other than imitating someone texting in the story). I hate how many otherwise excellent writers don’t bother to properly capitalize their titles. Oddly enough, this seems to happen more on AO3 than FF-Net, even though I consider the overall quality of writing to be better on AO3...

Remaining questions are here!