Ah, it's mostly the usual stuff, you know. I keep spending my time with overthinking everything instead of just writing or hating on what I've written 😂😭 Then I'll get distracted with other ideas, I'm tempted to work on instead. (And then I end up doing just that.) The deadline is closing in and I'm not even half-done but I'm so done with it lol I really should stop clowning around but it's hard 😔 I just hope I can get to the art part in time haha If I'm lucky I just need one more chapter...
And well, maybe it's also difficult for me because English isn't my mother tongue so occasionally I need to look up a word but then it isn't quite what I'm looking for. My motivation has also reached a slump and I'm worried no one will like my fic >.< Ultimately, I probably overcomplicate things but I don't know how to change that 🙈 sorry if this has become a vent 😅 But thanks for asking!

I also would like to know where inspiration comes from tbh 🤡 Most of the time ideas hit me seemingly out of nowhere o.o
Although, I do a lot of daydreaming so that might help prepare the ground 😋

Now, of course, there are a lot of other factors. The most important one might be that in fics I can explore anything canon won't ever touch. And I get desperate to find out how a certain what-if scenario would unfold. When canon won't give me what I crave, long for I have to make it myself, right? Otherwise, I might go insane 🙈
My Kaeluc reconciliation fics are a great example of that, I think. I'm still praying hoyo will give it to us one day 😭

Also, I'm just a sucker for romance so I need to see my blorbos getting together and being lovey-dovey with each other. You could say, I throw my favorite tropes into a pot, stir, shake and kick it, hoping something good comes out of it 😂

And sure when I was younger I read a lot of especially fantasy novels and occasionally romances too. (Of course, I grew up soaked with Disney classics haha).
My uni friend dragged me into yaoi hell and later, I stumbled into the danmei novels hole and haven't crawled out of it yet. Also, I’m a huge anime fan, the genre almost doesn't matter as long as it's interesting.

Music is definitely inspiring too. Incidentally, my last Wriolette fic was born due to Fujii Kaze’s Workin’ Hard song xD

Now about how I develop my stories, that's a tough one. Most of the time I go with the flow so to speak. I'm pretty much of a panster. But for longer stories I do use outlines (only to not follow it completely in the end orz).
I never have a really clear picture of the whole thing. Sometimes it's just a scene I really need to see happen. Thankfully, the characters often “help” me figure the rest out.
And for the love of my life, I can't write in a linear way. It's like a puzzle or patchwork, I have to piece together. Like I’ve written a few paragraphs only to realize later one of them belongs somewhere in the next chapter. My brain is weird like that 🥴

Ultimately, stories work like a catalyst for our underlying feelings and I'm addicted to the rush of emotions a good story manages to deliver. That's what I hope to achieve whenever I cook something up.

Please, don't apologize for asking questions haha I'm here for this and I love to answer them xD Writing is a fascinating journey (tortuous at times lol), I hope this gave you a glimpse of my process. Actually, I could go on and on about it, but I don't want to talk your ears off 😅 So thanks for asking and take care ❤️

Omg thank you!! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)
Oh, great questions! Let's see... I always admired writers in general and later when I got into fandoms fanfic writers especially because they give us this wonderful place to escape reality with the characters we love so much.
Secretly, I wanted to do the same but never had the courage to write anything because I simply didn't have any ideas. Or that's what I told myself since, in truth, I was afraid to embarrass myself haha
(Also, I had some pretty mean teachers in school who told me I wrote horribly and that stuck with me for a very long time.)
Then I made a friend in uni and I explained them about my writing trauma/aspiration. They looked at me confused and said: if you wanna write just do it. That was one of the pushes I needed. Of course, I didn't believe it at first. It took some internal struggling but at the glorious age of 20+ I wrote my first fic. It's somewhere lost on FanfictionNet now haha but after that, I haven't written much until Genshin pushed me down a rabbit hole and I'm still falling. That is to say I'm writing more focused about three years now. So, I guess you could say I'm still pretty new to writing xD