I love ask memes, I really do, they’re very soothing.  From this!

3) what order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?

I start on page one and write until I get to the last page.  Every once in a while, when I’m bored and/or distracted and/or need motivation, I’ll do what I call ‘writing ahead’ and write individual scenes or events ahead of time and then integrate them later, but if I write ahead at length, it’s something that’s taking place immediately after the writing that I’m caught up on.  I just really hate having to meticulously go over the stuff I’m integrating in to make sure it’s all contiguous and everything.

5) character you were most surprised to end up writing

I answered this one here!

6) something you would go back and change in your writing that it’s too late/complicated to change now

Um…I dunno.  It might have been kind of interesting to make Sam Lightworth a lesbian, but I like the dynamic of “tall snarky angry dude crumbles all over tiny lethal wicked-eyed girl with the fate of the world in her hands” that I ended up with in FtS.  I just…have a lot of things that I write and generally I get pretty committed to the way things are, because my characters are very real to me.  Altering them after the fact feels kind of like a betrayal.