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Sorry if this counts as a spoiler; but will Flowey have an appearence/be an important character in the Fic? I would love to see snooper interacting with him somehow (there's not enough Flowey representation out there 😔)

YESS THERE WILL BE, semester is basically over so i can get back to writing!

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omg, I just finished catching up on Mixed Signals and I have to ask if you have any suggestions/tips on how to write as well as you do? I swear your writing is so fluid, feels really natural, and I love the way you describe things (like environments, the character's voices, etc.).

I'm not even a writer and yet you're still an inspiration to me. I'm also impressed with the way you're writing this story and I'm super curious where this will all lead to. you honestly deserve way more hype for this story it's so unique.

sorry the message is so long, and I'm pretty sure you've heard these things before, but I just had to write you!

im working right now but this ask genuinely made smile so wide. i really believe this is one of the biggest compliments you could give a writer, and it’s an honor that youve chosen to bestow it upon me 🙏

im not exactly sure how to answer your ask so im just going to tell you my writing process :]

quichein’s guide to writing a chapter:

STEP 1: OUTLINE THAT SUCKER

i tend to outline what i want a chapter by making a list that looks something like this:

CHAPTER XX — (insert main purpose of chapter - e.g. sans reader bonding + undernet word building)

OPENING SCENE: Reader wakes up disoriented after falling asleep the night before

SCENE ONE: Undernet shenanigans

SCENE TWO: Reader makes a post

END SCENE: Reader and Sans have a late night call

STEP 2: FLESH OUT YOUR OUTLINE

put in pieces of dialogue and detail you want to include

CHAPTER XX — sans and reader + undernet worldbuilding

OPENING SCENE:

Reader is jolted awake by a notification from Sans

Text reads "mornin' snooper. (insert chapter related pun)"

Morning banter: "please spare me today" "no promises."

SCENE ONE (UNDERNET CHAOS):

Scrolling through posts + comments

“ANNOYING DOG IS AS OLD AS THE QUEEN???”

caption: “DO THE GUARD DOGS USE DOG YEARS OR MONSTER YEARS OR BOTH???”

“IS ANNOYING DOG IMMORTAL?”

SCENE TWO (READER'S POST):

Alphys pops in the group chat to check on the reader

They nerd out a bit about Alphys' latest projects

Insert Sans' jokes/puns/remarks here and there

Alphys eggs on the reader to make a post and reader reluctantly gives in

Reader's post is some half-baked pun

CONNECTING SCENE:

The messages eventually stop coming through and it's getting quiet (MAKE IT REFLECTIVE, ALMOST LONELY)

Sans keeps the reader company throughout it all

Sans offers to call the reader after a bit

END SCENE (LATE-NIGHT CALL):

Starts light, allow the moment to build (talk about daily life, grievances, etc.)

Their conversation leans towards more personal anecdotes and reader gets more of a feel for Sans under all the jokes

"So you basically raised Pap all on your own?"

"yup." Sans says casually, the shift in his tone almost imperceptible. "used to be us against the world."

End the chapter with them talking until late into the night

STEP 3: WRITE

essentially just flesh out your fleshed out outline (ik, it's a lot)

STEP 4: REVISE REVISE REVISE

(please note that this is the step im the most picky on and it takes me like a week or more b/c im rereading line by line to fix COMMAS if the sentence flow is off)

some things i personally do during revising:

ask "does this chapter meet the goal i set?" if not, add more scenes that work towards the goal OR delete redundant scenes to make room for more impactful ones

reread to see if scenes and dialogue transition smoothly into one another. fix flow and timeline as needed

tweak for clarity

STEP 5: EDIT

FINAL STRETCHH—fix any punctuation or grammatical errors

STEP 6: BASK IN YOUR CREATION

YAYYY YOU MADE ITT!! now you can read and reply to all of your wonderful readers' nice comments. makes it all worth it, huh?

all jokes aside, please never apologize for writing long asks. interacting with all you guys brings me a special kind of joy and it brightens up my whole week. thank you so much for writing to me, and im sorry updates are taking so long

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❥ snrk!

hm, i wonder what he’s laughing at.

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❥ happy (unofficial) birthday, comedian

i lub snas undertile

it’s my headcanon that his bday is on april fools, pls let me live

(mixed signals is still coming along i SWEAR)

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i have so many papyrus and undyne quotes sitting in new-dialogue-notes™

but alas, it is much too soon and i have to finish this next chapter before we get to fun part

AND IM TIRED OF THE FLUFF, I WANT WAR AND ANGUISH

(which is one of the bigger reasons why these next chapters are taking so long)

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Im curious whether or not you will include alphys' status updates that happen in the game while in hotland? like the ones about undyne and the humans fight, mmkc etc.

itd be fun to read about in the fic!

now if i answered that, it’d be a spoiler

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I need you to understand that when I say "comments are appreciated!" I mean that I will reply to every one of them. I mean that an email with an ao3 notification has a higher priority than a message from my mother. I mean that I will have entire discussions in the comment section if you're up for it. Message me on tumblr and I will have the same discussions on an even more unhinged level. I will dissect entire personalities and ships and fictional political structures and worldbuilding with you. I will become your new best friend. You already ARE my new best friend. At the last battle, I would raise Anduril and say "For my ao3 readers" while a single tears rolls down my cheek, and dive into the fray. I would upload from beyond the grave if someone asked about the next chapter

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FYM IT GETS ANGSTY NOOOOOO💔💔💔

DONT WORRRYYYY

(you still got a handful of chapters)

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I'm just laughing while imagining Y/N's reaction when they find out the people they were talking to were monsters😭😭 I'm just imagining them being like "what the fuck."

LMAO, ive been thinking about it for SO LONG (i promise im still writing mixed signals 🙏)

sans: welp cats out of the bag.

alphys: y-yeah…

y/n (stunned): what the fuck.

sans (amused): language.

y/n: let me get this straight—you guys are monsters…

y/n (baffled): AND YOU DIDN’T THINK TO TELL ME SOONER??

sans: didn’t wanna rattle ya

y/n (baffled 2x): HOW ARE YOU GUYS EVEN TALKING?

alphys: w-well actually, biology d-doesn’t really matter to—

sans: raw skill.

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i want to write. i really do.

but alas, i have a writing tick where i can't write unless someone is sitting in call talking to me. my go-to is asleep.

send help.

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just wanted to say how much i love your fanfic. it's SO hard coming across a fic that is so spot on on sans' character! i can't wait to find out what happens in the story and i can't wait for the new update!!! :D

arrghh—THANK YOU MY DEAR READER!!

i love getting bc asks on my fic and seeing what you guys think/suggestions you want to see implemented—it makes me emotional just thinking about how you guys are just as invested as i am in my concept 🥹

ive also been struggling recently to find motivation to write (the thoughts are all there but my brain no want to produce on paper 😓), so this support really, truly means the world to me

so, again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for submitting this ask—i’ll try to get this next update done soon just for you, anon!

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the neurodivergent experience:

20% of the time: wowwieee!!! i love my passions and interests!!!!! they make me so happy i want to jump up and down!!!!! weee!!!!!!! :3333333333

80% of the time: this mind is a prison

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HELPPP—ive infatuated myself with an underfell fic idea

BUT MIXED SIGNALS IS STILL ON THE BRAINNN GRRAAHHHHH

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❥ geeked vs. locked in

in my artist era (not my writer era tho apparently 😔)

drew this in like an twenty minutes and im too lazy to render (truthfully, idk how to on digital) but i hope you enjoy anyway

also, send in prompts or scenarios you want written, hopefully it’ll get my brain juices going—and stay safe in the meantime! ^^;

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❥ eye contact

sorry for being so inactive everyone :( my dialogue notes on my pc didn’t transfer to my new pc and that really stunted everything + writers block has been rough

HOWEVER, plot points for mixed signals HAS been brewing—so here’s a little something in the mean time while i make you wait (again TT)