1. Is there a particular place you usually work? At home, or do you prefer to work in public places? Do you have a desk or dedicated work place?

I prefer to write at home (or wherever I'm currently staying), but I'll jot down notes on my phone wherever I am and whatever I'm doing when I get a new idea (for example, in church halfway through a worship service).

I write on my laptop wherever it happens to be set up, but that's usually on my desk in my bedroom.

2. If you've worked with concrit or beta readers in the past, what do you think is the most useful skill for a beta reader/feedback person to have? What do you think writers/artists should do, or know in order to get the most out of feedback?

I think a good beta is flexible enough to focus on whatever the creator asks them to focus on, but also firm enough to also point out other things they feel aren't working optimally as well (unless explicitly asked not to, for example due to time constraints).

I pride myself on being good at receiving constructive criticism – I had a lot of practise at it during my formative years, which was very helpful – and I find that graciously accepting feedback, even feedback you don't agree with, sets you up for people being willing to engage with your work more in depth rather than just helping polish up the surface, so to speak.

3. Do you think of your work in terms of tropes? If you do, what are your favorites, and what are you planning to use in this story? Do you like to read the same things you like to write and draw?

I'm writing a story that I first conceptualised as an exchange gift, for a rather tropey OW pairing (isn't that almost all of them – the ones that get nominated for exchanges, I mean). And at least one scene is pretty tropey in itself, now that I think about it – but that's just it, I usually don't think about my writing in terms of tropes. And if I'm writing a story where I have to decide how to move the story along, and my choices are scenario A, which would take the story in a more tropey direction, and scenario B, which is more narratively coherent, I would generally go for B.

Tropes, or tags at least, can be more useful when finding things to read, but I'm more likely to enjoy a well-written fic for a trope I'm lukewarm about than a decent fic for a trope I love.