lizardrosen

[lizardrosen]

🤔 and I saw someone else already sent 💕 but if you have another favorite part go for it!

(fic writing ask game)

🤔 why do you write fic?

mostly because i love the characters or the world and i just want to spend more time with them! i'm always tossing around 'what ifs' and sometimes those scenarios bloom into a full fic, but even if it's never more than a random message i send to a friend it makes me happy! or sad, but like, in an artsy way.

💕 whats your favorite part of your writing process?

i really like sharing wips with trusted friends and seeing what they respond to. depending how well i know someone, i sometimes just torture them with little hints of what i'm working on and thrive on their anticipation.

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✅ 💕

(for the fic writer ask game)

✅ list one or two favorite lines you’ve written and explain why they’re your favorite

There hasn’t been time for a shave, and any suitable razors have been needed instead for mere survival. The new growth of hair is at once soft and prickly under Rubin’s palm, much how this conversation has been feeling. [...] Rubin lets the words sink in, pulls out the scrap name to read those words once more, and then at last she lets herself believe them. “Thank you, Grief.”

These are both from the scene in my trans Rubin fic when she admits to herself and to Bad Grief that she's a woman. For the first 3.5k words I very carefully avoided using any pronouns at all for Rubin. The first bit of this quote was particularly difficult to describe what i wanted with that limitation and I was really proud of myself when I got it right. The second part is the sentence where I finally made that change for her, and doing that mid-sentence felt really cool and fitting.

There's probably better lines I've written, and even ones that I like better, but when thinking about the writing process and how it felt to come up with that combination of words, this is always the one I come back to.

💕 whats your favorite part of your writing process?

I love the moment when whatever I'm working on really comes together and I can feel the words flowing without feeling like work. I'm still using my craft so it's not effortless, but my effort is put towards playing with language and form, instead of trying to remember how sentences are supposed to look, which is what it can feel like sometimes.

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fic writing ask game!

nothing groundbreaking but it’s fuuuuun

✅ list one or two favorite lines you’ve written and explain why they’re your favorite

🧮 what are you working on? describe it in 20 words or less

🎶 do you write with music? does the music you’re listening to influence your writing?

💕 whats your favorite part of your writing process?

😠 whats your least favorite part of your writing process?

🎀 how do you decide when something is done?

🌅 do you typically known the ending to something before you start writing it?

🔚 have you ever completely changed the direction a piece was going?

🤔 why do you write fic?

⛔️ whats something you try to avoid in your work?

📚 do you ever read similar works while writing, or do you intentionally not read them?

🦉 give yourself a piece of writing advice

😊 say something nice about your writing

😭 what’s something you’re currently struggling with?

🔥 what’s something that’s currently going really well?

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TFW your GrubHub driver may be fleeing the Furies of his slain mother, but you're really hungry, so you're willing to let it slide.

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i never feel more like a steeple-fingered villain than when i see someone making reductive statements about a genre i like and i think tch. pathetic. not only can i tell that you are only acquainted with three utterly mainstream works of this genre, but i can tell exactly which three they are

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Impressive.

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Witchcraft, Wisdom, Death...

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what is your eye color. what is your favorite color. what is the color that appears most frequently in your wardrobe. what color is your favorite blanket. what color is your water bottle.

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who looks at shinohara wakaba from revolutionary girl utena and thinks "this is a straight girl" ?

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Quitting Time - John Moore , 2015.

American, b. 1941 -

Oil on linen, 50 x 42 in.    127 x 106.68 cm.

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i wrote slightly less a page and a half today, but what i came up with was really satisfying and brings everything before it together, so i'm counting this as a successful day of writing!!

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what’s the first song on ur wrapped playlist that starts with the first letter of ur name

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Paying two extra drachma to be seated in the splash zone of the greek theatre so Clytaemnestra can douse me in agamemnon's blood

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reblog if you would give cheeses to these meeces

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This isn't asking if you're out or if you discuss your identity– more like if you were at the grocery store, would someone shopping nearby be able to tell you're queer without you saying so?

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