#Damn and your self insert met your oc in english class also..?

[kylarsobsession]

It's really funny seeing someone on my main dash and having to do a panicked double take thinking I just saw a mutual rb dol but no it's just someone's... suspiciously named oc LOL

[emjayrey]

20 Questions Tag

tagged by @mercurialscoundrel. Thanks for the tag! Sorry it took so long. I’ll tag whoever wants to answer these questions. (I feel like I’m bothering you by actually tagging you and I can’t remember who likes to be tagged if any of you do lol)

1. Is there any scene from any piece you’ve written that actually scared you? If so, describe the scene.

I’ve never been a person to get scared from reading a story. Maybe I’ve just read too much Stephen King. Who knows. Umm... most unsettling thing I think I’ve written is maybe the prologue to my WIP, The Risks. It’s an encounter between my OC and the first infected person she sees.  

2. What genre do you feel most awkward writing?

Smut stuff, but we’ll get into that in one of these other questions. 

3. How many different types of writing do you write? Types of writing include novels, short stories, poetry, song lyrics, etc.

I write novels. I’ve written a couple one shot fanfics too, but that’s just for fun.

4. How old were you when you first started writing?

I can’t remember a specific age. I know I was in elementary school. I got a journal for Christmas once and was going to write a story about a ghost and I titled it Gost in bold letters on the front then realized I misspelled it... yeah. that story never happened.   

5. How confident are you in your writing?

*squirms uncomfortably*  

6. Have you ever written and posted anything that was very personal to you?

My new WIP, Amelioration is going to acknowledge some things that are personal to me. I think it’s going pose important questions. It might even be a bit controversial. I’m having a hard time getting into it though, probably because it’s pretty different than what I’m used to writing. It’s got some fantasy elements to it and lots of world building which is going to take some planning and I’m more of a pantser so... 

7. What inspired you to start writing?

I’ve always just really enjoyed reading and writing and any English classes throughout school. 

8. Which of your OCs do you relate to the most?

Probably Claire. We’re very similar. Except she’s just meaner. 

9. Have you ever written self-insert fanfiction?

I can’t say that I have.

10. What is your favorite piece you’ve ever written about?

Right now it’s probably my Zelink fanfic. Probably because it’s the only piece I've posted online and it’s gotten some love so I feel kind of confident about it. Otherwise, I think Amelioration will be best thing I write. (If I could just WRITE IT)

11. How frequently do you actually sit down and write?

Hahahahhahaa. Right now? Not very often. Doing this tag game is the most writing I’ve done in months. I really just have to be in the right mood, otherwise everything I write is shit or I just stare at the screen for hours on end. That may be a poor excuse, but I just can’t force myself to write if I’m not feeling it. Can’t do it.  

12. How many hours at a time do you do research on your writing?

The Risks doesn’t take a whole lot of research unless I’m looking up things that would make people suspicious that I might be a murdering psychopath. Stuff about weapons and wounds and those kinds of things. Amelioration will probably take a lot more research. I hate researching.  

13. Do you like to branch out in your writing or do you tend to stick to what you know?

I usually just stick to what I know. I’m boring.   

14. What would your antagonist of your current WIP say to you if they saw you in person?

They honestly wouldn’t have a whole lot to say to me unless it was just some demeaning bullshit, because I really wouldn’t be worth their time.   

15. Do you consider yourself your OCs’ god or just kind of a guiding hand (or other? If other, please list)?

I’ve never really thought about that to be honest. Maybe more of a guiding hand?

16. What do you think you’d be doing with your time if you’d never gotten into writing?

That’s a sad thought. Umm.. probably be obsessing more about movies and TV shows.  

17. Have you ever written a smut piece?

Okey here we go. So for The Risks I need to write an intimate scene between my to main protagonists. And I’m finding it difficult. It’s kind of like a big deal in the story and I want to write it in detail without it sounding like a smutty fanfic. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some smutty fanfic, I just want my intimate scene to feel more smooth and professional like a Stephen King sex scene and not like E.L. James. Halp.

Also, tried writing smutty fanfic and I just don’t think it’s for me. I don’t mind reading that stuff but writing it is just so cringey to me. I cannot in all seriousness write those sorts of words in a sexual way without cringing. It’s just the truth. 

18. What was the first thing you ever wrote about?

There’s only a few of my early pieces I can remember. I don’t remember which came fist. I wrote something about a world where people’s eye color changed with their emotions, a story about a girl who had different universes in her eyes. Neither of those stories made it very far.  

19. What is the most creative creature you’ve ever created for world-building?

My stories don’t really include creatures unless you include the infected people in The Risks. 

20. Tell me one random fact about your WIP that you have yet to tell your followers.

I can’t remember if I’ve said this before, but let me just start by saying that I picked out Claire Harrington’s name like 9 years ago when I started writing this damn thing. Now, in the past year I’ve started to add subtle hints about Claire’s dad. His name is Steve. He used to tell Claire stories about fighting a monster with no face. Anyone who hasn’t seen Stranger Things won’t get the reference, but for those of you who have, my totally canon headcanon is that Steve Harrington from Stranger Things is Claire’s dad. He moved from Hawkins in the years following his graduation to start over (forget all that crazy shit that happened), met Claire’s mom, got married, had Claire. And his “car accident” that killed him shortly after his divorce was actually planned by the government when he tried to go back to Hawkins. Ooooooh, conspiracies! 

That’s all, folks! 

[raiswanson]

Writer Interview Tag

Tagged by @my-words-are-light (sorry this took a bit!)

1) What made you start writing for the first time?

For the FIRST first time? An Elementary school English Teacher. She made us write little stories every once in a while and honestly it was almost the only part of that class that I liked(I have a long standing disdain toward English class and its curriculum).

I consider the first time I started writing FOR REAL as my first year of Middle school when I had a wonderful self-insert Warriors OC that developed a life and story of her own, moved past being a fan character into a totally different entity in a totally different world, and demanded I write everything down for her.

2) If you could only write about the ocean, the forest, or the desert for the rest of your life, which one would you pick?

Ffffffffffff........that’s a hard one. I guess the forest, because Aesthetic™, and as fun as the ocean is and my aquatic characters are, the ocean is DAMN SCARY. The desert is also rad, but a little harder to work with. It’s really, really close though.

3) Would you ever write a memoir?

HA, NAH. As I’ve stated numerous times in these, I live and exceptionally boring life and somehow I don’t think a memoir about “today I woke up and made breakfast, then I wrote. Then I went to work” would be particularly riveting to like...anyone. Myself included.

4) Do you like writing by hand, or writing with a computer?

By computer oh my god. I used to write by hand and I’m not cut out for it. Between having atrocious handwriting, being a leftie, and general inconvenience of having to transcribe my own writing, I don’t find it worth it. It’s not for me.

5) Would you rather be popular among many readers, or unpopular, but loved by critics?

Popular among readers, hands down. Critics aren’t worth shit and if I’m sharing my work publicly it’s because i want fanart/fanfics/etc, not a fancy reviews on some snobs website. I’d prefer critical fans. ;o

6) Do you listen to music while you write? What is the best writing music?

I do! Always! Anything non-lyrical works best for me (or anything with subdued lyrics). The past few NaNos I’ve listened exclusively to dubstep and electro swing playlists. They have served me very well.

7) Do people you’ve met find their way into your writing?

Nah. At most a name might pop into the story, but I never put people in directly. It’s just not a thing I do. To the best of my knowledge (subconscious intentions notwithstanding) my characters go into auto-pilot after a point and become their own people, and don’t usually bear more than a passing similarity to people I’ve met.

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