#I FORGOT TO TSG THEM ALL I DONT KNOW THEIR NAMES

[jesterable]

ok so i played the game, immediately blacked out after chapter 1, and woke up and this was on my screen

[theboykingofhell]

3, 13, 17, 25?

whispers that i love you sensually in your ear

3) An OC I’ve never used for anything

ooch ouch the reject pile... this one’s a little hard to answer because i honestly repurpose my ocs all the time cuz i rly hate giving ideas up but there’s been a few characters in an rp i’ve done that i made but they just... didn’t go anywhere... 

or, like, there’s plenty of ocs that last like two seconds because i want a character for so-and-so fandom but then i don’t do shit with them besides think about them a lil... s’why i wish i could draw cuz at least i’d be making them exist in SOME way

OH OH and one time me and britt made vampire brothers together and they were cute as hell and then we forgot about them forever r.i.p.. they were cute

edit: I JUST REMEMBERED. there was this subplot in the original high school version of cc where there was this kind of android/cyborg race that i had shoehorned in there because i was watching a lot of existensial robot anime at the time and i was just so in love with that parents-make-android-clone-of-their-dead-kid trope that i wanted one with rachel’s sister. i don’t feel like making that a thing in the current version of cc though because that’s too much effort and robot media is just making me tired rn but. that was a thing.

13) An OC inspired by something completely unexpected

interesting question... i think, especially because i’ve just been writing a lot in RP communities for so long, it’s kind of new to me to create an OC to serve a purpose in the plot, rather than because i just felt like making an OC and then i later figured that they’d be good to do this-and-this

so when i decided to make adcl i kind of realized ‘oh shit i need a character so that this can happen’ and had to make one appear, which is pretty backwards for how i usually do things

it was also interesting knowing that i needed to have a character that 1) had to embody a concept that didn’t belong to me, and had to do that in an interesting and creative way that was unique to me, and 2) had to have this concept be reflected IN both their superpower, their personality, and their motives as a villain

which eventually led to me having ayameko, and a lot about her character has been really fun beCAUSE a lot about her is very familiar in the usual tropes that surround this concept (the concept being hanahaki disease). i also just absolutely adore writing villains, and her motives especially (that she did everything she did because she was obsessed with the need for people to love her. and NOT to love her in like a pure, true love kind of way, but that she was addicted to manipulating people into situations where they had to die for her) was just? fun and new when i compare her to characters like red or hydra or nathaniel. i have a lot a LOT of characters obsessed with revenge and getting back at people for something, or, like, becoming a certain way in retaliation to something that happened to them. ayameko is fun because something bad happened to her but she came out of it unscated and she was like ‘oh? that was cool? but what if i make that bad thing happen to someone else? noice’

.... so i guess the REAL surprise in this character is that her entire character is inspired around love, unrequited or not, and how it could be used against people in a chaotic manner? i don’t see that shit a lot outside of yanderes (and i dont consider her to be one) so it was fun YEAh 

i did not mean to talk about her so much but i love her so :’(

17) The easiest OC for me to write (and why!)

probably red because i’ve been writing for him for over a decade now so at this point it’s like a second skin... especially his dialogue, i can’t stress how effortlessly writing the way he talks is now, when that was something i used to have trouble with a lot back when i first pooped him out

25) An OC I’ve changed a LOT

tsg in general changed a LOT from what it used to be. nora is pretty similar to her original incarnation but nisha is COMPLETELY different. she started out pretty much like the protag of my immortal because i made her, like, last year of middle school i think? so she was just this pale white bitchy too-cool-for-you emo girl in high school named rachael who hated everyone but her far-too-hyper friends that she would put up with day by day, and who kind of stumbled into this big dramatic mess of a plot...

... which is so funny to think about. anyway now she’s this shy indian girl with ocd who is kind of stuck in that halfway point between college and the real world, and the reason she gets into the mess she’s in is partially because of her insistence to butt into her adopted father’s cases (he’s a cop and she’s a wannabe for all the wrong reasons) and partially because she and her bestie is getting stalked, so there’s a way more fun dynamic of her kinda-not-really getting herself into trouble that she likely wouldn’t have been able to avoid anyway. she became one of my absolutely favorite characters to write so quickly because of that (like, when it comes to all my narrator characters, she’s definitely my favorite one) and it’s WILD thinking about how. outright goddamn boring she used to be

[theboykingofhell]

would you by any chance be up to just answer all of them rn

sjdnflskjdsnfdgsdfg this is gonna kill me and i’m so excited

READ MORE FOR ONCE to spare yalls dashboards

and i took out the ones i answered already tbh OK LET’S GO

1 : What age-group do you write?

YA!!!! i have always always wanted to write for teens. since i’ve gotten older, i do also wanna write for young adults but definitely like anything between 13-25 is the people i rly dedicate my stories to

2 : What genre do you write?

again, the closest thing i’d subscribe to genre-wise is YA... i get bored only doing the same thing over and over, but atm i have the most scifis (the most being two) so i guess that! i do fucking LOVE horror and realistic fiction tho

3 : Do you outline according to big ideas or small details?

how small are we talking... i do rly obsessively outline tho, i get the main big plot points down and then i like to know what those lil details in between are.. so...

5 : Do you write better with or without deadlines?

DON’T GIVE ME A DEADLINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE..................

like, sure, i’ll DO it, but will i LIKE IT.. NAH... PROBABLY NOT... i did nanowrimo once, it was a great experience but was the final product good? nah... so... nnnnnah

6 : What would be the biggest compliment you could hope to receive on your current WIP?

GOSH I DONT KNOW.... JUST... ASKING FOR MORE, I GUESS??????? actually the biggest compliment is people building on my ideas or asking me questions about it tbh, anything that shows how engaged they rly got is NICE... i also do rly like when people compliment my prose tho kfgsdfgs

7 : How long is your current WIP?

tsg is 9449 words as of rn! i am far too lazy to open up the other documents and check but they are FAR shorter! 

10 : Do you brain-storm story ideas alone or with others?

bothhhhh... i do have way more fun with other people though, and i think other people help more cuz they can make connections and ask questions i wouldn’t think of. most importantly, if there are plot holes, maybe they’ll find them for me.. or maybe even solve them!!! eee the best

11 : Do you base your characters off of real people?

y e s yes yes i do i have so many... like, there’s a cara in every story, there’s a maeve and britt in every story, if i know you for long enough, you’ll def appear SOMEwhere.

12 : Is your writing space clean or cluttered?

what is this ‘clean’ you speak of

13 : Do you write character-driven or plot-driven stories?

def characters, man, i wouldn’t even write a plot if you’d let me... i literally have so many stories where the plot IS just the characters kind of just. living. yes. so good

14 : Do you have a favorite writing-related quote?

if i DID i forgot it

15 : If you transport your original characters into another author’s world, which world would you choose?

imma be honest, if i had to pick any author in the world it would be britt @mmementommori‘s verse. i absolutely fucking ADORE everything that went into that story, the verse is fascinating and perfect and my characters would fit in so well and also would be tortured for all of eternity. what could be better???

19 : Would you rather live in your characters’ world, or have your characters come live in our world?

i wanna live in tsg cuz then vampires would be real and i could finally be one, y es

20 : What book would you love to see adapted for the big or small screen?

i’ve been watching a lot of... rly... gay... amazing movies... like, beautifully made and SO grand and larger than life and so CAREFULLY LOVINGLY made... like the handmaiden or moonlight.. and because of that, i would LOVE to see tsg as a movie. i think it’d fit right in and the idea of a lgbt horror movie hitting the scren is... g o d

21 : Do you finish most of the stories you start?

yyyees and nnnoooo....more no than yes... the furthest i get usually is the first draft and onto revising and then i get bored and move on but i’m getting better

22 : Has your own writing ever made you cry?

what is this ‘cry’ you speak of

actually once i did this rp scene with @mvgitek and... imma be real... there might’ve been a tear or two

23 : Are you proud or anxious to show off your writing?

anxious the first couple of seconds, proud the rest of the time. i don’t doubt that my writing is good but also... WILL THEY THINK MY WRITING IS GOOD???

24 : When did you start considering yourself a writer?

in the 3rd grade when i started making lil paperback books for all the kids in my class. maybe even a lil bit before that

28 : On a scale of 1-10, how much do you stress about choosing character names?

def a 1 omg. name is usually one of the first things that pop up for me. if it doesn’t pop up immediately when my baby is a lil shyer, i give them a placeholder. no big. it’ll come eventually

29 : Do you tend to underwrite or overwrite in a first draft?

overwrite... in that... i write the first draft like its the only draft, cuz it pretty much will be i hate revising so much jfkgsg

30 : Does writing calm you down or stress you out?

calm, i suppose... i can and have zoned out and just written for hours, like, ten hours straight, more than that... that’s a nice feeling yes

31 : What trope do you actually like?

what’s with the phrasing of this question... as if i’m only pretending to like most tropes...also i can never remember tropes off the top of my head and i still have 20 questions to go sO..SKIPPING...

32 : Do you give your side-characters extensive backstories?

Y E P.... is it really a side-character if you don’t obsess about them more than the mains at times because they’re so complex and you love them so much

33 : Do you flesh-out characters before you write, or let their personalities develop over time?

nah those fuckers jump outta the brain womb fully formed, pretty much. their personalities do develop more as i write but i have a rly good grasp of them before i even start the story

34 : Describe your old writing in one word.

amazingwhatalittlecutieohmygodimisshavingthissymplisticwritingstylelikeyoubitchyoudidntevenrealizewhatyouhadandnowitsGONE

35 : Is it more fun to write villains or heroes? 

VILLAINS... duh....

36 : Do you write with a black and white sense of morality?

nah... largely cuz my own morality is skewed, also because most of the point of the stories is exploring morality and what it means and seeing how it gets corrupted in the protags

37 : What’s one piece of advice you would give to new writers?

you will be so much happier if you stop writing like anyone else and stop writing what people want you to write and just write for you and you only, everything else falls into place after you accept this!! AND PRACTICE

38 : What’s one piece of writing advice you try--but fail--to follow?

i hate almost all writing advice so there isn’t anything i’m attempting that i’m not doing tbh cuz i don’t wanna do any of it i’m a brat haha

39 : How important is positive reinforcement to you as a writer?

it’s important as in i’m narcissistic so anything negative puts me into a blind rage which is a damper on my mood omsfjgsfgs. also it keeps me vibing and keeps me hyped to channel out more work faster

40 : What would you ask your favorite author if given one question?

‘how the fuck’

41 : Do you find it distracting to read while you’re writing a first draft?

NAH i feel it to be absolutely necessary tbh. when i don’t read, i don’t write nearly as often and sometimes not even as well. i find other books to be rly healthy friendly competition, and when i read, immediately after i think ‘why isn’t my stuff published? why isn’t my book on the shelves with this one? i should get to work holy fuck’

42 : Do critiques motivate or discourage you?

depends! again, narcissistic, but i’ve gotten better and i do want to learn more. as long as it’s constructive and, by constructive, i mean that it still compliments me a lot and gives me the good AND the not-so-good then it’s fine, i get motivated. i never get discouraged, i’m either hype or i’m livid, which gives me evil hype and i write more outta spite haha

44 : How do you decide what story idea to work on?

i just get... the vibe... where suddenly i wanna work on a story so i do. sometimes i can tell a story isn’t ready so even if i feel like working on it, i won’t, but otherwise, i just wait for the vibe...

46 : What Hogwarts house would your protagonist(s) be in?

slytherin: red, bert, nora, amara, nathaniel, mal, katherine, tyler, eve and avery

gryffindor: black, nisha, rachel, caleb (unless i’m mean and make him a slytherin), cupid, aurora, frank, nicky, tasha, sinclair

ravenclaw: aaron, andrey, astra, antionette, blair, lucia

hufflepuff: jackie (unless i’m mean and make him a slytherin), cassandra, danny, ezra, emily, skylar, anna, null

47 : Where do you see yourself as a writer in five years?

book or two published, working on another three or so but who knows omfhsjgs

48 : Would you ever co-write?

i wanna co-write something so BAD......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

49 : Are you a fast and rushed writer or a slow and deliberate writer?

fast and rushed omfg i can’t write slow for shit.. wish i could.. i’m getting better

OH MY GOD I’M DONE WOWWWWWWWWWWWWW THANK YOU SO MUCH ANGEL