#I'm still aiming to improve clutter in my work and it feels like with these two I'm forming a better understanding of my own process of it

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11, 17, and 25 💖

11) what aspect of your writing do you think has most improved since you started writing?

I think description! Or rather, which details to focus on and which is just clutter. I'm still really heavy handed a lot of the time (usually when I try too hard) but I find reading back over my older work painful the longer ago they were which is a good thing

17) if you could give your fledgling author self any advice, what would it be?

'Just write!'

I used to think stories were only worth writing if they were cool, or different, or grand. I used to feel as though there had to be a new point or a concept you were aiming to explore, or a theme- something to say or a plot to work through. Honestly though, for me that makes writing work and takes the fun away. So many of my stories have happened because I started with a prompt, or a line of dialogue, and just began writing with no plan in mind

I still get stuck by these old beliefs and haven't dove into non-fic writing because whatever ideas I have don't feel 'good' enough to be worth it or take the time to flesh out, so maybe I need to take my own advice and just see where it goes

25) copy/paste a few sentences or a short paragraph that you’re particularly proud of

THIS IS HARD

There are so so many I could give you but this one first comes to mind, from The Artist:

'Has seen this face many times before, cast in oil and smoothed into stone. An angel of God, a soldier of war. A nameless face at a dinner scene, ghostly shapes billowing in smokes of charcoal. A face that has been sketched by hundreds of poor souls before him, a body that imprints on the mind like a stain.'

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