#Miadhachain Legacy used to have a massive four inch binder dedicated to it. And that thing was FULL. It was held together with duct tape

[thegoddesswater]

8- If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go? 13- What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy? 22- How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

Thanks Lano! Finally working through my ask backlog here. :D

8 - Tough choice! I'd be way more likely to try to write something without dialogue than without action (though, in the past I have written things so dialogue-heavy that they might as well be action-less). No dialogue seems like one of those things that I would challenge myself to do for a short while. So, it would probably be short and I think it would likely veer pretty quickly into some kind of uncanny territory, or it would be something with an isolating vibe to it.

13 - I'm trying to think of something that is difficult for me to write about and I'm having a hard time coming up with it. Which probably means that whatever falls into this category is something I ignore so hard, I can't even think of it. I used to be able to write gratuitous violence with the odd gleeful abandon that I think only teenage girls are capable of - and I can't do that anymore. But I also don't think I quite want to. Some of the stuff little me wrote back then makes me feel queasy.

Grief and death feel like they come disturbingly naturally to me though. Which doesn't mean that I'm just killing characters off left, right, centre, but I feel like I do it well when it happens?

22 - Me? Organized?? Oh mercy. I have probably about two dozen sticky notes spread throughout my house with different snippets of different stories jotted on them. Then I have the journal in my nightstand and the loose-leaf paper thrown into my agenda and crumpled at the bottom of my work backpack.

Dabble is my software of choice for writing and it's mostly where I put everything. Though I also have a bajillion google docs and ancient MS word files. And my Dabble files are an absolutely shameful mess. This is what it looks like when I open it:

And you may be wondering what's so bad about it - it just looks like I have lots of projects, right? Alas, three of those visible files are multi-project dumping grounds and my chaotic squirrel brain often prefers to work in those than in the properly labelled files. So content for Heart of a Warrior, for example, is in the appropriately labelled file, with additional content scattered in various sections of "Chaos of 23" and "Unfinished Business." And it's not as though I couldn't have just created multiple files within the proper project files to try keeping things together. I just apparently prefer to "organize" my projects with all the same care that a tornado would use when dismantling a house of cards. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯