#i do not have time for the fantasy mafia shenagians i have a murder mystery to write

[dragon-swords-prophecies]

FIC ASK GAME TO CORRECT BLOG THIS TIME

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

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

😊 say something nice about your writing

~ @akindofmagictoo <3

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

''Oh, and please tell that poor fellow lying on the sidewalk outside that I hope he feels better soon.''

There was a long pause. ''He's dead, I can't really... do that?''

''Oh dear. Tell him tomorrow, then? I'm sure he'll be back on his feet in no time!''

Every single thing balloon guy says is my favorite, but especially this (and the alligator incident). The first murder has just happened, and there's a guy's body laying on the sidewalk, and balloon guy walks past and thinks ''ah, yes, this is Perfectly Normal for humans. large pools of red liquid around them are nothing to be concerned about!'' he does not know what death is. despite many attempts to explain it he has remained politely confused about why humans vanish sometimes for the last several hundred/thousand years.

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

yes! with herald I completely changed the time it was set in and the genre of the story (1890s-inspired steampunk -> 1940s noir-ish), but also with one of my other wips. frost & fire, which I haven't talked about in like two years, got completely and wildly changed at least three times. the reason it's on draft four (?), despite that I've never actually finished a draft of it, is that every time I massively changed the plot/characters/other majorly important element, I started a new draft, because the other one was so far gone it couldn't be salvaged. at this point it's basically the ship (wip?) of theseus