#or maybe it’s just my writer brain working overtime again idk

[luna-the-cretar]

Yknow, I knew of the Yorgrim x Briggsy ship, but I didn’t fully get why it was quite a big ship other than Briggsy calling him “Yorgi” almost immediately after meeting him

But during their funeral for Yorgrim, and how Briggsy was one of the most distraught about his death (I mean, they all were, but Briggsy and Jericho were hit especially hard by the death), I think I understand it now. Even just from a silent storytelling standpoint.

[izzy-b-hands]

get to know your author: 9, 16, 22

Thank you so much for asking!!! I’m so excited to answer these, and I promise to try not to go on too long with my answers (but lbr I probably will ramble a bit since that tends to be a habit.) 

Also quick trigger warning for some mentions of weird creepy monsters (a little bit body horror) and death/coffins/dead bodies--let me know if you guys want me to tag this post for any of this stuff, and I certainly will, as I know this warning here might not be enough and I don’t want to make anyone upset/feel gross/trigger a panic attack because I know how much that sucks when a post comes along with not enough warning as to triggering stuff in it!

9: what (if anything) do you do for inspiration?

-Lately there hasn’t been anything in particular, but only because I’ve had to do a lot of my writing at work between patients or phone calls, so when an idea comes I just get it on paper as best I can and hope it is something interesting and inspired when I go to edit it (or that I can search and find a stronger version of that inspiration later on.) 

If I’m trying to write elsewhere though, I do like to have music on--usually a playlist emerges as I figure out what genre I want to write in that moment, then characters and plot and the other details, and I choose songs that ‘fit the mood’ so to speak (like maybe a character would listen to it in the story, or if I turned the story into a movie they would be on the soundtrack) as I write , and that helps keep me feeling inspired in what I’m working on. 

16: Are there any characters who haunt you? 

-Honestly, a couple of the monsters I’ve created for my short horror stories have gotten stuck in my head. Like, I know the faceless, crooked, bent over creature that screeches in unknown tongues as it stumbles on long broken legs at the end of the hall in one of my last stories isn’t real. I just had a nightmare about that creature and turned that into a story. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been running like hell the last few nights if I have to go get a drink or use the bathroom and need to traverse the hallway in my home. 

Other than that one recently, some of the others include The Thing Outside, which was a monster I came up with for a poem in which someone learns why you shouldn’t look outside at three a.m. (to quote another short story I wrote recently: “that’s the witching hour, three a.m., and who knows what might be out there.”) That one I accidentally made too scary even for me because it could come in the house in the poem, so...yeah. Another one I just came up with today--the Red Lady, so named after a patient in my waiting area kept saying she saw ‘a red scary lady’ walking around the clinic after she was dilated (and no, that is not a normal reaction to dilation), and gave me my scary being for this new story. I’m not even done with that story yet, but you can bet your ass I won’t be walking around the clinic alone at opening or closing for awhile. I mean....she probably isn’t real, and the patient’s eyes were just freaking out or something but...still feel like I’m being followed as I map the story out. 

(also think this question was supposed to include morally or ethically haunting characters, but tbh those don’t stick in my head and haunt me like these things do. Idk exactly why, but I’m gonna go ahead and blame watching Beetlejuice for the first time at 4 yrs old for scaring the shit out of me with the prosthetics on the actors and awesome but freaky make-ups and setting a standard for what sticks in my brain as spooky/haunting.) 

22: Are there any subjects that make you uncomfortable to write? 

-I think there are, I just haven’t run into many of them yet in the pieces I’ve written so far from elementary school on to now. For the most part, everything I’ve written I’ve been able to get through (not saying that I condone everything every character I’ve created has done, of course, that would be madness and utterly irresponsible as some of them have done very strange things--from putting pineapple on pizza to starting a cult on a dare.)

 I can’t write or read to edit my works about/involving dead bodies when I’m eating is probably the closest thing I’ve got that fits this question. I can handle writing/reading about them fine otherwise, but when I’m eating...suddenly I can smell the formaldehyde from my great-grandmother’s funeral that hung on my clothes as we tried to eat after her burial, and can see her waxen face in the coffin knowing it was slowly going to rot on the soft satin ( fun fact: I still can’t look in coffins w/pillows or satin in them without feeling like I wanna scratch my face off)  and I feel sick. There’s probably an actual reason why that connection lingers that I should look into, but for now I’m just going to keep turning it into art instead. 

The last example of this is actually kind of funny--I recently wrote a short story about a morgue worker who has a night working overtime that goes very wrong, and in it I have to describe a corpse rather...squishily, is the best not-real but functional word I feel sums it up right. I accidentally opened the file to edit it during dinner a few nights ago (I mean to open up the file next to it on my desktop to edit that one) and the first paragraph my eyes hit was that descriptive paragraph and...I wasn’t quite sick, but according to my mother she’s never seen anyone drop a piece of pizza faster than I did. I was happy it killed my appetite though, because as weird a thing as it is for that subject to squick me out for as often as I write about that stuff (life of a mainly horror writer I suppose) I feel it is a good sign--after all, if I sicken myself, then surely it will have that same intended effect on a reader, perhaps even more strongly than it does me. Not that I’m trying to make people sick in every horror story, but there are some where that goal has come up (I do warn people who are doing beta reading for me though, since it seems rude not too as they’re helping me out.) 

Thank you again for asking, and if anyone else wants to ask a question (and let me gush horribly on about my writing) here is a link to the post w/all the questions on my blog: http://itsalwaysprettiestafterthefall.tumblr.com/post/159307260336/send-an-ask-get-to-know-your-author

I really appreciate every ask I get like this--it is invigorating as an author to have people be curious and want to know about characters and my (to sound unfortunately pretentious) process.