#or videos or I re read fanfic (some parts of which I've read more than twice) or I scroll tumblr

[lucky-fy]

~ mutuals I want to know better ~

That was quite the surprise @easy-revenge ! Thanks for the tag!

Last song I listened to: Breezeblocks by alt-j and the whole time, I was thinking about Falin and Marcille from Dungeon Meshi… I mean… “Please don’t go, I’ll eat you whole, I love you so […]”

Fav colour: hmm, tough choice. I’m more of colour-hater than a colour lover (I don’t like purple, even if I use it all the time for shading, lol). I guess I do like brown a lot, when accompanied with blue. Nice combo, no matter the shade. I like brown tabby cats best (I’m more of a blue eyes lover, though)

Currently watching: some seasonal anime, like Mushoku Tensei season II.

Currently reading: I’m giving Dungeon Meshi a re-read, with the official French translation this time around. I’m taking notes for fanfic writing. Otherwise, Brave New World is waiting on the nightstand.

Sweet/savoury /spicy: never heard of savoury as a flavour, aha. Is it umami? Probably is. In any case, I’m not picky and I like them all. What I’ll eat will depend on my mood.

Relationship status: single and not really looking for a partner. I’d prefer to be well on HRT before trying to find someone, if I ever bother to go looking. I’m more of a “ride or die” type of person, so casual stuff is out the window in any case, lol.

Current obsessions: *looks at my blog* Dungeon Meshi, ahaha. I can’t wait for the anime, I’m sure Trigger will do well. Kinda hoping for a full-series adaptation! Otherwise, Chainsaw Man is still on my mind, always. I have a bunch of CSM Beastars!AU WIP, fanart wise.

Last thing I googled: “Akita Inu”, as I was talking with a relative and they said they saw a tall Japanese-type dog. I showed them pictures, to which they said “yes, that’s the dog I saw!”

Currently working on: many things… Completing my current sketchbook for student credits, writing a “scientific Pokédex” for student credits (an excuse to look into many animal species and expand my own knowledge for work later on, all while having fun with speculative biology), re-reading Dungeon Meshi, analyse the characters and write fanfic for them (starting with a Laios and Lycion thing… I haven’t decided what yet), learn basic video editing so I can make the Dungeon Meshi edits I want to see (Talk by Hozier with the Winged Lion *cough*), write for my OC on Master Poké (RP forum, there’s a summer writing event going on). I've also had this idea for a Skyrim fanfic, featuring a werewolf Khajiit who has lived a big part of their life in Falkreath. Shit happens. Anyway… I won't be able to complete all of this before classes start again *sigh*

tagging: @catcrow236 @rachaeltad @brn-t if you want, of course. No pressure! :D

[mylittleelphie]

I don’t know why it’s taken me so long, but I’ve just started reading ‘Accidents Will Happen’ - I’m only a few chapters in so far, but I’m loving it (I always adore your characterisation of Glinda).

What I really wanted to ask is would you ever consider writing a sequel or an epilogue of ‘The Princess of Oz’? That has to be one of my absolute favourite fanfics ever; literally everything about it was perfect, and, every time I re-read it, it’s as though I’m watching a period drama in my head.

Thank you for taking the time to write such in-depth works, I really adore your writing. 🖤

Oh man.

You know, this is the first inbox message that I got on here that was not from some questionable p*** blog. So I went into this with the lowest expectations possible and getting such a wonderful ask instead of "check out my sexy videos" just blew me away 🤣 I'm not sure if I'm functioning properly right now 😂

So yeah, thank you so much!!

I'm happy to hear that you're interested in AWH, but I can understand if it isn't everyone's cup of tea. It's nearly finished and I'd say a lot more people started reading it than managed to see it all the way though lol Which is fine. I'm mostly content with my choices. I guess it's a bit less mainstream. It certainly is not The Princess of Oz (or "PoO" as like to abbreviate it for convenience and giggles).

Thank you for your praise, it's very touching. I'm quite aware of the fact that PoO is a favourite among my works so far--as much as that can be said, since I myself ain't exactly a fan favourite lol. I guess it just struck the right balance between "well enough written" and "not too ambitious, difficult, abstract etc" I could improve on it for sure. The plot is mostly fine, except for the slightly unsatisfying ending, but the writing could be more polished. But it has a touch of commercial appeal to it, doesn't it?

Which leads me to: PoO was always meant to be part of a duology or even trilogy. I think I might have said that in my ANs? Not sure. Either way, that does go some way to explain the ending, I guess?

Well. This never happened. For millions of reasons. These days there is one particular one that stands out and unfortunately more or less forces me to give you a negative answer to your question. No, I do not plan on writing more for this series. Not as fanfiction that is.

The truth is, I've been scheming for years to make the jump from fanfiction to original fiction, to become a "proper" author. I know I'm not quite there yet, or at least nothing I published so far ever went through that rigorous polishing process. But it has been a dream, even though it's daunting. And I picked my project. It's an overhauled version of PoO and its never published sequels. As a trilogy.

Ambitious plan, I know, and most likely I'll crash and burn, but at least I'll be able to say I tried. It won't be just a case of "filing off the serial numbers". More like a new re-telling from what I remember the story to be, alongside with slightly more mature and thought-out elements. And sequels. It's all planned out in the macro scale. I just have to write it. I'll probably start early next year and I expect that the first book alone will take me about half a year to a year until it's ready for querying (sending it to agents). So I can't even console you with the fact that you would be able to read the original version soon if you're so inclined--it's a loooooong way till any of that gets published (if ever), especially if you're waiting for the sequels.

Ok. Sorry for bombarding you with such an essay, only to tell you no 😅 I guess I got a bit excited there.

I can't begin to express how excited I am to get such feedback and I hope you'll be able to enjoy AWH enough to at least temporarily forget your disappointment over the PoO sequels.

Thanks so much for writing to me (though you might regret that move now 😂)! What a wonderful Christmas gift!

Take care and have a few wonderful days of Christmas cheer!!!

xoxo

MLE

Note to everyone else: always feel free to message me and make my day! But beware, THIS is what you might get back in return! 😂

[creativenicocorner]

i've seen you mention some kind of reading hiatus several times now, and i'm just curious—could you tell us more about this? :o i'm a horrible reading gremlin so it never occurred to me that people could just, like, meaningfully hold off on things (or remember them later, if they did). only if you want to talk about it, of course!!

No worries!! My absolute pleasure!! ♡

It’s more of a planned writing hiatus than a reading one haha I’ve been working and writing on a fic for over a year now, and while working on the fanfic (Terpsichore) I haven’t had a lot of chances to sit down and be part of another fic’s audience. Which is a bit of a bummer cause there’s so much good content I can’t wait to sink my teeth into!! 

But, there’s only so many hours in the day, especially with life to likewise manage- and being a horrible reading gremlin as well I’m self aware enough to know that when I sit down and read it’s going to be in big. hefty. chonks. and not doing much else. 

THUS with Terpsichore about to reach a sort of ‘season finale’ like stopping point, I thought it would be a good place to pause creatively for a bit. Use the time I usually have for writing to read and appreciate other fics, maybe art more too, but just take it easy creatively in general. I welcome a breather. Take the time to re-charge, as Terpsichore is a bit like an emotional marathon to write at times lol.

Video recording of my writing process:

AND SO!!! Knowing I’m going to take a welcomed creative pause I’ve been hoarding fics I just can’t wait to devour and write and gush so many lovely comments on!!! ヽ(o♡o)/ 

Like your fic for instance! I can tell from the snippets I’ve managed to read that I’m going to enjoy the H E C K  out of it!! And although I can’t bring myself to sit down and read it just yet, I’m sure as heck going to try and do my part and reblog as much as I can so to help spread the love and circulate the material 

( •̀♡• ́)ﻭ✧ 

Hence all the tags that are along the lines of, ‘I can’t wait!’ Cause I do want to leave comments as well, and I don’t want the writer to think I’m not going to comment (I’m going to be so obnoxious too djbgjdfg, so this is me apologizing in advance lol I’m not really sorry writing can be thankless sometimes and writers deserve to be gushed over! Like putting and weaving words together is magical!! And magic like that takes energy and can he rough and hard and messy and that glorious good stuff should be celebrated!! ) 

So that’s my biggest reason for holding off from reading at the moment.. 

another one might be because a fic might be emotionally too much™ for me at the moment, as I’m a squishy soft baby sometimes, and can, and will set down what I’m reading to pace for 5 minutes. Especially if it’s too heavy for me at the moment, I’ll just lovingly tuck it away for a better mental moment.  

In short, I have two modes when it comes to reading; nothing, or everything without any signs of stoping. And that sometimes takes tactical planning haha    

♡ Thank you so much for the ask♡, I hope my answer made sense, but yeah! Writing has been a blast, but I need a break, and it’s nice knowing that when the time comes there are going to be so so many fics to devour that’ll be most unequivocally 

[xx-obliviousfantasy-xx]

Roasting Myself

Quick note:

Okay so bc I'm writing this on my phone, I can't take a photo of the document history to show you the stupidness. I apologise for that, but just try to imagine the fricken like... Stupidness.

Edit: The original version is on Wattpad still so nvm I'll be adding both Wattpad and Google Doc screenshots, but I did not have as many dates on Wattpad so only for some sections will I use Wattpad.

Edit: My photos keep going to the bottom. Idfk what to do whatever I hate Tumblr with a burning passion.

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So, I gotta vent about my stupidity.

Okay so the time frame I set back in 7th grade for this book idea I have is completely stupid. What I wrote didn't make any actual sense because I contradicted it. Which makes sense, because I was stupid. But doesn't, because now that I'm older, I should've caught it.

The story is called 3044(Destined Stars). I definitely stole that last part from something. I thought it was the game Mystic Messenger but it's not. The more I think about it, the more it seem like it though.

The problem is that with how far away 3044 is, it doesn't even make sense for humans to be how they are then, or even be alive tbh. I'm pretty sure they'll be extinct by then. I don't even know big we'll last 200 more years tbh. Or even 50.

Another problem, is I still do that thing where I fucking forget there's a bunch of numbers in between and skip up. So basically, with how I write the dates, I made the years really far apart with the dates and shit. Like REAAALLLLY. Like from being 10-ish years apart to skipping ahead nearly 1,000. Because I am a dumbass and didn't think "Wow this doesn't make any effing sense. This makes some of your events very insignificant because of evolution, and your characters old as dinosaurs."

(But I'm just now remembering I did day Humans live longer, which, could be taken to interpretation but besides the point.)

To better understand:

I literally had the dates like 2070, 2080, 2090, to then, 3000, 3010, 3015, 3025.

Like... That jump was so fucking huge but I didn't realise.

But because I was attached to the makeshift title I gave it, because it came from my friend's favorite number (but because I have issues with flipping numbers I found out was wrong later in after naming the story. I have still kept it that number though even years after),

Instead of doing the easy thing, I wrote in the stupidest, most confusing, complicated thing ever.

And then, after reading through my dates again and actually doing the math, it was like "Wait a second, this doesn't make any sense because this event started before this character (Hyacinth) was born, but after this one (Aleya) was two years old" or something like that. Idk. Like... It's wonky because my characters are certain ages in the story, but, by the date I set things, they happen waaaay too before they were born which would mean they'd stop mattering so much.

But thankfully, I thought recently, why don't I just f-ing make the dates that date? What's the reason for all of the complicated stuff?

(Also, I think I was gonna change the date again which is why it still makes no sense.)

( But then something happened. Idk. I honestly might bring the ages down again bc it makes sense. Because... The time still doesn't make sense because I'd have to age Hyacinth up.)

Generally, I just placed some events out of sequence. Like, I said space cities finished construction before they even started building them. Idk, it was a fucking mess and one of the first things I wrote confused me a lot because I was like "Did I delete something?"

It also made Aleya reaaaally older than Hyacinth because I set a significant date in her birth 15 years before the date of the story so it either

Aleya is 24 and Hyacinth is 20. It was 18 and 21 before,

I just- Oh my God. So, I'm deleting that, and going to make it better. Also I accidentally made the Earth 3044 years old, when, that's absurd. I said the Earth aged faster in that Universe, but that's too fast. Like- I just- wtf?

But the year is also 3044.7b2? Is that for the universe? See it just doesn't make sense. Idk how it made sense in my head. The Earth is 3044 years old but the Earth is not the age of the universe right now so why would the Earth be the age of the universe unless the Universe reset itself entirely and made everything come back at the same time?

And then I said that after that war, the first alien race I talked about plus some other planets, created a treated together.

I think I remember that at first a lot of planets were sucked into a black hole but spit out and made again but faster? Idk. It's so confusing.

(That's when I wrote it on Wattpad and how it was before the rewrite below)

Then there is this dumb contradictory mistake I made again because I said a certain race of aliens with a very awful name was first to contact the Earth at a certain time and helped them and create a treaty,

It's just so messed up and it's because I:

1) Didn't check some of my SEVENTH GRADE WRITING EVEN THOUGH IM IN NINTH NOW,

However I then wrote a different one with a less awful name did before that and went to war with them. As seen above and below.

2) Didn't check my Math, and-

Also apparently the whole story is being told but a space child who created Earth by accident and has grown find if her creation. Also one of the things I changed that made it complicated was saying that 3044 was the number of times Earth restarted. But I forgot that part because I constantly skim over that part.

3) Am still writing it in a bad Tumblr/Wattpad fanfic manner instead of a genuinely good writer pov.

Like... It's genuinely so bad that idk how it didn't click in until now. Maybe it's because after watching a nearly 2hr video about how bad Yandere Simulator and Yandere Dev is, and then two reviews of Onision's books I've already seen, I began to be very afraid of being on the same level as them in terrible production of anything.

I'm going to to fix this and re-plot it and then re-writes it because this is horrible, even for a first draft.

My incompetence a m a z e s me.

My understanding of math scares me.

[seenashwrite]

Dear Nash, I've finally figured out the perfect question for you. I'm in a pickle. No- not an *actual one*, though most of our conversations end up involving pickles for some reason. But that's besides the point. Thing is, I've got writers block. I've just passed the stage of denial and have come to accept that this is what I've got. So question is- do you have any tips for overcoming writers' greatest dilemma?

The interns and a handful of your fellow Nashooligans who are currently milling about NashHole, Inc. Headquarters have turned their heads, eyes widened and brows creased-and-or-raising at my Dean-channeled, supes-confident outburst. Mainly because they have, on more than one occasion, seen me stomping about and cursing under my breath at this dilemma, but my darling L-Dubs, you have sought out the ideal oracle for this, as I hold the map and compass needed to escape Deadly Dullsville. 

Oh, and - I’m assuming you’ve tried the usual, which is typically the advisement collective of walking away from it for an hour or two, standing and stretching, getting a change of scenery [taking tablet/laptop to another room/location], listening to music, and/or working on a different story…. yeah, they’re about 60/40 on the “Worked For Nash!” scale, too.

The TL;DR of the breakdown below can fit under the umbrella […ella, ella, ey, ey, ey] of my do-not-pass-go, do-not-collect-$200, top-of-the-pops rule:

Writer, Know Thyself

Get egotistical, get self-absorbed, get haughty with this - draw from reader feedback if need be to do so, if it doesn’t come naturally - and remind yourself of what the Lips Style-In-A-Sentence would be. For me, more often than not, I get props for the cadence of my writing, both dialogue and plot flow, so I guess mine would go something like…

Nash was conceived in a laboratory with equal parts Sorkin and Sherman-Palladino, adopted and raised by Whedon and Fisher, christened the godchild of Tarantino and Fey, and often told bedtime stories by Rhimes and the Coen Brothers, all of whom served to have her drinking and snarking and looking crookedly at the world far too early.

“But, Nash! All of those people are screenwriters. Stories aren’t in the visual medium. You’re off your rocker!” 

Hmmm… am I?

[The above question was completely rhetorical, no one answer. Ahem.]

Now, here’s the Dean says “HELL, NO!” thing I’ll get out of the way right now:

Don’t go reading other fanfic, and don’t read books/stories/etc. [meaning: published authors’ stuff] that are in the genre wheelhouse of the type of story you’re struggling through, because we’re looking to spark a light bulb moment here, and you don’t want to moth around someone else’s glow accidentally. 

And speaking of your story’s genre, I’m not talking about those bullshit, too-vague genre categories in fanfic of “angst”, “fluff” and “smut”.  You know what I’m driving at - what’s the chewy center of your story? Is your story focus on characters’ interpersonal dynamics? Mystery? Humor? 

So:

(1) Know your plot

You’ve got a tag line for yourself - what’s your tag line for the story?

This is not necessarily a summary, though it could serve as one if it provides enough detail, sure. This is more what we’d see on the movie/TV “poster” in our minds. The story that’s next out for me is called “The Bell-Watcher’s Daughter”, and my tagline for it would be something like “The only way to make sure you never get buried alive is to never get buried at all.”

It’s not supposed to tell the plot, it’s just supposed to entice. It’s kinda like blogs that have bothered to do a “title” thing - mine is “A Supernatural Fanfiction Experiment”. We’d have to do a poll to determine who clicked because of that & that alone, but the point is a tagline should immediately draw some curiosity, be it positive or negative or “….the f*ck does that mean?”. 

(2) Kick-offs & Wrap-Ups

If you haven’t done so already - and get this done right damn now - flesh out in doc/on paper your opening & your ending. They may not stay this exact way, the concrete ain’t set, the leaves haven’t turned, but the point is the story has a start point and an end point - no sense in trying to gun the engine if you ain’t even got on the road, and the destination is unknown.

Both for opener & closer, same gist applies. In examples below, I’m stealing a handful from my own stories because laziness, not because I think I’m the awesomest who ever awesomed. And these aren’t the only ways to start/end a story of course, because caveats, exceptions, blah-blah-biscuits, but we’re trying to spark your brain, here.

If they aren’t in active voice, then make ‘em an intriguing passive, but regardless, both should lean into prompting the reader to go on.

–> A single, kicky sentence  with no extraneous qualifiers:

“Dean stared down the barrel of the gun.”

“Sam smiled, closed the book, and returned it to the shelf.”

“The rotted orphanage had been haunted since the day the foundation was poured.”

“When Dean walked into the library, all shuffling slippers and sips of coffee, she began to read aloud.”

“She paints the roses before burning them.”

….OR…..

–> A paragraph of a few poignant sentences/thoughts:

“I inhaled deeply, letting my eyes close and my head rest atop my folded arms. I’m not sure how long I was like that, thinking too hard, trying to recall the scent. Never even heard the approaching footsteps.”

“The sky was different in Texas. He couldn’t speak to Arizona or Colorado or Nevada, or even Mexico, but he knew what he knew.  It was something about the way the sun cut through, something about the tint of the blue.”  

“He made sure he was out of state again, staying in a dingy motel in a bad part of the random city he’d selected. And he thought hard on the couple he’d chosen to spare as he laid quietly atop the stained bedspread, eyes closed and smiling. Even when he heard the dogs begin to howl.”

Okay, okay, okay. We got you squared away. We got our start and stop. Now to the journey in between, which is where you’re stalled. Here’s how you focus to bust out of that dirt-nap, Beatrix Kiddo-style.

Writer’s Block boils down to FLOW - you had a rhythm, then you lost it. And you gotta have it. We want readers to be able to see this in their minds, like they’re watching it unfold in front of them literally or on a stage or on a screen, be it TV or movie, right?

While they don’t write in long-form, screenwriters gotta know how to get in and get out regarding setting and tone, and they gotta know how to write dialogue that can flow off an actor’s tongue, so here’s some resources to peruse [and, y’know, it’ll get different gears in your mind whirring, if nothing else].

I direct you to three hubs that breakdown these very things - the gottas and the don’t gottas alike:

(1) Cinema Sins

Jeremy & co. know their stuff, these are quick watches, these are fun, and while it’s all couched in humor [about 20% of the “sins” are purely for goofball purposes/are part of recurrent shtick], they make phenomenal points. 

These are gonna dial in on common storytelling missteps like gaps that should’ve been filled vs. wasting time on something else, superfluous elements, trope-y laziness, overdoing a given thing, repeating what’s already been stressed - if these things are happening in your story, they’re slowing down your brain and distracting you, so cut-cut-cut. Comb through what you’ve got and if there’s a shred of doubt as to whether you wanna re-tool fill-in-the-blank & keep it, chuck it into another document for the time being. 

Why I Recommend? - Too Much Of Something = A Block

ETA: Well, not so much “add” as “replace”.....

Since I wrote this response, I’ve noticed that Cinema Sins seem to have lost their way/don’t seem to know what they want to be any longer. While there are moments of snark and funny in a given video, they just come off as.... deflated, I’ll call it. They fall back on their recurrent shtick more and more frequently than prior, and I confess I’m confused as to their movie choices (minus the ones that relate to an upcoming movie release) for some time now. 

While they’ll still point out the things that keep happening over and over again, not just in the movie at hand but across storytelling in general, I feel like it’s gonna be too cumbersome for you to seek the solid examples out - and for me, too, ‘cause I ain’t hunting for ‘em!

I would instead recommend Red Letter Media. I’ve long been a subscriber of theirs, agree with easily 90% of their observations, and everything about their vids are so conversational and fun. And, they’re gonna be a good overall resource because they believe without solid plots and characters, you’re sunk - all the bells and whistles won’t mean a thing if the story and the people within it are crappily done. 

(2) Every Frame A Painting

This dude’s an editor, so structure is the name of the game. It can be a deep dive, and not all will be applicable to the written form, so pick and choose vs. a playlist launch. The crux of the messages have to do with - as you’ve likely guessed from the name - how scenes are framed.

Translation to writing: how you’re describing things that happen in between your dialogue. Whose eyes we’re seeing through, whose emotions are most important when we [readers & characters] experience fill-in-the-blank, should this moment be filled with cacophony or melody or pin-drop quiet, why this is happening here instead of there in the story.

Why I Recommend? - Inefficient Descriptions of Setting/Action/Perspective = A Block

(3) Lessons From The Screenplay

This is the money shot: Technique, technique, technique. Why was that scene so tension-filled even though nothing particularly dramatic was happening? How the hell did I end up rooting for that unlikable character? Holy moly, there were clues pointing to that twist! 

These are short in length while dense in info, yet he presents them in an intelligent and understandable manner. He’s fair on flaws, but those aren’t the focus. Titles of his offerings include…..

“The Control of Information”

“Creating the Ultimate Antagonist”

“Empathy for the Anti-Hero”

“How to Evoke Emotion”

“Telling a Story from the Inside Out”

“Controlling Information”

Why I Recommend? - Unwitting Sloppy Technique = A Block  

Bottom line: I think we tend to believe writer’s block boils down to what’s missing - those big ol’ white spaces in docs & all - but more often than not, what’s already there needs purging. Clear your path. Change your shoes. Trip less.

So sayeth the Nash, so say we all.

[aquadestinyswriting]

Thanks @druidx

Rules: Answer the 11 questions, and tag 11 people.

What are your favourite genres to write?

I'm mostly a fantasy writer. I've dabbled in sci-fi and some more modern stuff, but I've always preferred fantasy anyway.

What do you write the most? (books, short stories, poetry, fanficion,…)

I mostly write mostly-original fiction set in former d&d campaign worlds. Currently most of it is fairly short, but I have done a couple of longer pieces. I'm also working on some Warhammer 40k au fanfic ideas.

What are your favourite tropes?

Found family is the top one. I'm not too sure of any others to be completely honest with you (I should probably fix that >_>)

What genres do you dislike?

I really dislike chick-fic. I'm also not a massive fan of hard sci-fi.

What’s your writing process like? (outlining, pantsing, plantsing, structures, worldbuilding,…)

I generally pants the heck out of my writing. I get an idea and just... start typing. Sometimes I start out writing complete gibberish as far as the story I want to tell then it slowly begins to take on some sort of shape. I'll generally go back and figure out how to start the story off properly, but sometimes I just delete those first four or five paragraphs and start the story from paragraph six onwards ^_^;.

Very occasionally, I might make some sort of outline, but it's generally more a case of getting down ideas I *might* want to include, or it's a very basic timeline of events. This is generally what I do when I'm writing about something that took place in the campaigns the stories I'm writing are based on just so I don't mess up when and where things happened in 'canon'.

What’s your favourite way to get writing advice? (books about writing, youtubers, podcasts, creative writing courses, blogs etc)

Through blogs and sometimes youtube videos. Blogs tend to condense the information down into manageable chunks and I can listen to youtube in the background when I'm doing something other than writing.

What inspired your current wip?

The wip I'm currently working on is the series focusing on my OC Selene. It was inspired by re-reading and listening to recordings off a previous campaign that she was an NPC in. I realised that even though she was no longer a primary protagonist in the story being told at the time, that she still had a lot of unexplored and unresolved issues that would be fun to write about. It will also help to expand the world she's a part of since the people she interacts with on a regular basis are so important to the running of Toreguarde that it's fun to explore how all that works.

What are some of your favourite books?

I have a lot of them, but I'll try to keep this as concise as possible.

Abhorsen series by Garth Nix

His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman

All of Terry Pratchett's work from Discworld (yes, even including the Light Fantastic and Colour of Magic)

World War Z by Max Brooks (and the Zombie Survival Guide too)

Gotrek and Felix series by William King

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by Tolkein

What themes come up in your writing the most?

Found family, love (both romantic and platonic) and trauma (and a lot of it apparently)

What are your plans after you finish your wip?

Try to get back to the one I originally made this blog for and, inevitably, get sidetracked into writing other stuff instead.

Which part of the writing process is your favourite?

Listening to my various playlists and imagining the scenes I'm trying to write as movie set pieces.

Tags: whoever sees this and wants to take part since I need to find out who else wants in on these tag games again >_>

11/11/11 Tag

Thanks @writingonesdreams

Rules: Answer the 11 questions, and tag 11 people.

What are your favourite genres to write?

I mostly stick to Fantasy, but I’ve dabbled in Sci-fi a few times. Worldbuilding in Sci-fi is harder though…

What do you write the most? (books, short stories, poetry, fanficion,…)

I write mostly fanfic short stories, but I’ve got original novels in the words as well.

What are your favourite tropes?

Found family. Umm, that’s basically the only one I know the name for off the top my head.

What genres do you dislike?

Psychological horror, gushy romance, and most chick-fic.

What’s your writing process like? (outlining, pantsing, plantsing, structures, worldbuilding,…)

I have an idea (could be something said or read that’s twigged, could be my mind making connections between things, could be a prompt I’m given). 

It goes into a document. 

I think about it, poke and prod, and do that thing where one lays in bed and half dreams, half writes it. 

If I think I’m going to forget the plot beats, I note them down in the doc, but this doesn’t happen often. The plot beats aren’t stored in the head; they’re stored somewhere around the diaphragm.

I write until I get stuck, then I go do something else (a different WIP, gaming, fanfic reading, moodboards) until I get unstuck.

I start writing again

(there can be many repetitions of “write, stuck, <other>, unstick, write” in a project)

I finish

I edit & proof while agonising over a title (if I didn’t give it one from inception, but that’s rare)

I post

I like to say I’m a plantser, because I do plan. But it’s all mental, I very rarely outline, so it looks like I’m a pantser.

What’s your favourite way to get writing advice? (books about writing, youtubers, podcasts, creative writing courses, blogs etc)

Probably blogs. It’s handy to read a post, let it the subconscious dwell on it, and then subsume it into what I’m doing.

What inspired your current wip?

Currently the Big Project is Haven’s Ember, which was inspired by a few users wanting a fluffy Fix-it fic for TESIV: Oblivion, were the main character doesn’t die at the end.

What are some of your favourite books?

Oh no. I dislike this question; there’s just so many. Well, here’s a shortlist of books & series that mean something to me:

The Shining Princess and other tales

The Wonderful Whatisname by John Patience

The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

Tales of the Ketty Jay series Chris Wooding

Gentleman Bastards series by Scott Lynch

Tales of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin

Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon series by Spider Robinson

Redwall series by Brian Jacques

…That’s probably enough XD

What themes come up in your writing the most?

Found family, food poverty, justice/ mercy (rather than black & white good/ evil)

What are your plans after you finish your wip?

Go on to one of the many others XD

Which part of the writing process is your favourite?

The “words flowing onto the page” part.

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