#speech patterns are a disease XD

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TYSM TO @phlurrii FOR DESIGNING ME THIS BEAUTIFUL GOOBER I’M GOING INSANE THEY’RE SO PRETTY!

Anyways long post but I’ve made stuff with her and I’m so excited abt this

I’ve already made it my personal mission to integrate this silly guy into my story and to draw as much of her as I can

First drawing I’ve made of her is inspired by Arcane because it’s currently a hyperfixation of mine

Lyrics from this song:

And lastly, some doodles

Again, tysm Phlurrii for the commission I’m going to use this until the end of time O7

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Hey it’s 6 AM and I have insomnia so have some taggy stuff

(Maybe if I ever have 1000 followers I’ll do these ask things as intended instead of just answering them myself XD)

From: https://she-who-fights-and-writes.tumblr.com/post/175450098186/random-writing-asks

1. What is your favorite punctuation mark?

I love me my parentheses (probably because I always go off on a tangent).

2. What writing taboos do you break consistently?

I guess writing fanfiction about Shadow the Hedgehog above the age of 16 counts as a “writing taboo”...

3. What POV do you prefer and why?

Third because... I don’t know why. I used to be terrible at it. Now I don’t write in first person at all.

4. What tense do you prefer and why?

Past tense because I’m basic. I don’t really like present tense unless it’s paired with second person.

5. Adverbs: for against?

I do not think this hard about my sentence structure or word classification lmao

6. Do you outline or not?

It’s easier if I at least have SOME idea what’s going on... Plus I usually come up with ideas while I do the outline, which is helpful.

I actually have two outlines. A “this is generally what’s going to happen” outline and a chapter-by-chapter breakdown. The latter is usually a mess of random ideas shoved hastily in of what I want to happen in the chapter.

7. Do you prefer writing dialogue or narration?

I like having a lot of cool-sounding narration, then nailing you in the face with perfectly-delivered emotional dialogue (at least when everything works properly).

Character conversations are my favourite parts of writing. XD

8. What punctuation/grammar/spelling errors do you make consistently?

Well I’m not sure this exactly counts, but I have a weird Canadian/British/American grammar/spelling hybrid thing going on. But my “official” writing work requires me to write with American spelling and I sometimes end up using the wrong one (British when I’m freelancing, American when I’m writing...)

Also I miss words pretty frequently. My fingers don’t keep up and I guess I compensate by skipping some small word!

9. Do you write characters based off of real people or make them up?

Generally I make them up. I have based some little quirks or actions off people I know. 

10. Do you write more guy or girl characters?

Girl. I dunno why it just happens.

11. Which is easier to write: guys or girls?

I can fucking tell you which is easier to draw...

I don’t find dudes particularly harder to write so I don’t know why all my OCs are girls! I might be moving away from that though. I mean, that was mostly a thing in my old stories. They just didn’t have much diversity. 

Hourglass had a nearly entirely female (and dragon) cast, while The Impossible Sky (its kinda-spiritual-successor) had different species and also more dudes than girls. Not counting the Guardians in both of those.

12. Which is easier to write: original fiction or fanfiction?

I’ve had some original book ideas but they just don’t hold my interest.

13. Which of your characters would you want to be stuck in an elevator with?

That is a strange question. :P

I guess Crystal would be the easiest to talk to since her original iteration was heavily based off, uh, me... That’s no longer the case, but she is probably the OC I feel closest to.

14. What do you include in character descriptions?

I usually only mention major features when they’re first noticed.

15. Do you let people read your rough drafts?

I don’t write that way. :P

16. What do you do with your rough drafts once you write a new draft?

I mean I’ve had a few “I don’t like this first chapter so I’m going to drop it and restart it in 3 years” and I put those in my Super Secret Writing Folder for the world to laugh at.

17. How do you handle writer’s block?

The benefit of also being an artist (and game designer, and pixel artist, etc...). I don’t need to. I do something else fulfilling with my time until writing makes me feel fulfilled again.

Although recently I’ve been struggling a bit with The Memory, and looking for a phone wallpaper, I looked up Maria and Shadow images like I used to when I was 15... That wave of nostalgia has given me a burst of inspiration to continue this series and make it everything I wished it would be when I was a teenager. (Probably cringy to some people, but shove it. ;P)

18. How many stories do you work on at one time?

Fucking one because the alternative is a disaster and a three-year hiatus.

19. Do you write from beginning to end, or jump around in your story.

@bionicfrogstudios How do you do this convoluted jumping around bullcrap?!

20. What is one thing you would never do in a story or to a character?

There is nothing I wouldn’t do.

21. What do you do if you come to a fork in the road (where your story could go one of two different ways)?

Pick the one that I like better. XD

22. Do you “write what you know” or not?

Uhh, well, I don’t know what it’s like to be suddenly transported to the Dragon Realms... Or how to fight with a sword, or drive a train or boat, or what dragons would act like... I also don’t know what it’s like to be dying of a fatal disease, or a super-powerful test subject, on a gigantic spacecraft floating above Earth, while it gets violently invaded by the military...

So, er... no?

23. Do you research things in your story? If so, how?

Everything I don’t know for sure. And like everyone else, I do it with Google.

24. How do you figure out your characters looks, personalities, and speech patterns?

Feel it out in the story. I mean I’ll have an idea what they’re like. But a lot of quirks just come out as they write them. (For instance, I didn’t specifically think “Cedric is a mole who talks with a slight drawl/accent”, that just happened.)

25. How do you figure out character motivation and backstory?

It just... happens? And I think of it? And then I write it? Is there supposed to be some special methodology to this XD Sometimes it happens as the story is being written, like above, too.