Is This Relatable or is it Just Me? IV

Author Tag

1. Yes. I make playlists for all my works in progress, and usually they help set the mood for characters and scenes.

2. I'm technically a planster, which is a person who planning and ends up pantsing somewhere during the rough draft.

3. Computer. I've tried pen and paper, but it's actually harder on my hands and it's just... Harder.

4. I would like to be published one day.

5. Zero writing. My most productive times are in November with NaNo. But that will probably change, as I'm starting college this fall.

6. Single, typically.

7. Um. Either.

8. Memento Mori.

9. Twisted Roots.

10. I try to. Does it work out? Um...

11. I have no idea writing style-wise, but genre-wise? J.K. Rowling, Marissa Meyer, and Leigh Bardugo.

12. My desk up in my room, or the couch in the living room, are where I usually write. However, my ideal writing space would be a quiet room with not much to distract me that has a desk and/or a couch.

13. Confession: I have never gotten to the revision/rewriting/editing phase of writing. I rewrote Lost approximately one time but that's about it. So far my process goes as follows: 1.) come up with the idea because of music, Pinterest, and thinking. At this point I already have the basic premise. 2.) Figure out who the characters are. 3.) Create Pinterest boards for it that include aesthetics and information. 4.) Barf a bunch of ideas onto paper. 5.) Micromanage ideas and story details. 6.) Outline. 7.) The story usually sits for a little while. 8.) I enter a month-long trance in the month of November and become conscious once I've nearly hit 50k. Good grief, what have I done? 9.) I let it sit on the "shelf" for a completely indefinite amount of time...

14. Um. I try to push them to the side, but they're ever-present. If I'm on top of the world about my writing, I'm probably suffering from a delusions of grandeur.

15. Um. I usually make myself not try to write for a few days. Then I try to write again.

16. I have no idea. For anyone who's swamped by my inconsistencies and utter lack of self-discipline, I apologize. This tag is a journey of self-exploration.

17. What habits? What rituals?

18. I would love to collaborate with nightwraith17 , and I'd want to write a fantasy book with her.

19. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

20. I technically have four WIPs, twi of which I'm actually working on and by working on I mean attempting to write intermittently.

21. I love writing villains. They're almost always a lot darker than I had originally anticipated for them to be.

22. I like writing villain-hero conversations.

23. Currently nightwraith17 or Leigh Bardugo.

24. Fantasy, hands down.

25. Actually writing when the words are flowing.

26. Google Docs.

27. The prologue of Twisted Roots from my stuff. From a published book, the scene where Kaz takes down all of the opposing Dregs in Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo.

28. Prince Kai from The Lunar Chronicles.

29. Of my stuff, my favorite is... Okay, I can't say. Spoilers. Of something published, it would have to be the Darkling from the Grishaverse.

30. Favorite idea I haven't started on? A Galaxy where everyone has magic, but the majority can't use magic with some major effect on their physical health.

31. Writer's block or writing when words aren't flowing. Or writing when my hands hurt.

32. Protagonists.

33. Yes.

34. Most of them.

35. I don't know.

36. From an outline: "Perhaps Samantha and Darcy are sent in the middle of—" I've redacted the rest cuz spoilers.

37. "Morgana walked through the woods."

38. Avengers characters in the plot and setting of Lord of the Rings.

39. A grandma who kills aliens for messing up her house. She's actually in a short story in my book "Gas Masks and Stardust."

40. My protagonist in Twisted Roots found out that she's from another world a year before the events of the book. This causes a rift in her and her mother's relationship, as she believes that her mother isn't her biological mother.

41. Outline, or at least have a list of scene ideas. It's better to spend time on that before you write than to start writing and burn out after chapter one or so due to the lack of ideas.

42. Unless you're going to pull a Jane Austen love triangle (one love interest is presented in a good light, then the MC learns that they're no good for her before another already existing character is fully introduced as a love interest), don't do it,,,,, please,,,,,

43. I let the characters do their thing.

44. I do what research is necessary in order to write the rough draft, which usually isn't much. I don't want to be swamped in research for something that's meant to be enjoyable.

45. I don't so much in terms of the actual worlds, but I usually figure out government and magic systems.

46. Occasionally.

47. Pinterest.

48. Um. I don't know.

49. Of mine, probably Ms. O'Hara. She could probably tell me how to adult. Of published works, probably Inej Ghafa.

50. Ask me anything, bruh.

I tag:

Silmarilz1701
nightwraith17
autumn_sunfire
elenrith
LevyHome
arwen_galadriel