45. What’s something you’ve improved on since you started writing fic?
amazingly getting to the point, which i still feel like six words too many in any given sentence from! but that is my whole goal with writing, not to write Well but to have the least impeded path between what i say and what i mean. like here is a good example. from the first? thing i wrote in 2024:
It’s like being cracked open, laid plain, the humid jewels of a bitten orange slice, he feels like a half-ravaged meal, ruined early
there is way too much going on here. i would now write it:
He is a bitten ripe slice, ruined early. Humid and wet and cracked right open.
which is also crazy and i would edit it down to:
He is a ripe mouthful, rind pried open.
bc u can see i love a phrase like ruined early. i just love it. but i'm confusing what i would love to scrunch into a knuckle tat for a necessary descriptor. if i am committing to fruit (and i almost always am) especially in metaphor for asshole this doesn't actually tell me anything about either the fruit or the asshole.
also lately i've been really really trying to not use a comma to separate what are basically same thesaurus terms. so ripe and humid and wet all accomplish too close to the same thing. i don't need jewels of an orange slice, i don't even need slice if i have ripe and rind. i like bitten but i don't really like how it sounds with ripe slice, and using mouthful instead means i get to allude to the indulgence of taste. if i can i will always choose more sensory, esp bc here the resonant soreness of bitten comes across just fine if i fit in pried since they have equal weights of ache to me
39. Is any aspect of your writing process inspired by other writers or people? If so, who?
i don't know about process because i don't think i've ever tried anything different processwise except once to thoroughly outline and i hated that
for general inspiration, i think hollycomb still does my favorite job of getting across a full brimming character with the plainest, fewest words. aspirationally i would love to use less words. also i think eleadore does my favorite close third person pov thing of asking a question when the character either can't or doesn't want to believe what's right in front of them. bc i love deep internal and i love hope or dread breaching the narrative in a way that isn't just like 'he felt hopeful' or 'he felt dread'.
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