Get to know the writer - II
1. What time [of day/night] do you find yourself being the most productive? It really depends on the day. Usually, during the day I’m job hunting, taking care of my puppy that hates being ignored for too much, some house stuff and such. So, I think that probably I could be more productive during the evening/night when I can stay alone in my room writing and worldbuilding. But I think that the best time for me to be productive is generally when I’m alone and I don’t have too many distractions around (the dog is a fun distraction, though).
2. How do you go about developing out your ideas? Oh...I’m not really sure how to answer! Sometimes, with a couple of short stories I wrote, the words just came one after another while I was writing. Other times I have random ideas that needs a bit of thinking to make it work...and in some cases (like my sci-fi wip) I thought, outline, research and such so deeply that in the end I didn’t even know how to start and where to go with the story but I could tell you the magnitude and the classification of the star of the system nearer to the one where there was the planet of the story. With Beyond the Veil I started with some random scenes I wrote as “warm ups” after not writing for long and then I outined a plot and I’m trying to limit my worldbuilinding to only the strict necessary for the novel.
3. Favourite style of piece (novel/novella/short story/character piece etc) to write? Favourite style...I would say novel or short story, even if I was usually able to complete only a couple of short stories. Plus few characters pieces because sometimes I got the right idea for a character but I didn’t have a story...or it was a character that I liked but that was thought for an homebrew rpg that I stopped playing.
4. What’s your biggest distraction? Myself. Too many ideas too little time and a writer’s block that gets triggered too easily (but maybe because of stress, not sure).
5. Do you have a specific place to write? Nothing in particular. The most used ones are my room, the livingroom and the study room at the next town’s library. I only need silence and less distractions as possibile.
6. How did you come up for the idea for your main wip? I think that I mentioned it in answer n°2. I tried to get used again to write saving a bunch of prompts and then trying to write something everyday (and it didn’t work, I can’t force myself to write everyday and I had the final proof with the fictober thing) and with that exercise I saved a bunch of scenes and almost-scenes jotted down after some prompts...and I noticed that few of them had something that could connect. Also I was in the mood to try something different after failing with my almost-6-year-old-scifi-wip so I started outlining a bit the characters in those scenes and I tried to came up with a simple plot that could easily connect all the scenes in an actual plot...or something that looked like that. And this is how Beyond the Veil started.
7. Tell us about your fave character you’ve created. I love all of the characters I ever made. Also the evilest ones. But I think that (as for now) my fave will be Luciel the genie that appears in my Beyond the Veil. He is a character with a long life (I think) since it’s a revisitation of a character I play in an rpg...something like a “what if he lived in a different setting and could really do - almost - whatever he wants?”. He (or they, since Luciel can change shape and could be male or female they always use a different pronouns depending on the way they are presenting at the moment.) is carefree, a bit of a trickster and morally grey because they choose to do good or bad things solely depending on their mood. The classic chaotic neutral, maybe. I’m really fond of Luciel, I know.
8. Pick another writeblr and summarize their story. I have to skip this because I’m in the writeblr community only for a very short amount of time and I still haven’t gotten...comfortable? befriended? enough to talk about other people’s writing and stuff.
9. What’s your favourite thing about writing? Writing makes me feel good like when I’m reading. There is only me and the world and people I’m writing about and all the worries and problems are set aside. I also love the emotion, feeling yourself the emotions that you are writing hoping that if someone will ever read them will feel the same thing that the characters and yourself felt.
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