#akadienne

[yoursummerfrost]

6, 12, 14, 34, 54

6. Favorite character you ever created.Probably the protag for a novel who is like, a small bean of the idea of a character at this point but I can already tell, you know? But as far as fully-fleshed OCs, definitely Shani Grady-Troy, from Can’t Learn to Leave but who will reappear in other stories <3

12. How do you deal with self-doubts?Chuck them at @shipped-goldstandard and ask her to validate me, mostly. Remind myself that I am creating for me, a little.

14. What’s the most research you ever put into a book? I guess you could call my entire undergraduate psych degree/CV research for Can’t Learn to Leave? But that wasn’t purposeful, lol. I am also constantly reading @writingwithcolor to learn how to create better, more diverse OCs, but those are more general lessons that I want to translate across projects. 

So probably the answer is creating a fake road trip for Back on the Map. I kinda outsourced that to Alex though, because trying to make the road trip gave me hella anxiety. (Thank you Alex <3).

34. Handwritten notes or typed notes?Typed notes, usually on my computer but sometimes keysmashed into my phone at 3 am when I’ve been slapped awake by a burst of inspiration.

54. Any writing advice you want to share?Oh man oh God uh. Yeah. This is advice I’ve shared kind of flippantly before but it’s actually really key to my prolific-ness as a writer lol:

Long stories are born from a series of questions. Some of them are about plot: What happens next? What happened before? How does X feel in the aftermath of this supposed conflict resolution? What’s the worst challenge the character could face in the wake of their victory?

Or, you can ask yourself thematic questions: What emotion do I need next (A tender scene, an angry scene, etc)? What interaction do I need next (Something slice-of-life, something monumental)? What part of my theme/which theme needs the most attention, and how can I create that atmosphere for my readers?

I try to remember that life doesn’t have a stopping point (except, uh...the obvious one) and there’s always a next. It’s something that comes to me naturally because my brain never shuts the fuck up, but even after short drabbles and ficlets, I usually have one follow-up question that would let me continue the story if I wanted! 

[rapunzelthecorgi]

quingigillion replied to your post “so far the only discourse I’ve seen in DGHDA fandom is #hairgate first...”

im on board with russet

akadienne replied to your post

“so far the only discourse I’ve seen in DGHDA fandom is #hairgate first...”

russet

I looked up russet hair and I got this

and some of them look pretty similar to Dirk’s 

so russet seems like a pretty good choice 

also if you look up ‘russet’ on its own you get 

bc there’s a type of potato called a russet potato, and its also a similar colour to dirk’s hair

[zombizombi]

HH - 15

15. what did you learn from writing this fic?

that i should really never expect to write short stuff because it never friggen happens. i always think to myself oh, i’ll just get this small idea out, and then it’ll be over. and NO. now it’s a monstrosity. why god.

OH! i also learned how great and helpful good beta readers can be! :)

…. i already knew some other things about the way i write ie. writing in order is probably easier but i never do it and writing to an outline is probably easier but i never do that, either. get it together, self.

thanks for asking!!

[garden-of-succulents]

akadienne replied to your photo “Me @ Edmonton: Can u just… chill about hockey… for 5mins”

hangin at the dollarama

I shop at THREE STORES: Safeway, Shoppers Drugmart, and Dollarama.

[star-anise]

akadienne replied to your post “Does Kel ever see the griffin she looked after, or his parents, again?”

lis i have this hunch that keladry of mindelan was a big part of your formative years

Daine was even more so but it’s safe to say that @tamorapierce​ is one of the top 5 people to blame for me being the way I am. ♥  Between the books she wrote and the fandom around them that gave me friends right when I was deciding I wasn’t human and didn’t get to belong anywhere... yeah.

(I was super deep in Tamora Pierce fandom ages 11-19. I printed fanzines. I moderated multiple messageboards. I ran a roleplay. It was my life.) 

[imochan]

to sit a dead man between us: 2, 3, 5, 11. i haven't read it in a long time but i think of "i love you. so there's that." all the time. it haunts me

thank you! i also have not read this fic in a long time, lol, so there’s two of us—but i’ll do my best!

2. What scene did you first put down?

This is super hard to remember! I think it may be a tie between two scenes: the scene where Regulus dies in the cave (towards the end), and the part at the very beginning, post-prank, that begins There is a piece of the moon missing.

3. What's your favorite line of narration?

This one is actually easy, haha. It’s the most bitter Remus I’ve ever had the pleasure of writing: 

What a cruel measure of character, he thinks. How badly I failed, he thinks. Whoever invented second chances should be stabbed in the back of the knees and left to rot, he thinks. You can never forget enough to begin again, he thinks. You can distill your life to the points of an obituary, he thinks, and there will still be those things that you can never change: That he was born, once. That he continued to grow older every year. That he knows a hero by name and the smell of his baby-skin. That he knows a villain by his touch and his existence spelled out in malevolent anagram. That he knows a monster by the shift of his heartbeat at sunset and the gothic-English print of a government manuscript and old exam questions. That he has heard stories, cries, laughs, obedience, lies, anger, apologies, spells, insults, niceties, prophecies, eulogies. That he has always been rather bad with goodbyes.That once, weeks ago, he had looked at a photograph of Harry Potter sleeping in his crib, with his tiny thumb in his tiny mouth, and was full of hatred. Like a pinpoint of stillness, like the particular clarity when the mind is dulled by age or amnesia; it was that he had hated every bone in that small body, every pulse and strand of hair. It was not anger. It was not twisted empathy. It was that he could feel the scream on the inside of his teeth.Everything that has been taken from you was mine first.

5. What part was hardest to write?

Literally all of it. (I have a, uh, complicated relationship with this fic.)

11. What do you like best about this fic?

This is a sweet question, especially considering how many negative feelings I have about this story now, but—I suppose do sort of like the sprawling, vague drama of it, the disjointed dialogue, and the consistency of the voice. At the very least, this is probably the most “me” a fic has ever been, which probably explains a little bit at least about why I’m so critical of it!

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send me a title of one of my fics, and a number!

[wern]

faarquaad

i’m being set up for failure

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life 

hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang

hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff

best quality: his hair is pretty sleek that’s gotta count for something i guess

worst quality: uhhh

ship them with: his servant felonious. there’s definitely m-rated fic of this out there i’m sure of it

brotp them with: the inside of the dragon’s stomach. actually there’s probably m-rated fic of this too ok moving on

needs to stay away from: my swamp

misc. thoughts: the scene where he gets a boner in bed. i have nothing to say about the scene but it’s what i’m thinking about unfortunately

(send me a character and i’ll answer this)

[lardo4lyfe]

song recs?!?! ah!!! here's a few: the winter hours by deep dark woods, dump the guy ASAP by lisa leblanc (actually that whole album is great), rivers and roads by the head and the heart, cut your hair by pavement (forgive me my love for 90s indie rock), for no one by houndmouth (currently my fave), and even the darkness has arms by the bar brothers. :))

1. yayyyy winter acoustic sounds. Amelia Curran: December (Couldn’t find it on youtube, but it’s on spotify)2. fuck yes. my jam. funky women singer-songwriters being frank about how much men suck!!! YES PLEASE ALWAYS! Rilo Kiley: Silver Lining. My favorite Rilo Kiley album is More Adventurous, but it’s hard to pick just one song from that album.3. yes give me all the melancholy acoustic sounds. Gonna cozy up and drink some tea. The Wailin’ Jennys: Bird Song4. Never apologize for indie 90s rock. The world could always use more angst. Husker Du: Pink Turns to Blue5. <3 <3. The Mountain Goats: San Bernadino6. Love all of these lyrics so much. <3. ok this rec doesn’t really match the song, but I wanted to recommend it anyway. St. Lenox: People from Other Cultures. (send me a music rec and I’ll send you one back!)