#cicaklah

[indeedcaptain]

for da meme: how are you feeling post finishing RR and its incredible success? Also any pointers for writing good epics that stick the landing?

hi friend! thanks for the ask, hope you're doing well <3

i saw this ask and then had to walk away for a few days because it turns out that the answer is that i'm a little sad about being done with RR! it was an outrageously fun experience, both writing it and then getting to live vicariously through people reading it. i was thinking about this story near-constantly for 10 months. my top 5 songs from spotify wrapped are all from my RR playlist. now that it's over, there's a little hole in my days and my brain that used to be for RR work.

i'm so so so happy to have stuck the ending, as you say (never fucking again am i publishing a project as big as this one as i was writing it LOL, i was terrified of fucking up in realtime), and so honored that the story as a whole has resonated with the people who have read it. writing RR and joining the broader star trek fandom as a whole was an enormous part of my year and i'm so grateful for it. but i'm still a little sad that RR is over. like, what now?

anyway. onward!

i am so excited for your one man adventure novel. i can't wait to see what you get up to with it. the two pieces of advice that i kept in mind during writing are that: 1, knowing where you're going from the beginning is critical, but there's a balance between that and allowing things that you discover in the writing to influence where it goes. i had a college professor who insisted that we re-read what we had written before writing the conclusion of any paper, because the point you end up making is not always the one you intended to. (elise didn't exist in the first outline of RR!) 2, writer's block usually means you're no longer writing the story you want to be writing. the way around it is backtracking to the last point you were entirely sure you were exactly where you wanted to be and reevaluating what is bogging you down in the muck (shoutout maggie stiefvater's writing seminar for that one).

this is more process than anything but i live and die by outlines. i usually do three acts, two big arcs in each act, and then scene by scene notes. writing without an outline makes me feel like i'm stumbling into the future.

i hope this is at all helpful, and if you ever want to give me one man spoilers commiserate about longform fic in my discord dms you are always welcome :)

LLAP!!

[randomthunk]

Ooo

Whoever wins, we win.

[dianaburnwood]

"Burnwood, your guy is going down" yeah he usually does, the way I write him anyway

I thought the same thing lmao

[inconclusionray]

@cicaklah ! It looks like a chicken egg and a very clean avocado pit! But no! It is a chicken egg, and also a chicken egg! That presumably The Almighty Egg Goddess bestowed upon our seven year old chicken who is also halfway a rooster! We have not yet cracked it open, but now I want to know if there is a teeeeeny tiny bard inside! Can you ask Meluhha if She has blessed us so, or do I have to just whip out the world's smallest frying pan and spatula and see how it goes??

[dianaburnwood]

I wonder how the decision making process of picking the tango went...was it 'we're having a level set on a vineyard, hmm, siri, what dance do they do in argentina?' or was it 'we are going to have 47 and Diana dance, get the intern to work out which dance is most going to make those women in tumblr explode please'. Either way, it worked out in their favour and ours.

I was listening to the commentary and how the game director said this level is “all about the return of Diana” and how they felt the tango would be a “perfect match” for Diana and 47 as they explored how to express that one last job feeling of this level, and Diana and 47 becoming true partners at last as she sets him free. 

There’s nothing in the plot or gameplay that dictates this level had to be set in Argentina, or in a winery, and I know the writers said that they were able to let the story dictate the level locations for this game (which is unusual). So, in my opinion, it’s clear that the entire concept of Mendoza was built around what the devs wanted to do with 47 and Diana.

[dianaburnwood]

which is your favourite joke/meme suit and what random suit would you like adding to the game??

Ooooohhh

I don’t use the joke outfits that often but I really like both ninja ones. It’s fun and 47 gets to run around with a katana. 

I think the one I’d like added is: 

[dianaburnwood]

So 47 says he's not going by that name anymore...instead now his name is Bond, James Bond, project 007 hitman 4 confirmed

hahahaha omg 

[dianaburnwood]

what are you drinking???

I am drinking malbec from Mendoza like a true nerd