#drtechmaturgics

[29-12-2011]

post your fake v^2 or I’ll cry

target audience of 1.2 people

[finitevariety]

sup this is me off anon (pirouettes) thank you so much for the reply!! and the snippets slash drafts especially were very yummy. its cool how seeing how like, rigorous the process is because it definitely feels super controlled while writing. and you want to talk more about your specific writing style that would be cool as fuck!! the two things that jump most at me when I read your fics were 1) dialogue and 2) the metaphors. how does all of that get formed?

hiiii

thank you! I feel like my writing process is less rigorous than the only way that I can get to a finished product. I have to sit and think for ages before things even begin to come together.

re: writing style, here are some rambling thoughts (and more screenshots lol):

It's so interesting to hear you pick out dialogue because I think particularly for fic I've been lucky--for example, I once got a comment that complimented me on using particularly Minnesotan phrasing for a Tom thing, when in fact it was a stray turn of phrase from my home country/area which happened to overlap with Minnesotan speech patterns.

Like I said earlier, dialogue is something that tends to come pretty quickly in the drafting process! Like, I just got through the first section of a chapter that was killing me because I wanted to show Tom thinking about shit without him really knowing what he was thinking about, so I had to meander around what he's doing, seeing, remembering, etc. instead of actually talking to anyone in the present. With dialogue scenes (including sex scenes, which for me are fairly dialogue-rich) it's so much easier to communicate someone's thoughts because they are also communicating.

For example, this is from a doc that is probably the next thing I want to write after bold and forth on (after a break for writing some original stuff for fun). I haven't touched it since I did my original 'stream of consciousness' plotting, but I bet when I write this in full the finished speech will be very similar to this:

Looking at it now, I can see some parts which are lazy--the 'paid a damn sight better' part is maybe something Tom would say, but there are things Tom could say here which feel more Tom--'you wouldn't be earning fucking Buffalo bucks, there'--and also reveal more about him and Greg--'maybe you could pay for your own fucking meal once in a while, you know? Stop gagging on gazpacho on my dime' (Greg: 'I thought it was a shot!').

I also, like I mentioned before, frequently read bits aloud. This is probably The Autism, but I like hearing words aloud and in a nice combination/rhythm, and creating something I enjoy is always the priority.

Sorry for the sidebar here, but it feels related: there's a lot in my writing that I'm surprised isn't offputting to more people, and as gratified as I am, I would keep writing it even if that weren't the case. Don't get me wrong, I'm a slut for external validation, but this is my sandbox and I'll piss in it if I want to.

Anyway, back to dialogue: I think for Succession I try to remember that whilst these people don't talk like real people there are a lot of hallmarks of real speech--lots of crosstalk and interruption, uhs and ums and uh-huhs, and certain specific fillers such as, for Tom, 'you know'. So, no matter what insane shit they're saying, I try to ground it in a little of that.

On insane shit, though: I have to chalk the imagery up to the way my brain works, which feels like a copout. I guess though the main questions I ask when writing/refining images are:

What would this scene look like if it were storyboarded? What do I want people to catch in the background? What do I want tight focus on? If the audience blurs their focus, what might the scene remind them of?

What would this character know about? What are they preoccupied with? It's important imo to make an image something that a character would conceivably think. So Tom is very fun to write because I feel like his brain follows the same grain as mine. This is not a compliment. Many of the images I use for him, especially for feelings shit, are rooted in flesh and violence because he is a character for whom self-knowledge is torture.

Can I push this further? Hey, what if I google around this to see if there's anything else I can fold in? For example, if I'm comparing something to a bug, I'm gonna find out about bugs first to see if there's a gross little detail I can shove in there. This connects back to the part above where I pointed out the 'damn sight better' opportunity. If I'm using an image, I want to avoid it feeling like boilerplate, you know?

Then, finally:

What can I get rid of? What does this image add? Are there explanatory phrases around the image that I can delete? If I'm asking you to come with me for 100k of nonsense, the least I can do is try to cut down on unnecessary bullshit.

Thank you so much for the ask and for the compliments. <3

[29-12-2011]

jasoncyrus pls

i refuse to put any more effort into this

[29-12-2011]

top three things to make you close out of a fic immediately and top three things that make you read a fic with excitement immediately and top three things you like putting inside your fics (and why is it viktor calling jayce jesse or [redacted])

top 3 insta-closes:

"i hate jayce" -- lazy and not compelling. "i hate and love jayce" that's too many feelings. unpalatable and unsustainable.

something doesn't explode in the first 3 minutes

"oh my fucking god, jayce," said viktor. "you forgot to carry the 2." "holy shit!" said jason. "we've just solved time travel!" and then viceroy and jasonathan kiss. to be clear i am closing the fic because they kiss.

top 3 AWESOME!!:

something explodes in the first 3 minutes. bonus points if it's viktor

naph

vi punched through the wall interrupting their discussion. "sup nerds," she said, "this is actually a cai/tvi story." #prowoman

top 3 things i like putting in my fics:

vi

why does she never appear...? no fic good enough for her yet

"and then it exploded.”

“and then it exploded. metaphorically speaking.”

(and why is it viktor calling jayce jesse or [redacted])

i can’t talk about the [redacted] here but i think it’s core to their characters. anyway, jayce and how people address him

camille: Jason, or J. of course with the full stop caitlyn: james viktor: jesse (like from breaking bad) or babygirl ezreal and vi have a lot of overlap: jayjay, JJ (not to be confused with jayjay), jimbo, jaycer(ino) jayce’s older sister hasn’t referred to him by name since he turned 10

[29-12-2011]

I miss you

i got out of bed and turned on my laptop instead of sleeping an extra 3 minutes to read this. i miss you too

[29-12-2011]

can i have your autograph ?!

[29-12-2011]

huh? of course you were a creepypasta quotev fanfiction writer it was jtk for you right (chin in hands) what if we read each other’s creepypasta quotev fanfic wouldn’t that be so funny? i wrote hoodie x reader and Ben drowned x reader

i didn't write any creepypasta quotev fanfiction you're insane i only read it. slenderman x reader. what i did write was phantom of the opera fic

[29-12-2011]

12 13 :3

12. favorite character to write about this year

jayce's unnamed older sister. slash s. maybe.

i am an incurable viktor writer because typing about him is like exorcising explosion vibes from my body, but jayce is also fun because he is relentlessly an asshole! i guess i like writing jayce is more situations than viktor because making viktor interact with people is nauseating for the both of us, while both jayce outward interaction and introspection is really funny because it's this very gamer trainwreck.

13. favorite writing song/artist/album of this year

honestly most of my writing bgm is my friends playing clash of clans.......... other than that i usually just put xinyao (新谣) on or something because i don't understand the words and it's good noise. i did do a lot of writing to my friend's viktor playlist though!

i stole the last four songs for my own playlist :3