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[vulcansmirk]

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but I love him!

I know man

me too

I love him so much it's hypersensitized my skin

if you touch me I will spontaneously combust

[vulcansmirk]

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*cries* Data!

don't touch me

[vulcansmirk]

I did NaNoWriMo this last November! I won, but yea, 50,000 in 30 days doesn't exactly warrant the best material. I've been writing all my life as well, but realized I was serious about it when I was about nine or ten. I prefer fantasy/fiction, but I'm just now expanding my horizons a bit. Tolkien is a huge influence on me as well. Do you have any projects going on right now? What do you think of short stories and essays? How much screenwriting have you done?

Aw, man, congratulations! That’s a hard thing, you should be proud!

I always did this thing as a kid where I said, “Oh, I’ll be a writer, but only on the side. My real career will be volcanologist/CIA agent/architect/diagnostician/etc. etc." until finally I realized that the only common factor in all of it was the writing… It’s a risky thing, but it’s what I want to do with my life, y’know?

I think Tolkien is where my long-winded descriptions come from, heheh. ♥

Right now, I’ve got a Kirk/Spock, Carol/Bones, Uhura/Scotty longfic in the works (March Inexorable, but I’ve only published the first chapter so far — I am slow) and I’m always writing short poems or drabbles or AUs. Nothing original right now.

I have written far too many essays over the years to be terribly fond of them, haha, but they can definitely be interesting to read. I’m particularly fond of Alan Lightman’s work — he’s both a physicist and a novelist, so he writes essays and short stories with elements of both. I’m hoping the essays I write in college will be less obnoxious for me, haha. More liberties, and all that. ♥

I have done zero actual screenwriting, haha, which is horrible, I know. I have a manual about formatting and such, but I was never on media team or anything, and I’ve never taken a class, and it’s really the kind of thing that I would need explained to me face-to-face before I could figure it out. Mostly, I’m just trying to get the hang of telling a story, and I’ll worry about the screenwriting format when I can take classes on it (there’s a screenwriting class at my university, and they partner with a local arts school for film classes♥).

[vulcansmirk]

Hello Savannah! It isn't often I find serious writers here on Tumblr, I find it really exciting, I hope you don't mind if I ask you some questions. What genres to you prefer writing in? How long have you been writing? Have you ever finished a novel? It was nice meeting you, I hope we can talk about nerdy writing stuff in the near future :)

Hello again! I don't mind at all. :) Do you mind if I publish this? ♥

I don't really write in genres, but if there were any genre I gravitated toward, it would definitely be science fiction. I like the combination of fantasy and credulity. Plus, science is just some really cool shit.

I've been writing for most of my life. I think I first decided I wanted to be a writer the summer before fifth grade, when I read the Hobbit for the first time. Tolkien was one of my first influences♥

Well, TECHNICALLY I've finished writing a novel, but it's not very good. At all. (I still have the file.) I did it through National Novel Writing Month -- if you haven't heard of it, it's a nationwide endeavor for which you sign up online, basically pledging to spend the month of November writing a 50,000-word novel. I've done it for the past five years, but only succeeded once, haha, the first year I did it. And like I said, it wasn't very good. My attempts have gotten progressively less successful every year, haha, but I like to think the quality of my writing is improving somewhat, at least.

It was nice meeting you, too! And of course, I'm always available to talk about nerdy writing stuff♥♥