#enechelon

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THANK YOU for The Space Between Worlds fan art! I've been dying for more of Cara and Dell and I'm loving your art posts!

Aw, thanks! It deserves more fanart tbh!!

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meta asks for writers: 2, 8, 11, 19, 23. Also, if you get bored, come tell me about the Lost Tomb reboot in messenger!

I am ABSOLUTELY going to jump in to messenger to 1) respond to YOUR messages and 2) tell you all about MY TLT ;D.  I was going to do it yesterday, but I got distracted by things.  OOPS.  (And, OMG, tumblr has been REALLY BAD about dropping messages, haven’t they?  You’re like the fourth person I’ve talked to this week where multiple messages have just... not shown up in the middle of the chat.  SO ANNOYING.)

BUT IN THE MEANTIME...

[If anyone else wants to play, here are the asks.]

2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

OMG, I’m so excited about my Whumptober fic(s) YOU HAVE NO IDEA.  Which is... hilarious, because it is a tiny rowboat of a fandom and a very niche set of tropes and like... I think I know personally everyone who might even be VAGUELY interested in reading it, but HERE WE ARE, I GUESS.  XD  (You’ll find a couple of snippets further down the post, if you’re interested. ;D)

And BEHIND A CUT WE GO, BECAUSE THIS GOT SUPER LONG.

8. Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?

There is definitely a lot of overlap, no question.  There are a few things I like to read that I don’t also like to write, mainly because I feel like I’m not that good at writing those things?  And also there are some uber UBER dark versions of already dark tropes that I DO like to write that... I can’t quite get myself to write personally but still occasionally enjoy reading.  Because sometimes the shredder just wants what it wants, and oh well.  ^_^

11. What do you envy in other writers?

The ability to plot out a story on an outline and write it, I think.  Because it seems like that would be a SUPER HELPFUL WAY to stay on task and organized.  But I just... can’t.  Also, the ability to write shorter stories that don’t require 50K words worth of lead up.  :P  I just... don’t do that well.  -.-;;;

19. Is there something you always find yourself repeating in your writing? (favourite verb, something you describe ‘too often’, trope you can’t get enough of?)

Oh, fucking hell.  SO MANY THINGS.  XD  ELLIPSES.  ELLIPSES ARE A PROBLEM.  THEY ARE MY ADDICTION AND THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE.  I also tend to use... IDK how to even describe it.  Musical beats?  My sentences, when I’m on my game and writing intuitively, definitely have a certain rhythm and feel to them that makes use of repetition and triple (often synonym) words to get the feel I like.  Things like this:

“ As Fusheng sat staring at the bars, that numbness crept over him, slowly, inexorably, irrevocably.”

I’m also a fan of using short single sentences as their own paragraph to break up the flow of a narrative.  I just like the way it brings everything to a screeching halt and focuses your attention on that one single line.

“As hands closed over Luo Fusheng’s wrists, clamped down on his arms, wrenched his shoulders—how many policemen did it take to arrest one man, anyway?—and a ring of cocked rifles cut off any possibility of escape, the cost of this battle finally became clear.

Sometimes, the cost was measured in betrayal.“

I pull that trick a LOT.  I’d go so far as to say it’s probably a signature move in my writing style.  ;D

And I KNOW there are similes and metaphors and turns of phrase that I overuse, but I LIKE THEM, DAMN IT.  CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOP.  XD  And there are without a doubt tropes that I love and tend to write a lot of, but all of those things are deserting me as I try to think of them.  XD

23. What’s the story idea you’ve had in your head for the longest?

Oh gosh.  I have so many story ideas, and I’ve been coming up with story ideas since I was so young, I barely remember where they came from.  But I have a sprawling multiverse playground of a crossover that has essentially gobbled up every single piece of media I’ve ever read in my life going back to sometime in elementary school and recombined it with literally everything else, that I play with routinely in my head and NEVER intend to write any of down on paper.  I’ve had that sucker going for at LEAST 30 years, if not more.  ;D

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@enechelon replied to your post “To-do...”

If I️t shows up on Tdf take me with you. ;)

Gladly!  ^_^  I thought that might be of interest to you and was going to email you about it, but I got distracted.  ;D  And, I mean, it’s been on TDF before, so... *crosses fingers* ...here’s hoping?

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@enechelon replied to your post: For the record, if anyone’s around, I could use...

Sending virtual hugs and broadway shows and hippies

These things are ALWAYS welcome.  ^_^  *hugs*  Thank you!

(And I’ll answer the other in email because I don’t want to splash that all over tumblr.  :P)

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@enechelon replied to your photo “So, I’ve been starting to itch to start writing things again.  Only...”

Aand now I have 'the world turned upside down' stuck in my head. Thanks cards! ��

PFFT.  XD  Oh gosh.  I hadn’t thought of that, but now it’s stuck in my head, too!  XD

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@enechelon Dear G-d, if I held my liquor better, I'd be joining you. That's really the only sensible answer to this, isn't it? @spearmintstardust True. I've at least managed to get off the computer and relocate to bed. Here's hoping that overwhelming emotional exhaustion will do me a favor and pull me under.

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@enechelon replied to your post:@thecoffeetragedy replied to your photoset “So,...

It sounds like i’m in the minority her, but I like the colors and composition of the right one better! I think at least partly because the vertical division isn’t as centered

(Oops.  Missed this part.  ^_^)  But yeah, that was the other thing I liked about that one, too, actually.  -.-;;;  The mostly darker colors and the off-centered bit.

SEE?  This is what I was doing all last night.  I’d start liking these things about the one on the right, then I’d go back and look at the autumn trees and that quote in the one on the left and fall back in love with that one, then the color contrast would catch me in the one on the right and... back and forth I go like a yo-yo.  -.-;;;  This is why I have such trouble making decisions!  XD

...maybe I’ll just get both.  It’s not THAT much more expensive to get two...  *unsure but game smile*

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@enechelon replied to your post:@thecoffeetragedy replied to your photoset “So,...

also like the darker on the left, lighter on the right contrast of the option to the right

*laughs*  Do you want to know something?  What you just said?  You just hit on my one hang up.  That had been the ONE THING that had been making me doubt that I liked the one on the left better.  *snerts*  In spite of that, however, I think I like the composition of the one on the left just a ~teeny~ bit better.  And, you know... autumn trees.  ^_^  That being said, I’m going to keep the one on the right in mind for the next time I decide I want a new phone case.  There’s nothing that says that I can’t do both, eventually, right?  ^_~