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If you’re a writer, please kindly reblog this with something you like/are proud of about your current WIP or writing in general~! :D Alternatively, if you are an artist then please reblog this with something you’re proud about your work.
AKW’s Writer Positivity Tag Game
I was tagged by the ever-lovely @anonymouskudoswriteblr, Thank you! It’s always fun to see a new tag game and some positivity.
Rules: Bold the statements that apply to you - Be kind and honest with yourself!
I am a talented writer | I am great at writing realistic dialogue | I can really paint a picture with my words | I am great at touching people with my stories | the backstories of my characters are all diverse and I feel like I truly know them | I am great at making a realistic and diverse crew | my main characters aren't always the same | I great at coming up with gripping beginnings | I am great at coming up with gripping endings | I am in love with my characters and would die for them if they were real | I love how I write animals and mystic creatures | I am great at worldbuilding | I am great at capturing and keeping the audience's attention | I am persistent even when I want to give up
Tagging, but no pressure, of course: @mischiefiswritten, @writer-candy, @hyba, @likelyfantasywriterspsychic, @erinnharper, @writeblrfantasy, @vermontwrites, and anyone who just wants to hop in!
I could be working on finishing those edits of The Plight of a Sparrow book 2. Almost done. Just a few more chapters to comb through and rearrange events for before I go back over it to make sure it all fits together and then I can move onto book 3.
I could be finishing The Firewalker’s first draft. It’s so close to being done, literally just the final confrontation and the closing scenes left to go. It’ll need a lot of work in the redraft with pacing and some plot points, but it’s a solid story that I still enjoy.
I could be working on My Ancestor, My Enemy. It’s fairly new, kind of shiny, still open for possibilities as the action and mystery ramps up and the character is grappling with impending doom and her own impatience.
Or I could pick a wip I shelved and go to town on it. Why not? I still have them laying around.
Am I doing any of those things?
No.
I’m world building for a brand new idea. And not even I can stop myself now. *insert cartoonish evil laugh and lightening flash here.*
Alrigth now lets find out the fun things about Hogs vs. Pigs vs. Boars and which one I'm modeling a race after
Get to know the writer tag
I wasn’t tagged, but saw one of these with an open invention and thought it would be fun. 😎
1. What song would you use to describe your MC?
I’m going to assume this means the MC in my main WIP, in which case I’d probably use Complicated by Avril Lavinge, Superheroes by The Script, and Move Along by All American Rejects.
2. What was the inspiration for your main WIP?
The Plight of a Sparrow was inspired by a lot of different things. Video games I’ve played, Animes I’ve watched, a bunch of random thoughts that tend to hit me around 3AM.... It was a melting pot of different ideas and influences that became it’s own story.
3. We won’t tell your characters but who’s your favorite?
Hm, there’s a tough one. I think I’ll probably have to go with Sparrow, Leo, Hugh, Beta, or Ophelia. (Note, they’re not all from the same story.)
4. What’s your process or routine for getting ready to sit down to write?
I make myself a cup of tea, turn on music that fits the feel of the scene, and them open the word document.
5. What’s your favorite trope or cliche?
I’m a sucker for that one heroic character that’s screaming at the rest of the party to run while they’re turning to face the monsters/bandits/hoard that’s trying to kill them, but they have no chance of beating. Bonus points if there’s a character that runs to their side shouting something like ‘I won’t leave you to die alone,’ and/or a character that’s being drug away by the rest of the party crying and screaming about how they can’t leave the first character there because they’ll die.
6. Which one of your WIPs would you most/least want to be transported in to?
I never, ever want to end up in Silver Tiger’s world. Never. Then again, I don’t really want to end up in the worlds of any of my WIPs.
7. What’s the hardest part about writing to you?
Trying to get over my perfectionist tendencies. I do it every time. I’ll be writing, go back to read to make sure one obscure detail is accurate and then come across a scene where the wording doesn’t feel perfect. When I change it, I realize it makes less sense than it did originally and have to change it back because my past self actually knew what she was writing after all. So, I’ve wasted time, broken my own creative flow, and nothing really changed.
8. Have you ever based a character on a person you know in real life?
All the time. Most of my characters either consciously or unconsciously had traits from people around me added to them. That one little nail biting habit person 1 has? Character a has it too now. Person b starts crying in frustration? Guess what character a also does? I actually think it’s fairly normal for some traits from the people around the writer to bleed into the characters.
10. How much research do you tend to do for your WIPs?
That depends. Silver Tiger had a lot of research put into it where as The Plight of a Sparrow had very little. Mostly because Tiger’s research bled into it, but c'est la vie.
tagging @just-my-thoughts-here117 , @touchingmadness , @writingasrachel , @writerinhighheels , @the-words-we-never-said , @gardenfullofcats
I don’t know about anyone else, but at some point in time, I fell in love with writing itself. Not the worlds in my mind, not the characters constantly overthrowing my plot, the unexpected twists in the story, or anything else.
I fell in love with struggling to find the right words to introduce people to my mad characters, to open the doors to let them walk through my imaginary worlds, to make them feel the pain of defeat and the joy of a sweet moment.
Turning something black and white into entire worlds and the people that inhabit them, that’s what I love so much about writing. Putting one black letter at a time on a blank white page until the person reading it can see colors, hear battles, and smell rain. What could be more fun than watching the story come together? Seeing that plain white page fill one word at a time?
Half of the time, I want to sit down and have a long heart to heart conversation with my characters. Make them tea and ramble through awkward small talk, then give them a big hug.
The rest of the time I’m glad they are fictional characters, because I know they wouldn’t be happy with me or the latest plot twists.... 🤣
Yes, I am listening. Mostly so I can put it in a story later, model a character after this one conversation, and put it in a world where the character in my shoes actually knows what to say, but I am listening none the less.
