hi >:)))) comign from the ask game~~
18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.
25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?
35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?
18: Gonna answer from one of my posted works for this
For context, this work is a collab - the one it is gifted to helped me plot it out completely and I'm slowly chugging my way along writing it. its very fun! The segment in question is:
“Uncle Lee!” The babybean exclaimed, immediately running to hang by his coat. A smile briefly flashed on his otherwise dull face as he picked it up. The caster also flew to settled around his neck. Oh, they had not been joking when they said the grifflings loved him. Even the tox, who had never met him until now, ran over like it had known him forever – though it might be its new friends/‘siblings’ as they called each other for some reason doing so. Prince Lee patted its head too, but he looked up from the kids to the royals. Eyes narrowed, he somehow looked even angrier than before.
Somehow, he handled three grifflings – Zephyr really shouldn’t be surprised, he’s seen him do this before – to the table, sitting the sprout on his lap after he took the final seat between Queen Pisum and Prince Sandal. His gaze was fixed on the latter.
“You.” The word was a growl, and Zephyr almost started wondering if it was something serious.
“They’re amazing, aren’t they?” Prince Sandal replied cheerfully. “You know, just like-”
“Fuck you.”
This is pretty much my favourite scene in the posted part! Both my friend and i were laughing badly when the idea came up - it ties into a conversation that happened earlier. Re, here:
“Prince Lee, you know what we should do?” Prince Sandal asked, floating in front of the old fornlee.
Prince Lee looked up from the book he was reading. “No, we are not making an omni hybrid kryptox.”
“You aren’t making that, I am. You are making an omnihybrid fornlee and foolee.”
Lee snapped the book shut. “Your Highness, you do realise that’s a terrible idea, right?”
BASICALLY, what happened was, Queen Pisum accidentally adopted a baby, and Prince Sandal had the brilliant idea that he should too - and Prince Lee, taking the practical viewpoints that a) theyre all busy people and b) Pisum's kid was, again, an ACCIDENT, tried to talk Sandal out of it. But when later on Lee saw that Sandal had a kid anyway - and, spoilers, but - a kid had shown up on Lee's own doorstep as well, he decided to blame the other prince for it, he was so mad, he decided to ignore all the logical arguments because fuck him yaknow, he tempted fate etc, and decided to cuss him out
(Yes, he swore in front of all the children - but as you will find out if you read it didn't turn out to be a problem... his own kid turns out having a very... diverse language as a result, though)
I also love the chapter in general because the pov character is the world's biggest hater, and you'll notice that Lee's title of 'Prince' was striked out - it's because the pov character doesn't think he's worthy of the title. very fun things. they're so chaotic.
Dang this answer got long. moving on-
25: this one is hard, because there are so many random details i come up with and immediately forget - but Eso has a pet pigeon! It never shows up in story and never does anything, but it's a bird with enough audacity to sit on a god, and I love it very much
35: show not tell, solely because i write in many different formats and its not applicable always. Like, i've got a full thing written in the format of diary entries - you can't really follow that rule in that for example. because the character is literally TELLING the diary what happened and how they felt etc. i've also written stories as formats of letters to dead people and solely dialogue, and again, its not always available to do.
I don't really look at writing rules, though. to me the 'correct' way to write is whatever works for the scene/story i want to tell. you have to be able to tell when the rule will help, and when its better getting defenestrated while on fire
