#klovharun

[kuutamosonaatti]

"Every spring, it’s the scurvy-grass flower that comes first. It thrives only in the north, along the coasts where seamen once planted it. The flower is white and tiny and has a sharp smell. The next to come is the wild pansy, and then all the others in a perfect frenzy of blossoming.” – Tove Jansson, in Notes from an Island

[bookjotter6865]

An Island of Note #ToveTrove

My musings on Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä’s Notes from an Island “Sometimes it felt like unrequited love – everything exaggerated. I had the feeling that this immoderately pampered and badly treated island was a living thing that didn’t like us, or felt sorry for us, depending on the way we behaved, or just because.” Notes from an Island is an uplifting, deceptively simple collection of…

An Island of Note #ToveTrove

[yayitssunny]

Klovharun, Tove Jansson’s island.

[connyhascontrol]

2, 9, 10, 20?

thank you angel!!

2. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?

I really love a good fake dating fic but I haven’t found a way to make that really interesting. If I ever have an idea for a unique fake dating setting I’d love to write that.

9. Which fic has been the hardest to write?

I very nearly scrapped She sends the rain when I was halfway through writing it because I thought none of it made sense or was any good. It was my second fic and people enjoyed my first one so much that I was worried it wouldn’t live up to that standard. And then I did finish writing it and was really proud of what I turned it into.

10. Which fic has been the easiest to write?

I still don’t know what happened to me but I wrote Simmer until tender in only a few weeks. I have been chasing that natural flow ever since and haven’t experienced it again. 

20. Describe your perfect writing conditions.

when I’m supposed to be doing something else sdsfgsdfg 

I often write as a way to procrastinate so I’m not very picky about my surroundings. I used to write on my commute a lot, back when I used to leave the house to go to work. I find it really hard to start writing when I sit down with my laptop with the goal of writing, that’s somehow intimidating, but once I get over that it’s still how I get most of my writing done. The only thing I really need is music. If there’s no background music my brain refuses to do anything.

[skruttet]

[idum-mun]

Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä

ur Mumin & Havet

[siirimaria]

[kuutamosonaatti]

"There is a surprisingly large number of people who go around dreaming of an island"