hey bestie i am going to need #10 and #18 or ELSE!!!!!*
this is an empty threat i'm just interesting in getting to know you 🥰
wait no i love the idea of it being a real threat!!! 😅😰 keep things interesting!
10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?
yes, actually! while writing The Hooksborough Demon i was having some intense dreams. and sometimes i have similar dreams from time to time. but, also, the more haunting imagery came from my dreams in the first place, so perhaps i’ve just haunted myself by putting it into writing.
haunting, to me, can be a lot of things. but i closely associate it to the feeling of something always lingering on the periphery, just in the blind spot, waiting for you to be fully aware. sometimes you’re never aware. sometimes you can’t shake the feeling of something unexplainable giving you the feeling it does. sometimes it makes itself know when you least expect it to. i love when it makes itself known. except i did dream once about the scene with jimin’s intestines and it was pretty ínstense. lots of blood.
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.
since i already brought up THD, and we’re talking about haunting, i’ll choose a passage from that! i’m a huge fan of found footage horror films, and i wanted to make a story where you can only see the monster through a lens, so initially only Yoongi saw it, but now the reader is rewatching the footage he shot, and she sees it too. (and if you see it, legend has it, you’ll die soon…)
it’s so tall. holy shit. Yoongi sees it and he screams. jesus christ he screams so loud. oh my god, i think it…it looks like it turned at the sound of yoongi screaming. it’s just a big black mass, i can’t make out a clear shape, but where i assume there’s a head, it seemed to respond to yoongi’s voice. like it realized he can see it.
i get night terrors and often it’s not a being i can clearly see, but a feeling and a big, smokey massive being that makes me feel like i’m suddenly being suffocated for being near. i thought that being would make a good monster. (someone asked if it’s like the beings in hellbound, but it’s bigger and more…shapeless.) nothing was changed while writing it because, unlike my other writing, this was just reader typing a stream of consciousness for what she saw. (the story is mostly a lot more concise than this passage…but not always.)
🖤✨ thank you for asking, bestie! i hope this hasn’t creeped you out too much hehehe.
