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sweetavidyajones replied to your post: How Katara fall in love with Aang please tell me?

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sweetavidyajones replied to your post “2018! ☆･:*:･♪ヽ(´▽｀)ノ♪･:*:･☆ I’m not going to be around for a while,...”

Your Garou is one of my favorites! Thank you for sharing your art with us! :D

!!?!!! Thank… you…  ;; w ;;

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Thanks for asking!

14 : Do you have a favorite writing-related quote?Someone else also asked this one, so I’m going to answer it a little later and will tag you.  I actually have many writing related quotes I’m very fond of, and I’m narrowing down to the one I currently like best. 

21 : Do you finish most of the stories you start?I do! I’ve written a lot of short stories, and only two that are worth completing are not done.  In both cases, data loss derailed me.  My computer was stolen when I was working on the older one (back in 1995), and I haven’t had the heart to recreate it.  The other is more recent and I lost half of my progress when my computer crashed.  I’m hoping to finish that one this weekend, actually.  I have finished seven novels and have two unfinished that are worth completing eventually.

This said, I’m not counting the abandoned and incomplete learning stories from when I was still figuring out how to write. I’m also not counting the flashes of inspiration that I capture and dump in a folder for later use.

24 : When did you start considering yourself a writer?Oh.  This one’s both easy and hard.  I have probably considered myself a writer since I was ten, banging away on my dad’s cheap college typewriter.  I was comfortable as a writer before I was comfortable as me, which is why I initially started writing under a pen name.  “Writer” is the first item in my internal definition of who I am, coming before disability, gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity, or anything else.

But I recognized that no one else really defined me that way until I started getting published and participating in public readings and panels at conventions.  And I’m not a “Big Name” writer, so there were still people who thought of me as this tall woman who happens to write, or the residency administrator who writes on the side.

About a year ago I changed careers and started working as a freelance editor and technical writer.  When I overheard the person who hired me referring to me as a professional writer, I realized that while it’s not the venue that I ultimately want to be most known for, how other people define me is now a lot closer to how I see myself, and it’s suddenly a lot more comfortable.

25 : What books are must-reads in your genre? I write speculative fiction, which includes fantasy, horror, and science fiction.  I tend to do a lot of YA.  We all  have different opinions on the essentials, but here are some of the things that really speak to me and have shaped my writing.The Dark Half - Stephen King - horrorThe Dragonriders of Pern trilogy - Anne McCaffrey - science fantasyThe Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - fantasySilver Moon - Catherine Lundoff - contemporary fantasyTithe - Holly Black - YA (14+) Urban fantasyElla Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine - YA contemporary fantasySabriel - Garth Nix - Fantasy marketed as both YA and adultAlanna - Tamora Pierce - YA fantasyZahrah the Windseeker - Nnedi Okorafor - YA afrofuturism/fantasyFlora Segunda - Ysbeau Wilce - YA fantasyDeryni Rising - Katherine Kurtz - high fantasyThe Talisman - Stephen King & Peter Straub - fantasy/horrorThe Engine of God - Jack McDevitt - science fictionSunshine - Robin McKinley - horrorThe Green Glass Sea - Ellen Klages - YA historical fiction that feels like science fiction

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I thought they were just exaggerated. I was wrong.

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I had a dream you dumped a bunch of Yakuza au art all at once and I was so so happy pls it's so good

Gods I wish I could live in your dream and be /that/ productive!!! ;;;

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sweetavidyajones replied to your post: Since it's for your birthday, you should request a...

Do it

you do it.

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sweetavidyajones hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet “Death Stranding question: How do you put vehicles into the online...”

There is a limit to how many vehicles you can store in your personal garage (I think it's three?), so if you try to fabricate another, the oldest vehicle in your personal garage will be cycled out into the online garage for other players to use.

@sweetavidyajones Ah, thank you very much. So when I want others to use my vehicle, I just need to let them stand around instead of putting them in the garage. I always felt bad because I didn’t share my vehicles in the online garage, but now that guilt can vanish from my life. 

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sweetavidyajones replied to your post: oh hey yo s’happenin? passed my exam and i now...

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