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[talesofsorrowandofruin]

Tell me about Like Snow on Hungry Graves for the WIP title game 👀

~ @tabswrites

Thanks! :D Like Snow on Hungry Graves is a high/dark fantasy featuring mermaids, dragons, liches, and humans who are worse than the monsters. Half of it is about a very unlucky merman. The other half is about a detective who's forced to work together with the mob boss he was trying to take down.

[talesofsorrowandofruin]

Trick or treat? 🎃👻

~ @tabswrites

🍬 Treat! Here's an excerpt from Death Waits for Some Men:

The Fitzpatrick house was a small two-storey building on a street full of small two-storey buildings. You couldn't sneeze without your neighbours hearing. When Ruth looked out her bedroom window she could see directly into the Pattersons' garden. When Nancy hung washing on the line she couldn't help looking over the Aikens' fence. When they opened their front door they were in full view of the Wilsons' living room window. When they sat in their garden the only thing they could see was the back of the Weirs' house. It was a busybody's paradise, and a murderer's worst nightmare. Ruth and Nancy put their heads together. There was only one thing to do. Either they killed Louise somewhere outside the house — say, a car accident or a fall at an art gallery — or they convinced their father to buy a new house. A nice, quiet house somewhere far out in the country, without any inconvenient neighbours. He would be more likely to accept their idea if they had already chosen a house and had all the arguments ready in its favour. So the two of them set out to the estate agents'. Nancy read out her list of ideal traits at each agency. "Not too big, but also not too small. Peaceful and far away from busy roads. A river nearby is preferable." "Why a river?" Ruth asked when they went back to the car. "Easier to make it look like an accidental drowning," Nancy said cheerfully.

Adding DWFSM's taglist: @lightgriffinsect, @ink-and-spite (Let me know if you want to be added to/removed from the taglist!)

[writinglittlebeasts]

#hmmm okay I’m intrigued and scared

@tabswrites thats it that's the vibe!!!!!!

[writinglittlebeasts]

WIP folder ask— horror?? question mark

~ @tabswrites

thank u 4 asking! ive already given the rundown on horror?? question mark here [link]

[writinglittlebeasts]

#20 and 24!

~tabswrites

oh! i guess i should reblog the meme now huh. lmao

from the writeblr ask game

20. FIRE - What is the worst thing you've ever created?

sending me ONLY the hard ones. after determining by your own power that i was accepting ask meme questions.

ok so, in fiasco, the negative matter that the characters pull through dimensions to make objects and animals as if from nothing is, like. if they focus really hard they can control all of the components, but if the summoned object is left in their world long enough it gains its own sentience. so i guess i'd say the worst thing i've ever created is, like, the living sandwich

24. GREED - If you could steal a character from any other story, who would you take?

this is an extremely difficult question because i want to say quentin magicians but i feel like that's too obvious, i feel like everyone can tell, like, they look at me and think 'that guy wants quentin coldwater from the magicians to be his oc sooooo bad'. so i'm gonna go w/ someone else. i want KIBA FROM WOLF'S RAIN HE'S THE BLUEPRINT FOR ALL OF MY OCS ANYWAY

[nobodywrites-blog]

Happy STS!

Tell me about the hardest challenge you’ve faced while writing. How did you overcome it?

~tabswrites

Hi @tabswrites

My biggest challenge with writing comes with the fact that I am a full plotter or pantser. I do not do full detailed outlines for my work, however, I cannot continue to the next unless I have an idea who will be in it, where it will take place and what is the general purpose of the chapter. If I do not have that then I go through a writer's block and either stop writing or work on another novel.

Thank you for the ask!

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Happy STS!

If someone were to open a pop up restaurant based on your WIP, what would it look like? Would the servers wear special uniforms/costumes? What would the table settings look like? And most importantly, what’s on the menu?

~tabswrites

Oooh I love this! For The Most Beautiful Puzzle it would definitely be one of those dinner and a show murder mystery things. Everyone waiting on you would be a suspect and each would be wearing an outfit that represented the character they were (to an extent, obviously safety and cleanliness would be the priorities). As for the tables, they would be themed after where the show takes place (library, train, etc).

As for food!! I don't know if it would be themed, but it would definitely be vegetarian with vegan options just because so many of the characters are in canon, and a portion of the money would go to a charity of some kind.

This was a great question, thank you so much!

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18 for the ask game?

~tabswrites

18: Do you prefer to give your ocs specific labels, or keep it unspecified? Why? If applicable, do you change their labels depending on circumstance?

It depends on the character! To some characters it's very important because it is important to the character's story or life. But there are others who simply do not care: Smarty and Funshine in In the Basement, In the Sky are never labeled; and I think the only labels any of the characters in One More Time (With Feeling) is that March is trans masc and asexual, because it matters to his storyline. There are a few other canonically trans characters, but their sexual orientations are never mentioned. None of the characters in And All the Devils Are Here are labeled, although there are f/f and m/m relationships; but you could headcanon them as bisexual or pansexual or whatever!

To some characters it really matters: like Danny being bisexual and Meara being gay in The Black & Blues, because the whole catalyst is them trying to get out of their homophobic hometown. It's very important to me that it's clear that Sara, Austin, and Kris are in an aroace queerplatonic triad, because you see so little of that.

When characters are definitively trans they are identified as trans, and when they are some shade of queer that is identified, too, but I like leaving some things up to interpretation! Like I see Gavin from That Boy, That Girl as aroace but anyone could headcanon him as anything, because he has no romantic relationships simply because he is too busy, so who knows!

Does someone identify with a character with no specification? Do you want to headcanon them as gay or bi or pan or ace or whatever, based on information available in the story? Go for it! Do you think they could be trans? Maybe they could! The only thing I really care about is that nobody tries to untrans or unqueer anyone who is canonically one of those things.

Sorry for the ramble, and thank you so much for the ask!