25. 6. 2 & 17 - for the writer questions
Oh my 😃 You really wanna know? 😃 You sure? Okay...ehm here we go I guess 😊
25. besides writing, what are your other hobbies?
Good one, because yesterday I was sitting there and could not choose what to do 😄 Because of sexy screenshots of my Tav Saulus&Astarion by the amazing @aristenformwarsaw I found the strength and motivation for some hobbies after a bad week again.
Wanted to write on my Resident Evil Fanfiction, barding poetry&songs, painting in the Witcher Coloring book, play Witcher&BG3, doing cardio boxing and weaving borders for my nordic medieval clothes all at the same time. And I was like: “Yeah, I got too many hobbies 😅”
6. the word that appears the most in your current draft
HA! 😃 I am curious too…let’s see it is…
“AND”
Well no surprise those words are the most used ones. But you don’t even notice it, not like with others words, if you use it two times as an author you are like “Oh god it is to often?! Is it annoying? Does it sound bad? Am I annoying and stupid?” 😨
2. a character whose POV you’re currently exploring
Well I am writing a Resident Evil fanfiction and Wesker’s POV is really interesting to write (and sometimes hard because he is smart and a Doctor and I am not 😅) even if I already did that as a teenager, so I do not write him for the first time. But back than it was Post RE4 Wesker and now it is young Umbrella scientist Wesker. It’s very different.
I am also writing the POV of two own characters in this story, which is very new and interesting for me, because the brother was only mentioned in the old works and because it is a Pre Story, she is a completely different person here. So in fact I am surprising myself and learn things, come up with things I never ever have thought about before. And therefore, the character changes, because really writing your ideas and experience the background story with the character is something else and you start to understand the character better or different than before.
If this is of interest to anyone 😅🙈
17. talk about your writing and editing process
I don't know if I would call it a process 😅
Writing fanfiction as a teenager was much easier. The time and energy were different, that's for sure.
But now I notice how ideas, scenes, dialogues run through my head like a film with a perfect narrative and even if I immediately open the laptop to write it down, the exact wording is already erased from my head while I'm writing.
This is getting stronger and frustrating. Very frustrating. I never had that before.
It takes a lot more time to create something meaningful, which is why hundreds of stories only live in my head until they are only vague in my memory. Until they are erased from my brain.
Also, I used to have whole stories in my head that I just had to write down. Now there are more and more small scenes and that's why I sit there for hours without writing anything meaningful because I don't know how to put them together and in chronological order. It's so annoying.
Since I have only experienced a lack of positive comments on fanfiction so far, I don't really like publishing anything. In addition, you have to publish it in English to achieve the appropriate reach for it to make any sense at all. But of course I write in my native language, otherwise I would never be able to express it well. But I prefer to invest the time it takes to translate into continuing to write.
I'm also someone who spends an hour reading through what I've written so far instead of continuing. And then you correct yourself a lot because you don't like the wording the next day and you don't make any progress again 😅😅🙈🙈
Before posting, I read it a hundred times to check for spelling mistakes, only to read it again on the website and find spelling mistakes again.
I'm also too lazy to post it on multiple platforms and that's also a problem. There are too many different formats everywhere and that's too stressful and complicated for me.
I haven't found a nice format for tumblr yet, like some writers have, with smaller font, getting header photos small enough as a banner etc.
Nobody has told me how to do it yet. It kills my motivation to post something.
So it's less of a process than a raccoon's struggle to avoid drowning, that's probably what it looks like 😅😅
Oh my god sorry, I digressed hard 🙈🙈🙈 Don’t mind me, IGNORE ME! 😅
Anyway, thanks for asking luv 😘 Could use some babbling.
