#beautiful-phantom

Thank you hun for being understanding <3 I truly appreciate this. I am so sorry for replying to this message very late. Please forgive me.

A: What do you write?  Fanfiction, original fiction, nonfiction, articles, songs, poems, essays, plays, what?

Mostly fanfic. Working on a novellisation of FFVII that will probably done in a decade or two when I stop faffing about on the whole issue. Had an original work I was writing until I realised I had unconsciously ripped off Majora’s Mask and scrapped the whole thing until I repurposed it later as a disappointing RP campaign. 

Sometimes articles, though they’re all unfinished and sitting on the backburner and mostly about cool bugs and parasites and viruses and bacteria and whatnot. I was gonna make it into a weekly thing, but my attention span is awful and my creativity peaks at 3 am anyway. 

Oh yeah and that Cloud one. I really ought to finish that...

F: What’s your favorite book? Favorite author?

Neil Gaiman for favourite author, probably. He has a remarkable talent for making you really, really uncomfortable. Was there ever an ugly doll your relative got you that you always thought might be looking at you, but you were to afraid to just stuff it in the closet because then it might be mad you had dared to put it away? Did you think that perhaps if you did one day summon the courage to do it you might find out why it was always smiling as wide as it did, and that scared you more than anything you could think of it doing to you? Imagine that but in book form. 

My favourite book by him is Coraline, which, in case you’ve lived under a rock for the past decade, is a book about a girl that finds an old boarded up door in her creepy old house and an Other Mother that is just like her own mother, but better. It was one of the first books I ever read by myself and I spent the rest of the week subtly testing my own mother for “tells”, and glaring angrily at the own weird tiny door we had in our old house that sometimes made odd noises when it got cold. 

L: What advice would you give to other writers?

You won’t remember your idea you had late at night or the cool dream you had the next morning, so don’t bother telling yourself that. Keep a notebook nearby and write it down so you can flesh it out later, as soon as possible. The hardest part is just sitting down and getting a good rhythm going (look how fucking long it took me to answer these), so you may as well make it easy on yourself. 

Q: How do you get through writer’s block?

SHAN’T.

never enough birds

this is a standard rule of life

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