ink + faulkner! for the writing meme!
what do you do to âset the moodâ when writing?
A lot of times Iâll listen to music, either an album or a specific song that I feel invokes the mood of what Iâm trying to convey! There are many pieces that are permanently tied to a specific song that I listened to a lot while I wrote. For the last few weeks itâs been a lot of David Bowie.
what tropes do you LOVE writing? which ones are your guilty pleasure?
- characters in denial of falling in love
- couples who would appear to have one dynamic and have the opposite, or couples who have one type of dynamic in public and a different one in private
- shippy âfirstsâ, first kisses, first time together, first time falling in love, etc.
- uh... extreme hurt/comfort, like where really unspeakable things have happened and all that can be done is for one party to wrap the other in blankets
- proposing a million mad spinoffs and AUs of my character in my own mind, mostly not shippy ones so much as âwhat if Etienne got kidnapped by and got tortured and now theyâre eviiiiiilâ and âwhat if Adi became a primalâ or coffee shop AUs etc.
- on that note, imagining what my charactersâ totally sweet music careers and music videos would be like
- AND WHAT IF THEY HAD BABIES WHAT WOULD THEY BE LIKE.
- love lasting over lifetimes, reincarnation situations where one soul finds the other after dying, or people meet and fall in love after having forgotten one another
- characters accidentally info dumping or revealing feelings due to a spell/drunkenness/being half-asleep/extreme duress, etc.
- I super loved playing Etienne when they couldnât talk and Iâd love to have them undergo something like that again?? ;;
Thanks for the ask, @ceol-aen !