8, 19, 48 for the Creators Ask game? :)
Thanks for asking! These are such good questions so I definitely made a bunch of mistakes while answering it))
8: List the 5 things you love the most about your creations
*disclaimer: it’s just my opinion about my own works, and it isn’t necessarily true, but...”
Ambiguity. I write about many different things, and I always try to make my texts complicate in a way; it’s a complicate world and it’s not just about black and white (ironically I like b&w in visual art, yup). I’m trying to write about people, and people are complicated too, they have their own motives, hurts, loves, etc. - and if we look on them closer we’ll realize there is no clear answer. World, just like people, is a spectrum of everything.
Psychology. I have a strange addiction to characters of any kind. For me, any character is like a real person, live and breathe - on pages or screens, doesn’t matter. And every person has its own nature, personality traits, experience, hopes, fears - well, everything. It’s not just a muppet I can put into a random situation just for fun (even if I want fun, there should be a reason why the character does what (s)he does - a set of coincidence, occasions, events, that sort of things). That’s why I’m trying to make my text psychological.
Disturbing themes. Like I said, the world is complicated, and it contains many things. I don’t write only about disturbing themes, but I often refer to them, because I think it needs to be discussed. I can’t just close my eyes and pretend it never existed. Every single person faced ugly things at least one time (at best), so the least I can do - to write about it.
Realism. Relates to the previous thing. In the real world (how many times I write the word “world” here? xD) there are no magicians, miracles, fairy godmothers, artifacts, and magic wands; no deux ex machina. There are some laws, spinning the wheel of everything, and we can’t ignore them. And I like it. It feels real, I can almost touch this feeling by my fingers. Even if I write, er, about non-real things (werewolves, witches, magic, so on) I rely on these laws. They are different from case to case, but they still exist. And for me, it’s challenging and therefore more interesting.
Connection of people. It is my kink, I admit it. I adore situations, where one person meets another, and some kind of connection magic arises; one deeply understand another in a subconscious level, truly sees her/him, and accept her/him in her/his imperfect. Strong attraction (not just sexual - personal, I think) in every possible way, I can say.
19: Do you like mixing up your style and trying new stuff, or do you prefer to have a more consistent style?
I like to try new things, yes. It is challenging, and I like a good challenge)) In my native language, I have a kinda experimental compilation of works, short ones, where I write whatever I want to. I write stories with a limited number of words, I experiment with grammar, tenses, POVs, visual solution of text (like, I use brackets though it’s considered as a “bad” way to write) and so one; several times I even wrote poetry, even if I know I am bad in it xD Some of this things work quite good and I bring them into a “serious” texts))
48: What inspired you to start creating at first?
Hard question, it stunned me xD I’ve started to write in a middle school, and my very first story was about a vampire girl)) I know it because I found it on my hard drive recently xD
I think I was charmed by the possibility to create something that doesn’t exist yet; to tell the story that no one can tell but me. After that, when I found myself on a border with “real writing”, I realize that I want to write about things that, err, worried me, bothering me, I suppose. Dark things, debatable things, hard things; I think, this is my way of looking for answers - and finding people who wonder about the same things.
