#eluari

“When you killed him, you destroyed what could have saved us all. You have started a fire. Now it can’t be stopped. I’ll never fight on your side. I’ll choose chaos instead.”

Born to the Sea | Wip Tag

Happy Birthday @eluari​!

Overdue commission did for @eluari featuring one of her main character fighting for his life in an arena against beast wolves! Streamed the whole process on the weekend from scratch on my twitch channel!

5. How do you get over a bad writing day?

I usually just, unless I have a deadline which I dont give myself one often bc it gets the anxiety flowin- but most of the times I usually just put it to the side that day, watch some stuff that could potentially spark more inspiration for later, if im not feeling particularly keen on that one project I’ll move onto another one I have planned, if its just not a good day to write at ALL then it’s gonna be saved until I feel like doing so again, sometimes it can take a day, two, or more- or hell even a week or year sometimes-

15. What’s the best writing advice you have come across? What’s the worst?

Honestly, I don’t actively seek out writing advice, not bc I think my writing is perfect god no, its by no means perfect in the slightest, but I just, don’t really see the need for any advice right now, I’m happy n content with my current writing skill, happy with how I write, now if I ever do become a professional author I will happily seek out advice but honestly, I just do this because I enjoy it, I enjoy writing content for whatever fandom or even my own characters, just whatever I’m interested in honestly, the worst kinda “advice” I think could be given is to gatekeep writing, gatekeeping someone’s writing like c’mon, don’t do that

you don’t want anyone gatekeeping you for any reason so why should you do that to them? That’s the worst thing I’ve seen done, just let people have their fun, if they do want advice, then of course I’d say give them advice but don’t- just don’t be an asshole about it, there’s always been a fine line between constructive criticism and overall just being an absolute dick

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5. How do you get over a bad writing day? Personally, I struggle to see any writing day as a bad one. Mainly because I struggle to write regularly, so any day when writing occurs is only good. 

For the majority of the last 18 months, a no-writing day bred another no-writing day because I allowed my “failure” to write to breed another similarly lacking day. That excessive dry spell changed my perspective on what a bad writing day is. So, do I manage to write every day, no. Though I do always put it on my to do list. And most days, when I offer attention to my schedule then I do write because I have time to write scheduled into my days. 

And I now give myself a lot more grace than I used to. I’m still immensely hard on myself about my writing, but not about having written or not written. I give myself leave to not write, especially now.

15. What’s the best writing advice you have come across? What’s the worst? I think the best advice is encapsulated in 2 phrases. 

Write what you will enjoy, because there is a better chance that someone else will agree with you. 

Get the words on the page. You can fix anything in revision.

These two statements remind me that writing is hopeful, an art that can be perfected with work and that it comes from a place that is unique to each of us. I’ve tried to write things that people would love; in my experience, it rarely works. But I have found that when I write what I like, what I would want to read, there are others who will find enjoyment in it as well. 

As for the revision one. The hardest thing for me in so many cases is getting words on the page. I was an editor by trade for so long, that I realize you can truly fix ANYTHING in revision. But you cannot craft what does not exist, you cannot refine a blank page. You have to get something down. It can be deepened and embellished once it is on the page.

The worst:

Write what you know. 

Of course, thanks so much for asking! Here we go:

2. Which character flaw would you never give to any of your OCs?

I tend to stay away from all kinds of bigotry. I feel like there’s already plenty of that in the real world—I do depict it sometimes, but never in major characters, not even villains. I prefer to give my villains some depth in their motivations, perhaps make them just a little bit sympathetic, and “hates group X just for hating group X” just doesn’t cut it for me.

5. How do you get over a bad writing day?

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Ooohhhh, this is super interesting! I’ve only recently stumbled upon @eluari‘s wip and I!! Also love it!! And it’s probably partly because of the similarities with the theme, yeah! I don’t know too much about Born To The Sea just yet, but I do know Elu’s characters are absolutely marvelous in how wonderfully they’ve been developed, and the story premise itself is greatly interesting!

😤— Which character is the feistiest? Definitely Lenneth. Or Audie? Apparently feisty is a trait I just assume goes with rogue territory.

🐣—Which character is the youngest? Well, of the Itzli clan, their baby brother Yaretzi, who is 9. Orif we expand it to the next generation, it’d be Vi’s youngest nephew, mostrecently born to Corbus and Evine. Of the main characters, it’d be the twins, Xipiland Lottie, at 20. And I think I’ve identified Lottie as the latter-born ofthem, so her.

💪— Who’s the strongest character physically? Hm. Based on game stats, though I’m not braving PoE’s longloading screens to check their actual stats, Vi’s might should be pretty high asa caster but Audie’s probably in better shape overall and also if it came downto an arm wrestling contest Vi would probably let Audie win either way.