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hiddengrotto replied to your post: This is an (depressed) update

I’m so sorry love. I posted your fic, if it might cheer you up, but I also don’t know how good it is quality-wise. I wish I could give you a hug. you’re braver than I am in that you tried; I never made it out of the house for job fairs. luv. <3

I read it my dear! I didn't get a change to bookmark it because I read it on my phone, but it was SO GOOD. I love Sentinel/Guide fics, and I thought it was interesting that you switched around who was Sentinel and who was Guide! So yes, know that it did cheer me up and I flailed hardcore and tomorrow I will go over it again and leave a comprehensive review because today I just can't. BUT I LOVED IT. 

allthatisnt replied to your post: This is an (depressed) update

Sleep well. If there’s anything I can do, let me know. May just be a follower, but I’ll try.

Thank you, dahling. Right now, I have a pizza bagel and some wine, and soon I'll be moving onto warmth and horrible television. But thank you!!

feelwhaaale replied to your post: This is an (depressed) update

Oh, Andy, I’m sorry to hear that. I’m going through a rough patch myself these days, so I can sympathize. If you ever need an ear to blab to, you can talk to me - I know we don’t know each other that well, but I’m always willing to listen! /hugs

(Cullen/Surana! *hugs them*)

L: What advice would you give to other writers?

Broaden your horizons and figure out what what kind of writing you want to write. Be ready to let go of preconceptions based on your current favorite authors.

I'll be honest. Writing fiction broke me as a reader. I am not the same person I was when I only wrote on and off. 

Six years ago when I started taking the craft of writing seriously (well, as a very serious hobby), I thought I knew the kinds of stories I wanted to write, I thought I knew which authors I liked, and I thought I knew the genre of fiction I wanted to write in. I was wrong on all counts. After a year of writing (I produced 200k words of story--lots of draft, some shit, some good stuff, lots of fanfic), I stumbled on the realization that I liked writing kinds of fiction that I wasn't reading. It's hard to describe but I was having a huge mismatch between what I wanted to pull out of thin air and put on the page versus the books on my bookshelf. 

I eventually ended up spending my friday afternoons roaming for hours in a large bookstore, pulling random books off shelves in different sections of the store and just plain discovering what was interesting. During the year that followed, my bedside bookshelf was filled with entirely different authors writing in different styles and genres from what I had mostly read before. Doing this started help me find my own voice. It didn't happen overnight and a lot of times I still have NO CLUE what my writer's voice is (***FLAIL***) but I feel like I have a much broader idea of what fiction can be than I did beforehand.

O: What motivates you to write?

Psychology and the human condition?! 

Once upon a time, I thought I wanted to write SF and tell fantastic stories about interesting places that shed light on social conditions.

Now all I want to do is tell stories about the core essence of being. I'm interested in the invisible struggles that people have within themselves--struggles that they might not be able to name because if they could name that struggle, they would start to have power over it. This motivates me because... I dunno... It just interests me to look at people (characters) and all of their strengths and flaws as beautiful pieces of art.

Writing about characters in this way can suck because sometimes it takes me a week to conjure up the correct 200 words. orz

(I miss the days when 5000 words would fall out of the sky and into my laptop in one afternoon).

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