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i haven't but i will look it up!

i posted that because i was attending a class about charters and medieval forgery and the various ways and reasons people forged charters and it got me thinking that this would be a great setup for a book AND an excuse to focus way too much on like. material culture and parchment preparation and historical writing methods, without it being a distraction from the plot, because that would BE the plot

really loving all these Doctrine of Labyrinths people coming out of the woodwork! okay like four of you but still, it makes me happy.

@runecarstairs

18. Do you prefer editing as you write, or waiting until it’s finished?

i tend to do a bit of both! usually i’ll work on a project by sitting and writing incessantly without editing until i run out of creative steam and need to step away, but when i come back i’ll re-read everything i wrote before i pick back up. once i’m done, i’ll usually do one or two read-throughs before i pass it onto alexa to get her feedback and help me edit, and then i post! 

19. What words do you think you tend to use the most?

at the risk of being a weenie, i’m not going to give specific examples because i don’t want to expose myself, lol. however, i Will say that there’s a cluster of adjectives i’m fond of that tend to crop up in my writing, and i’ll leave it to you to guess what they are.

20. What feedback makes you the happiest to hear?

🥺 Thank you so much, this really warmed my heart. Have a good day yourself!

Me: Yeah, since Hamilton, I’ve kind of moved on from the Anglosphere musical- wise. It’s okay, but I really don’t have the energy these days, the fandoms are exhausting, and I’m just not inv-

The Prince of Egypt: 

Hi! thank you <33

Yes, I have! I was actually recommended this biography by a friend of mine, and I must say it didn’t disappoint: Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God by Jonathan Clements

I also have:

Dora Shu-fang Dien - Empress Wu Zetian in Fiction and in History: Female Defiance in Confucian China

X. L. Woo - Empress Wu The Great

and they’re quite good too but I prefer Jonathan Clements’ book because I love his writing style, the story flows easily and he certainly knows how to capture his reader with interesting tidbits. The other two, especially Woo’s, are definitely drier.