#mabledonut

🐣 Tell me about your earliest creative works or earliest memories of being creative.

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🤸 Are there things you allow yourself to do even though you know they're technically procrastination or unproductive, because you just don't always feel like being creative?

Hiii Mabledonut! Thank you for the ask <3

🐣 Tell me about your earliest creative works or earliest memories of being creative:

Okay, funnily enough the last few weeks I've been collecting all my sketches and sketchbooks I have because there are so many and I need to get them organised! When I was 8 years old or so I was so into drawing mythical creatures (mainly griffins, dragons, fairies, mermaids) my whole bedroomdoor was full of stuff like that, and I rmemeber being so happy to just create back then. When I was around 11 I started getting interested in manga-style and since then my sketchbooks are filled with the typical anime/manga style girls xD. I was so inspired by the colors and cell-shading, yet what I find in my sketchbooks are sketches and scribbles.

What I notice looking to these drawings from 8-12 Y.O is that I wasn't 'afraid' to use color, or make huge drawings or paintings (I made my biggest painting when I was 9 or something, it was larger than I was then). I was much more free spirited in creating something. That is something I imagine my younger self would say to me now: 'just create, it doesn't have to be perfect but you'll learn through trial and error'.

🤸:Are there things you allow yourself to do even though you know they're technically procrastination or unproductive, because you just don't always feel like being creative?

Okay, I have a few of these. I love baking and experimenting with baking. When I feel uncreative in the art-field, I find myself going towards baking as a different way to be creative. Instead of drawing, I get to experiment with taste or texture (And I get to eat all the sweet stuff I make). When I first started baking, I felt 'guilty' for not being busy with art and what I always thought I wanted to do, namely creating some comic book that has always been a dream to achieve, or drawing or painting. Now I just say I have a lot of hobbies that are 'in rotation' because that's what it is xD. Some weeks I go 3-4 times to the gym or I want to run 10km, other times I love baking more, suddenly I've found a new interest in playing the piano, then randomly I'll want to pick back up painting. You know, Sometimes I wish I was more consistent, but that's how it is for me and I should embrace that and be content that I have the ability to have so many fun things to do and to explore.

Watch Youtube shorts (what a h*llhole sometimes, I can waste hours on that platform) BUT when it's art related, I feel inspired by them and I pick up on new tips and tricks that I can use later when I do start creating something new.

I haven't read any fanfic in 4 months due to some irl problems so I decided to binge read "I'm at home" first thing after a woke up (before breakfast too lol) and damn... the emotions hit even harder now that I know how it actually feels to lose someone, Such a raw fic I can keep reading it forever and ever fr🥹🥹🥹

I can't able to express how grateful I am that you wrote such a beautiful fic out of my little prompt, It's just beyond magnificent 😭😭😭💗

ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou~~~

Also Sorry that I couldn't able to send any prompts nowadays, you see ...life's been hard, but your posts and reblogs give me life fr🧡

Hope I can be free and in mood soon so I can read your new bigger fics fr🥲

Thank you!! Even after all these years, it still blows me away that ppl like my stuff lmao. From Fanfic Writer Asks

Do you outline your fic first or create as you go?

Do I outline? LOL no. It is my second biggest flaw as a writer, after being a shit worldbulider. Hotspur was actually my practice at longer fic/planning and even then my outline was a list of bullet points of things I’ve set up (themes, motifs, plot points etc.) which at some point I needed to pay off. They were roughly organised into chapters and then every chapter I just crossed off anything I’d paid off. And if I didn’t pay it off, the list just moved into the next chapter.

Horrifying, I know. You are allowed to be horrified lmaoo. This is why I’m not very good at judging how long fics will be because they’re simply either as long as it takes to pay off everything, or I get bored. One of the two.

Why did you start writing fanfic?

Why? Wow, that’s a question. I don’t know! I started writing fic waaay back when I was a kid, maybe 8ish. Younger? I honestly don’t remember a time when I didn’t write. How cliche is that? It was a hobby I could do on my own which was cheap and didn’t require any special materials lol. This was back before I even knew what fic was. I just had a TV show or something I liked and I wanted to write more in that ‘verse. Kid me started with self-inserts (naturally) but once I discovered that fanfiction was a “thing” I switched to writing canon characters only, and then basically never stopped! That was going on 20 years ago, wow.

Do you want to write something outside of fanfiction? If so, what about?

DO I. Honey, that’s the dream. I keep trying but I’m just not comfortable worldbuilding. I’m very good at starting ideas as my friends and old classmates will know, but I have never written an “original” story to completion. I’ve spent the last couple of years attempting to write sci-fi pieces but after 10k, 15k (50k, once) or a couple of chapters, I hate everything about it and I scrap it. I’m really my biggest critic.

I don’t know how worldbuilders settle on “an” idea. I just. Have so many ideas! I do, at least, tend to re-use concepts from my scrapped works and try to re-work them into something else. I’m currently attempting to write a story about a father who is unable to move on from the death of his daughter (looking at you, Hotspur) and feels stuck between the past and future. I mean, it’s a sci-fi and there’s, you know, spaceships and aliens and love and stuff, but at its heart, it’s a story about a man who’s afraid to be happy. I was literally writing some of it today. It’s a hot mess. I kind of hate it! But I need to persevere lol.

Ben and Klaus make a bet to see who can make Five laugh first, but 45 years have made that a rare occasion. A study in 456 and how these brothers have changed and stayed the same. 

“Let’s try them all," said Ben, folding his arms over his unbreathing chest. "Twenty bucks says one of my ideas gets him to laugh before one of your ideas does.”

  “You’re on,” said Klaus immediately. 

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🎸 Is there a certain piece of music or musician whose work always puts you into a creative mood?

and also free choice, if there's a third question you want to answer! <3

this is such a late response, so sorry! also hi mable :D

🐣 my earliest memories of being creative is after I finished reading the 4th book the Percy Jackson series (where he gets yeeted to Calypso's island). I didn't write any of my ideas down but I was formulating fanfic in my head, trust.

🎸 I listen to soooo much music, I'm not really sure about this one! Lately, DPR Ian's been putting me in a creative mood (and this guy himself is insanely creative, so you guys should check his work out :D) Also, probably some stuff by Angéle and Stromae, although Stromae is probably one of my favorite artists of all time so maybe that's why.

so thank you so much for putting in so much time and energy into creating such a beautiful fic, and for sharing it with the internet. I feel really lucky to have gotten to read it and I put it in my bookmarks for future rereading too. thank you again! 🧡

Thank you so much!!!!!

This is such a nice message to see first thing in the morning. I'm glad you've enjoyed it, Six Days was a lot of things for me because it's my first real long fic that I was still fully passionate about from start to finish. I usually don't plan it right or lose interest and have to force myself to finish it but not this time. I'm happy that it shows since I put my all into this and am so proud with how it came out. It's taught me a lot about how I write too.

For a few months now, I've been looking for a user on Tumblr named "mabledonut" or "professor-of-naruto" but I can't find it and it worries me, honestly.