Meta Writers Asks! - 1, 7, 11 and 24 ā¤
! ! ! ! DARLING HELLO AND THANK YOU! 1. Tell us about your current project(s) Ā ā whatās it about, howās progress, what do you love most about it?
- Pomegranateās my main project right now in terms of fic writing, but Iāve been working on a tv concept for a little while! Itās about a middle-aged trophy wife whose husband leaves her for a 21 year-old boy after she finds out heās blown all their savings on his findom kink. She welcomes the opportunity to reclaim her lost years and live out her twenties again, but sheās gotten to an age where sheās no longer regarded as sexually valuable by society and finds herself a victim of invisible woman syndrome.Ā Meanwhile, neither she nor her husband are interested in raising their 3 kids while they go through their respective middle-age crises...forcing her husbandās boyfriend to take over the role of homemaker despite having gone to school with the kids in question.Ā She destroys a total of 2 cars in the pilot episode and fights a clown in the second episode.Ā
- Pomegranateās always my baby, though. I love it and the inability to talk about plotting for the sake of steadily revealing the plot is one of my biggest stresses in life.Ā I havenāt written a fanfic in years, so it feels amazing to be able to explore canon character psyche and portrayal, and to sort of just dump this odd oc protagonist who everyone hates into the fray. So much fun.
Ā 7. What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?
- I feel like a tell-tale sign of my writing is shortened phrasing. Unless Iām working on world-building and character thought, my prose tends to be quite concise.Ā These days, that might be up for debate, though, given that word count per chapter is increasing with each instalment.Ā
- I LIKE to think that my humour is present when someoneās reading something of mine. Something in my dryness that gives me a voice skewed enough for a reader to thinkĀ āLogan definitely wrote thisā. Thatās the dream.
- My dashes, and my overuse of italics for stressed speech. Probably the overuse of periods as well. I just fucking love synonyms.Ā
11. What do you envy in other writers?
- I do envy the processes of other writers. Along with the speed of their output. Sometimes I wish I didnāt have so much tunnel vision and that I could have more confidence to write prompts that donāt make me feel like Iām spoiling something about my main works. It looks like so much fun and I love reading these when everyone does them - I just canāt seem to do it myself.Ā
- Short fics and oneshots are a big envy of mine! Even 75k into Pomegranate, Iām still writing scenes and thinkingĀ āthis character development is occurring way too earlyā, whereas another writer will be able to do the exact same thing in under 5k and make it totally believable.Ā
24. Would you say your writing has changed over time?
- My writing ebbs and flows. It honestly depends on the piece itself. I tend to uproot my entire style for the sake of what Iām writing, and I pride myself on some ability to mimic versatility like this. It helps, given that I really enjoy using different writing styles for different character POV. I get lots of practice covering a few bases at a time like this.Ā
