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3 ⧽. what's something you like about your writing?

Omg, you couldn't have asked me a harder question XD I... I'm not sure. I don't like much things about my writing, mostly because I'm terribly self-critical and hypercritcal (what a fresh and new character trait in a writer 😏) but I'm gonna try to answer it from a different angle. My taste in literature is very electic, ranging from Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller, Austen, Wilde and Wordsworth to Madeline Miller, Tolkien, Robert Harris, Michael Crichton, Paolo Coelho, Ildefonso Falcones, Indu Sundaresan and so on. However, while I enjoy a braod range of books, poetry and drama, those works I LOVE MOST are always the most poetically and vividly written.

So, I enjoy writing poetic language and creating colorful imagery, especially if it's a little unusual. I adore stylistic devices and use a range of them, synesthesia, alliterations, neologisms, metaphors, and onomatopoesis among my absolutely favorites! I spend hours and days and weeks upon a single sentence or even word, the rhyme, the metre, the rythm of it and there are few things in the world that bring me blissful happiness as this! ✨

Sometimes even I'm able to find a sentence or metaphor/imagery (not to delve in too deep into literary analysis here, that's what I studied at university) in my writing that's especially poetic and THEN I'm actually able to like that single word/sentence/imagery 🥺

I also adore the concept of "show don't tell" very much in literature. I like to work and think for understanding a text thouroughly, rather catching a merest hint of a fact than a blunt statement of it. In addition, I relish many-faceted, somewhat obscure and complex characters. So this... showing instead of telling and presenting rather multifarious, hard-to-grasp-at-first characters (which are often simplified in fandom)... well, this, I might do not too badly. 🙈 Or not? 😅 I'm not sure at all! I'm probably failing harder than I dare to think! 😆😭

I'M SORRY THIS ANSWER IS SO LONG!!!

7 ⧽. is there a fic you wish you received feedback on, but didn't get any/much? this ask game is asking someone else to then give feedback on said fic, pretty pretty please!!!

Haha, that's easier! Home truths be told, I'm a greedy little gremlin TOO 🤣 and I every comment on any of my writing feels like a good shot of heroin so naturally I'm hopelessly addicted, especially because I use comments to (try to) battle my own insecurities and perfectionism (and sometimes hate of my writing). 😳

People who take their time not only to read (!) my stuff but even leave their thoughts about it are the most wonderful human beings and more enchanting than fairies, centaurs, mermaid, elves and Luthien Tinuviel together! 💗💗💗

So I'm not gonna lie, I'd be thrilled to receive a comment on any of my fics 🖤 but I think "Come", "Will You" (Silmarillion, Sauron/Morgoth), and "Pyre" (Dragon Age, Fenris/Garrett Hawke) lie so close to my heart that I'd be especially happy if those received a little more readers 🤗

(But then remember, the Angbang fandom isn't very big and the Dragon Age 2 fandom is very old so... yeah, I mustn't compare my work unfavorably to older works or more popular authors. I MUSTN'T! But I do it all the time. 😂😁)

18 ⧽. how do you want your writing to feel to your readers?

Ooooh, you come with the hardest questions at me like Melkor with Grond!

I... wish my readers could feel the intensity of emotions and vividness of imagery I felt when I wrote a piece.

I... don't dare to hope people might recognize how much time, dedication and work I put in my writing... but I do hope they can feel that there is a piece of my soul glinting in their hands when their eyes touch my writing.

I... always hope they can feel that there is always a core motif, a leitmotif in every piece of my writing, usually a strong emotion and I wish they could identify it or perhaps guess it's there.

...and I wish that, just maybe, just perhaps, my writing might make someone feel as happy and in awe of language and literature and poetry and the art of human storytelling as I have been my whole life ever since my dad read a children's book to me and I swore to myself that collecting words and languages and books and literature would be the lifelong purpse of my life when I was a very little kid.