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What is your main inspiration in writing? I mean not the "what's the reason you write?" or "why do you keep writing?" (although I wouldn't mind getting the answers to them as well!) but more "do you have media in mind that you want your writing to be similar to?"

For example, do you try to replicate writing "tricks" of your favourite authors or do you like a specific way characters are introduced in a movie?

Hello! Seeing your icon pop up in my notifs always makes my day. This is tricky, nothing immediately comes to mind, I think I’d have to say a little of every story I’ve ever consumed pops up some where in my writing. The one I’m posting right now is inspired by Overly Sarcastic Production’s piece on time loops, but it’s sort of an outlier in that it has one single inspiration, everything else is a hodgepodge.

Separating the art from the artist, I’m a huge fan of the way Joss Whedon writes dialogue in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Prose and character wise, I like the book The Rook by Daniel O’Malley (at least I think that’s his name, my dog is asleep on me so I don’t want to get up and check my bookshelf). The economy is in shambles, so I crave happy endings, even when dealing with dark topics. Subject matter wise I can write short stories that are just about the characters and plot, but anything over twenty chapters risks becoming a way for me to examine a deeper subject like rape culture, colonialism, or globalism vs isolationism, so the inspiration for my longest stories are essays and editorials I’ve read. (Except Leandra’s story in Love and Fury, that ended up being about a real experience of mine).

Hello!

Burying the Lede is my Bruno leaves the valley and heads to the city au. He becomes a writer and playwright. It's almost done! I think I've got two ish chapters to go. I had a block on it forever but finally got over that and posted a chapter before Christmas. I tend to write Bruno leaves AUs because I think he could thrive under different circumstances which is not me self projecting on the guy at all. Nope.

I love him being in the walls and his deep love and loyalty to his family in the movie but the what ifs are so much fun to play with.

Fury Heart is another one of those ideas I came up with because I was mad at the forces that be. It started out as a dying researcher figures out a way to summon a Greek Furie of myth and siccs her on the corruption in America. The first draft of the start of the book was very dark and bitter.

I've done some reworking and now, like my other myth inspired story Foggy asked about, it's a buddy cop thing with found family. The researcher isn't dying but gets dragged along on the Furie's journey to get rid of corruption. They end up adopting an angry teenager at some point.

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Promotes Relaxation Tea contains an amino acid called L-theanine, which can help promote relaxation and reduce anxiety. Additionally, tea can help improve sleep quality, which can help promote relaxation and reduce stress.

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