Questions

My turn!

17, 18, and 31 from stonepicnicking_okapi
17: What’s more draining: writing smut, fluff or angst?
I have a hard time keeping fluff fluffy; the angst just wants to creep in. I end up rewriting a piece multiple times to keep the fluff fluff-ified. Keeping myself in a light and spry mood takes a lot of energy.

18: Are you a ‘neatly designed outline’ writer or a ‘fuck it i’ll figure it out as i go’ writer?
I want to be the neatly designed outline writer with the detailed outline, and I need to improve my organization. However, I didn’t have a detailed outline for my thesis or dissertation, so there isn’t much hope for me.
I have a vague plot in my head of where I want to go and then I bounce around the fic and drill down to specific moments and dialogue. One day I’m writing the beginning and the other I’ll write something near the end. This is how I have two ~15k fics that I can’t show anyone because I only have unconnected snippets.
I need another way to organize and keep track of my thoughts because keeping it in short term memory means I forget things. Another writer on tumblr makes a list of cool things that could be added to a fic, prints them out and organizes the pieces to form the most compelling story. I want to try this when I have time to complete a thought.

31: mythological creature AU or superhero AU?
I’m choosing whatever side has dragons.


Another set from luthienberen
7: Do you listen to music while you write/read?
I need silence. Any music with lyrics distracts me and I end up either mentally shouting over it or paying more attention to the lyrics than my thoughts. It’s mentally exhausting to fight through it in my head. TV or kid noises are equally distracting. So, working in a coffee shop or when my family is awake and around doesn’t work and I end up doing nothing and getting frustrated.
If my thoughts are spinning and I can’t settle, I’ll listen to something classical until my thoughts calm and the music becomes too much noise.

10: What’s your favorite trope?
I like a lot of them, and don’t think I have a favorite.
- H/C heavy on the C is great
- A slow burn fic with lots of mutually unrequited pinning that had better become required unless there is a very good reason to rip my heart apart
- Eventually getting together and them learning to work out their relationship is even better
- A/B/O with intense and interesting world building that analyses some inequality means I’m going to be reading instead of sleeping.
- Domestic stuff and kid fics
- Random AU I know nothing about
- Random AU I know way too much about
- Fluff when I don’t have to write it

And so ends my vague answer.

24: fantasy or sci-fi?
Yes. I like them both and have equally enjoyed and disliked books from both categories.

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I’ve made a few pottery posts this year, I’ve decided I’m fine with it. My creative pottery muse is having fun. I’ve worked on a few new mugs and sugar bowls.
(Ignore the small images. I'm not fighting with DW to figure out how to make them larger today. They are thumbnails so you can get a close up view if you want.)

I continued with the bee theme and I wanted to etch a bee on a hexagon sugar bowl. I don’t sketch well enough or confidently enough to free hand it, but I’ve got mad tracing skills. ;)


Next up were sets of mugs for friends. I’m thrilled with out these have turned out thus far. They went through further refining and smoothing out after the pic was taken, but I forgot to update my pics. I had different challenges this time, so it was fun to figure out how to make things work. The large writing mug was more technically challenging than I expected, but that was still fun. I had to erase a few times because it didn’t look right. The large mug with small writing was also difficult because I made this design before and replicating something can be tricky. I didn’t have the gitters that day, so I’m happy with how the writing turned out. The earthenware clay mug was the first time I’ve tried little sketches, worked this technique on earthenware clay, and wrote on a curved surface.



Everything is in the process of drying or through the first firing. I’m totally looking forward to the final products.