AHHH HI HI HI HI!! Thank you, Anila!!!
C: Answered here!
H: How long have you been writing?
uhhh long time. I have a little book of poems I wrote and illustrated in Year 6 (which is 11-12 years old here in Australia), and another book full of short stories and ideas from even earlier – maybe year 4? I’ve had articles and short stories published, never tried for more. *cheerful shrug*
Fanfiction online was beginning to take off by the time I was 17-18 or so. My first years at uni were mostly spent hunched over a gargantuan laptop, glued to some godawful eye-searing Yahoo or geocities site, devouring it all. I tried to write a few things, but they were WOEFUL and I never published them online.
Began properly venturing into fic a little later, perhaps 2005 or so! Spent years and years sort of hovering, playing quietly off to one side, publishing every so often and reading-reading-reading. It’s been nice 🙂
W: What’s your biggest pet peeve in writing?
Ooooh, the Big One. The Big Kahuna. Under a cut, bc see the tags:
Writing itself: I hate writer’s block. I hate depression + writer’s block. I hate demands for updates + depression + writer’s block. I hate anon hate + demands for updates + depression + writer’s block. You see how this is going, heh.
I know it could be considered a little more than just a ‘pet peeve’. But when you’ve been through that particular Dead Marsh a lot, you sort of get… sick of it, and annoyed, and annoyed at your own annoyance. You just become a feedback loop of being pissed off with your inability to write AS WELL AS being pissed off at being pissed off with your inability to write and lskjhadgfljah
Then you get pissed off at being pissed off bc people are being douchecanoes, which saps the will to write EVEN MORE. Youre annoyed at your own inability to rise above it, you’re annoyed at your own enervation. And annoyed at them, naturally. Which is the point when I go and open a bottle of wine and start composing angrily.
it’s stupid and dumb, but I have emotions about my emotions, I am an onion or a cake, one or the other 😀
(in fic/fandom, my greatest pet peeve is untagged “Evil Dain Ironfoot”. Still sends me into a hurt and screaming fucking fury. It’s barely ever tagged, and this is the only fandom I’ve ever been in where people won’t tag “dark!character”, not even after being asked politely. This is the reason I no longer read Hobbit fic – unless I trust the author.)
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