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Do you ever listen to music when you write? If so what kind? What’s your favorite? I think that sometimes what you’re listening to affects the writing, at least it does for me when I write.

Not really – I’m a muso, and I’ve been trained since a very young age to give music my full attention. It can be annoying, actually, particularly when you’re watching a film and you miss the dialogue bc you’re listening to the film score, ugh. 

So, I tend to listen to ambient soundscapes when I write, if I listen to anything at all. Mostly not, tbh. 

This is one that I used a bit when writing the Paths of the Dead, for instance.

And The Guild of Ambience are awesome. Seriously awesome. 

Or, I sometimes listen to a piece of music and then write, while the emotions & thoughts the music brought up in me are still strong and fresh. Sometimes I will hear a piece of music and it will instil the urge to write in me, without my direction or intention lmao.

If all dwarves devote their lives to a craft, does that mean Nori’s craft is stealing? XD

Well, a bit! I’ve answered this before 🙂

It boils down to: Nori’s craft is less ‘stealing’, and more TRICKERY/GRIFTING. Because it’s not about keeping score, it’s about how much fun the game is. 

He’s always loved the adrenaline rush. That’s why being stationary was so difficult for him in life, after the battle. 

When you write Sansukh, do the characters have voices in your head? Are they the voices of actors from the movies? The cast of the podfic? Really curious about how those inner voices might influence your writing, I know it influences mine sometimes. When the characters have voices, they feel a bit more real and less like I’m controlling them.

A bit of all-of-the-above!

At first, I had the actors from the films for many of the characters – however, not ALL. I did not always hear JRD for Gimli, for instance… I ‘heard’ someone similar, but closer to how I’d imagined Gimli speaking when I first read the books way back in the 90′s. It was a mishmash of actor voices and my own internal ideas of how the character should sound. Not always coherent!

After the podfic came out, I began hearing Cully as Gimli, without fail. Cully of the golden tonsils, my star! @culumacilinte

I hear Ricky unfailingly for the narration nowadays, and I write the descriptions with their smooth, engaging, flexible honey voice in mind. @fuckthisimgoingtoerebor

I still hear Christopher Lee for Saruman and John Noble for Denethor, etc…

But I 300% hear @baruk-hashem for Thorin now, and not Richard Armitage. @poplitealqueen‘s adorable goddamn voice is Pippin to me, not Billy Boyd. @morvidra IS Fili to me, not Deano.

I cannot CANNOT hear myself as Mahal. Frankly, I hear a nonspecific deep boomy voice when I write him!

i hope i “grow up” to be half as amazing and wonderful and kind as you!!!!

Nonnie, I dunno what I did to give anybody the impression that I’m anything other than an imperfect lil bean sprout struggling along in the world, just like everybody else. But you are super super kind and nice, thank you so much ❤

You are already amazing, and you don’t need to add years to your life or to become anything other than you are. Promise. You’re enough, and wonderful, right here and now. 

You should advertise your patreon more

Hey Nonnie! Totally true, bc I don’t promote it at ALL, and I don’t think I will, tbh – I only set it up bc someone asked me about it. Here’s my reasoning.

I live in a two-income home, which we are slowly (god, so slowly) paying off. I have a good job, which I love. I’m able to feed myself, my family, and pay for childcare using my earnings and a bit of forward planning (I love my garden!! and I love baking). We budget carefully, and we save a bit of money each week, donate a bit each week. We’re not flush, but we are chugging along ok. We’re ok. 

Other folks who sell their work, art, words, time and effort, are finding it hard to manage rent and food. They need transport, utilities, clothes. There’s natural disasters everywhere when you turn the TV on these days. All those folks need a donation or a contribution WAY more than I do. 

So, though the thought is super appreciated, but I’m sorted for money! If people would like to show their appreciation to me, I am always turned into a stammering blushy squirmy mess by a nice review, the nightly kudos email, a bit of art, a song, or just a keysmash. Seriously, that’d do it, for me. I am a simple potato with simple needs 🙂

I’m honestly HONESTLY more content with money flowing towards those folks who need it. But thank you, Nonnie 🙂