#not going hogwild in a pandemic

[akaluan]

Weird questions for writers: 4, 19, 32?

4: a word that makes you go absolutely feral

Oh geez, uhm... Honestly I don't think I really have one? Or at least not one that Lingers. I have some Emotions about the word "prejudice" but that's because of the standard "kid forced to read aloud in class has never heard word spoken before and makes educated guess based on English rules and guesses Very Wrong and Gets Laughed At" thing but like.. honestly that's just grumpy, mostly. I get grumpy about words that I have to type a lot, especially if they're longer words that I have problems spelling, but.. honestly nothing really sticks in my mind, lol

19: writing journey

ALRIGHT KIDS BUCKLE UP--

Okay but seriously it's not really that spectacular.

I lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere and wrote and drew to entertain myself until the internet actually became A Real Thing I Could Access around about when I was ten. I joined IRC rping channels like a year later, crafted myself a FASCINATING persona I'm pretty sure everyone and their brother saw thru, continued rping with those same people for years, found a Early Form of what would eventually become known as the Nexus (shout out to the best tiny art/writing community ever. The dragons are definitely the second best bit) and proceeded to go absolutely hogwild with terrible cliche characters and stories and DRAGONS until college basically killed all of our free time and the community went into hibernation, was in the process DEEPLY traumatized by witnessing the bullshit Anne McCaffrey's lawyer put some members of the community thru when I was Very Young (this is out of order, the trauma happened when I was a wee lil hatchling just lurking along the edges of the community, but eh, it Lingers ya know?) and proceeded to be 1000% gunshy about fanfiction for the better part of like 15 or so years before a friend finally convinced me to post the first chapter of Dragon Eclipse.

Oh and the Nexus came out of hibernation like two years ago and I would not have survived the pandemic without them. Moving on.

32: a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again

So I have really shit specific memory so I don't actually have Specific Lines or anything (I cannot quote anything verbatim and have never been able to) but honestly I wanna say that Tamora Pierce's Tortall and Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar have meant a great deal to me growing up and that they still do now. There's a lot of Hope in those stories, and the characters resonated with me a lot and still do.

[wheel-of-fish]

Is there anything more exciting than picking out books to take on vacation?

#in a remote location don't worry #just the family river cottage #not going hogwild in a pandemic #books