Comment below and I'll ask you five questions. Answer them in your own journal, offer to give the first five commenters their own sets of questions, and let the cycle continue!(Feel free to answer in the comments rather than continuing the game :D)
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muccamukk, who asked me:
1. What's your favourite thing about pirate stories?I am, for better or worse, a logistics nerd. Part of what captivates me about pirate stories specifically (highwaymen on the open seas instead of the road!
Cool!) is what they actually
do with all the treasure. Where do you sell it, and who do you sell it to?
Do you sell it? How do you compensate your crew? What do you do when the treasure is cursed, or when you can't get rid of it? How long can you stay at sea without starving while the Crown is after your head? So on and so forth.
I also, of course, love robbery and murder and swashbuckling and magic sea creatures and all that stuff. But I put a whole pirate subplot into my longform wip somewhere because I just went "cool! robbery! this will factor into my shipping-and-goods logistics somehow" and then it did and now it's a major part of the plot.
2. What's a writing trick you wish you'd known five years ago? If you can't read what you wrote, you can't fix what you wrote. Use the most illegible font you can and just write words. I started doing this when I was about 17 (my light-sensitive migraines got worse and I didn't realize i could change my writing program to be black on black for a while, so I just started typing with my eyes closed) and it did wonders for my ability to not self-edit every two sentences. I'm pretty good at it now, and it also has the added benefit of meaning that when people come to talk to me while i'm writing it is apparently incredibly funny to watch me finish my paragraphs at approximately 120 words per minute while maintaining perfect eye contact and without looking at my screen to check what i've typed whatsoever because I'm also pretty confident once I've gotten going that I won't make too many typos.
... This requires a pretty good grasp of touch-typing, too, but I've been typing on black keyboards without backlight in the dark since before I was in middle school, so you best believe I'm good at
that.
3. If you turned into a dragon for two hours, what would you do?
Depends if people know it's me. Probably go hork down an entire raw steak. Just to see what it tastes like now that it will not make me sick as a dog for the week after.
Then if I am not legally liable, uh... probably, like, arson. if i am a big fireproof lizard i can just put any spreading fires out and there are a few fully abandoned buildings around here that would go up like matchsticks and it would be really cool. it would be so cool
4. What's your preferred solution to the great "okay, but how do the robots fuck?" issue in Transformers fanfic?
I like "plug and play", where the robots plug themselves into each other and share data. I just think it's cooler and more interesting than human-analogue "they all have genitalia" and I've never really cared for sparkplay sex.
Though I will admit that I usually
write sticky sex because it requires like 0 understanding to pass between the characters and lets me immediately go from "ok they're fucking" to "and here is what the story is
actually about" in about one sentence flat.
5. What song did you most recently get stuck in your head?
I don't know if this is
quite in the spirit of this question because it's two songs, but for some reason the inside of my brain has just been a godawful mashup of
Sprawling Idiot Effigy by Nero's Day at Disneyland (specifically the vocal bit) and
Turn Around from Valkyrie Vanguard (game) that I found in this one amv. It's not
not true, but the one i heard most recently was Turn Around.
This game was a lot of fun! :D
