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mariequitecontrarie  asked:

Send me a Trope and I’ll rate it: Bedsharing?

Wheee more of these how cool! 🙂

Send me a Trope and I’ll rate it!

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

It’s a classic. It’s always awkward with the “we are two adults we can do this” the night before, and a barrier of pillows is made, which is then breached with epic snuggling and then if there’s a guy awkward boner which is sometimes noticed for extreme embarrassment, and sometimes he thinks he’s got away with it (but he never has haha).

I mean there are certain fic genres/archetypes whatever the word is, which just wouldn’t be complete without bedsharing. Like I said it’s an absolute classic.

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winterswanderlust  asked:

Trope rating if you’re still doing it: secret lovers/dating

Hey! My inbox is always open, I love questions 🙂 Thanks so much!

Send me a Trope and I’ll rate it!

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

This is a good one! I mean I’m not sure I approve of the deception generally because I would think if it’s something they need to hide, then is it really a good thing? BUT that is very situation dependant.

I have a completely planned (but naturally unwritten) fic where Gold and Lacey hide their relationship/secretly date because Gold doesn’t want the press to find out (he’s rich). It’s actually the prequel/proper fic to the oneshot fic ‘Happy Anniversary’ as I seem to have a thing for writing oneshots in verses I’ve not written *rolls eyes at self*

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timelordthirteen  asked:

Time Themed Fic Questions: tomorrow: favourite ways to write fluff? yesterday: favourite way to write angst?

*hugs* thank you so much for the asks! I love questions 🙂

Tomorrow: favourite ways to write fluff?
I’m not sure if this means I’m supposed to write ‘write’ in a different way, or if it’s how I tell the story? *thoughtful face* weeeell I only write one way so I’m going to have to go for the latter.

I think I like to have something driving it. Just fluff isn’t substance enough, there needs to be some kind of precipitating incident or something fun that is the point of the fic. At the height of my rumbelle obsession I was rumbelling everything Idid so crazy golf? Wondered how Rumbelle would play. So that’s sort of super fluff but there’s a point. I like there to be a point.

Yesterday: favourite ways to write angst?
I’m not a fan of angst. I get really bad secondhand anxiety (I know it’s ridiculous) but anyway I can’t read it because I get physical symptoms and don’t feel well. However, I was told that PLL is angst. I’ve never thought of it like that but I guess they are right – and hey I don’t feel well writing it a lot of the time! So yeah makes sense.

Anyway, I’m guessing if I write angst then there has to be a fundamental point to it. The characters have to grow, there has to be a journey, I don’t like pain for its own sake. I also very much prefer external angst generally. So it’s a bit like watching a cop show “oh how will they stop the bad guy this week?” Because the fact that they WILL stop the bad guy is never in doubt.

I’m explaining this really badly. I guess it’s like I want it to be character vs. Situation, not character vs character when it comes to the couples. That way the couple can support one another. They might get it wrong sometimes but they always care and always mean well.

I can’t take sheer unrelenting misery or chronic misunderstandings. I’d rather the couple work together against the bad thing, not work against one another.

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timelordthirteen  asked:

Trope rating: Hate sex

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

I feel like there should be some options further to the left of NO because I’m thinking Siberia. I really don’t like it.

Are we supposed to say why? Yeah I can say why. Sex sounds to me like its being very vulnerable (because you know naked) and therefore requires great trust – hate is like the opposite of that. So yeah not for me. Won’t read.

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jackabelle73  asked:

For the time-themed asks… Thursday, September, ancient.

Wheee thank you for the ask! 🙂

Thursday: have you ever written a high fantasy concept?
*googles high fantasy for definition* ok google says that its fantasy that is set in a different world, rather than being part of Earth.

Erm I guess maybe my pure Enchanted Forest stuff might count? I don’t have very much of that written. I have a lot in my head (I like to tell myself stories when I can’t sleep).

I’m going to say maybe?

september: share a comment or review which still warms your heart?
Hmm well what touched me most recently was @mariequitecontrarie comment on my Timeless fic. It wasn’t anything they said, it was the fact that they read and commented at all! Because I happen to know Marie doesn’t watch Timeless so they read the fic just for me, because they like my writing (I hope?) and because we are friends. I just thought that was an incredibly kind thing to do. It really meant a lot.

ancient: the first fic you ever posted online?
I think I’ve answered this one. Yup found it!

Link

Basically TLDR it was getting on for two decades ago, I was 11 and it was embarrassing.

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jackabelle73 reblogged your post and added: “WIP Wednesday”

OMG, you articulated my feelings exactly!! Can’t work on Fic A b/c it’s too precious to risk me screwing it up, but also can’t work on Fic B b/c of guilt over not completing Fic A. It’s an effin’ vicious circle.

Do you ever feel like you’re letting down your fave character or OTP, if you don’t do their story justice?

I’ll say to you, what you said to me… you’re not alone in this. I feel the same things you described in this post, and I bet others do too.

You’ve probably seen that post about the pottery class, where the students who went for quantity over quality ended up producing the best quality pots anyway, b/c they were actually doing the thing, instead of making endless plans to do it.

You and I, my friend, need to do the thing. I will if you will. Last one to post an update is a rotten egg!!

*throws down gauntlet*

Oh man, “last one is a rotten egg” I haven’t heard that in years hehe. Yes it is definitely an expression over here 🙂

*hugs you* I have seen that post about the pots! I know, I know, it’s like intellectually I know it but then my heart/my subconscious just doesn’t pay attention /facepalm

I am terrible at following my own advice, I am always repeating the advice about the pots, and saying just do the thing, and then do I do the thing? We definitely do need to do the thing! Listen to Belle’s advice perhaps and “do the brave thing” 🙂

WIP Wednesday

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So I wasn’t going to do this today buuuuut I can’t stop thinking about @jackabelle73 post which was so honest and it made me think that I missed something. See my original intent behind WIP Wednesday was to foster excitement, to talk about our ideas and build them up and remember why we loved them so much. The old ‘fake it until you make it’ kinda thing.

I confess I was having a very bad day when I came up with the idea and I was just flailing around because I wanted to feel good about writing again. I wanted to rediscover my passion, to remember why I love my ideas and to actually get some progress going. I envisaged a community, where we could bounce off one another, foster a spirit of positivity. But the thing about communities is that they take the rough with the smooth. I said to Jackie that we are all in her corner, that part of what makes the fanfic community so great is that there are less barriers, we can admit when we’re hurt and know we are among friends.

Anyway, that brings me to what I’m going to talk about today. Jackie bared her soul and I think I’m going to as well. I have two competing demons – fear and obligation. I’m terrified of working on projects I care about because I feel that they will never be good enough, that I’m wasting my time, who am I kidding with this shit, that I’m an utter loser etc. Etc. Continue ad-nausem BUT I also can’t work on anything else because it’s like somebody bashing cymbals together in my brain the whole time screaming “you should be working on the other thing!!”

To put that in context:
– Painting Layers of Love scares the shit out of me because it’s become too important and I’m terrified of messing it up. So it’s hard to sit down and work on it and even if I do, I’m paralysed because everything I type I delete as it’s all so awful and bad.
– If I try and work on any other fanfic project I’m instantly paralysed and usually wind up pacing my room in agitation because I feel like I’m doing the wrong thing. I should be working on PLL.

The easy love for projects is just completely strangled. I feel like I can’t invest myself in any fanfic project because I feel far too guilty. If I look at what I have posted since PLL it’s mostly been little oneshots that I dashed off in one sitting. The Timeless fic was the exception and that was a prompt fill, and so the whole ‘waiting for the prompt’ thing obviously managed to convince my brain it could jump the queue.

My Creative Resolutions for 2019 (which I never posted on here out of embarrassment) basically boiled down to “be nicer to yourself” and in writing this post I’m confirming that it’s February and I haven’t learned a thing. You see I don’t know how to get past my utter terror of never being good enough, I don’t know how to let go of my guilt long enough to pursue something else.

I said last week that In Your Arms 3 was planned and intended for this months AMR. Still haven’t written a word and I’m beginning to think I won’t. That’s another verse I’m scared of screwing up.

So yeah this is a shitty WIP Wednesday really because all it does is explain why there has been zero progress on any of my WIP’s for 2 years. Not positive at all and I’m sorry for that, I’m sorry for all of it.

#I used to follow the maxim I can fix a bad page I can’t fix a blank page but somewhere along the road I lost my way#in which I explain why I’ve forgotten how to word

WIP Wednesday

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So I totally missed Skin Deep day and TMI Tuesday on account of having a crap day in real life. Anyway, my WIP Wednesday this week is all about these two dorks ^^ and having “I hope that” in the gif is super appropriate because well this is all about my hopes for the upcoming months.

I tried to do WIP Wednesday last week but I couldn’t muster up the positivity. You see I do have an idea I want to do for AMR this month – a third instalment in the In Your Arms verse – but I started planning it for August’s AMR and my faith in myself to get shit done is at an all time low really.

BUT

It’s halfway through the month and while I have zero words written I do have a plan, and not 12% of a plan either, it’s more like 65% probably.

So that is (hopefully!) upcoming.

Then in my “drawing every month challenge” – January was the Big Bang, so that’s a Rumbelle drawing to be posted in March. Then March itself is going to be Rumbelle and so is April! I have the pieces picked out, I just hope I can do them justice, I’m a bit nervous :/

Yeah so I guess this is like my kinda homage to Skin Deep day, in that Rumbelle stuff is planned and is (hopefully!) happening. Side note: I do still have that half chapter of Painting Layers of Love that I should work on and finish. It’s problematic which is what made me take a break to begin with but when I can muster up the mental fortitude I’ll tackle it.

So yeah whoo Rumbelle! Hehe 🙂

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mariequitecontrarie  asked:

For the Fanfic Asks: F and G.

F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

“You’re supposed to be dead.”

“I’m supposed to be a lot of things.”

from Between Two Fires and this original novel that I have rewritten half a dozen times now and just can’t make work. I think I will hang on to these two lines until I can get them into a novel somewhere, I love them to pieces.

Why? I don’t know it just sounds awesome in my head. Maybe it’s because dead is dead but they are walking around and so there’s an immediate mystery, maybe then it’s the cryptic leading smirk of the second comment (because there’s definitely a smirk there). It’s sort of like a shrug, self-deprecating yup, I’m supposed to be a lot of things – there is just such a world in those two lines, layers of meaning and heartbreak because it’s a betrayal, not just of love but of everything the betrayed (Gold in this case) believes in.

It’s a starting point, and it’s also a middle point, the old ‘in media res’ aka starting the story in the middle, so we’re right there and these two lines bring up questions and well I’m biased because they are my lines, but I feel an immediate investment because it’s not just questions – I have the feeling. I can hear the pain (or maybe I’ve just visualised the scene too many times I don’t know) but ugh bury me with these two lines. I just love them.

G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

Start to finish. I’ve wished on many occasion to mix it up but my brain just won’t do it, it’s like it knows it’s not done and so it won’t move on. I guess I’m just very linear, my brain just won’t accept anything else.

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This flash fiction isn’t being very flash. I mean it’s supposed to be what max 500 words? Someone please tell my brain that starting on a scene that is at least a couple of scenes ahead of the prompted one … well it’s not flash fiction is it?

/facepalm

On the plus side I think I might have written a tiny bit of what could be called banter *gasp* I know right? I wonder if I can bottle that so I might be able to do it again sometime. Banter is hard.