Tag: reluming

reluming replied to your post “[[MOR] I need to be out of here so badly right now. I’m literally…”

*hugs* meg darling, you’re amazing – i’m sorry you don’t feel valued at work, but we know how brilliant you are and we appreciate all the work you do here, so at least there’s that? hang in there ��

*hugs* thank you so much. I really, really have got to figure out a way to get the hell out of there for good because honestly, no job is worth this kind of stress, it’s just not. I’ve been looking at my options – I want to go back to working in a library if I can because I’m so done with the noise and the whining in that office.

i think you know this already but GOD that scene where flint laughs in the cure for sorrow has stuck with me forever. also i just think of you as a writer who’s really excellent at the long plotty stuff!! <333

Aww, thank you! And I get the added satisfaction of knowing that him laughing and happy having gotten Thomas back is CANON. I love how we all kind of went @ the writers – what if – what if Flint smiled? And then they turned around and gave us so much more.

11, 20, 23 for the writers’ ask meme? :D

11.

what aspect of your writing do you think has most improved since you started writing?

Dialogue. I’ve gotten so much better at writing dialogue that doesn’t sound over the top or stilted, or at least I think I have. I’ve learned to let characters interrupt each other and misunderstand each other and finish each other’s thoughts the way that people actually do in real conversations.

20. 

do you write in long sit-down sessions or in little spurts? It varies. If I’m really working hard on getting something done, I write in long sessions, but the best scenes get written in short spurts because I’ve just pictured what’s happening in my head and have to get it down quickly.

23. 

any obscure life experiences that you feel have helped your writing? If you’ve seen some of my other posts you probably know that I did not have the best childhood. We were poor as fuck. My parents didn’t quite hate each other but they lived in separate parts of the house and sort of high-key resented each other, and that meant that I spent a lot of time trying to balance between the two of them and didn’t always manage it. I also spent most of my childhood being bullied mercilessly by my classmates, which is to say that home was a battlefield of sorts and school was no better. The end result is that I would say I’m kind of an expert on people reading, which has helped my writing immensely. I had no choice but to become extremely sensitive to people’s moods and know how to read faces, and I think it’s really helped with understanding what’s going through characters’ heads at any given moment. Honestly it’s probably why I can relate to both Silver and Thomas a lot.  

#7 and #8 for the end of year fic ask meme! :D

ooh, thank you! 

7. Favorite piece of description or narration: This, surprisingly, is my favorite. It’s from As a Stranger Give it Welcome:

The firelight partially obscures his face, making him seem briefly only half present, part of him eaten by shadow, but John can still see the trembling in his hands and hear the choking sound he makes low in his throat. “It’s not possible,” he repeats, less denial than desperate plea this time, and John takes a step closer, parting the shadows, reasserting himself into James’ space and forcing away the darkness that threatens to envelop his lover, taking him with it.

8. Which fic was the most fun to write? I had great fun with Good Fortune Attend. It was a gift for Shiro for her birthday, and it was so nice to do something short and fluffy with absolutely no angst involved. Not to mention that I always enjoy writing Hennessey, and it might actually be the only bitty James and Thomas fic out there!

reluming replied to your post “So – 2016 is almost done. I say this, knowing that this hell year…”

OMG I LOVE YOU MEG THAT FIC SNIPPET JUST KILLED ME, also i hope 2017 treats you well ❤ ❤ *hugs* i’m very glad you found your creativity in 2016, your fic is so so wonderful ❤ i still remember that day i was settling in for another dreary day of studying in the library and then i read the cure for sorrow and it made everything so much better :’)

*hugs forever* I LOVE YOU TOO! I am so, so, so glad I met you – it’s made my entire year so much better and brighter and I still remember getting your comment on Cure for Sorrow and grinning really big and doing a happy dance in my chair at work! (I still do that when I see your comments on things – you brighten up my day every time I hear from you. You’re the best – have I told you that? It bears repeating!) 

for the fic title ask meme – as a stranger give it welcome :D

Thanks!

As a Stranger Give it Welcome I credit to @gedsparrowhawk, who kindly suggested it when I was looking for help coming up with a title for the fic. It comes from a line in the ghost scene in Hamlet. “Horatio: O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! Hamlet: And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” This is said when he’s telling them about the ghost, so it seemed appropriate, not to mention of course that in the fic Silver is telling James about his encounter with a sort of ghost (Thomas).  Bri, you’re welcome to weigh in on this one – that’s what I got out of your suggestion but you might have had different reasons.

8, 10, 13, 26 for the fanfic ask meme :D

Ooh, thank you!

8. When are you most productive? During the day when the sun is shining, or very, very late at night when the house has gone to sleep.

10. How do you do your researches? I mostly Google things, but if I can’t find an answer then I turn to the library on campus. I’m fortunate enough to be working at a college so I have access.

13. Hardest character to write? Flint. No questions, hands-down, I really struggle with him bc he’s so unlike me. So stubborn, so contrary, so very impatient at times and yet incredibly cunning and literate. So complicated, in a word, so it makes getting his voice right very difficult.

26. Story you’re the most proud of? I’m of two minds on this one. See, on the one hand, I’m incredibly proud of myself for finishing They That Sow the Wind. It’s a genuinely well-written story, I think, it’s gotten good reviews, and I worked hard on it. On the other hand, To the Upper Air is arguably the thing I have worked the hardest on ever. It’s taken so long, and I’ve been so very careful about development and character interactions on it and I’m really very proud of how far I’ve come as a writer that I’m able to do something like this. At then end of the day, though, They That Sow the Wind is done whereas To the Upper Air is still in progress, so there’s time for me to trip still. I’m going to go with Sow the Wind for now with the proviso that that could change.