Hello Zexx
welcome back!
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What Do you write about?
Do you have a favorite style of writing?
Favorite Genre?
Do you write on whatever inspires you?
Do you stick to a similar or different concepts in each writing? writings?
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I write character-driven stuff, often ending my character's stories in some grandiose doom or uneasy ambiguity. I like first person, present tense. It feels immediate, personal, and hard-hitting when I read it, and immersive when I write it. I'm a fan of aesthetically pleasing writing, and I don't mean flowery, clunky and inelegant, I mean sparse and beautiful. I'm inspired by and write broadly within the postmodernist tradition, so there's oodles of angst, subversion, experimenting with 'reality', all that good stuff :P
When it comes to reading, I'm interested in everything except sci-fi and historical. My favorite to read is probably 'realistic', 'young adult' fiction, but very specific authors, like Cat Clarke.
I rarely plot out a story. I'm usually inspired to write by a moment, when there's a flash of a turn of phrase, and I feel I can't come up with a better way of wording that moment.
I think I have a different concept in every project, each quite different in terms of genre and even writing style. One story inspired by the fairy tale of the Snow Queen, another about love between an old, tired woman and a young, jaded boy and set in India, another inspired by the story of Surya and Saranyu, another about (if I have to put it in very reductive terms) caste, another about parallel universes which was inspired by the mangaka group CLAMP's works. (I really suck at describing what I write about. I'm reading this over and balking.)
I also love roleplaying. It's to drain away some stress though, so I don't focus much on quality of writing, or style, or challenging myself, as on going easy on myself and having fun.