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lacependragon · 1 year

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ooh ooh, some asks from the writing ask game! 11, 18, 27, 29?

11. Books and/or authors who influenced you the most

N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy redefined how I do timelines and multiple POVs, if only because using a single throughline for worldbuilding but spreading it across three POVs was brilliant. There's so much more I took from that trilogy but the way she incorporated worldbuilding across POVs was really neat to me.

The Song of Achilles altered how I handle emotional timeskips and specific ways of how I write sentences.

rachel writes on Youtube is an author I absolutely adore and a lot of what she says really resonates with me. She also convinced me, via video, to write in third person present tense which is SO FREEING.

Mindy McGinnis is another author who really inspires me. And she influences a lot of how I write tension, horror, and grief. The Female of the Species did a lot for my writing.

18. If you could collaborate with anyone, who would it be, and what would you write about?

I want Hot Wheels to give me the rights to Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 and then I want Netflix to collab with me to make a five season and two movie animated series in the style of Arcane but HOT WHEELS BATTLE FORCE 5.

This is the ONLY collab I have EVER given serious thought to. I'm not sure about anything else.

27. Favourite line/scene

Hmmmmmmmm.

Okay let's go with favourite line I wrote this WEEK, which is in chapter 8 of Descent:

Directions to the pinned map appear a moment later. Nat swipes open their music and queues the same song about a dozen times before hitting play. It’s close enough. They’ll walk.

Something about like. The extreme VIBE of the song queuing, while also the specificity of the detail, while also this short punch of the last two sentences. It's not as good out of context but it's still very good.

Favourite scene in a fanfic is still the moment in You and Me where Qrow finally tells Ruby and Yang the truth about their parents' deaths. It's a scene I cried through many times while writing and editing.

29. Favourite villain

See if I told you my actual favourite villain, you get this:

God [spoilers] is such a good villain. We start out thinking [spoilers], but then over the course of the next [spoilers] we learn [spoilers] which slowly reveals that [spoilers] and this leads to Nat [spoilers]! It's so exciting!

Because I don't want to spoil a reveal of a hidden villain. So, instead, let me pick my number two-

no that's a spoiler.

number THREE-

Hrm.

Okay so the problem is all the best details about all my villains are like. Spoilers.

So I'll go simple then: I fucking love Madden as an antagonist and as a villain. TMI is great for that shit.

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pr-ay-the-gay-away · 2 years

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If A League Of Their Own series could alter their writing style for season 2 to be more episodic (and maybe some nice character features/studies?) with a season throughline, and then release the episodes on a weekly basis, that'd be :chefs_kiss:

Whilst I am really over the Netflix-style season dump binge-watching trend (and how deeply unhealthy and unsustainable it is) I can see how I would have preferred to experience ALOTO Season 1 as a continuous watch rather than week-by-week, similar to the first season of Arcane (in the past I would have just waited til the end of season and binged it all on my own terms). I think that's because of the numerous side-storylines that carried over from episode to episode, eg. the Lupe x Carson rivalry and its comedic conclusion, Shirley's homophobia working up to the aftermath of s1e6 and concluding in the finale, and Esti's journey of alienation. By contrast, I feel like the actual parallel main storyline that follows Max (and Clance) I would have received fine on a weekly basis, and I just wonder what this all says about writing scenes for pacing and progression.

(If anyone who studied screenwriting wants to comment on why that might be... ?)

#a league of their own #abbi jacobson #will graham

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