1. I could not care less however, i do sometimes change the background colour
2. sure, I'd use whatever i could find first (I've actually written out some of my fics thia way already)
3. the fact that there is no ritual is the cursed thing. also, i do not plan. maybe thats worse š¤·
4. baby
5. nah not really
6. my darkest fear ... would probably be not being able to get mt vision down properly or not being able to express it
7. my deepest jou though would probably be the control i have (none. the characters are in charge as i weep and beg them not to do this to me and yet they never ever listen)
8. 10000000% without action i can give you SO much with dialogue you cannot imagine
9. sure, not what I'd call them but i guess it translates to ghosts in a way š
10. yes. i wrote a piece that actually loomed over me for weeks after i posted it, my anxiety was so high because it was something I'd never written about before that i ended up deleting it because i do definitely conform to social press6šššš¤©
11. ahh i get way too attached that i only kill them if i have somehow switched to another version of myself who loves to kill my darlings. but most often i will nark it as a suggestion so i still have the option, until i cave and its gone.
12. a) being able to figure out the word i need instantly
b) being able to name the goddamn tjings
c) be able to accurately use peoples feelings and emotions to set thw moods
13. a subject?? uhh maybe like. mystery? idk but the easiest is probably like grief
14. yes (certain peopwl), no, yes and no
15. actually im trying to write more in my books just because i can, I don't dog ear my pages because well.. no and i would be so scared of dropping it if i took it in with me (plus where would you put it after?? also i dont take baths š) if you do any of these sure we can be friends but i will not be lending you my books out of respect for them <3
16. my toes.
jk mg blanket
17/18. no WIP we havent written in a year š¤©
19. started writing fics for a fan week in lockdown and then proceeded to use all brain power to pump out like 10 of them and then another like. 3 before getting writers block šš
20. guys i already dont have someone so my wip can be perfected yes please
21. in a way i guess i have? rn?? because i dont know when/if I'll be writing again so...
22. organized in a goofle drive folder named "fics"
23. my room. lots of furniture my bed little space to walk sit on my bed and write honestly
24. none 𤩠ok but sometimes ill have the general idea then i just whip out my page and start writing, if i need to stop ill write down a couple points for what comes next but not much planning at all i edit more after
25. one of my characters is constipated
26. yes and no? i write from their perspective but also keep it third person so its kinda easy to get out ig
27. sakusa. my man gets like 3 seconds of screen time šš
28. natsu, shes very cute <3
29. by talking about something with others i guess but it seems that has a limit...
30. yes. i will not elaborate because i dont think i ended up publishing that work
31. uhh dont ahve any readers here lol but thank you to anyone who read my fics they're not a lot and i really dont think theyre the best you'll ever come across either but for taking the time to read it through is really heart warming
32. ah ok cant do this to me. it's DEFINITELY "Itās a relief, he thinks, that the shackle Yoongiās life has forced around your ankle appears to be no match for your wings." from tnf by @matchstick6812 but the way i had to search so hard to pick a quote ugh just go and read thw wjole thing PLEASE its so good šš <33
33. i do sometimes paint? but no not really its quite separate to my writing and its just a hobby i do on the side whenever i feel likw it
34. i cannot for the life of me remember if use the oxford comma or not right now. i cant even makr fun of one because i genuinely cannot remember
35. not constantly rereading <3
36. absolutely nothing the minute i have to write i have the knowledge of a newborn baby, google is my saviour and i would die without it
37. a stupid little twat who know nothing and has the worst humour
38. i cant. remember. š
39. the people i know are gonna read it like those friends i have made who read any and all of my writing, they kept me going <33
40. Lang Leav - The Universe of Us
How We Began
It was how we began. Your mouth against mine, your fingers tracing along the back of my neck.
You asked me to imagine what it must have been like, for the first two people who fell in love; before the word love was conceived.
You said it felt like that for you. Like we existed in a time before love as though we were waiting for the word to catch up to the feeling.
1. What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting?
2. If you had to give up your keyboard and write your stories exclusively by hand, could you do it? If you already write everything by hand, a) are you a wizard and b) pen or pencil?
3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?
4. Whatās a word that makes you go absolutely feral?
5. Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?
6. What is your darkest fear about writing?
7. What is your deepest joy about writing?
8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?
9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isnāt about writing I just wanna know
10. Has a piece of writing ever āhauntedā you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?
11. Do you believe in the old advice to ākill your darlings?ā Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?
12. If a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? Btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current WIPs into Lorem Ipsum, I donāt make the rules
13. What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy?
14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your ālostā books are and which specific friend from school you havenāt seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back?
15. Do you write in the margins of your books? Dog-ear your pages? Read in the bath? Why or why not? Do you judge people who do these things? Can we still be friends?
16. Whatās the weirdest thing youāve ever used as a bookmark?
17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that wonāt make it in the text.
18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.
19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?
20. If a witch offered you the choice between eternal happiness with your one true love and the ability to finally finish, perfect, and publish your dearest, darlingest, most precious WIP in exactly the way youāve always imagined it ā which would you choose? You canāt have both sorry, lifeās a bitch
21. Could you ever quit writing? Do you ever wish you could? Why or why not?
22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?
23. Describe the physical environment in which you write. Be as detailed as possible. Tell me whatās around you as you work. Paint me a picture.
24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?
25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?
26. How do you get into your characterās head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?
27. Who is the most stressful character youāve ever written? Why?
28. Who is the most delightful character youāve ever written? Why?
29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?
30. Talk to me about the role dreams play in your writing life. Have you ever used material from your dreams in your writing? Have you ever written in a dream? Did you remember it when you woke up?
31. Write a short love letter to your readers.
32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?
33. Do you practice any other art besides writing? Does that art ever tie into your writing, or is it entirely separate?
34. Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go:
35. Whatās your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?
36. They say to Write What You Know. Setting aside for a moment the fact that this is terrible adviceā¦what do you Know?
37. If you were to be remembered only by the words youāve put on the page, what would future historians think of you?
38. What is something about your writing process YOU think is Really Weird? If you are comfortable, please share. If youāre not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us?
39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?
40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.
pairing: jungkook x reader
wordcount: 11k
glimpse: having jungkook for a husband is great as far as arranged marriages could go; heās easy to love. your relationshipās perhaps become so easy that jungkook doesnāt think sometimes ā and thatās what makes it the easiest for you to hate him.
alternatively, you and jungkook married each other for business, but the both of you stay for love.
[ angst, arranged marriage au, fluff n really wholesome scenes (it cancels out the angst i swear), Jungkook Tries Hard (affectionate), miscommunication, jealousy, self-deprecation, sexual innuendos (no actual smut here!!), did i already say that jungkook tries rlly hard and is remorseful the whole time ]
notes: my year-ender fic for 2022 :) thank u for being here ā iām grateful for all ur love n support!! iāll see u in the next one <3
as always, lmk what you think <3 send in feedback n love to my askbox anytime!!
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pairing: jimin x reader
wordcount: 2k
glimpse: love, within normalcy.
alternatively, jimin has a routine at 5:35 in the afternoon.
[ married + established relationship au, jimin's a NICU nurse and reader's a pediatrician, fluff n comfort all-rounder, they're expecting first-time parents <3 ]
notes: happy jimin day!!! i've never been this relaxed writing a piece <3 as always, lmk what you think <3 send in feedback n love to my askbox anytime!!
Thereās not a single thing in this world that would remain unmoved at Jiminās warmth.
He's the embodiment of warmth, all the way from the ends of his hair to the tips of his toes. All the way from the flush in his cheeks and the skill in his hands.
You know it with the way he works at NICU with the fondest smile youāll ever see, picking up babies left and right and rocking them to have them soothed and tucked. Heās always been adamant on caring for people, already having the specific profession in his mind even back at high school.
You know how heād budge and grant atleast just one more minute for a parent to be with their baby, giving them their space as he pretends not to know the time. Sometimes he even offers to take their phone and capture a picture, one they could take home with them as their peace of mind.
Your husband tends to be more practical than he is luxurious but you know how he'd treat everyone to coffee every now and then at the expensive cafƩ outside the hospital, even going as far in blocking out the dates in his calendar. He greet everyone on his way then, not a single personnel left ungreeted.
You know it because you're married to Jimin and you know that it would take a lifetime to known every single thing about someone, from the inside-out and the way people constantly change.
Youāre sure of him because of the way he's your lover that makes every day worth getting up for.
At every 5:35 PM on workdays, he'd show up to your office with his arms outstretched and his eyes slowly blinking. Heād always go on the dot because itās what works best; after all, you're a pediatrician and all your appointments normally get done by 4 with a significant grace period because you feel sorry for children who'd get cut off. Meanwhile, Jimin's shift ends at 5 but he allots a significant grace period just like how you do, taking the time to always do extra rounds on the babies by swaddling them comfortably and changing their diapers with little to no fuss.
Heās particularly excited to see you today, even if he's just as happy seeing you in other days regardless ā nonetheless if he's just woken up and you're beside him, or if the two of you had the longest week and barely saw each other throughout.
He tucks his stethoscope in and lightly hits the knots on his nape as he starts greeting people goodbye, a giddy smile on his face even before they could reply.
"Jimin! I was about to ask if-..."
Hoseokās the new guy in the ward and heās known Jimin for his entire introduction period to be so approachable and yet the guy whizzes past him as if hadnāt heard him at all, nearly getting whiplash from being ignored for the first time.
"Not a chance. He shuts down completely, don't even bother," he blinks rigidly at his supervisor whoās just looking at charts, setting an unwavering glance at him that makes him regret even showing confusion at the whole interaction.
"It's 5:33," Namjoon nods towards the clock behind him, looking at it lazily as if he isnāt certain about it at this point.
If thereās one thing Namjoon would purchase as luxury, heād no doubt splurge on watches. Yet the expensive piece on his wrist, the Patek Philippe Grand acomplication watch heās saved up for more or less two years, is no match at all for Jimin. The watch doesnāt hold a candle against him because as soon as he sees the guy run his hands through his hair and walk with a smile on his face and a perk on his step, he knows it's 5:33 in the afternoon.
He walks eagerly to your office, oblivious to the way his colleagueās face is agape in confusion as his no-nonsense superior seems to be fond talking about you and Jimin to Hoseok.
You donāt have to look up at the door to know itās Jimin by the way it clicks and immediately shuts, already foretelling the squeak in your cushions not a second later.
"There's my favorite girl," he dives into your pull-out couch that almost never functions like it nowadays, practically turned into a bed at this point.
You murmur a greeting to his hair as he lowers himself down your tummy that he immediately pokes with his finger.
"There's my favorite baby," Jimin looks straight to your barely-visible bump before he grins up at you, slinding his warm hands underneath your shirt and setting them right onto your stomach.
You've already changed into your going-home clothes and you look snug, propped against your pillow in drowsiness. Youāve passed the time by knitting baby blankets for the NICU department while you waited for your husband, because the sleepiness is there but just wasnāt enough to knock you out, instead choosing to do something that relaxes you.
Jimin nuzzles to your cheek, playfully crossing his eyes with how close he is that it makes you laugh.
"Kiss, please."
He asks for one so politely that you canāt help the fond smile that forms on your face in no time, barely turning to put one on his lips.
He blinks once, twice until he figures that it already happened, the all-familiar whine on his throat as he rocks his leg on your bed in complaint, shaking his head as he deadpans.
"Not that," he frowns, rolling his eyes at you. "A nice and proper one, please."
"Nice and proper," you parrot back, snorting instinctively at the antics heās pulling today because he also said it in the morning, another running joke for the week.
Jimin doesnāt wait for you to kiss him because he does it himself, growing restless at your playfulness that he grants himself the relief of your taste.
He leans before you could even tell, warm hands on the side of your face as he slots the pillows of his lips ever so gently, eyes closed at bliss and tongue firm and fluid against yours.
Jimin kisses slowly yet deeply. Languidly yet not flatly. Fully and completely, in all ways.
He clutches onto you by the side of your top that he feels the indents of your tiny bump thatās eleven weeks along, humming against you as he massages your lower back thatās been in need of warmth to tame the ache.
Your husband lies next to you and yet it isnāt enough because he has half of himself draped on you, his leg on top of yours with his arms surrounding your figure, the other surely not leaving your tummy.
"Want me to massage your calves? Your feet? Got you new compression socks yesterday, I think I put them on your desk this morning," he pulls away in favor of nuzzling to your neck, nosing the spot below your ear before pressing a tiny kiss on it.
"Mhmm, I did," you hum, eyes slowly blinking because all the tension and stress youāve been feeling have already erroded by now, "get changed, baby."
His eyes are squinted at you in faux confusion, each one of his queries answered beside the first one.
You nod sheepishly because you canāt pass up, tilting your head at him in confirmation. "I'll take you up on that offer at home. I get more tired these days."
āI got you," he reassures you with no hesitstion at all, already undressing from his scrubs in front of you while he hums in conversation. "Let's go up to Seokjin tomorrow morning. Let's ask about your vitamins."
Itās normal.
Itās mundane.
You're talking about vitamins and groceries and there's love within it still, figuring out schedules even if it meant errands getting pushed back because of how they conflicted at times.
The two of you are conversing about traffic and how the cold makes you drowsy while at work but there's adoration in it still, the quiet inputs of how the two of you are sharing socks and yet thereād always be rogue ones missing.
Youāre sharing a makeshift dinner on one large bowl to have the least amount of dishes to wash, enough to forego washing tonight and instead just rinse and soak in water if the two of you get sleepy beyond measure to function.
Itās in the most casual of things that you get to learn about your husband more and how youād stop at nothing of realizing that you love him even when the sun is low and the lights are out.
Jimin's the type of warm for you to romanticize the most mundane, everyday things.
"Good night," he yawns with his mouth wide open, stretching until his limbs go jelly before he snatches you to his chest, a noisy kiss pressed on your cheek. "I love you the most." He basks in your slight annoyance of him whispering so lowly to your ear that it tickles you, patting your bare tummy as his hands once again found refuge underneath your shirt. āAnd you too, cutie."
You return his sentiments back but it doesnāt end at that, the phrase thatās been stuck with you all morning resurfacing even when itās nearing midnight, the only difference being that itās you who asks.
"Kiss please.ā
Jimin complies slyly just like how you did, pinching his thigh that makes him release a tiny yelp, reverting into a fit of giggles with how you look pointedly at him even underneath your nightlight.
"Nice and proper."
"Hmmm," he leans in with the hint of amusement never leaving his tone, warm hands outstretching, "anything for my wife."
Jimin loves you in the same way he kisses.
The same way of love thatās slow yet deep; languid yet not flat. Full and complete, in all ways ā
the same warmth at 5:35 in the afternoon, in every minute with Jimin.
yeah they dropped a new love language. yeah a sixth one. its biting
Every now and then, people ask me if I should go to art school, and I usually say something like āDo you want to go to art school?ā and if they say āYes,ā then I say āYes,ā and if they say āNo,ā then I say āDonāt.ā This is why I am a crappy source of career advice.
However.
There is ONE class that I think nearly every writer, artist, and creative type out there would benefit from, and as it happens, itās ceramics. Preferably with a strong wheel-throwing component.
No, really.
Back in ceramics class, in college, at the end of the year we would gather up all our dishes and pots and sculptures that we had labored over for weeksāand you really do labor for weeks, because youāre sculpting and drying and firing and glazing and firing againāand we would look at them. And what we generally realized was that we had created a lot of things that sucked. There is just a point where you hold this lumpy-ass thing in your hand and you realize that it has not added to the sum total of awesome in the universeāand that you donāt have to keep it. And then you wind up and fling it into the massive dumpster behind the ceramics studio and it smashes against the bottom and a demented exhilaration surges through you and you grab the next one and smash it and it is glorious. Now, there are people who do not smash their failed work, who cannot bear to do it, and so there was always a shelf full of sad lumpy clay things with a little āfree to good homeā sign on it. Some of them possibly were adopted eventually. Mostly, though, we learned to smash. Pottery, particularly wheel-throwing, is wonderful for this, incidentally. You fail over and over and you fail fast and you are creating quantity to lead to quality. You throw and throw and throw and things die on the wheel and things die when you take them off the wheel and things explode in the kiln and after you have made a dozen or two dozen or a thousand, none of them are precious any more. There is always more clay.
It breaks you of preciousness and perfectionism. You canāt fiddle for two hours with wet clay on the wheel getting it perfect. Itāll be an over-saturated lump of mud long before then. If the walls are thrown too thin, they are too thin. Itās not worth fixing. Start over. Do it again. Finish, donāt fiddle. I canāt do pottery any more because if I tried to hunch over a wheel these days, my back would go out so hard that I would never walk upright again. But I still think it was one of the most valuable classes I ever took, because it taught me to acknowledge failure, not to fear it, and then smash the hell out of it.
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