#I'm sorry for being slow with the sns prompts

[tamelee]

I'm the one that asked how do you feel about 'that' novel and if you felt relived cuz it wasn't sasuke. Thank you for taking the time to respond and giving me your answer.

Please don't take any offense when I say this but honest to god you are one of the most drop- dead gorgeous people I have ever seen on the Internet. And I will ask you again to please don't take offense or get angry about what I'm about to say next.. the arm thingies look reeaaally cool on you. ( I know they make drawing difficult but try and think of this as a positive to the arm thingies). You're very kind and funny as well.

Also I'm sorry to hear that your recovery ain't going well, that honestly sucks. But don't worry, bad things don't last forever, they either last short or long but not forever. And I really like the cover on your phone!

Again, please don't get offended with whatever I say, I really mean the best. Take great care of yourself and I hope you have a blessed recovery. Here's a star.

( ^ w ^)// ~~~~🌟

Okay hear me out @vanilacatchocalatecat

You lovely person with a username that’s making me hungry. 

We’re going to need to wrap you in a blanket so you’re all nice and cozy. Then protect you from the world because I dunno who would take offense to- well nowadays.. anyway, of course I wouldn’t take offense from someone giving me a compliment.. ;-; (Or anyone cursing me out btw, lmao.) The world does seem quite angry about a lot of things huh. *Hands you a warm drink*. Scoot over :3 anyway, thank you so much kjengarg;knwm,g but honestly if you look closely you can see that I look like a mix between a zombie and a vampire. A person that couldn’t decide whether she was supposed to be dead 3 years ago already since all the life/blood left her body anyway. Yet is too stubborn. It’s like I dug myself up from a grave and slathered on some makeup. I mean that’s how I feel lol. Which is perfect for Halloween. I’m totally in my element right now.      

And I was making brownies when I dropped the pan since these ridiculous pawpaw-things make my life 40x harder than it has to be. Luckily for me it fell the right-side up! So I stared at it for a full 5 seconds before I was able to breathe again- slathered the damn thing with frosting and- where were we? Right. Well, I don’t think petplay is for me. I think that’s the lesson here and- right right.. as I wanted to say: you’re right though! It won’t last long ♡🎉

Again thankyou for your kind message (and the star!) this really lifted me up 🥰, I hope you’re well and have a nice day!! ✨🔆

#asktamelee #vanilacatchocolatecat #I'm joking about it but drawing is kinda painful #I'm sorry for being slow with the sns prompts #:( #and as for the phone cover #it's cute huh! #the only thing I don't like is that sasuke says sorry #which he shouldn't and wouldn't and doesn't #so I pasted a sticker on it #as for the offense part.. #I open my twitter or ig dm's and the first thing people say #is please don't take offense but... #then say something really nice #why would I take offense? #you know I get it because nowadays people get pissed off easily #but I can assure you that you would have to try really #reeeaaalllyyy hard #to offend me #and even then I doubt you can do it #that's not a challenge I'm just saying #everything I say is being held under a microscope right now #everything I tweet #everyone I follow #everything I reblog #so I understand why there is uneasiness #I get the concern #but even if you feel like you have constructive criticism #feel free to share #as for this post thankyou 💕

[hideyseek]

/BARGES IN/ HELLO BUDDY REVERSE UNO CARD FANFIC ASK MEME 🥺, 🤡 , 🛒, ⌛

HIIIIIIIIIII ENNJI <3 I LOVE 2 BE UNO REVERSE CARDED!! also haha sorry these got ... quite long (i can talk about how long it takes me to write a thing for SO LONG buddy) so i'm putting the whole thing under a cut.

from these fanfic writer emoji asks

🥺 Is there a certain type of moment or common interaction between your characters that never fails to put you in your feels?

mmmmmmm.... had to think about this one for a bit because the types of interactions i tend to write for kakehai aren't actually the ones that put me in MY feels, haha. but i think moments of very small and mundane domesticity are moments i really like -- there's an almost off-hand kind of intimacy in that kind of sharing space that i'm really compelled by. that idea of like, oh this person is so familiar to me that things like reaching around them or being passed something by them is all happening somewhat subconsciously.

🤡 What’s a line, scene, or exchange you’ve written that made you laugh?

ohoho. i do think that i've gotten a lot less funny over the years, both as a person in how i interact with the world and also in the kind of writing i'm doing. part of this i think is just the particular bits of haiji/kazetsuyo that i latched onto (in particular contrast to the lighthearted, laugh-at-the-narrator, very romantic type of fic i primarily wrote for inception).

anyway, that to say i actually couldn't think of anything when i was answering this so then i went down a rabbit hole of google docs bc surely i'd written something i thought was funny in the last year and genuinely all i could find (though admittedly i didn't search very hard) was this snippet from a kunikidazai pwp ficlet i started for bcsdp when kunikida's been lost in thought for a while:

“Ku-ni-ki-da-kun,” Dazai prompts. “What’s happening upstairs?” “Nothing,” Kunikida snaps, and wishes he’d said none of your business as soon as Dazai smirks.

🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

ok well i was going to say "i don't know but i skimmed through all my posted fic on ao3 and i had two whole fics that involved the pov character being a forger of some kind and a core romance-related theme being 'what is real vs what is valuable' which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice".

but then i remembered that i have like, three or four wips across a couple fandoms that are all basically "what happens to my blorbo guy after a big, life-changing experience ends and then he's left adrift and has to figure out how to be a person?" so i'll say that! i'm really compelled by the idea of having a like, identity-defining project and then having that like -- end abruptly and having a character still have to be themselves without it.

⌛ How long does it take you to write a fic, or a chapter?

SO LONG. ohh my god SO SO LONG. well okay that's not true, it really depends. one of my big "writing goals" (incredibly abstract goal, i would not say i'm working toward it) is to write faster.

i've gotten to a point where i can, more or less, rough out an outline of a 2-4k fic focusing on 1-2 character relationships with a single reasonably straightforward plot and no particular thematic intention in an afternoon, and probably draft it in a week (and revise in another week) if i'm not doing much else or the idea is really compelling and i don't get overthinky. a year or two ago, that would have taken me maybe a month or two of very like, focused and intense writing. but also there's like ... something about the 4k threshold that i just never can really cross with a fic like this.

but in terms of drafting and going from the start of an idea to an actual fic i am incredibly, incredibly slow. most fics that i'm writing now are more than 4k (even the mini version of heist!au is shaping up to be 5k ish) and are probably ... 3-5 drafts? for narrative!fic i've spent maybe 2-3 years now putting snippets in a evernote doc and drafted the first 1/4 to 1/3 of the story literally 4 times in the last year -- i'm like a chapter and a half into draft 4 now and that's taken already 2-3 weeks (and this was genuinely a fluke from the recent holiday weekend) and in my mind this is still a "first draft".

ok wow this was possibly more than you desire to know about how long it takes me to write things however haha i'm still not done! the thing that has been keeping me moderately sane about all this is this FANTASTIC BOOK called the art of slow writing by louise desalvo which i have also been reading incredibly slowly (i am about 60% of the way through and it has been since like, february of this year) but the book is this really wonderful (to me) collection of both desalvo's process and perspective of writing a novel, and a ton of referencing other writers and how goddamn long it took them to write things (with lots of gentle and loving mockery of writing as a practice, which i really enjoy). anyway! i recommend it -- whenever i get frustrated about how long a fic is taking i'll go read a chapter of this (they are all very short) and calm down about it.

#hidey speaks #ask game #ahaha sorry ennji this got uh SO LONG. when i'm on the laptop i simply type so so so much and never ever stop #hope u enjoy !