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I'm so insanely busy today, so sadly have no time to post about Florida or magick making or rituals or Imbolc or beautiful moments, which I desperately want to write about!!! So I'm taking two seconds out of the day to do a fun survey, courtesy of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jkoyanagi~ <33333
1. What's the last thing you wrote?
The last thing I finished was my novel, Twixt, with a whole lot of Bite between now and then.
2. Was it any good?
HELL YES. (Can I get this tattooed so the next time I'm being a ridiculously overemotional writer, I can look down on my knee and say, oh yes! I do actually think I'm good! XD)
3. What's the first thing you wrote that you still have?
*laughing* Oh gods...this can totally be used to blackmail me...the first novel I ever wrote, I still have. I finished it when I was twelve. It was about a slave dancer named Arica who could fly a spaceship, and was TOTALLY NOT BASED in the Star Wars universe at all. *snorts*
4. Write poetry?
Absolutely! I've gotten quite a bit of it published in lit magazines...I always told myself, growing up, I was born in the wrong time...if I'd been born about a hundred years ago, I wonder if I'd have been able to make it as a poet. I would have loved to have tried~ :)
5. Angsty poetry?
YES. And this was published, too. XD Oh, more blackmailing potential...
6. Favorite genre of writing?
Young Adult! You get to do anything you want in young adult, which I know is a ridiculously sweeping statement, so let me explain...I can write paranormal romance with flying cows and little green aliens, and if I write it well, and if the story is GOOD, then people will want to read it. Having that freedom and loving what I love (witches, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, goddesses), it's the perfect fit for me~
7. Most fun character you ever wrote?
Finn!!!!!! She's an "easter egg" character who pops up in a LOT of my novels...the proverbial trickster. :) She's a nymphomaniac lesbian who has the WORST LUCK IN THE WORLD, but who ALWAYS comes out on top, regardless. She's the main character in Saint of Stars, a lesbian sci-fi epic, but like I said...she makes guest appearances regularly. I love her to bits~
8. Most annoying character you ever created?
None of them are really annoying...some of them are whiny (think Interview with a Vampire, Louis style), but not annoying.
9. How often do you get writer's block?
I'm pretty good about it in recent years, but I had a four year stint of writer's block where every novel I started I didn't finish. Lots of poetry and short stories happened, but not writing novels slowly killed me.
10. How do you fix it?
I just grabbed myself up by my bootstraps, gave myself a little shake and kept going. I just knew I had to.
11. Write fan fiction?
I did, about ten years ago...some Sailor Moon stuff. Haven't since.
12. Do you type or write by hand?
Both! I type very, very fast so can get a lot down quickly, but I love the feel of handwritten pages, the scent of paper and ink...growing up, it's how I wrote all my novels, so if I'm ever stuck, I pull out a notebook and a pen, and I just start writing...that sensuality puts me in the perfect place, and everything gets kickstarted.
13. Do you save everything you write?
Absolutely!!! I have boxes and boxes and boxes of old notebooks that I've gone through ever since I was little, filled cover to cover with stories, poems and novels...they're my treasures~ :)
14. Do you ever go back to an old idea long after you abandoned it?
I never really abandon my ideas...just realize it's not the right time to write them, then wait patiently for that right time.
15. What's your favorite thing that you've written?
I love Hymns for Her/The Dark Wife unendingly, LOVE The Lockless Door, and love The Red Room, regardless of the fact that I wrote it when I was sixteen. I still think it stands, and want to very, very much re-write it someday. :)
16. What's everyone else's favorite thing that you've written?
People love Twixt, thank the gods!!! :)
17. What's your favorite setting for your characters?
Everything I write in some way, shape or form, begins or ends in the wilds of nature--that proverbial dark forest. It also usually involves some decadent city that's crumbling around the people within it, thus the proverbial exodus to nature. That's a broad, sweeping view, but that's a lot of what I write. There's also a few lands that I love ceaselessly in my epic series, but they would need a bit more description. :)
18. How many writing projects are you working on right now?
Two: editing Twixt and writing Bite, and love both wholeheartedly~
19. Do you want to write for a living?
It's my lifelong dream, yes. :)
20. Have you ever written something for a magazine or newspaper?
Yuppers!
21. Have you ever won an award for your writing?
Some college stuff, but I don't really count that.
22. Ever written something in script or play format?
Some writing group exercises, but nothing vast.
23. What are your five favorite words?
To use in writing? Wow...that's hard. I love myriad, amorphous, bone, fur, sea...words that paint pictures by themselves are my favorites.
24. What character that you've written most resembles yourself?
Evenia Rosecran (Evie for short) is my muse...the woman I want to grow up to be. She opens a book store called "The Red Quill" in a fabled city, and feels her heart breaking when she has to close it...but a vampire and werewolf, her friends, have a job opportunity for her...Dracula has opened a "theme park" of sorts for wealthy nobles to hunt monsters under cover of night...will she be the gatekeeper? I love her, completely and utterly. She's the Storyteller of my world.
25. Where do you get ideas for your other characters?
They're just in my head. They're already there, fully formed.
26. Do you ever write based off your dreams?
Oooooooooooh yes.
27. Do you favor happy endings, sad endings, or cliff-hangers?
I used to believe that I could never write a book without a happy ending, and have since learned that that's wrong. :)
28. Are you concerned with spelling and grammar as you write?
Gods, yes.
29. Does music help you write?
Yes, I love it!!
30. Quote something you've written. The first thing to pop into your mind.
A random snippet from Bite:
"You wanted me," she says to my brother then. It is not a question.
"She’s had too much," he says, turning and continuing up the stairs. I’m forced to relinquish my hold on the Countess as he all but drags her up the final few onto the third landing, where her bedroom lies. “You’ll have to do a bloodletting,” he says over his shoulder. That’s when I smell the fear, the instantaneous course of it that goes through Anara.
"Bloodletting," she says weakly, but Brutus has already found the door to the Countess’ quarters, and he’s pushing it open. He drags her in, deposits her on a plush chair and brings in a torch from the hallway. The shadows dance along the edges of the walls, licking upward with darkness. I follow them with my eyes as they push up toward the ceiling, and then the oil lamp is burning, and I see Darien’s head, lolled back against the edge of her chair. Anara is kneeling down by her, and I see a knife in her hand.
My vision is swimming, there are too many emotions here, and I don’t know how to process them all, or close myself off from feeling them. Anara has fear, bright and sharp like the knife blade in her hand, it comes off her in sickening waves that wash over us all, drowning. Brutus feels anger at me, fear for…fear for something I can’t quite place. And I have intense desire as Anara pressed the blade into Darien’s wrist, because that’s when I see the blood, flowing out and down the chair, sinking softly, without noise, into the lush carpet at their feet.
They’re trying to kill her.
jkoyanagi~ <333331. What's the last thing you wrote?
The last thing I finished was my novel, Twixt, with a whole lot of Bite between now and then.
2. Was it any good?
HELL YES. (Can I get this tattooed so the next time I'm being a ridiculously overemotional writer, I can look down on my knee and say, oh yes! I do actually think I'm good! XD)
3. What's the first thing you wrote that you still have?
*laughing* Oh gods...this can totally be used to blackmail me...the first novel I ever wrote, I still have. I finished it when I was twelve. It was about a slave dancer named Arica who could fly a spaceship, and was TOTALLY NOT BASED in the Star Wars universe at all. *snorts*
4. Write poetry?
Absolutely! I've gotten quite a bit of it published in lit magazines...I always told myself, growing up, I was born in the wrong time...if I'd been born about a hundred years ago, I wonder if I'd have been able to make it as a poet. I would have loved to have tried~ :)
5. Angsty poetry?
YES. And this was published, too. XD Oh, more blackmailing potential...
6. Favorite genre of writing?
Young Adult! You get to do anything you want in young adult, which I know is a ridiculously sweeping statement, so let me explain...I can write paranormal romance with flying cows and little green aliens, and if I write it well, and if the story is GOOD, then people will want to read it. Having that freedom and loving what I love (witches, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, goddesses), it's the perfect fit for me~
7. Most fun character you ever wrote?
Finn!!!!!! She's an "easter egg" character who pops up in a LOT of my novels...the proverbial trickster. :) She's a nymphomaniac lesbian who has the WORST LUCK IN THE WORLD, but who ALWAYS comes out on top, regardless. She's the main character in Saint of Stars, a lesbian sci-fi epic, but like I said...she makes guest appearances regularly. I love her to bits~
8. Most annoying character you ever created?
None of them are really annoying...some of them are whiny (think Interview with a Vampire, Louis style), but not annoying.
9. How often do you get writer's block?
I'm pretty good about it in recent years, but I had a four year stint of writer's block where every novel I started I didn't finish. Lots of poetry and short stories happened, but not writing novels slowly killed me.
10. How do you fix it?
I just grabbed myself up by my bootstraps, gave myself a little shake and kept going. I just knew I had to.
11. Write fan fiction?
I did, about ten years ago...some Sailor Moon stuff. Haven't since.
12. Do you type or write by hand?
Both! I type very, very fast so can get a lot down quickly, but I love the feel of handwritten pages, the scent of paper and ink...growing up, it's how I wrote all my novels, so if I'm ever stuck, I pull out a notebook and a pen, and I just start writing...that sensuality puts me in the perfect place, and everything gets kickstarted.
13. Do you save everything you write?
Absolutely!!! I have boxes and boxes and boxes of old notebooks that I've gone through ever since I was little, filled cover to cover with stories, poems and novels...they're my treasures~ :)
14. Do you ever go back to an old idea long after you abandoned it?
I never really abandon my ideas...just realize it's not the right time to write them, then wait patiently for that right time.
15. What's your favorite thing that you've written?
I love Hymns for Her/The Dark Wife unendingly, LOVE The Lockless Door, and love The Red Room, regardless of the fact that I wrote it when I was sixteen. I still think it stands, and want to very, very much re-write it someday. :)
16. What's everyone else's favorite thing that you've written?
People love Twixt, thank the gods!!! :)
17. What's your favorite setting for your characters?
Everything I write in some way, shape or form, begins or ends in the wilds of nature--that proverbial dark forest. It also usually involves some decadent city that's crumbling around the people within it, thus the proverbial exodus to nature. That's a broad, sweeping view, but that's a lot of what I write. There's also a few lands that I love ceaselessly in my epic series, but they would need a bit more description. :)
18. How many writing projects are you working on right now?
Two: editing Twixt and writing Bite, and love both wholeheartedly~
19. Do you want to write for a living?
It's my lifelong dream, yes. :)
20. Have you ever written something for a magazine or newspaper?
Yuppers!
21. Have you ever won an award for your writing?
Some college stuff, but I don't really count that.
22. Ever written something in script or play format?
Some writing group exercises, but nothing vast.
23. What are your five favorite words?
To use in writing? Wow...that's hard. I love myriad, amorphous, bone, fur, sea...words that paint pictures by themselves are my favorites.
24. What character that you've written most resembles yourself?
Evenia Rosecran (Evie for short) is my muse...the woman I want to grow up to be. She opens a book store called "The Red Quill" in a fabled city, and feels her heart breaking when she has to close it...but a vampire and werewolf, her friends, have a job opportunity for her...Dracula has opened a "theme park" of sorts for wealthy nobles to hunt monsters under cover of night...will she be the gatekeeper? I love her, completely and utterly. She's the Storyteller of my world.
25. Where do you get ideas for your other characters?
They're just in my head. They're already there, fully formed.
26. Do you ever write based off your dreams?
Oooooooooooh yes.
27. Do you favor happy endings, sad endings, or cliff-hangers?
I used to believe that I could never write a book without a happy ending, and have since learned that that's wrong. :)
28. Are you concerned with spelling and grammar as you write?
Gods, yes.
29. Does music help you write?
Yes, I love it!!
30. Quote something you've written. The first thing to pop into your mind.
A random snippet from Bite:
"You wanted me," she says to my brother then. It is not a question.
"She’s had too much," he says, turning and continuing up the stairs. I’m forced to relinquish my hold on the Countess as he all but drags her up the final few onto the third landing, where her bedroom lies. “You’ll have to do a bloodletting,” he says over his shoulder. That’s when I smell the fear, the instantaneous course of it that goes through Anara.
"Bloodletting," she says weakly, but Brutus has already found the door to the Countess’ quarters, and he’s pushing it open. He drags her in, deposits her on a plush chair and brings in a torch from the hallway. The shadows dance along the edges of the walls, licking upward with darkness. I follow them with my eyes as they push up toward the ceiling, and then the oil lamp is burning, and I see Darien’s head, lolled back against the edge of her chair. Anara is kneeling down by her, and I see a knife in her hand.
My vision is swimming, there are too many emotions here, and I don’t know how to process them all, or close myself off from feeling them. Anara has fear, bright and sharp like the knife blade in her hand, it comes off her in sickening waves that wash over us all, drowning. Brutus feels anger at me, fear for…fear for something I can’t quite place. And I have intense desire as Anara pressed the blade into Darien’s wrist, because that’s when I see the blood, flowing out and down the chair, sinking softly, without noise, into the lush carpet at their feet.
They’re trying to kill her.