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#WriterMagic give me two (2) elevator pitches. one for normies and one for sickos!

8. what is your favorite part of the creative process?
Designing characters and thinking of their dynamics. I really like thinking about fashion, but my favorite thing to do while designing a character is filling up a sketch page of how they express themself... It's a nice way to get myself to think abt other facets to them or get started on brainstorming how they interact with the world around them

9. what is your least favorite part of the creative process?
Play testing my own projects, it's a really mind numbing experience LOL but a necessary one, so i still do my best. Sometimes music making feels like the worst too, but only bc i still haven't really built up the confidence for it. I think

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#WriterMagic 15 what are your writing weaknesses?

I don't like any action scenes, be it hand-to-hand combat, a battle, or even a sex scene (no surprise, they got their own stunt coordinator in #filmmaking, called #IntimacyCoordinator). I have no idea to make this bustle interesting while also making it relevant to the plot.

Because of that, writing #ForYou was such an interesting challenge.

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#WriterMagic 6 What is your creative process like?

I usually think about a story until it becomes concrete in my head and I have a good idea about the plot, the theme, the main characters and the ending as a destination. Then, I usually just start writing chronologically with each chapter going through the same process as the story as a whole in terms of fleshing out the plot for each chapter in depth.

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#WriterMagic 13 What are your personal writing ambitions (becoming famous not included, more like self-growth ambition, things you want to get better at)

I'm not one of those, who are satisfied with primarily/only writing for themselves, though I envy them a little. I just need to get my stuff out. When I don't think, I can, I won't write a particular story. That doesn't mean that a huge amount of readers have to read it.

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#WriterMagic 10 what kind of character conflicts define your work?

I love internal conflicts! You don't get any more raw than this. And you can't run from them. There can also be interpersonal conflicts, but they are usually related to an internal conflict.
What can make interpersonal conflicts also interesting are society problems, usually systematic ones.

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#WriterMagic 7 How do you name your characters?

I try to avoid naming characters after people I know. Of course, the more people you know, this is getting a little complicated. I also try not to rename characters once their names have been written down. In the rare occasions, I did this ended up with one previous name being left in one chapter and people asking "Who is Max?" I usually just go with my gut when it comes to names. I can't explain, why Chase is a Chase.

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14. what are your writing strengths?
I'd like to think strong characterization, concise details, and visceral descriptions of dark content.

15. what are your writing weaknesses?
Because I often envision my stories in a mix of prose and comic, it doesn't always translate properly into a finished product. I want to improve in effectively utilizing my medium of storytelling.

And that's a wrap!

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13. What are your personal writing ambitions?

One major goal I've had for the past year is to do more 'show not tell' and express more information through scene, and visual novels are somewhat perfect for practicing that!

Rather than paragraphs of description, I want to convey my story through character interaction to keep things entertaining.

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11. What is the role of love in your work?
See above; love acts as a source of conflict.

12. Do you tend to write more large group dynamics, smaller pair dynamics, or are your characters lonely cowboys?

Terminal Status is what helped me transition from protagonist-focused character exploration to large cast ensemble stories. I'm proud to say the latter is now my norm (though I also write a lot of duos).

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10. What kind of character conflicts define your work?

Primarily, one-sided love. Sooo many unrequited feelings, so much pining for people who are unavailable, just an absolute love polyhedron.

There's also a lot of warm, meaningful friendships, as well as casual "I guess we're together because we're in the same place" friendships. Everyone is just kinda chilling in Terminal Status; the conflicts are largely internal.

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8. What is your favorite part of the creative process?

Really hard to say, especially for Terminal Status. Working on this project has taught me to enjoy so many parts of the creative process; character design, world building, scripting (which is an entirely different type of writing than straight prose, I learned)...

But I think the bit I always enjoy most is making the initial storymap & watching full arcs develop. Sooo satisfying.

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#writermagic 10. what kind of character conflicts define your work?

Lack of communication and misunderstandings due to differing personalities or worldviews, paranoia, and anxieties. I don't really like massive dramatic overblown miscommunications, I think that's frustrating. But as someone who deals with a lot of anxiety and paranoia, I end up making different versions of other people in my head, or i avoid my problems a lot.

It feels comforting in a way to see people who struggle with communicating slowly build up a sort of understanding to each other. And learning to overcome fears

And I think it's just human nature that people don't always understand each other, but I think the best we can do is to try