Ohh These Look So Cool!

Ohh these look so cool!

okay, so I’m trying out the @cecilsstorycorner​ method of drawing fake screenshots for your wip, and I’m-

I’m freaking out over here, I love it-

(will keep adding to this post as I set up more roughs)

A, F and L And I'm not sure if I've explicitly mentioned this before, but I adore Over Land and Sea, or at least what I've sean of it(pun :D)

Thank you for the ask Eve! And I am so glad that you’re liking Over Land and Sea, I’m having so much fun with it and yeah, I’m glad you like it!!

A: Does writing energize or exhaust you?

Normally writing energizes me! I’ve written for a long period and then I walk out of my room and I’m shaking in excitement for what I just wrote. One time, I had to stop writing for dinner and I had been so engrossed with what I was writing that I could hardly eat cause I was so on edge to get back to it. 

Lately, though, it’s been exhausting cause I just haven’t been able to find the motivation and time seems to drag on with every word I type, but that’s not a normal thing so let’s hope it goes away soon!

F: Do you prefer to write stand-alones or series?

Normally I like to write stand-alones, but sometimes I just have way too many ideas that I just have to make it a series to fit everything. So it all depends on the story.

L: How do you select the names of your characters?

Name generators and baby naming websites. 

Boring, I know. But I go through lists of 100 names and I’ll quickly read through and only one name will stick with me. The name that does is the name I pick. Then I go to a different list and do the same thing. 

The thing with relying on my memory is that my mind is focusing on the personality of the character and then the name the stands out is the name that gives the vibe of the character and thus become the character. 

The one thing I don’t do is giving my characters names of people I know in real life. If I do, my mind won’t think of the character, it’ll think of the real person. And that’s not what I want. 

In response to this ask game!!

My Child is Neurotypical

So I made a few…dozen…posts on twitter about my experiences being neurodivergent. They’re a roughly 60/40 split between being autistic and having adhd with heavy overlap. They take the form of a parent in denial saying “My child is neurotypical” and the response of “Your child is X” where X is a common neurodivergent experience phrased as if coming from a teacher.

(I’ll be updating these as I make more)

Classroom

Your child was a pleasure to have in class

Your child can’t focus unless they’re playing with something

Your child has awful handwriting

Your child is tapping their foot through class

Your child just needs to apply themselves. They can clearly do the work but keep making silly mistakes

Your child had a breakdown over not getting all their homework done

Your child is quiet and struggling to stay on task

Your child thinks school was indistinguishable from torture but struggles without the structure

Your child needs outside structure or they can’t figure out what to do first

Sensory - Sound

Your child hears the CRT TV noise (double this if they hate it)

Your child needs to cover their ears any time you use a blender

Your child wants to know where that buzzing is coming from

Your child can tell if the fridge has been opened recently from the other room

Sensory - Touch

Your child can’t wear rough or slippery fabrics

Your child hates any texture beyond flannel (any other distinctive texture works too)

Your child hates tags on clothing

Your child overheats in thick socks

Your child wears sportswear but hates sports (@checkerfired1 on twitter)

Your child thinks water has a strange texture

Your child finds showering exhausting but also doesn’t want to get out at the end

Your child can’t stand the feeling of oil on their skin

Sensory - Light

Your child sat in the dark from noon til sunset before starting their day

Your child thinks sunlight is ‘too much’

Memory

Your child forgot they were hungry halfway through making dinner

Your child has had midnight new years pass by because they forgot to wait for it

Your child can’t keep a grasp on time

Your child is confused about how it’s already evening

Your child has over 50 tabs open in chrome

Your child can only ‘wing it’ because they always forget what they planned to say

Your child made a list of what they needed to do and forgot to check it

Your child came up with a ‘my child is neurotypical’ post but forgot

Stimulation

Your child can’t focus without background music

Your child thinks everybody is exhausted after conversations

Your child drinking caffeine is like a roulette wheel in its effects

Your child struggles thinking while seated

Your child likes to constantly be chewing on something

Your child finds crowds overwhelming

Your child finds existing at night less exhausting

Sleep

Your child is reading this in the middle of the night

All of your child’s friends live on the opposite side of the world because they can’t maintain a traditional sleep schedule

Your child had midnight new years pass by because they’re normally awake well past then even as an adult

Your child has trouble quieting their brain to sleep

Dyspraxia

Your child is extremely klutzy

Your child’s phone typing is riddled with typos

Empathy

Your child felt guilty for bumping into the table

Your child is painfully uncomfortable watching shows with awkward situations

Your child cries even thinking about somebody being in pain

Your child is extremely trusting with new people they just met

Emotions

Your child has lots of mood swings

Your child hates compliments because they’re sure they’ll disappoint and alienate anyone who thinks anything good about them (from @MaebyIsSweet on twitter)

Sharing

Your child shares extremely personal experiences with people they just met

Your child can talk for hours about the same subject without getting tired

Communication

Your child learned nonverbal communication from the family dog/cat

Your child gets frustrated because people can’t understand them

Your child has been discussing the same topic for 30 minutes without taking a break to breath

Your child tends to speak repetitively - they may feel somewhat scripted

Your child feels like an alien sent to observe humans

Your child cries when instructions aren’t clear enough

Your child communes with animals because they make more sense than people

Your child doesn’t see the point of small talk

Your child finds comfort in the scriptedness of small talk

Your child is anxious about misreading people’s intentions

Your child is anxious about contacting somebody because they think it’s too last second

Your child gets frustrated when instruction manuals skip steps

Your child is constantly anxious about misunderstanding

Your child needs subtitles to hear anything

Your child has times they struggle to make words

Consistency (Anxiety)

Your child asks for the same meal every time they come home

Your child watched a single movie more than 3 times in one day

Your child feels anxious watching new movies or tv shows

Your child nearly has a stress breakdown if plans change last second

Your child’s anxiety spikes every time you ask them a question

Your child has a favourite song they’ve listened to for a week straight

Your child finds split second decision making stressful

Your child gets anxious if they don’t exactly follow their daily routine

Masking

Your child can pick up accents easily

Your child grew up wishing they could just go live in the forest away from people

Your child gets anxious when you ask aabout their day

Your child emotionally relates to fictional characters more than real people

Your child has said ‘I just don’t have the energy to act human right now’

Your child has described people as ‘just too much’

Your child was so ashamed of being different they tried to reshape their personality so people would like them

Misc ones I haven’t really sorted yet

Your child is protective and doesn’t like anybody new coming into their room

Your child wishes it was easier to get up and do what they need to

Your child is confused by how other people relate to their gender

Your child thinks their functioning is an inconvenience to people

Your child is either ‘on’ or ‘off’ and there is no in between

Your child gets stuck in excitement feedback loops with their friends

Your child is convinced they just aren’t working hard enough

Your child is on their third hobby this week

Your child spaces out randomly during the day

Your child considers every step of getting dressed an individual task they have to do (from @sisi7304 on twitter)

Your child differentiates between food they like and food they think is good (@sweetmoonpigeon on twitter)

Your child has severe imposter syndrome about whether they’re neurodivergent ‘enough’

Your child isn’t sure what they’re supposed to do to be a man or a woman

Your child’s fingers and toes change colour in the cold

When someone is explaining something to you and you get hit with the realization that you haven’t retained anything that has been said to you and the moment they stop talking you won’t be able to recall any part of it

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Hii! Your WIP is very cool, and I've been enjoying your poetry too so... A, N, and Y for the ask game?

thank you and hello to you too!

A: Does writing energize or exhaust you?

i like to think it energizes me? i really get into it and do nothing else for days, but then i get a creative drought afterwards so... a bit of both!

N: Do you hide secrets/easter eggs in your books?

sort of! it’s a little more like “if this one specific person happens to read this, they will know what i’m talking about” or “if the reader has really been paying attention, then they’ll see that this is similar to that” or things like that.

Y: Are your characters based off of people you know? Yourself? Or no one at all?

they’re mostly based off of vibes, and then i throw a bit of me or someone i know to add some depth. in an older wip i got this idea for a person who is really shy and sweet and suffers a tragic loss, but they way he deals with it is a bit like myself. and i guess one of them came to me in a dream :)

in response to this ask game