
AO3 + FurAffinity + Patreon Blind cartoonist, writer, and general creative. Not sure what this blog will be yet but here I am. :) All my love to people who use alt text and describe images on this website! Art tumblr: razzekart
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Nerrel Knocking It Out Of The Park Again. Even I Could Tell Something Was Wrong Looking At These And
Nerrel knocking it out of the park again. Even I could tell something was wrong looking at these and I am, in case you are new here, literally blind.
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Thank you for saying this! I am pretty down on myself a lot for basically being unable to write more than 2k words at most no matter how many people say they love the short stuff I do post. It helps hearing from one of the folks who can write the way I always wished I could and seeing that folks like you enjoy short fiction.
As a 50K person, I get how it sounds, but honestly, it is exhausting because a lot of it is rereading and hating the flow and having to add more to make it feel better as a piece and never feeling finished.
It's a difference in style and the way people write sometimes, I think.
I always appreciate short pieces and the authors ability to put together a story with a small amount, and it hit like a punch or just linger on my mind for years. A lot of them are genuinely beautiful or very funny or very hot and have very good pieces that get to the heart of things engagingly. But that is a skill to be able to do.
I can't do brevity, and it's genuinely not fun all the time. I've tried to write something smaller, and it just felt unfinished to me no matter how much I tried to force myself to not add more and made me so unhappy with it that I just left it. I can't do a story without it being more involved and full of details, which always expands. Otherwise, it feels barebones and not done.
Mor tangential the length of fiction doesn't reflect anything on quality or investment into the project either. Shorter pieces aren't any lesser for a smaller amount of words (and certainly aren't easier to write) and longer works aren't necessarily well-written just because there's a lot of words. And sometimes people lean into one or the other as easier to write for them.
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In case you ever wondered why I'm Like That, this was a very formative show for me and a lot of weird kids in the 90s staying up late and sneaking a watch of very questionable tv. :D
Given the number of drug dealers and rich people intersecting in my life, I'm pretty sure I've been in the room with more than one. A friend during a road trip once confessed to a murder. I continued to hang out with them, the reason seemed legit. XD I've since lost touch but I hope they're doing well.
Obligatory reference to sample size.
The trad wife one I don't want to name publicly. Her fandom has slowly and quietly been bleeding away for the past 10 years, authors and organizations who had formerly associated with her no longer do, and calling attention to any of it would just stir the pot more than it's worth. Her turn toward hate and fundamentalism stings since her older work was the first time I encountered the concept of a third sex in fiction. I still enjoy the old books but will no longer be reading anything else she publishes (and not solely because it's all become extremely tedious philosophizing while it grinds all the formerly interesting edges off everything; it's so boring now, it's honestly impressive). Looking back, all the warning signs were there, but it takes me a long time to notice when someone I am acquainted with is rotting from the inside out.
The other one is Benjanun Sriduangkaew aka Winterfox aka Lesifoere aka Requires Hate aka Maria Ying. I was wondering why she had suddenly stopped publishing after having been so prolific and casually googling her name just to see if she'd written anything new opened up a whoooole can of worms. o_o
Maaaan what is it with cis women authors who at least at one time wrote very good queer fiction turning out to have been assholes the whole time and/or metamorphosiing into freakish alt right trad wives who can no longer write their way out of a paper bag let alone their own assholes?