One for the road

[sigma7]

Because I wouldn't want to let erica_roo down.


Leave a comment and I will:
a) Tell you why I friended you.
b) Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
c) Tell you something I like about you.
d) Tell you a memory I have of you.
e) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
f) Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
g) In return, you must post this in your LJ.

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[sigma7.livejournal.com]

a) Because you make me think about things in a way that exercises my mind -- because you understand a few aspects of life that I'm still getting a handle on, specifially writing, pain and the intersection therein.
b) Has to be the written word -- I know you exist in other fandomic dimensions, but you're most assertive in the world where your word is God.
c) You don't acknowledge limits -- I think you're aware they exist, but the disdain you show them is inspirational. You write without fear. That's where I need to be.
d) Oh, we have those threads where we're spinning from the concrete conversations about writing into the hypothetical and far-flung reaches of possibility and absolutely everything is ludicrous and unbound by any semblance of linear perception and everything that can be just...is. Reality unfolds. And I think my favorite part is that I can't narrow that down to one moment or one discussion. This happens enough that it's almost less glorious. Almost.
e) What's the worst that your characters have rebelled on you? I'm sure they've thrown your plot into the blender from time to time, but when was the deviation the most profound?
f) They're all good, and I like the familiarity of your default, but I'll have to say this one. It's good to see you smile.

[brightrosefox.livejournal.com]

*blinks*
Wow.
Well.

It... took me a few minutes to process that. These are all incredible, wonderful compliments, and I truly appreciate that they're so detailed. I didn't expect to be seen with so much depth. I just write what's in me, no matter what it is -- nice to know it is all well-received!

What surprises me about c) is that I don't expect people to see me having that disdain for limits. I can see limits everywhere and I give them the finger, but there are times when I am so dangerously close that I keep thinking I've pushed them, and then someone proves that I haven't. It's weird to me. Everyone else sees things about me that I don't see that should be quite obvious.

I'm looking forward to more of d).

The answer to e): When they wouldn't let me bring an unexpectedly dead character back in any form (not even as a spirit. And then when another character actually asked to be psychically and mentally wounded in a near fatal way. And especially, when my main female character refused to back out of a sacrifice plot point that I wanted to change. I was going to go easy on her, but there began an argument, and I think there were swear words involved. I was furious for a while. It was not at all what I wanted. Eventually I relented, because it was either that or scrap the whole book. But we agreed on a loophole. So it's now a nice compromise. You'd think characters wouldn't want authors to maim them unmercifully, you know?