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WHY am I getting a new vid idea, WHY IS THIS HAPPENING. At least it's for a fandom I'm already working in. And it just happens to be a song I fell in love with a couple days ago, which tends to make me irrational, so probably in a week I'll realize it's totally wrong and won't have to do it. BUT SERIOUSLY, brain. Not cool.

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A meme, via petra, because it sounded awesome and dealing with temp agencies is giving me STRESS, and also I'm just going to copy and paste:

I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" That's not talking about stories, it's writing more of a story. You know how sometimes you read something and you think, "I got ___ out of this story, I wonder if I have that right?" or "What on earth was ____ supposed to be?" and it's too awkward to ask the author? Come and ask!

I've heard people say that writing is hard because you have to make decisions, but we rarely talk about the decisions we make with stories or why we make them. We talk about plot bunnies, but not about how we actually turn them into a story.

So ask me questions. "What were you trying to do when ____?" "Why did you decide to ____?" "This is what I thought about ____. Is that what you were going for?" "What made you write ____?" etc.

(With the caveat that of course being the Author I am therefore Dead, and it's not like I'm going to correct you about whatever you got out of it. But I'm always more than happy to talk about My Thoughts on things I made.)

You may also feel free to ask about vids, or any stories that are no longer online. Although if the story is more than a few years old, I may not remember what I was thinking. But possibly!

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have to go to the car dealership tomorrow and wait there for two hours while they decide whether it really needs the repair I got the recall notice about, then if it does they have to order the part and then I have to drop it off on Friday for half a day while they do it. You would think for such a critical recall ("the airbag might kill you") affecting so many cars they might have it on hand but I GUESS NOT.

soooooo I guess I'm going to get some reading done. TWO HOURS. Just to look at it. Also the website listed the wrong phone number so I had to leave a message with some random guy in sales so he could call me back and give me the right number, so they could put me on hold.