“the writer attempts to show his love by not capitalizing god as a nod to his existentialist boyfriend who is also the editor, even though he himself is a devout Catholic but then sort of the point is that you might not be entirely sure that the writer is actually doing that or if the boyfriend is editing it or if the boyfriend editing is even really doing that or if they’re silently edit warring over it or what.”
#ALL THE FEELS *cries*
Oh, you *airily fans self*.
Well I only gush when gushing is due *hugs*
I really shouldn’t have used up all that divorce angst on Tony and Pepper, because I could have used it in finishing the novel. Gulfport is much more ‘Scenes from Robyn’s First Serious Boyfriend’ than it is ‘Scenes from Robyn’s Marriage’, but at the same time… stuff could have worked there, it really could have.
You can put the same divorce angst into Gulfport, why not double-dip? If you don’t want to access those feels again, I totally understand. You can find a new source of angst… Trent Reznor (technically also a Published Writer) put it very well in this song: “I pick things up, I am a collector… I have this net, it drags behind me, it picks up feelings, for me to feed upon.” – Nine Inch Nails, the Collector.
I actually remember my husband saying in interview, back in that weird time when I was doing that other comic and was on TV a couple of times, “you know, when she was doing autobio comics, people used to come up to me on the street and tell me I was an asshole. Lately I’m thankful she’s at least masking our relationship dynamic behind two gay men.”
That’s so crazy, omg. Wow! Well smtg good has come of it, it seems that that relationship dynamic was a major force in pushing you in your creative endeavors. Artists do tend to suffer for their art, n’est pas?
I can’t possibly be the only fic writer who shamelessly uses the medium to work through crap in their own life though, can I?
Of course you’re not the only one! That’s pretty much the job description of being A Writer, isn’t it? Not all writers have experiences like that to draw from, but when you do, and you write to work though it, it’s like cracking open your chest and letting the readers watch your heart bleed… this transaction is supposed to give you release, I suspect… since I’m merely a fledgling at writing… Take our lord and saviour, AR, for example. She lost a child, a devastating experience. She dealt with that loss (and all the concomitant emotions) in the writing of that short story that became IWTV, giving her the closure she needed.
I-want-my-IWTV 