23, 34, 37!

The favorite child question again? Okay, I’m going to cheat, go to my fic list, pick #23, and answer. That is …Erikwa. (phew, good) Okay, the opening imagery of surfacing from the depths, that the focus is on Imin and Iminyë and is there another Silm fic out there staring Imin and Iminyë (which Imin is a completely different character from Ingwë)? I’m proud of the uniqueness of that. Psychological study of starting your adult existence without any memory or culture or society to draw on, the truly fanatical and bizarre generational difference between the Unbegotten and ….any other living thing, that unlike Adam and Eve they don’t have anything there to explain anything to them. Creepy codependency hive-mind but not overpoweringly so. Look at this setting – I love writing prehistoric fantasy. And that lovely genre-space that straddles romantic fluff and bittersweet foreshadowing.

34. What’s the word count on your longest fic?

Release from Bondage (29,329) Plus it needs two more chapters and the final end footnotes where I map out the ASoIaF character inspirations. 

Almost everything I’ve ever written is third-person. (The Earth Is Screaming is the lone exception where I could only start writing it if Yavik narrated first-person, though I had no problem going back to third person with the

deuteragonist or spin-offs.) I hate reading first-person. While I have issues with verb tenses and will sometimes switch between wanting to write something present or past (or the few times I wish it wasn’t so cumbersome to write future tense in English), at most I’ll try to vary what third-person narration I want to use- subject, omniscient, muddled. 😉