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Thanks so much for tagging me, @authorisada! I've been gaining a lot of new followers lately (yay!), so this is a good moment to talk some more about my WIP ^^. 1. Tell me something you love about your current WIP(s). I enjoy the sense of discovery I feel when writing this story. It had been a while since I had written any fantasy, and only now I notice how much I have missed it. The adventure, the magic, the feeling that everything is possible... Plus I really love the 1800's, so doing all kind of research on that period is very inspiring.
2. Three of your characters are coming with you on a road trip. Who are they and why did you pick them? If I'm picking characters from Elementary, I'd choose Bismuth, Zinc and Mercury. Bismuth is a general sweetheart ánd very responsible, so he would take great care of us travelers. Zinc is an explorer from his toes to his fingertips. He would somehow feel exactly which road to take to find the prettiest and most lonesome places. And Mercury is just the kind of guy you need when you are lying on a car in the middle of the night, having eaten nothing but old sandwiches, looking at the stars, thinking about life.
3. How do you name your characters? I either spend four weeks scrolling through every single page of behindthename.com without ever finding the right name and settling for the one I started with, or I know the name of my character immidiatly and without doubt. There's no in between.
4. Which relationship do you write more of—romantic or platonic? Platonic. You can prey the misfits-to-family-trope from my cold, dead hands.
5. Has your main character(s) gone through any major changes through the course of your WIP? I think Tungsten has become a lot stronger and more secure. Though he is and always will be introverted and shy, I think he and I both discovered with quite a bit of surprise that he has a core made of iron.
6. Which tropes, if you’re aware of any, are in your WIP? Well, there is the misfits-to-family trope that I mentioned earlier. There is also a pretty and dangerous women (more than one, actually), a main character with extraordinairy strong magic (though he seldomly uses it) and probably some real bad romance cliches (because I can't write love but I also feel the need to write gay stuff). And I'm sure there are a thousend more, but I'm trying.
7. Favorite hero from any book/movie/etc.? That's impossible! I've always loved Maggie, from Heart of Inkt, and Liesel (and Rudy, and Max, and I just really love this book) from The Bookthief. Cormoran Strike from The Cormoran Strike mysteries is also lovely.
8. Favorite villain from any book/movie/etc.? Littlefinger from Game of Thrones is an absolutely horrifying and genius bad guy.
9. What’s your favorite part of the writing process? Editing, honestly. I love going over my work seventeen times, changes sentences over and over till they sound just right.
10. What makes your story different and compelling for readers? The characters, I think. I try to bring interesting, lovable characters with good intentions and many flaws. A friend once told me she could feel how much I cared in anything I wrote, and because of that, my work always felt warm. I thought that was very sweet and exactly what I am aiming for. I believe in mankind, as fucked up as it might be, and I hope I can make people fall in love with living and with humans just a little bit.
I don’t know who to tag, but the questions are great, so just fill them in if you feel like it!
More taggames! I was tagged by the lovely @andtheotherwriter to share the first three lines of my WIP, while the wonderful @merigreenleaf tagged me to the share the last line (at least, the last I’ve written so far). This is for Elementary: He had been repeating the name in his mind for weeks. Tungsten. He muttered it when he was standing behind the counter of his father's shop, wrote it in inkt on his lower arm, whispered it into Miltons ears. Slowly, the sound had wrapped itself around him, comfortable like an old jacket.
And the last one: Tungsten sat down and cried. He's going to be okay, I promise! I’m not tagging anyone because this has been going around for a while now and I’m not sure who’s already done it, but if you haven’t, feel free to take this note as a tag!