Sanmei - An Angel Who Used To Be A Library

corny lines work on cornballs

As a writer with aphantasia, artists are the people who let me see the world I show others.

I envy writers.

As an artist I can give you a snapshot into a world.

But a writer.

A writer can take you there.

They can weave together words and create a portal to anywhere. You can visit those places instead of looking out a window and wishing to be a part of it.

I envy writers.

Childhood memories

I played this track on loop continuously while writing the first chapter of my fic. The use of minor key gives it such a lonely feeling which seemed highly appropriate.

I feel like they would have a lot to talk about 

Twenty-one sheets of paper. She'd started with just drawing the symbol—there had to be a better word for it. Rune? Glyph, maybe?—over and over, trying to recreate it without a reference this time. The first few didn't seem right, but the fourth clicked somehow. Her lines weren't perfect; the drawing lessons her father had given her so long ago were muddied by years without practice, but there was apparently some amount of leeway permitted.

A single tap and the paper crinkled upon itself and expanded into a dull glowing ball of light, and for a wonder, it didn't even hurt her eyes that much. In fact, she liked it so much that she drew it again and made another light, and then another, and then another, and before long she could draw the glyph from memory.

Twenty-one pages, twenty-one lights. If the light really had played any role in Eda's transforming back, Luz was certainly making extra sure the effect lasted as long as possible. Practical applications, practice makes perfect and all that. She wasn't just making lights for the sake of the sheer giddy joy of doing magic. Just... academic reasons.

Oh good, I'm not the only writer to realize all these kids should have trauma after everything they've gone through. :)

Pros of writing while exhausted:

Can't overthink things if you're dead

The creative mind merges with the conscious mind for unlimited flow

Half-asleep already so it short-circuits the moment when a great idea strikes you in bed by letting you still be at the computer

Had a dream with an amazing idea in it? Good news! You were still awake at the time, sorta!

Cons of writing while exhausted:

jts sem.ePpit anito gsh,,,,,,

Gonna wake up the next morning and ask yourself "what the HELL was that idea?"

Completely forgot that you finished the last chapter

Getting feedback and being like "yeah I can't wait to find out where I'm going with this too." :S