People literally have to stop asking writers this
We don't remember
NONE OF US REMEMBER
We don't remember
NONE OF US REMEMBER
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Jared Pechaček
“What is your book about” I dunno. I forgor
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I'm more likely to blurt "Monsters???" or "Evil???" with a definite rising tone, as if I'm checking with the other person that what I'm saying is indeed a word
How do I spell her name? I dunno. Why did he do that? I dunno. What did I say she looked like? Hell if I know.
It's so we don't have to remember it all ourselves
Very few of us have the skills necessary to just recite the whole thing from memory
I can give a couple of random adjectives about a book that will change depending on my mood but what it's ABOUT, definitely not
Like, the thing I'm writing now has lichen! and some trains! but they break the trains ope
that's not actually the plot I just
ran out of stuff I could say
I literally could not tell you the name of the main character right now if you put a gun to my head.
I was at a reading the other day and someone came up to say he'd loved one of my stories and when he described it I was like "Oh that one!" and then couldn't remember the title
It was published in 2022
but i remember everything
including that one time in 4th grade when i told Ms. Davis that i had a better survival rate as an astronaut than as a pizza delivery driver
“Oh yeah?? What if my mind goes blank? Or I take the stairs??”
ARE THERE WITCHES
FUCK THE SANDERSON KIND
it's FINE to have an excruciatingly spelled out magic system and it's FINE to have a magic system that is ~mysterious~
(MAGICALLY)
(SHE'S A WEREWOLF INSTEAD)