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   cofe and nicotine :comfycofesneaky:
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     I'm of the opinion that it's so incredibly easy in an age where everyone is on the internet to find an audience for practically anything you do that it no longer makes for interesting writing to try to write with an audience in mind. I instead try to seek out what is the most nonexistent audience possible, because by writing something for an audience that doesn't exist I am doing the work of making new audiences possible
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     there are lots of little instances of alphanumeric qabbala that you can pick up on if you know what to look for, and I also like to essentially "sample" music in texts by repurposing lyrics for songs that are on my mind
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     I love the cover of Revolutionary Demonology and also have a personal connection to it since I know some of the people who wrote it and was an inspiration for some of it
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     there were a couple different series I liked as a kid but I think the ones that have had the most lasting impact on me were probably A Series of Unfortunate Events and also the Warrior Cats
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     I have thousands of words' worth of text that ended up not being turned into anything, and in a lot of cases it's because I simply didn't feel at the time like I could do justice to whatever I wanted to talk about and needed to do more research. but I rarely consider any piece of writing to be definitively abandoned. when that's been the case it's because after doing more research my opinions on something changed, or because enough time passed for me to have a different perspective, but I pretty much view all of my own drafts and notes and stuff I've already published as things to be cannibalized for future work
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     I'm a big fan of them and use them a lot in casual correspondences
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     if you want to be serious about writing you should go into it with the expectation that you will not be successful with it and probably will never make any money with it. you should really internalize that first and then ask yourself if you still have something that you feel like you *need* to say, like you have been given some task that you must carry out even if no one is listening. if so, then in my experience all other difficulties will be annihilated as long as you do the work
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     most of what I've done has been theoryfiction and short stories, but I have a few ideas for some novels that I am hoping to actually start working on soonish. undertaking big writing projects is mostly just an intimidating thing to commit to whereas with short stories and blog posts it's easy to say what I need to say and then get out immediately. I actually got my start writing poetry (which I am returning to also recently) and have always leaned towards trying to limit my word count because otherwise I can very easily go off on writing thousands of words
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     @nyx honestly why I switched to just poetry. I wrote a couple of shit short essays a bit ago, but I just can't be bothered to write longer form stuff and put effort into it when the returns are a small feeling of accomplishment upon completion and then crippling anxiety when I realize that time could be better spent on literally anything else.
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     I use the IBM 3270 font for the body of stuff I write, and Textura Libera for headings
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     my autograph is a sigil :xf_nyxsigil: and I appear as a series of characteristics that are designed to be recreated by whoever would like to turn them into OC :xf_nyxgun: :xf_nyxjaksoy: :xf_nyxgroyper: :xf_nyxdisapproving:
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     in a way yes, because my academic background is in philosophy and I am very used to the idea that you should never talk about a topic if you haven't read some relevant pieces of work within the genealogy of whatever you're doing. because philosophy especially, but writing in general really, is basically just a very long and abstract conversation and you need to be a good listener before you can be a good talker. but there is always so much to read and at a certain point it becomes unproductive to get bogged down in like, being able to cite all the right things.
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     I pretty much don't. I used to post about things I was writing back when I was still active on twitter and had a decent amount of followers, but I decided I would not invest myself anymore in platforms that could arbitrarily decide to ban me (which is exactly what happened multiple times). my strategy however has always been to imbue my writing with a certain amount of memetic potential that will get people to talk about it and share it, which is really just how I'm already inclined to write anyways since at heart I'm still just a shitposter on the internet
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     I don't exactly write within specific genres because a lot of what I do is pretty explicitly weird and experimental, but I guess you could vaguely say that my writing has elements of sci-fi and especially horror. if I were gonna try to do something differently it would honestly be to try to just keep it simple and write something in a genre. I've off and on considered trying to write like, horror erotica since the elements of that are already in some of the stuff I've done and I think it would be a fun exercise to try to force myself out of my comfort zone and do something like that.
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     I don't think so. It's more like certain narratives will be weaved throughout a work, or throughout various other things I've written, in a nonlinear way. so even if I were to make a prologue to something it would probably not even be physically located at the beginning of a piece, or maybe not even in the piece itself.
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     I have written things before that were inspired by exes, but nothing I've ever written has been that explicitly connected to the real life of the meat puppet writing this.
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     I tend to use a lot of semicolons because the earliest influences on my writing when I started to actually start doing it on my own were Lovecraft and Poe and the Bronte sisters, so I have always been partial to that kind of really ornate English writing style of constructing complicated sentence structures. I think it matters a lot for things like pacing and creating the right affect in the reader. when I write something I think about it as if I were filming a scene in a movie, because movies are a big influence on a lot of things I do, so sometimes when writing something I think about how I might want to "cut" a scene in a certain way to change the flow of time. grammar is basically like the textual equivalent of being able to cut film
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     it's complicated because as I've said elsewhere in this thread, I view writing as an act of making myself worthy of something. sometimes it feels like a bit of a burden, especially in my most melancholic periods it's been something that keeps me anchored to the world despite my own wishes, but in other ways it gives me a sense of satisfaction because I am doing something that I'm meant to do and that is really one of the only things I'm good at
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     I have considered this and would love to collaborate with someone or create something as a collective in the same way that the CCRU and Laboria Cuboniks worked. if I were gonna collaborate with another person it would definitely be lilli
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     I don't do this but I probably would if/when I do more poetry since poetry is meant to be read aloud
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     I don't really have any because I just kind of do something if I feel like it and then put it on my site, and I'm a pretty technically competent person so I'm easily able to handle all of that on my own. I would like to finish working on some software for myself to make the writing process more comfortable though because at the moment I use emacs and org-mode for everything and have a lot of little annoyances with org-mode.
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     as I've said elsewhere in the thread, I have certain things that I feel like need to exist and that I've been given the task to write. so I keep working on them because I could not do otherwise. but a lot of the time this falls down to intuition where I have something that has captured my attention but that I am maybe not prepared to do justice to, so I give myself time to do more research and figure out what about the thing I'm writing makes it necessary -- what problem I'm trying to solve or what core there is that knits all the pieces together
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     nothing comes to mind really but it's hard to say because one of my favorite things to do in a piece of writing is to take some absurd or surreal concept and be like, okay, what are the rules of this, how far can I take this while still remaining within the limits of the rules I've set for myself? these are details that people reading it probably wouldn't even notice but I think about it a lot because part of the fun of writing something is being able to treat it as a kind of thought experiment
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     from a conventional standpoint literally everything I do for researching my writing is really strange and kind of schizophrenic; I mean the core parts of it are an extremely obscure system of magik discovered by some graduate students at Warwick in the 90s. other things that I've researched include like actual ufology and paranormal studies, critical and feminist theory, some niches in programming and computing history, true crime, urban planning, the goth/industrial subcultures, indigenous pacific northwest languages, etc.
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     I think that the idea is kind of antithetical to the sort of work I do, since my biggest influences are the CCRU and the work of the CCRU was a conscious exercise in creating a sense of delirium by having something that is absolutely overflowing with style rather than the other way around where it's supposed to tell some distinct story. but it depends what I'm doing I guess. I try to be good about editing down my writing to be coherent if it's supposed to serve some clear instrumental purpose and solve a problem or argue for something
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     again it depends on what I'm writing and what the rules are. surrealism is a big influence on a lot of things I do and most of the time I consciously want something to be disorienting, so I will just move from one scene to another as if it were in a dream where the scene is in one place, and then in the next paragraph or the next clause in a sentence even it'll be somewhere else without dwelling on it too much. another way I do this if I'm trying to be less experimental is to make the scene transition be part of the flow of the text's narrative by having it be situated in relation to one point in time from another, where a scene changes and now a character's perception of something that just happened is as a memory
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     I don't really talk about my writing in meatspace unless someone happens to already know about me and bring it up (which happens often enough that it still is really fucking weird to me), but I have a whole page on my site dedicated to all the dumb shit people have said about me: https://nyx.land/testimonials
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     alright that's all the questions thanks for coming to my self-indulgent thread everyone
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