now I want to ask what you think the central ~engine of your writing process is! visual thinking 'feels' natural for me, now that you mention it, but I'd say it wasn't innate -- I did my time studying poetry as a high school student and training any arts of noticing (quoth Anna Tsing) that now influence how I write.
the pitfall of a visual style of thinking of course is that images will float into my mind but with no connective plot tissue WHATSOEVER so my fic just ends up being a pile-up of vibes than actual story. this is probably why my fic is often written vignette-style. with the leliana/morrigan fic idea i'm sitting on, I have this ~image of them meeting on a scorched battlefield... but how did they get there? who knows? not me!
I cannot subsist solely on those, in much the same way I cannot solely subsist on romance novels.
this is a cool convo to me too, because I'll admit I've been puzzled by the other end of the spectrum of enjoying fluff and light-hearted media as escapism. I think our reading tastes actually come from similar roots, which is looking to literature as a resting place to think through/ventilate things, or just find resonant things. I don't think I could live on a single style of story too -- I enjoy ambivalence and ambiguity in stories. "cheerful" or ideologically straightforward stories don't resonate for me, but that's as much due to my biases and personal histories as it would be for anyone else with opposite tastes.
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the pitfall of a visual style of thinking of course is that images will float into my mind but with no connective plot tissue WHATSOEVER so my fic just ends up being a pile-up of vibes than actual story. this is probably why my fic is often written vignette-style. with the leliana/morrigan fic idea i'm sitting on, I have this ~image of them meeting on a scorched battlefield... but how did they get there? who knows? not me!
this is a cool convo to me too, because I'll admit I've been puzzled by the other end of the spectrum of enjoying fluff and light-hearted media as escapism. I think our reading tastes actually come from similar roots, which is looking to literature as a resting place to think through/ventilate things, or just find resonant things. I don't think I could live on a single style of story too -- I enjoy ambivalence and ambiguity in stories. "cheerful" or ideologically straightforward stories don't resonate for me, but that's as much due to my biases and personal histories as it would be for anyone else with opposite tastes.
and thank you, it was a 10/10 experience!