Hey, guys, guess what?
TO BE CONTINUED (when the links and stuff are working)...
Write on!
Clove
P.S. AAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!
7.31.2015
"Brief" Update
Life update: Surgery recovery has gone very well. It has now been ten days since surgery, and I'm officially eating food that isn't mush the color of molded mud. (Though, to be honest, while I've been on this liquid detox diet, I've had a seriously terrible craving for two crunchy, unhealthy things: Wendy's popcorn chicken with barbecue sauce and strawberry wafer cookies...like, the ones that taste like a cheap ice-cream cone on the outside until you bite into them and let all the delicious, sugary, artificial filling melt around your tongue. Cravings, people, cravings.)
Writing update: I've been writing like a maniac recently. I think I've averaged a chapter a day, which, if you know me, you know is a crazy amount of writing. Unfortunately, because I've been pumping out so much unedited junk, I have a lot of chapters, but I have a lot of terribly flawed chapters.
What this means for you is: fun stuffs is coming up in the near future. Hold onto your seats, kiddos.
Rant section: As I was writing, I thought to myself, erroneously, if Silvia just met Skain, they would fall in love, which is what I need for the story to progress. He's intelligent, he's rich, and he's about as attractive as guys get. What is there not to like? So I pushed towards them meeting as fast as I could.
And then, today, on the blessed day when they finally bumped into each other, they started bloody FIGHTING. That's when I remembered that Skain is an ENTJ and Silvia is an INFP and they're both as obnoxious as that little flap of skin that starts peeling at the side of your nail into your flesh and bone. He's bossy; she's arrogant. He's frivolous; she's melodramatic. He's chatty; she's a female human hermit crab who has moved to the most abandoned corner of Antarctica to be alone.
Whyyy did I ever try to be creative? "ENTJ x INFP," I said, "No one has ever done something like this before!" Hahaha, yeah, and there's a reason for it, Clove.
Grrr.
Publishing update: GUYS. WE'RE SO CLOSE TO PUBLISHING THE IMMORTALS. Finally, I got the tax and bank account issues figured out, and so, now, I just have to make some final touches to the book cover and figure out how to best categorize my book so as to get it sold. Expect a very excited post that says, "I'M AN AUTHOR!" sometime in the very near future, i.e. in the next twenty-four hours. Yaaay! :D
Write on!
Clove
Writing update: I've been writing like a maniac recently. I think I've averaged a chapter a day, which, if you know me, you know is a crazy amount of writing. Unfortunately, because I've been pumping out so much unedited junk, I have a lot of chapters, but I have a lot of terribly flawed chapters.
What this means for you is: fun stuffs is coming up in the near future. Hold onto your seats, kiddos.
Rant section: As I was writing, I thought to myself, erroneously, if Silvia just met Skain, they would fall in love, which is what I need for the story to progress. He's intelligent, he's rich, and he's about as attractive as guys get. What is there not to like? So I pushed towards them meeting as fast as I could.
And then, today, on the blessed day when they finally bumped into each other, they started bloody FIGHTING. That's when I remembered that Skain is an ENTJ and Silvia is an INFP and they're both as obnoxious as that little flap of skin that starts peeling at the side of your nail into your flesh and bone. He's bossy; she's arrogant. He's frivolous; she's melodramatic. He's chatty; she's a female human hermit crab who has moved to the most abandoned corner of Antarctica to be alone.
Whyyy did I ever try to be creative? "ENTJ x INFP," I said, "No one has ever done something like this before!" Hahaha, yeah, and there's a reason for it, Clove.
Grrr.
Publishing update: GUYS. WE'RE SO CLOSE TO PUBLISHING THE IMMORTALS. Finally, I got the tax and bank account issues figured out, and so, now, I just have to make some final touches to the book cover and figure out how to best categorize my book so as to get it sold. Expect a very excited post that says, "I'M AN AUTHOR!" sometime in the very near future, i.e. in the next twenty-four hours. Yaaay! :D
Write on!
Clove
7.29.2015
I did things
Ladies and gentlemen, I am happy to announce that I have started doing terrible, time-wasting things for my story.
You're welcome.
Write on!
Clove
You're welcome.
Write on!
Clove
7.23.2015
'k, what's with Sil?
Notes after wisdom teeth removal and SARPE:
1. Anesthesia is super not cool. All ENTJs, including yours truly, find basically nothing more psychologically terrifying than being conscious and yet out of control of ourselves, and that's basically what anesthesia did to me for, like, an hour or so. Very, very not cool, dudes.
2. Fun fact: the day I got back from surgery, my wonderful little sister made home-baked chocolate-covered biscotti. Y'ALL BE THANKFUL FOR HARD FOOD, OKAY?
3. I hate recovery. Hate, hate, haaate recovery. My body moves way too slow for my mind, like, come on, can you pick up the slack a little? We have things to do.
Skain has that problem too.
But, anyway, we're not talking about him today. We're talking about Silvia. Or, I mean, I'm talking about Silvia. Or, at least, I'm going to try. I've had the inability to focus on any one thing for longer than, say, thirty minutes. And I'm not taking any prescribed medicines, just homeopathic stuff, so you can imagine that the pain is pretty high. And the fever. And this blueberry yogurt is commanding a lot of my attention right now.
You know what?
This is a terrible idea.
Anywaaay, the question I wanted to answer today is: why Silvia? Why am I writing an INFP? I've always said that writing is a method of conveying feeling, but INFPs (actually, NFs as a whole) live on a totally different emotional planet than NTs. So how can I convey what I don't feel?
Short answer: I can't.
Long answer: I can't, but I'm going to try - and fail and try again and fail again because, goodness gracious, INFPs are strange, sarcastic, needy princesses indeed. But I will persevere. Aaand here's why:
1.) SKAIN NEEDS SILVIA
ENTJs are masterminds, but we're not omniscient. And, many times, on our quest for world domination or what-have-you, we overlook seemingly-insignificant details, including the state of our physical well-being. If we don't partner up with someone who knows before we know that we need help, we're in for a load of trouble.
Silvia is that "someone."
Now, I have to point out that this INFP x ENTJ pairing is an exception. In real life, I almost always ship ENTJs with ISTPs or ESTPs because, in real life without many crises, all three types tend to rally around their Se function: living on the edge, bantering, enjoying thrills, etc. ENTJs (and their bloated income, hehe) are able to effortlessly provide their XSTP partners with the next new adventure, and the XSTPs teach ENTJs not to take themselves so gosh-dang seriously all the time.
However, in my story, Skain is really just trying to survive from day to day, using his more grave-natured dominant and auxiliary functions to outwit the manipulative INFJ antagonist. Thus, he doesn't have much time for living it up. That's why I'm choosing to pair him with the supportive, insightful INFP, rather than the spontaneous, brush-it-off XSTP.
2.) PERSONAL GROWTH
Now that I'm in my latter teenage years, my own inferior Fi function (which is an INFP's dominant function) is starting to show up, an appearance that I find fascinating and yet obnoxious. While most people with Fi in their dominant or auxiliary stack positions have the ability to empathize well with people, all that my Fi is doing for me right now is making me enjoy tear-jerker movies and showing me how unstable I am inwardly.
Just for the sake of seeing how an INFP might properly use her Fi function, I've decided to write Silvia. Simulate and learn.
3.) PRACTICE
Duh. Every author should try to step outside their normal boundaries (or, you know, onto another, emotional planet) for the sake of growing versatility. I'm not saying that I'll ever write another INFP main character after this, but I might diversify my side characters with the practice I'm getting through Silvia.
1. Anesthesia is super not cool. All ENTJs, including yours truly, find basically nothing more psychologically terrifying than being conscious and yet out of control of ourselves, and that's basically what anesthesia did to me for, like, an hour or so. Very, very not cool, dudes.
2. Fun fact: the day I got back from surgery, my wonderful little sister made home-baked chocolate-covered biscotti. Y'ALL BE THANKFUL FOR HARD FOOD, OKAY?
3. I hate recovery. Hate, hate, haaate recovery. My body moves way too slow for my mind, like, come on, can you pick up the slack a little? We have things to do.
Skain has that problem too.
But, anyway, we're not talking about him today. We're talking about Silvia. Or, I mean, I'm talking about Silvia. Or, at least, I'm going to try. I've had the inability to focus on any one thing for longer than, say, thirty minutes. And I'm not taking any prescribed medicines, just homeopathic stuff, so you can imagine that the pain is pretty high. And the fever. And this blueberry yogurt is commanding a lot of my attention right now.
You know what?
This is a terrible idea.
~ ~ ~
Anywaaay, the question I wanted to answer today is: why Silvia? Why am I writing an INFP? I've always said that writing is a method of conveying feeling, but INFPs (actually, NFs as a whole) live on a totally different emotional planet than NTs. So how can I convey what I don't feel?
Short answer: I can't.
Long answer: I can't, but I'm going to try - and fail and try again and fail again because, goodness gracious, INFPs are strange, sarcastic, needy princesses indeed. But I will persevere. Aaand here's why:
1.) SKAIN NEEDS SILVIA
ENTJs are masterminds, but we're not omniscient. And, many times, on our quest for world domination or what-have-you, we overlook seemingly-insignificant details, including the state of our physical well-being. If we don't partner up with someone who knows before we know that we need help, we're in for a load of trouble.
Silvia is that "someone."
Now, I have to point out that this INFP x ENTJ pairing is an exception. In real life, I almost always ship ENTJs with ISTPs or ESTPs because, in real life without many crises, all three types tend to rally around their Se function: living on the edge, bantering, enjoying thrills, etc. ENTJs (and their bloated income, hehe) are able to effortlessly provide their XSTP partners with the next new adventure, and the XSTPs teach ENTJs not to take themselves so gosh-dang seriously all the time.
However, in my story, Skain is really just trying to survive from day to day, using his more grave-natured dominant and auxiliary functions to outwit the manipulative INFJ antagonist. Thus, he doesn't have much time for living it up. That's why I'm choosing to pair him with the supportive, insightful INFP, rather than the spontaneous, brush-it-off XSTP.
2.) PERSONAL GROWTH
Now that I'm in my latter teenage years, my own inferior Fi function (which is an INFP's dominant function) is starting to show up, an appearance that I find fascinating and yet obnoxious. While most people with Fi in their dominant or auxiliary stack positions have the ability to empathize well with people, all that my Fi is doing for me right now is making me enjoy tear-jerker movies and showing me how unstable I am inwardly.
Just for the sake of seeing how an INFP might properly use her Fi function, I've decided to write Silvia. Simulate and learn.
3.) PRACTICE
Duh. Every author should try to step outside their normal boundaries (or, you know, onto another, emotional planet) for the sake of growing versatility. I'm not saying that I'll ever write another INFP main character after this, but I might diversify my side characters with the practice I'm getting through Silvia.
~ ~ ~
All right, dudes, my blueberry yogurt is gone, and my fever is back up. I think now is a good time to take a hot shower and crawl under my covers while meticulously planning what I will do when I'm done recovering, wahaha...
Write on!
Clove
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