Quirk #7 | plus an About Me tag where I avoid all answers

It's the first Saturday of March, which means a Quirk prompt! 

Because some of you have been feeding me ridiculously good short stories and this has encouraged me, like the stray cat I am, to keep coming back. 

I'm feeling like this week's prompt could contain a lot of emotion, if that's the direction you wish to take?? (It mentions blood. I know there are several of you who will be happy to hear this.)

 

One Quirk Later: Prompt #7

You know the drill. Pinterest. All of the Pinterest. Enable my procrastination and your own by following the link and me. 

To join in with this madness:

1. Write whatever this picture prompt inspires you to!
2. Post it on your blog!
3. Link back to this post—and there's a link-up image, too, if you'd like to use that.
   
4. Comment on one of my posts so I can come and read your amazing writing!!
5. And I'll drop links to everyone's stories in the next post. (:
   

On the last Saturday of March, I will post my Quirk in response to this prompt. But you can use any Quirk prompt at any time! Just let me know if you do, so I can come and read it and squeal. 💛

I've decided to change Quirk posting to be the prompt on the first Saturday of the month, and my Quirk on the last Saturday. Approximately. Friday evening for the US? still Saturday for me! Sunday morning for me? still Saturday for you! We will see how this goes. If I die, I'll change it again. It isn't as though I have any! consistency! in posting! anyway!

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and also! a tag because why not! also because I have like twenty tags that I never did!

This one is from Kenzie at Smudged Thoughts. Only... two years ago? I thought it would be longer.

Thank you for tagging me, Kenzie! And thank you to Savannah for creating the tag. 

The get to know me tag

 — VITAL STATS AND APPEARANCE —

NAME: Wouldn't you like to know. (...Aren't we off to such a great start xD)

NICKNAME: Jem. Sam, once or twice. Macaroni and cheese (or, well, a version thereof).

BIRTHDAY: January 1998. 

HAIR COLOR/LENGTH: Brown. I keep it in a plait because it's long and I can't stand it blowing in my face.

Is there a reason my hair is long? yes. I don't have a preferred style and cannot be bothered getting it cut. 

It's a great reason.

EYE COLOR: Somewhere in the region of hazel, I don't know, I can't see them. 

BRACES/PIERCINGS/TATTOOS: None and I am so glad to have moved past the fifteen-year-old-with-braces stage. 

RIGHTY OR LEFTY: Wow, I'm hitting allll the boring answers here! I am a right-handed, brown-haired, glasses-wearing writer! So original! x'D

ETHNICITY: ...Australian?

If that doesn't count as an ethnicity, I shall have to confess to a preeeetty British family tree. English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish. (There was a strand of German somewhere, though.) Unfortunately,  none of these bestowed cool accents upon me. 

— FIRSTS —

FIRST NOVEL WRITTEN: Lyndie, the girl who was determined to be a knight. We don't talk about her. Even if I want to revisit the villain of the story one day, she had potential as a MC.

FIRST NOVEL COMPLETED: Three Sisters, whooo!

AWARD FOR WRITING: I got runner up in a local short story competition for kids once. xD

FIRST PUBLICATION: Pffft.

CONFERENCE: Also yet to come.

QUERY/PITCH: ...Look, I've only finished one (1) draft, I am self-aware enough to know it needs a couple more...

— FAVORITES —

NOVEL (that you wrote): Three Sisters. Thus why it was the first and only one I finished.

GENRE: Probably fantasy... we've just finished #FebruaryFantasyMonth, and it's got me really excited about fairy tales again!

I also do  really enjoy the sub-genre of... thriller, I guess?... that is runaways. For example, Gordon Korman's MG series On the Run, Terri Blackstock's If I Run trilogy, and D.J. Stutley's Operation Foxtrot Five. 

(This sub-genre works especially well when there is a cop after them who they have a competitive relationship with, and when they eventually have to team up with said cop to defeat the real bad guys. I love it.)

AUTHOR: Every author ever has vanished from my head as I stare at this question. Moving on...

WRITING MUSIC: Soundtracks from movies and games. (I find it difficult to put words together in a way I'm happy with when I'm listening to songs with lyrics.)

TIME TO WRITE: Late at night. You know how, the later it gets, the freer your thoughts become?  

And then the next morning you stare at your document and realise you used the same word three times in two sentences and called your MC by the name of a character from an entirely different story?

I'm totally fine hahaha

WRITING SNACK/DRINK: Do. Not. Bring food and drink near your laptop??

MOVIE: ehhhh who knows?? certainly not me. In no particular order, and off the top of my head, some movies I thought were good or enjoyed, at least: 

Marvel. (Which one? all of them.) The Impossible (I cried). Goodbye Christopher Robin (again, I cried). ("I hardly ever cry," I protest. "This evidence is misleading!") Tangled. Middle Earth (yes, including the Hobbit trilogy).

WRITING MEMORY: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

CHILDHOOD BOOK: THIS IS SUCH A WIDE CATEGORY. What age of childhood?

I read Narnia a lot. A.A. Milne's original Winnie-the-Pooh books are adorable but I think they're something you appreciate more when you're older?? I read Where's Wally and Asterix and Shirley Hughes and just about every book I could get my hands on.

— CURRENTLY —

WRITING: Why must I be called out like this.

...I'm writing a blog post, obviously. And then a Quirk. And then I am 100% going to go work on Three Sisters. I am also 100% lying.

LISTENING TO: Life Goes On by BTS, and related playlists. I considered lying again but I did not. Playlists for characters from The Silver Eye—specifically, Avidan. Raining Tacos. 

WATCHING: The blinking of my cursor...

The most recent movie I watched was Rise of Skywalker. What even was that, wow, fans did so much better with their fix-its and semi-AUs. (I did not cry! because I was too busy blinking in amazement at how awkward it—as a movie—felt, and oh, that was a death scene? pfft mkay whatever, fall over, very dramatic.) Redemption arc? we don't know her

LEARNING: Italian and Korean simultaneously. For some reason. Also, learning that I cannot stay up late every night and get up early every morning and still be a functional human when I am at work. 

Will that stop me? hahaha why would you even... um. Yes. Eventually my choices will catch up with me and hit me over the back of the head.

— FUTURE —

WANT TO BE PUBLISHED: Sure, I guess? but I am not Dedicated like some people. I just like stories, okay, and someone was rude enough to not write the one I wanted.

INDIE OR TRADITIONAL: Traditional. I know Jem and I would not trust her to publish my book.

WILDEST GOAL: Getting a final draft completed that I am willing to let people read, honestly. Haven't thought beyond that.

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Well, that was very non-educational for a tag that was supposed to make me less mysterious! If there's something you're burning to know about me, ask in the comments and I will either answer you or do a hopefully-amusing dance around the question. 

What were your favourite childhood books? What are you currently learning? Were you an awkward braces-laden fifteen-year-old?? Did I fail to mention your favourite movie? ('tis because I have the memory of goldfish. Unless I'm looking at something, it's not in my brain. Yell your favourites at me and we can discuss whether they're my favourites too or whether I'm a disappointment to society in general and you specifically. xD )

If you're joining in with this Quirk, drop me a link!. My story will go up Saturday 27th, and I'd love to see yours!