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[thundersquall]

thundersquall at paperbrushes

thank you! :)

[(Anonymous)]

:33 I love your fic! I think how much you love all the boys really show, and your commitment to be Ship Captain is impressive. I also think you're a lot more talented than you think you are, and need a little more confidence in your abilities. Sometimes I think your writing can get a little stuck, like it reads maybe you were struggling? But it doesn't detract from the overall enjoyment of your work and I think every author has the same problem.

:D

[thundersquall]

thank you so very much for your lovely words ♥ and i do agree that yes sometimes my writing can read awkwardly when i'm stuck! mainly because i've been having a bad writer's block for a long while but i keep forcing myself to write through it ;; thank you for pointing it out, i'll be more careful about it in the future! (and take breaks if needed, orz)

[(Anonymous)]

i normally don't go for yewook, but you make me want to read about them all day. :) i hope you never stop writing. you're definitely one of the most solid writers in the SJ fandom.

[thundersquall]

that is incredibly amazing to know ;; thank you for giving yewook and my writing a chance! i'll keep writing as long as i can go :D ♥

[(Anonymous)]

i love your writing, especially over the rainbow.

that being said, i love your porn, but the talk is quite...aha. it sounds rather stilted and off. everything else is fine but it's just that some parts are cliched and overused, which i understand because there's not much that can be written for pwp.

i love your fics, though, and your definitely a brilliant writer, and i will follow you as the yewook ship captain from now until forever.

[thundersquall]

omg anon thank you so so much for this. there are times when i'm staring at my porn/fics in general and just squinting and thinking "this sounds wrong but i can't put my finger on what is wrong". and i don't really have a beta per se, just a couple of good friends i ask to read over my fic, and most times they are not inclined to tear my fic to pieces (for which i am grateful, ngl). but if you could, are you able to give examples of where you think the dialogue sounds stilted and off? i am really bad at dirty talk >.> i like reading it, so i suppose that's why i like writing it too, but i'd be extremely grateful if you were able to point out where i went wrong so i can identify these problem areas!

thank you again :DD ALL ABOARD MATEYS /bricked

[(Anonymous)]

oh, god, i can never pinpoint things either, so.

well, i think that in your latest pornstar!au fic, the section whilst in the elevator (and the talk in there) felt much more natural on both their parts than "Please, I need – it’s so good – " earlier and "You look so good, baby," Yesung rasps. "Fucking gorgeous. Fuck, if only all these people could see you like this. So perfect, so fucking good." in a different fic. I guess that it just feels like standard porno talk and that never comes across in real life, from experience, and it reads awkwardly (as well as making me secondhand embarassed lmao)

idek, i'm sorry that i'm so unhelpful (and very late) but yeah.

I AM GOING TO SINK WITH THIS SHIP AND LIVE ON THE WRECKAGE AT THE BOTTOM ;_;

[(Anonymous)]

I love pretty much everything you write, and your characterization is always fun. I'd like to see you try a more poetic, abstract style in addition to your realistic one. I like that you write rare pairs like Ryeowook/Hyungshik and Yesung/Hyuna in addition to your OTP (but please never stop writing Yewook :D)

[thundersquall]

thank you! characterisation is one point i always worry about, i always think my characters are incredibly ooc ;; it makes me relieved you like it, at least!

omg i've always wanted to try to write in a more abstract style but whenever i do i keep lapsing back into my usual, lmao. the way i write is very much 'he did this. he did that. tab a into slot b', and i do want to experiment and play around with style. can you give me examples of writers who write in that kind of abstract style you mentioned so i can go dig around and take a look at how they do it? :D

i did love writing that yesung/hyuna very much. ugh i just want yesung to get all the ass in the world, rofl. thank you again ♥

[(Anonymous)]

The fics in particular that come to mind are hyungdeul's "Amnesia," urei_sachi's "when we were young" (for the miracle_ss community), and amaelamin's "Fix You," which wasn't really abstract but had indirect narration. (I'm really biased :D) Not that I don't love your writing style, but it'd be interesting to see your take on different kinds of narration.

[thundersquall]

omg as it happens i've read all three of those (and loved them)! ugh they are incredibly talented writers :'D i will try to tackle different styles, i really do want to, but it doesn't come naturally for me so it'll probably come out all stilted and weird orz. nevertheless, it will be fun to experiment! thanks so much anon and you have given me courage to try something new. :D ♥

[(Anonymous)]

You are the reason I started writing Yewook. I mean it truly, you defined that pairing for me and wrote it exactly the way I loved when no one else would. You didn't stick to the normal tropes and sure now people think "oh top!Ryeowook, or Ryeowook topping from the bottom, or Ryeowook being a total cockslut, that's so common, that's so unoriginal" but it's because that's how you wrote him first! And I truly love you for that.

[thundersquall]

hahahaha omg :'DDD idek if i wrote that 'first', like you put it! i'm... sure other people have, before me? orz ;; but thank you so much for your lovely kind words! ♥ i don't usually like the ~usual~ yewook tropes which is why i try to mix it up a little :D