Tagged by Emilieee

Tagging no one specific. If you want to do it, go ahead.

 

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1. How did you come up with your user name and what does it mean?

I had been an adamant anime fan (*cough* addict) yeeeaars ago when I was 11-14 or something and I wanted to use a Japanese word for a username on a different side so I looked random things up in a Japanese-German dictionary and liked the sound of Tatari. I liked (one of) the translation(s) the most, though – “God’s curse” was it, as far as I remember. Loved it so much that I definitely wanted to use it and it worked for this site, so there’s that. I also really like the abbreviation/nickname “Tari” of it. It just sounds nice.

2. Which is your most subscribed to story?

Black Roses for You. I only have that one and Down We Go uploaded, though lol

3. Why did you pick your user photo/thumbnail?

Because I use the green theme and there’s too little green, so I needed at least a little more green and that needed to be done with the pic. Also, I mostly only see people with idols as user pics, so I thought something with animals would be a little more memorable, maybe? The fox also has the meaning of being sly and cunning and smart and etc., and I thought it would fit God’s curse? It’s also cute with the bunny (which now only makes me think of Jungkook fml).

But I just really needed something green, in total.

I had also considered a pic of a smiling husky. Don’t ask.

4. Who is your AFF bestie?

Meh.

5. Is there a fanfic that you keep going back to read again and again?

Normally, I’m not the type to reread fanfictions or novels in general. TBBC is life, though. Hands down.

6. How many stories are you subscribed to?

Exactly 58.

Six of them are graphics, though.

Seventeen I still have to start reading.

With twenty-one I’m apparently done.

And eighteen I’m currently reading.

7. Which AU do you find yourself writing the most?

Less AUs, but more genres. Recently I’m on a mafia/psychology/crime/mystery/detective/magic/mythology spurge. Some form of psychology is always in it, though (or at least I try). If it’s really necessary to talk about AUs, it’s normally still in a real-world-like setting, even if (almost) all seven genres are included.

8. How many friends do you have?

On here? I don’t know, ten? *checks* Yep, ten.

9. Is there something you'd like to write about but are afraid of people judging you for it? (Feeling brave? If so, share it!)

I don’t care about people judging, someone somewhere in their lonely room (practically at the ‘’ of the world) will always judge while sitting in front of their screen. There’s something I’d like to write, though, but I know will prove really, really difficult – depression. Like, a character going through depression in day to day life and how it feels like to slowly overcome that and how people could help or worsen that, etc.

So practically – all the aspects of depression and its severity(severe (noun)?). All of it would be M-Rated though, because it is about severe depression. I already know that that’ll be extremely difficult to write, especially with people nitpicking because their depression isn’t depicted (that actually happens - have seen it before | like the person itself, depression is also kind of individual in a sense as every person lives through and experiences it differently).

10. Is there anything you would like to be better at on aff? Writing, graphic design (posters), replying to comments, updating regularly, etc..?

Updating regularly ( school, seriously) and improving my writing to be more interesting.

11. How many subscribers do you have?

Total: 465

Unique: 461

12. How many stories have you posted online to this day (finished and unfinished)?

German and English together….

…finished: About eighteen or more.

…unfinished: …Two?

So a total of about twenty?

13. How many stories do you have saved in your writing program?

My computer crashed down and died (quite literally) a year or two ago, so I had lost all the files I didn’t have somewhere externally on a USB-stick. As of now, I have five or six I think, but back then it must’ve been almost twenty or above that (all German though lol). Most of them were finished short stories, a few fanfictions and three novels I’d written and I seriously cried about the novels. (I still do.)

14. Do you write down story ideas, or just keep them in your head?

If I don’t write down story ideas in a few sentences, they will haunt me until I finally ing write them down, so yes, I kindly do write all of them down in an extra document. I’m heavily loaded on story ideas, as I have twenty of them written down there permanently since I think you could do something with them and I seriously can’t wait to plan out and write like seven of them for sure.

15. Have you ever co-authored a story?

Yes. No comment.

16. How did you discover AFF?

I stumbled upon a fanfic trailer on YouTube and someone linked to the story in the comments and it was subscribers-only and members-only, and since I heard it’s so great, I was way too curious to leave it. Didn’t regret it – especially after I stumbled upon TBBC not long after. I even think that story was get2herheart’s Irony, though I’m not too sure anymore.

17. Do you consider yourself to be a popular or famous author on AFF?

*snorting can be heard in the distance*

18. Do you have a nickname or fandom name for your readers?

In real life, I love calling people by food. Don’t ask why. I just love calling people (friends) pumpkins, marshmallows and cucumbers. Cucumber sounds better in German though, because it can sound like a playful insult. Du Gurke.

I just call people ‘guys’ on the internet, though, my readers aren’t any exception to that.

19. Was there an AFF author who inspired or encouraged you to write?

Reading a chapter written by Korekrypta gives me sudden motivation to write one of my own on my stories. This girl works magic, I tell you.

20. How many karma points do you have?

A little over a thousand.

21. What writing advice would you give to a beginning author?

You’re going to be ty. That’s also part of it. But you’re going to get better, so just hang in there. If it’s fun for you, you’re going to improve a lot. If it’s not, you’re most likely doing it for attention and you’ll give up soon. Improving takes a lot of work and time. Also, a story doesn’t write itself within a day – especially if you want it chaptered. Like fifty chapters or something. Don’t plan on being done with that in just a week. But most importantly, write the story how you plan it and want it and do NOT, for whatever in the ing heavens you’re doing, even consider bending to the readers’ will. NEVER. It will make you extremely unhappy – and the story itself might not be sensible anymore and most likely full of clichés. Just steer far away from that. Also, when you’re considering events happening in your story and for what reason they should happen, scrap the first ten things that come to mind, because those are the things the reader will most likely guess – and you want to keep them on their toes. Especially if you’re writing mystery and crime or something. To be completely sure, choose the twentieth thing that comes to your mind if you want to make your story and the plot twists trickier.

But in the end, scrap all the rules (and everything I told you) and write your story how you want to write it. Because nobody can tell you how to write your story.

22. Do you plot out your stories, or do you just figure it out as you go?

Look back at question 12. Twice, I sat on my computer and wrote something down on a whim and figured it out as I went. Twice. The answer to question 12 kind of answers this itself.

I need to know the end to know what I’m even heading for, otherwise it’s useless. With the end, I need the major plot points to know how to achieve that end since one thing leads to another and those points also need to make sense (consequences, guys, there are always consequences). That’s mostly it and I fill in some small details but then mostly make it up as I go.

Sometimes, when the story is a lot more complicated, I need it to be precise because everything needs to make perfect sense because I totally hate leaving holes here and there, however small. So then, there’s not much room to play with, just a little. And there’s quite often normally always some room to play with.

Something I always need, though, is making the characters human before the story even starts. Which means I spend a week or two (minimum) just fleshing out every single appearing character, even if 90% of that information is never mentioned aka necessary. I just need (and want) them to be human.

23. Have you ever gotten a bad review or comment on a story? If so, what did you do?

Not bad, but confused as . I don’t blame them, though. I like ing with people’s minds and it does show in my stories. (*sings* psychology~)

24. Is there a certain type of scene that you have a hard time writing? (action, , etc..)

Action. Or anything romantic.

25. What story(s) are you working on now?

For one, Black Roses for You. Simultaneously, I (try to) write a story called "A3; V(o)ices" and "Waters of War". I need to be able to switch between some stories because writing just one out all of my motivation (like college isn’t doing that enough already) and I’m able to write much more for the ‘important’ one if I do it like that. I’m not a person of repetitive tasks, I’ll lose interest.

26. Do you plan your next project(s) before you finish your current ongoing story(s)?

Like I’ve already mentioned, I have an extra document file just with story ideas and prompts and sometimes those also have a little of plotting already, so yes, kind of. I don’t start too many at once though, because I’d only abandon a few or lose interest in all of them if I do. Maximum of writing is always four. So when I finish one story, there’ll always be something other or new to write. I mostly plan for weeks and months ahead before I even start writing, so pre-plotting is a little necessary because I go crazy if I can’t write anything for a certain amount of time.

27. Do you have a daily writing goal set for yourself?

As a college student, I feel slightly offended that this question implies I would possibly ever have enough time to even think about if I could write a single word every day.

My terrible, dry humor aside:

I wish I did.

But I don’t.

So I won’t.

28. Do you think you've improved as a writer since you first started?

I did find an old file on another USB a few months back. It was the very first story I had written (in German, mind you, I was also like twelve or something) and I had even dared uploading.

I’ll say this much: I cringed with every word I read and never ever opened the file again.

So yes, I definitely did improve. Just not enough yet.

29. What is your favorite story that you've written?

Schadenfreude. (Damage-happiness, quite literally, as I believe there’s actually no English word for that and I’m not sure if it had been adapted into English already because I think I actually had read about it once but I’m not sure.)

Zeitschwund, also. (‘Loss of Time’/’The Losing of Time’ – I don’t ing know, man, mediation/translations had always been the reason why I never got 100/100 on my English exams.) This was one of the novels I still cry (losing) about.

30. What is your least favorite story that you've written?

Down We Go. Wrote that under extreme time pressure. Totally not satisfied with it. I feel like burning it but I also want to revise it to be ing satisfied but I don’t know which one I’ll do first though, because I don’t even have the time to rewrite and I’m pulling my hair right now.

31. Where do you see yourself (as a writer) in 5 years?

Maybe I’ll finally have found the time to rewrite Down We Go. Or I went down.

I don’t know. Let’s see which one happens first.

32. How many upvotes do you have?

10 lol

33. What is the easiest thing about writing?

Everything else but the writing part.

34. What is the hardest thing about writing?

Look at the answer above.

35. Why do you write?

Because it’s full of worlds nobody can take from me.

 

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