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Favorite topic to write about?

A. E. Lowan

Forum Mom
Leadership
Hope and Redemption. There's a lot of detail and nuance that goes with that, but ultimately it's Hope and Redemption. Not in terms of who may or may not be deserving, but rather in how primal they can be as sources of agency. Where that agency leads is another story.
 

Zilver

Sage
Spirits. Things that are not human but have taken human a aspect so they can talk to us of their experience.

Second-place goes to sibblings. The love and complexity that comes from growing up together, and the soft ache of growing apart as your live takes its own form.
 
Soooo many!

I do really like writing things related to the 'found family' trope, though. I find it interesting to write about a character connecting with or befriending another from a different walk of life, unexpectedly, and having their perception of the world changed by it. I've found that it really expands the realm of possibilities when it comes to worldbuilding. My MC meets a stranger in a forest she's never been to before and learns about a civilization/culture/society that even I didn't know about until I started writing that scene!
 

MoSSurII

Troubadour
Stories about The Indomitable Human Spirit! 💪💪💪

But for real though, it's mostly a world's 'systems', that is, the backbones which control the 'rules' that govern my fictional world. So like magic systems, social hierarchies, geography and the likes.

Well, now that I look back on what I just wrote, I could've just said worldbuilding. But, eh. Waste your time reading my post.
 

JBCrowson

Maester
Stories about The Indomitable Human Spirit! 💪💪💪

But for real though, it's mostly a world's 'systems', that is, the backbones which control the 'rules' that govern my fictional world. So like magic systems, social hierarchies, geography and the likes.

Well, now that I look back on what I just wrote, I could've just said worldbuilding. But, eh. Waste your time reading my post.
Reading is never a waste of time, nor is reflecting on what we just wrote or said. ;)
 
My favorite thing is character interaction (As my signature says)
It doesn't matter if the characters involved grow to like eachother or hate eachother.
Character interaction (Casual or otherwise) is fun to me, I tend to let them take the wheel and allow them to be themselves a lot.
 

xena

Sage
I like exploring how ordinary choices ripple outward when there’s no clean solution and everyone’s just trying to survive the mess.
 
I suppose topic is different from theme, with ‘theme’ being a more overarching description. But still, it’s difficult to know what to say when it comes to topic. Really within the themes I like to write about lots of different topics.

So anyway, some topics probably include womanhood, magic, domestic life, plants and landscape, duty versus desire, coming of age, love. Lots ‘o’ stuff.
So I seemed to have changed a lot since 2024 in terms of theme. Interesting. My writing seems to nearly always take on the themes of liminal space. Who is allowed to occupy space and when. Permanence versus impermanence.
 
So I seemed to have changed a lot since 2024 in terms of theme. Interesting. My writing seems to nearly always take on the themes of liminal space. Who is allowed to occupy space and when. Permanence versus impermanence.
The bearing of finch is a difficult matter
It isn't just one of your holiday memes
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you each finch must bear three different themes
 
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