I gotta milk Every Bit of my lacking creativity for all it's worth, y'all

[yvannairie]

On the one hand I've been supremely tempted to name the whole series of the things I'm writing after the one Extremely Clever metaphor that crops up in, like. Fic 7 once I get that far ("Jumping from high places (growing wings on the way down)") because like. We all know who the protagonist is when Van is Writing Characters They Relate To, and that's a pretty fucking apt description of the protagonist.

And also that particular metaphor just lends itself to a lot of beautiful imagery and a lot of clever ways to work it into the stories at various points (b/c ohohoho guess who loves their Metatextual Bullshit, guess who loves motifs, guess who loves paratext) and... I mean, it's an idealised image of what love is like, sure, but the ability to make a leap of (or into) faith is... a significant goal for characters with deep-rooted trust issues.

But then again, entirely by accident I tripped over a series of metaphors about defusing "trauma bombs", trying to explain my own goddamn story to myself, and now I feel like I need to use them somewhere. I don't want to waste them, they're clever as shit and also the most literal statement of intent with this fucking whole mess of thing I've been writing for over eleven months now 8'D

(Or I'll just name the series "Half a Same Mind" because that's much shorter and snappier. IDK, I'm not the boss of me.)