@CathyTea @ValoisFulcanelli: Thanks for being voices of reason. ;)
First, I'm totally stalling on this reply by watching JonTron instead. So nothing has changed yet. :p
The whole "hummingbird" thing does describe my life-long (so far) journey with writing. More that I've been on-and-off with it as a main passion, and I often left it for other things, only to come back with some knowledge/experience elsewhere. I probably would have been far more mundane of a writer if I didn't stop it in middle and high school to watch cartoons, listen to and obsess over heavy metal, and draw gory things inspired by the worst of it. (But hopefully I get out of this slump by a better way than "someone close to me dies and I give up everything but writing to grieve". Because that was terrible, even if it did give me an idea that may or may not have morphed into parts of Eight Cicadas)
And I am enjoying this weird slow period of my life...I think. One of the problems is that I get plenty of phone calls from recruiters and I don't want to immerse myself too deeply in anything, lest I miss something important.
There are two very different responses to #2, so:
@CathyTea: Your enthusiasm is welcome. I'm right in-between "I have a clear and direct vision for everything that could possibly happen" and "I think of entire arcs right before I write them". And yeah, plenty of professionals leave glaring plot holes and inconsistencies in work they publicly release. That's why we can have entire blogs and shows devoted to tearing apart bad books and bad movies and other bad media. ;) So I'm far from the first to be inconsistent, but yay for perfectionism! I have to be the best!! Even in something that is just an extension of my weirdest hobby. :p
At least you're supportive.
@ValoisFulcanelli: Funny enough, I was considering the horribly bizarre family scenario where her legal dad was also her biological grandpa. It would lead to the natural series of events of her biological father impregnating his husband's bio-daughter (totally possible when every party involved is immortal and un-aging and pretty open-minded), and it'd only be a little more creepy than the other relationships made out of screwing in-laws and non-blood family. :p
The inconsistencies with my general lore might be more of a problem, but I'll see what happens. Maybe I can write it in. I have a feeling that my narrator, while an immortal alien hybrid, is probably about as flighty and fickle and forgetful as I am. :p
