The Master Conductor
I am sure you have come across this little gremlin friend of mine!
Meet Grievensvhelm, a master conductor who created a whimsical world of romantic LGBTQIA+ stories. She weaves stories that advocate for mental health awareness, relationship dynamics, and self-growth.
Grievensvhelm met Wattpad when she was a preteen. As she has claimed, she has been imaginative since birth, and the platform has spurred her whimsical mind. Vee’s creativity is evident in the crafts and visions she shares with the world. Growing up restricted because she was unfamiliar with the workings of the world, Vee found freedom in writing.
After numerous pondering, she realized that not everyone has the same privilege of taking time to realize different things connected to their behavior and approach to life. Still, they have a handful of time to read novels. With this, she hopes that her craft will help with other people’s realization without the feeling of being forced and to spread chaotic positivity.​​​​
When she doesn’t know where to start, Vee usually visualizes where she aims to head to. She lists what she wants, like the title, which gives her a handful of ideas for her plot. The aesthetics also helps her shift the narrative. She imagines that her craft is being adapted into a movie, and that’s where she sets the tone. She also creates soundtrack playlists that inspire her stories. These songs become the anchor of her stories’ plot points.
She then proceeds with the characters' names, which usually contain symbolism and connection to the theme she had created in her mind.
Once everything feels like her, she proceeds to what the story needs, which involves heavy plotting, which is her favorite part.
Vee usually listens to music while she writes. Her playlist contains soundtracks related to her overall plot, which helps enhance her imagination. The music she listens to usually revolves around OPM and RNB.
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Have you ever heard of someone staring at a character illustration before writing? If you haven’t, well, Vee does that.
Before she starts writing, she ensures she is in the best state of mind and behavior before sitting at her desk. If this desk could talk, it would speak of her relentless pursuit of perfection and self-sabotage. It had witnessed her hours of staring, not to brainstorm but to condition herself that she could do it, eventually coming to terms with the fact that what she was doing wasn’t for others but for herself. Her desk would tell tales of her self versus self moments and how she had sat with her insecurities and accepted them.
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Vee proudly wastes a lot of notebook. She usually mindlessly jots while affixing her signature on half the pages as she ponders her plot. She is a doodling expert, always finding the opportunity to doodle on her brainstorming papers.
She usually argues with her characters in her head. Pretty impressive. Hopefully, they could reach an impasse after arguing.
One thing she wished she had learned before she started writing is that you’ll need more time to plot than the writing itself, and doing so is full of paradoxes. She believes that there were moments when it felt like writing the next scene was meaningless because it didn’t resonate the same frequency as the plot point, but you still needed to write so that you could figure out what needed to come next.
“There are no consistent techniques since it depends on the circumstances. If you use them too much, the story will become predictable. What worked on this might not work on that, but it might work if you adjust it a little bit. You can just imagine yourself as a conductor, and you’re arranging different pieces for an Orchestra whose performance will run for hours on end, so redundancy isn’t that much encouraged.”
—Grievensvhelm
Vee encourages every writer out there to take care of themselves. She knows there were days when writers desired to delete a story after a slump. When that moment comes, she wants you to ask yourself if you have eaten already or if something is going on. She wants you to think about what made you feel that way since she believes that hormones and energy levels impact your way of thinking.
Vee wants to remind all writers that taking care of yourself is taking care of your career, and sacrificing your needs is counterproductive. She also wants to remind them that an exhausted mind produces an unstable craft.
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