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: I struggled to answer this at first, as I would like to say that I am a flexible enough writer to be able to separate myself enough from my work, such that I can write any story. I really don't think that's totally true, though. As I've worked through my identity, and as I have seen it challenged politically and socially over the years, my writing has shifted drastically to this aforementioned need to show it normalized. There have been times when I have been tempted to take out my frustrations on my characters and write all sorts of horrible situations of them dealing with transphobia or the like, but every time I start a story like that, I immediately realize that that's just not what I need. What I need is a bit of proof, however fictional, that happy queer people exist, and that this is okay. : I struggled to answer this at first, as I would like to say that I am a flexible enough writer to be able to separate myself enough from my work, such that I can write any story. I really don't think that's totally true, though. As I've worked through my identity, and as I have seen it challenged politically and socially over the years, my writing has shifted drastically to this aforementioned need to show it normalized. There have been times when I have been tempted to take out my frustrations on my characters and write all sorts of horrible situations of them dealing with transphobia or the like, but every time I start a story like that, I immediately realize that that's just not what I need. What I need is a bit of proof, however fictional, that happy queer people exist, and that this is okay.
Do you have favorite queer authors and has their literature affected your writing in the fandom? Do you have favorite queer authors and has their literature affected your writing in the fandom?
: Hmm! A few, I think, though with some of them, I don't know their identities, but they have still written formative works. Jen Durbent, who wrote Hybrid Ink's first publication, *My Dinner With Andrea*, is a pretty big inspiration for me. Ditto Blue Neufstifter/Azure Husky, whose microfiction works have often left me in awe. In terms of works, Max Gladwell and Amal El-Mohtar's *This is How You Lose The Time War* has had a huge influence on both my queer-writing-ness and personal style, and Hanne Blank's *Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality* has very much influenced my non-fiction within this realm. : Hmm! A few, I think, though with some of them, I don't know their identities, but they have still written formative works. Jen Durbent, who wrote Hybrid Ink's first publication, *My Dinner With Andrea*, is a pretty big inspiration for me. Ditto Blue Neufstifter/Azure Husky, whose microfiction works have often left me in awe. In terms of works, Max Gladwell and Amal El-Mohtar's *This Is How You Lose The Time War* has had a huge influence on both my queer-writing-ness and personal style, and Hanne Blank's *Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality* has very much influenced my non-fiction within this realm.
If you could convince everyone to read a single book, what would it be? If you could convince everyone to read a single book, what would it be?
: Aaargh, this is such a hard question! It probably changes by the month! Right now, I think it would be the aforementioned *This Is How You Lose The Time War*. That book wrecked me over and over again. Tore me up, spit me out, left me more whole than when I started. It's scifi, but somehow manages to be so without being particularly "hard" or "soft". It's romance without being saccharine. The voice and style is just heartbreaking.
You'll have to forgive me a pair of honorable mentions, but I hope you'll understand the reason. I have been very much pushing that writers learn about their craft from media other than just the novel and the short story. Please, please, fellow writers, give graphic novels a go if nothing else. Both Nate Powell's *Swallow Me Whole* and Craig Thomson's *Habibi* similarly wrecked in in the best possible way.
Tell the guild where it can find you, to follow you and read your works! Tell the guild where it can find you, to follow you and read your works!
: I'm fairly active on my writing twitter [@makyo_writes](https://twitter.com/makyo_writes) and my [Mastodon](https://maddypa.ws/@makyo). You can also find (and help support!) me on [Patreon](https://patreon.com/makyo) or [Subscribestar](https://subscribestar.adult/makyo). Finally, you can find my writing at [makyo.ink](https://makyo.ink) and you can find Hybrid at [hybrid.ink](https://hybrid.ink)
Any last words for our readers and guild members? Any last words for our readers and guild members?
: You're more important than you realize! I quoted John Winthrop earlier, and his words are well worth keeping in mind: "We must delight in each other, make each others' conditions our own; rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together --- always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body." Keep up the good work, and keep on supporting each other!
Also: back up your work.