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graycardinalThis one's a more introspective meme than I've seen in awhile, picked up from aris_tgd. I'm going to inject a little more structure in hopes of making it look a little less intimidating (from both sides of the desk). So:
Below (and I'm putting these under a cut, because it's a long list) is a series of questions about aspects of one's writing process and one's body of work (both existing and prospective). Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to do any or all of the following:
Now, the questions:
A. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.
B. Is there a trope you've yet to try your hand at, but really want to?
C. Is there a trope you wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole?
D. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?
E. Share one of your strengths.
F. Share one of your weaknesses.
G. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you've written and explain why you're proud of it.
H. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you've written and explain why you're proud of it.
I. Which fic has been the hardest to write?
J. Which fic has been the easiest to write?
K. Is writing your passion or just a fun hobby?
L. Is there an episode or section of canon above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?
M. What's the best writing advice you've ever come across?
N. What's the worst writing advice you've ever come across?
O. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?
P. If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?
Q. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
R. Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?
S. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?
T. Describe your perfect writing conditions.
U. How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
V. Choose a passage from one of your earlier fics and edit it into your current writing style. (Person asking the question is free to make suggestions).
W. If you were to revise one of your older fics from start to finish, which would it be and why?
X. Have you ever deleted one of your published fics?
Y. What do you look for in a beta?
Z. Do you beta yourself? If so, what kind of beta are you?
AA. How do you feel about collaborations?
AB. Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.
AC. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
AD. Do you accept prompts?
AE. Do you take liberties with canon or are you very strict about your fic being canon compliant?
AF. How do you feel about smut?
AG. How do you feel about crack?
AH. What are your thoughts on non-con and dub-con?
AI. Would you ever kill off a canon character?
AJ. Which is your favorite site to post fic?
AK. Talk about your current wips.
AL. Talk about a review that made your day.
AM. Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them?
AN. Write an alternative ending to a fic you've written (specify by title, link or general description).
aris_tgd. I'm going to inject a little more structure in hopes of making it look a little less intimidating (from both sides of the desk). So:Below (and I'm putting these under a cut, because it's a long list) is a series of questions about aspects of one's writing process and one's body of work (both existing and prospective). Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to do any or all of the following:
- Comment on this post, choosing up to five of the lettered questions for me to answer.
- Comment on this post, either offering to answer up to five questions of my choice from the list or choosing your own list of up to five questions to answer (in either case, you should post the answers in your own journal and provide a link)
- Post the full meme to your own journal, thereby encouraging your own friends-list to play (and to keep on passing the meme around)
Now, the questions:
A. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.
B. Is there a trope you've yet to try your hand at, but really want to?
C. Is there a trope you wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole?
D. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?
E. Share one of your strengths.
F. Share one of your weaknesses.
G. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you've written and explain why you're proud of it.
H. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you've written and explain why you're proud of it.
I. Which fic has been the hardest to write?
J. Which fic has been the easiest to write?
K. Is writing your passion or just a fun hobby?
L. Is there an episode or section of canon above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?
M. What's the best writing advice you've ever come across?
N. What's the worst writing advice you've ever come across?
O. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?
P. If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?
Q. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
R. Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?
S. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?
T. Describe your perfect writing conditions.
U. How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
V. Choose a passage from one of your earlier fics and edit it into your current writing style. (Person asking the question is free to make suggestions).
W. If you were to revise one of your older fics from start to finish, which would it be and why?
X. Have you ever deleted one of your published fics?
Y. What do you look for in a beta?
Z. Do you beta yourself? If so, what kind of beta are you?
AA. How do you feel about collaborations?
AB. Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.
AC. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
AD. Do you accept prompts?
AE. Do you take liberties with canon or are you very strict about your fic being canon compliant?
AF. How do you feel about smut?
AG. How do you feel about crack?
AH. What are your thoughts on non-con and dub-con?
AI. Would you ever kill off a canon character?
AJ. Which is your favorite site to post fic?
AK. Talk about your current wips.
AL. Talk about a review that made your day.
AM. Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them?
AN. Write an alternative ending to a fic you've written (specify by title, link or general description).
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Date: September 18th, 2014 01:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: September 18th, 2014 03:24 am (UTC)Now, then:
E. Share one of your strengths.
I seem to have a knack -- at least if one goes by comments -- for catching and replicating the "voice" or style of whatever source canon I'm working in. This has been especially useful in connection with Yuletide, in which I've landed requests for such diverse and obscure canons as Robert van Gulik's "Judge Dee" mysteries, L. J. Smith's Night of the Solstice (original YA fantasy, not nearly as well known as her Vampire Diaries and Night World books), and Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt thrillers.
F. Share one of your weaknesses.
Lately I've developed a bad habit of pushing fic-exchange deadlines, largely as a result of planning and plotting in my head for weeks and then doing all the writing at blinding speed at the last possible moment. Fortunately, I have not yet actually blown a deadline -- and the resulting fics have turned out reasonably well -- but I really need to break this habit going forward.
K. Is writing your passion or just a fun hobby?
Over time, it's been both. I have been writing in one form or another for most of my life (fortunately, I have now acquired the only existing copy of "Loopy and the Animal Circus", so my parents can no longer use it as blackmail material), and I have notes for a lot of want-to-finish non-fannish projects in my files. For the last few years, however, most of my actual writing energy has been aimed at fanfic, which I do have to count as mostly for fun. Not that the non-fannish projects aren't (far from it), but I've been...coasting on that front for awhile now. I have no plans to stop committing fanfic, but I want to find the energy to work on the other stuff as well.
Q. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
I virtually always write straight through. Depending on the size of a given project, I will often have a decent idea of what the climax is going to look like (see "planning and plotting in head" above), sometimes to the degree of knowing bits of dialogue ahead of time, but I don't write it until I actually get there.
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Date: September 24th, 2014 11:41 pm (UTC)I admire that. I think I may have written a drabble straight through once, but that's about it. I dart back and forth between whatever scene I'm interested in right at the moment, I think mostly because I don't trust myself to remember what's going on in my head unless I commit it to (virtual) paper, and I hate that feeling of having the perfect description or line or dialogue and then not being able to remember what it was. Unfortunately, it sometimes leads to the problem of building a road starting from both ends and not meeting in the middle, so I either have to join them clumsily or rewrite the parts of the ending I already have down, which is always a bummer.