D - Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?
A lot of my fics have titles that are song lyrics, and I strongly associate those songs with the fics themselves. A couple of examples -
Relentless Splinters I Recall (an in-progress Pillars of Eternity longfic) is named from a line in Arena, by VNV Nation. You Sang Me Of Some Distant Past (Dragon Age Big Bang entry) is named from Samain Night, by Loreena McKennitt.
P - Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an “architect” or a “gardener”? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)
Both! But more an architect, ultimately. If I'm writing anything longer than a couple thousand words, I work from an outline, of varying degrees of detail. I need to know what the major narrative and emotional pillars of the story are going to be, in advance, at the very least.
L - How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
Entirely depends on the fic. I had one particularly troublesome chapter of my first longfic go through something like four rounds of edits and beta reads, including a major re-work, before it ultimately got posted. But I also post a lot of things without more than a once-over for minor tweaks that I do myself.
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Date: 2019-02-09 01:47 pm (UTC)A lot of my fics have titles that are song lyrics, and I strongly associate those songs with the fics themselves. A couple of examples -
Relentless Splinters I Recall (an in-progress Pillars of Eternity longfic) is named from a line in Arena, by VNV Nation. You Sang Me Of Some Distant Past (Dragon Age Big Bang entry) is named from Samain Night, by Loreena McKennitt.
P - Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an “architect” or a “gardener”? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)
Both! But more an architect, ultimately. If I'm writing anything longer than a couple thousand words, I work from an outline, of varying degrees of detail. I need to know what the major narrative and emotional pillars of the story are going to be, in advance, at the very least.
L - How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
Entirely depends on the fic. I had one particularly troublesome chapter of my first longfic go through something like four rounds of edits and beta reads, including a major re-work, before it ultimately got posted. But I also post a lot of things without more than a once-over for minor tweaks that I do myself.