Writer memeing
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dreamerinsilicoSnagged from silverusagi.
Comment below with any of the following (and a fic, if the question requires it) and I will answer. (NB: My complete fic index is at the top of my journal. If you want to send some of the fic-specific questions but haven't actually read much/any of my work, just pick something from the list at random! Or tell me to, restricted within a given fandom or not.)
A: How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?
B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?
C: What member do you identify with most from [insert fic[?
D: Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?
E: If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?
F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
H: How would you describe your style?
I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?
J: Write or describe an alternative ending to [insert fic].
K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?
L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?
N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?
O: How do you begin a story–with the plot, or the characters?
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?)
Q: How do you feel about collaborations?
R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?
S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?
T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?
U: Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.
V: If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
W: Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?
X: A character you enjoy making suffer.
Y: A character you want to protect.
Z: Major character death–do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can’t tolerate?
silverusagi.Comment below with any of the following (and a fic, if the question requires it) and I will answer. (NB: My complete fic index is at the top of my journal. If you want to send some of the fic-specific questions but haven't actually read much/any of my work, just pick something from the list at random! Or tell me to, restricted within a given fandom or not.)
A: How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?
B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?
C: What member do you identify with most from [insert fic[?
D: Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?
E: If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?
F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
H: How would you describe your style?
I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?
J: Write or describe an alternative ending to [insert fic].
K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?
L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?
N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?
O: How do you begin a story–with the plot, or the characters?
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?)
Q: How do you feel about collaborations?
R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?
S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?
T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?
U: Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.
V: If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
W: Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?
X: A character you enjoy making suffer.
Y: A character you want to protect.
Z: Major character death–do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can’t tolerate?
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Date: 2019-02-09 01:49 pm (UTC)G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
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L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
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Date: 2019-02-09 09:43 pm (UTC)I usually write start to finish. When I write scenes out of order, it's usually because I can't wrap my brain around the whole thing, and then the bits just sit, sad and dejected, in my writing folder and never get finished/published.
The major reason for this is that I rely a lot on previously-established details to build my scenes; elaborating on/playing with motifs is a huuuuuuge part of my inspiration, and for that to be possible for me, I usually need to know the genesis of the motif, if that makes sense? They don't develop for me if I don't have a solid sense of timeline and the... emotional progression of where everything is at the different times the motif has been invoked.
That said, on a micro-level, like, within a given scene, sometimes my writing gets downright spiral-y. I'll write a thing in sequence, and then circle back around to make tweaks continually. I think it's part of my bad habit of editing-while-writing, but feels inevitable when it's happening, so I let it happen.
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.