Writers' meme
Jul. 5th, 2015 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fufarawIt's all over my flist, and I'm nothing if not a meme sheep: Pick one or more numbers, and I'll answer. It'll be more fun if alla y'all do this too!
1. Describe yourself as you would describe a character you’re introducing.
2. Is there any specific ritual you go through while/before/after your writing?
3. What is your absolute favorite kind of fic to write?
4. Are there any other fic writers you admire? If so, who and why?
5. How many words can you write if you sit down and concentrate intensely for an hour?
6. First fic/pairing you wrote for? (If no pairing, describe the plot)
7. Inspiration, time, or motivation. Choose two.
8. Why do you choose to write?
9. Do you ever have plans to write anything other than fic?
10. What inspires you the most?
11. Weirdest thing you’ve ever written/thought about writing/etc.?
12. A fic you wish you had written better, and why
13. Favorite fic from another author?
14. Your favorite side pairings to put in?
15. Your guilty writing pleasure?
16. Do you have structured ideas of how your story is supposed to go, or make it up as you write?
17. Would you describe yourself as a fast writer?
18. How old were you when you started writing?
19. Why did you start writing?
20. 4 sentences from your work that you’re proud of?
2. Is there any specific ritual you go through while/before/after your writing?
4. Are there any other fic writers you admire? If so, who and why?
5. How many words can you write if you sit down and concentrate intensely for an hour?
8. Why do you choose to write?
9. Do you ever have plans to write anything other than fic?
13. Favorite fic from another author?
16. Do you have structured ideas of how your story is supposed to go, or make it up as you write?
17. Would you describe yourself as a fast writer?
19. Why did you start writing?
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Date: 2015-07-05 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-07-05 08:32 pm (UTC)Alsoooo.... 11, please :D
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Date: 2015-07-05 08:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-05 08:53 pm (UTC)10. A subject I feel pretty passionate about--usually some social inequality. Especially one I see written about like it's trivial.
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Date: 2015-07-05 08:56 pm (UTC)15. The writing pleasure I'm most guilty about is sensory detail. I tend to get a little drunk on them in a scene and shortchange the narrative.
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Date: 2015-07-05 08:59 pm (UTC)11. I'd like to heavily edit More Than Words. It was my first J2, and heavy with social cause, and I tried to cram more info in than was good for the story.
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Date: 2015-07-05 09:07 pm (UTC)Also, I think you answered #12, which is fine, but you might want to cross off 12 instead of 11 then :)
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Date: 2015-07-05 09:08 pm (UTC)He turned to find nobody there until his gaze dropped a little. Short, and apparently nearsighted, she'd bumped into him, and she peered up through her glasses now and chirped, "Sorry!"
He couldn't help smiling. Seeing she hadn't alienated him by trying to run him down, she peered at one of the papers that were slipping out of her grip--there were a lot of papers, and her hands were small. He helped scoop up the fallen ones, while she asked, "Building C, Suite 217?"
He helped her square edges on the stack of paper, then turned her by the shoulder to face in the proper direction. "You're in the right building. Take the elevator up, turn right when the doors open, it's the fourth office door down."
The worried furrow between her brows smoothed out and a smile creased her cheeks--the right one dimpled. "Thank you!" She set off toward the elevator, turning back with a grin after a few steps. "I hope nobody bigger than me tries to mow you down today!"
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Date: 2015-07-05 09:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-05 09:16 pm (UTC)thanks for answering it so fabulously!
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Date: 2015-07-05 09:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-05 09:37 pm (UTC)Listen, what goes on in my usual mess of fic inspiration is probably, no almost certainly, more weird than most. My brain goes offline when I try to conjure "weirder than that." Ack, this answer sucks. See, I may *read* bestiality and deep D/s, or Bondage, or characters as cars, or vegetables, or gerbils. I just can't *think* of that kind of stuff on my own. Sorry?
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Date: 2015-07-05 10:06 pm (UTC)I also hear you on the sensory detail thing. I've been guilty of that myself on more than one occasion. Sometimes, it's just fun to let go and wallow in it, though.
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Date: 2015-07-05 11:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-05 11:29 pm (UTC)Thanks for answering despite your reservations, though! I love knowing how everyone's process works.
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Date: 2015-07-06 01:14 am (UTC)I'm sure there are more, but this is sort of at the top of my head right now:
Fatigue should have him falling on his face by now, but it didn't help. It still felt like ants were moving inside his skin, between him and the air. His gut twisted, and he lashed out, as he hadn't ever done before, with his fists. The tree stood in his way, thick trunk wrapped in rough bark, and he would batter his way through it, he would--
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Date: 2015-07-06 10:43 am (UTC)and
18. How old were you when you started writing?
Please!
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Date: 2015-07-06 05:18 pm (UTC)18. I must have been nine or so. I Mary-Sued myself into Walter Farley's Black Stallion 'verse.