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writer's meme: 40 questions
Because all the cool kids are doing it...
Have a look at the list behind the cut and give me up to 3 numbers.
1. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.
2. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?
3. Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?
4. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?
5. Share one of your strengths.
6. Share one of your weaknesses.
7. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
9. Which fic has been the hardest to write?
10. Which fic has been the easiest to write?
11. Is writing your passion or just a fun hobby?
12. Is there an episode above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?
13. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?
14. What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever come across?
15. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?
16. If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?
17. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
18. Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?
19. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?
20. Describe your perfect writing conditions.
21. How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
22. Choose a passage from one of your earlier fics and edit it into your current writing style. (person to choose this number - feel free to make suggestions!).
23. If you were to revise one of your older fics from start to finish, which would it be and why?
24. Have you ever deleted one of your published fics?
25. What do you look for in a beta?
26. Do you beta yourself? If so, what kind of beta are you?
27. How do you feel about collaborations?
28. Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.
29. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
30. Do you accept prompts?
31. Do you take liberties with canon or are you very strict about your fic being canon compliant?
32. How do you feel about smut?
33. How do you feel about crack?
34. What are your thoughts on non-con and dub-con?
35. Would you ever kill off a canon character?
36. Which is your favorite site to post fic?
37. Talk about your current wips.
38. Talk about a review that made your day.
39. Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them?
40. Write an alternative ending to [insert fic title] (or just the summary of one).
Have a look at the list behind the cut and give me up to 3 numbers.
1. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.
2. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?
3. Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?
4. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?
5. Share one of your strengths.
6. Share one of your weaknesses.
7. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
9. Which fic has been the hardest to write?
10. Which fic has been the easiest to write?
11. Is writing your passion or just a fun hobby?
12. Is there an episode above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?
13. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?
14. What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever come across?
15. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?
16. If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?
17. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
18. Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?
19. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?
20. Describe your perfect writing conditions.
21. How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
22. Choose a passage from one of your earlier fics and edit it into your current writing style. (person to choose this number - feel free to make suggestions!).
23. If you were to revise one of your older fics from start to finish, which would it be and why?
24. Have you ever deleted one of your published fics?
25. What do you look for in a beta?
26. Do you beta yourself? If so, what kind of beta are you?
27. How do you feel about collaborations?
28. Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.
29. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
30. Do you accept prompts?
31. Do you take liberties with canon or are you very strict about your fic being canon compliant?
32. How do you feel about smut?
33. How do you feel about crack?
34. What are your thoughts on non-con and dub-con?
35. Would you ever kill off a canon character?
36. Which is your favorite site to post fic?
37. Talk about your current wips.
38. Talk about a review that made your day.
39. Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them?
40. Write an alternative ending to [insert fic title] (or just the summary of one).
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The warm flesh tainted her mouth, coated her throat and she welcomed the release. Welcomed the loss of self as she allowed her darker urges to bubble forth until the creature beneath her paws and teeth had become only so much meat and she pulled away, licked at the blood slicked fur lining her muzzle before she tilted her head back. Human eyes staring up into the darkness above her as she gave voice to the darkness within and bayed at the half full moon.
It’s from the story Beyond this Illusion in a series in which Buffy is a werewolf and I’ve got a soft spot for werewolves and shifters. I love writing from that perspective and figuring out how the merge animal instincts with a human consciousness. I find it all very fascinating and I think this paragraph best encompasses what I was trying to accomplish.
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“So?” Buffy stopped, shot Faith a quick glare, “dieing does in no way negate the fact that I saved the world,” there was pause before she emphasized, “twice!”
“B,” the brunette stopped with her and quirked a brow, “those were so null’n’voided when you died.”
“Whatever,” Buffy turned and started back down the path toward the street, “I’ll just have to save the world again and maybe I’ll let you help,” a shrug lifted her jacket-covered shoulder and she offered, “’cause I’m nice like that.”
“Yeah, ‘cause I wanna die.” Faith lengthened her stride so that she was leading Buffy onto the street outside of the cemetery and continued with, “’sides I have my own badass villains to worry about.”
A slow nod accompanied Buffy’s statement of, “Yes, the Mayor of Sunnydale is the epitome of badassery.”
“No,” Faith contradicted, “that would be us.”
“We’re the epitome of badassery?” Buffy’s head cocked as she considered the thought before a slow smile spread her lips. “I kinda love that.”
“You, should. You came up with it,” with a snort and a quick glance from side to side, Faith crossed the deserted street, “I still can’t believe my big bad is the mayor.” She stepped up, onto the sidewalk and Buffy followed her as Faith groused, “You get kick ass villains to face off against and I get—”
“A big bad that has the entire city backing them.”
Buffy’s interruption stopped Faith mid-complaint and she inclined her head. “Huh,” brown eyes narrowed and she glanced to Buffy before raising her brows, “At least we’ve proved that politicians are, for a fact, evil.”
“Some,” she agreed with a quick nod, “Of course we could just shoot him. I mean he is human,” a line appeared between her brows, “Isn’t he?”
Faith shrugged and started moving again, leading them further from the cemetery and towards the more people friendly areas of Sunnydale before asking, “What’s with you and the guns?”
“I told you about the Colt,” Buffy caught Faith’s sharp nod and continued with, “Well what I didn’t tell you was that rock salt in gun shell casings and nasty spirits are unmixy things.”
Faith’s head pivoted toward her, “No way.”
“Yes, way,” Buffy nodded and they turned down Hillside Road, “I saw it on YouTube.” She let that sink in a moment before explaining, “There were all these how to videos on ghost hunting by the Ghost-Chasers,” she paused, frowned, “or was it Ghost-Facers?” Off Faith’s raised brows she rolled her eyes and refocused, “Whatever, that’s beside the point. Shotgun shells filled with rock salt work like a charm and, apparently, the Winchesters suck ass.”
“The who?”
Buffy shrugged. “Beats me, but the guys doing the videos seemed to have an abnormal amount of hate for them.”
They passed beneath a canopy of trees and Buffy tucked her hands into the pockets of her jacket as a lull formed in their conversation and as she turned her head to ask Faith a vapid question to restart the flow of conversation Faith beat her to the punch and stated, “I still say a Slayer using guns is just weird.”
Reading behind that waspish statement, Buffy offered, “Want me to teach you?”
“God, yes,” Faith grinned
It’s a lot of dialogue to read through, but it’s the scene I had the most fun writing in the Miles to Go series because I loved building a relationship between Faith and Buffy from scratch. Especially when Buffy is most definitely the more mental wounded of the pair and Faith is allowed to step up and be pretty fantastic friend to her. I also got to write Faith and, if the third story is ever completed, she’d get equal screentime in it. Plus this scene had a Ghost-Facers mention. :D
Side note: I almost used a Cordelia scene from this series, apparently I like the dialogue in it, because she’s character that I didn’t realize I liked writing until this series. She brings such a levity to a given situation.
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She’s also fair to all the characters she writes. I’m certain she has her favorites, but you can never tell who they are when she’s writing a given character and I can’t tell you how much I enjoy that. I can’t stand bashing, even when it’s on a character I dislike, because bashing is so easy. Being fair and unbiased is far more impressive.
She writes gen, relationship and crack in equal measure and sometimes all in the same story and makes it believable. It’s pretty fantastic.
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18. Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?
38. Talk about a review that made your day.
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MPreg – Junior was a pretty hilarious movie, but from what I’ve gather mpreg is rarely meant to be humerous and that just strikes me as odd. Why would you want to randomly make men pregnant? How do they give birth and where does the child develop?
I just can’t.
18. Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?
I use outlines to help me plot longer stories. Especially ones that are have time hops in them (IE scenes that take place in the present and the past). I’m relying heavily on outlining with my newest Marvel bunny. It requires a thorough plotting for this storyline so it doesn’t get convoluted. Plus I like the outline because it gives me a better idea of how the story is flowing and it I can cut scenes before I even get them written if they’re just going to slow down the story.
38. Talk about a review that made your day.
While I do adore glowing praise, who doesn’t really, I’m really a fan of reviews that make me think and I welcome critical ones if they’ll make me a better writer. I had someone review my ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’ story on AO3 that questioned why I referred to Buffy in male pronouns which let me explain my thought process when I made her God of the Supernatural verse. I like getting discuss the thoughts behind particular scenes. :D