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The writing meme
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cypher and recessional. Leave a number (or two!) in a comment. Then copy/paste to your own journal if you want people to ask you questions.
1. How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?
2. Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?
3. What character do you identify with most?
4. Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?
5. If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?
6. Care to share a favorite hurt/comfort fic?
7. Care to share a favorite crack fic?
8. How would you describe your style?
9. Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?
10. Write or describe an alternative ending to [insert fic].
11. What's the angstiest idea you've ever come up with?
12. What's the weirdest AU you've ever come up with?
13. Got any premises on the back burner that you'd care to share?
14. Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?
15. How do you begin a story--with the plot, or the characters?
16. 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?)
17. Do you have any discarded scenes/storylines/projects?
18. Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?
19. Any fandom tropes you can't resist?
20. Any fandom tropes you can't stand?
21. A pairing you might like to write for, but haven't tried yet.
22. A secondary (or underrated) character you want to see more of in fic?
23. Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?
24. A character you enjoy making suffer.
25. A character you want to protect.
26. Major character death--do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can't tolerate?
cypher and recessional. Leave a number (or two!) in a comment. Then copy/paste to your own journal if you want people to ask you questions.1. How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?
2. Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?
3. What character do you identify with most?
4. Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?
5. If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?
6. Care to share a favorite hurt/comfort fic?
7. Care to share a favorite crack fic?
8. How would you describe your style?
9. Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?
10. Write or describe an alternative ending to [insert fic].
11. What's the angstiest idea you've ever come up with?
12. What's the weirdest AU you've ever come up with?
13. Got any premises on the back burner that you'd care to share?
14. Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?
15. How do you begin a story--with the plot, or the characters?
16. 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?)
17. Do you have any discarded scenes/storylines/projects?
18. Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?
19. Any fandom tropes you can't resist?
20. Any fandom tropes you can't stand?
21. A pairing you might like to write for, but haven't tried yet.
22. A secondary (or underrated) character you want to see more of in fic?
23. Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?
24. A character you enjoy making suffer.
25. A character you want to protect.
26. Major character death--do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can't tolerate?
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Hahaha, um... My style as a writer is mostly "not"?
I am One Of Those Authors who has 79K words socked away in various Word docs, but has maybe 8K words published; my style, therefore, I guess, is sporadic. From experience, I know I'm not one of those people who can lay out a complex plot; and I'm not one of those people who can plug away at something every day until it's finished. I'm awful about losing interest in things (and gaining interest back at the worst possible time). I go through periods where I scarcely write at all; and I skip from story to story and fandom to fandom as my current fancy takes me.
Endings are the worst. It seems virtually impossible for me to finish a story! And I'm never free of the urge to 'fix' it, either. (I have lost so much writing momentum by getting dragged into the snare of editing what's already written! It's embarrassing.)
In terms of the stuff I don't finish, but dream of finishing... well, I'm pretty shamelessly a smut writer and an eager embracer of my favourite tropes. Smut, I can do, but trying to develop a long and convoluted plot? No way.
One day I dream of being the kind of writer who can do that, but it'd take a lot of training and study.
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And ahahaha, oh, do I understand the periods where writing scarcely happens at all. For me, they usually come when work or something similar has completely drained my creativity. I'm definitely one of those people who looks on my own personal creativity as something like a well or a pool -- if I don't draw too heavily from it, it'll keep refreshing itself, but if I'm forced to pull from it too much (e.g., I have a lot of very technical work-editing to do that demands my complete focus and concentration) it'll run dry. I'm just barely edging out of a long dry spell now.
I hope you're able to finish something to your satisfaction soon. ^_^