The writing meme
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kraitShamelessly stolen from 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?
I'm answering your second question separately.
Date: 2016-09-14 03:51 am (UTC)This is almost too broad a question! Pick a fandom I've been in, and there's probably one or two, or a dozen, secondary or underrated characters I love!
I seem to be very hit or miss when it comes to favourites - either I'm on board with everyone else and the fandom's darling is also mine, or I'm sitting off to the side totally baffled as to why everyone is going nuts about that character when my favourite is clearly far more interesting! HP fandom was one of the latter; I was a Snapefan (and more specifically a Snape/Harry fan), and couldn't must up anything beyond a superficial interest in Weasleys or Malfoys.
Thankfully, HP fandom was so very vast that even as a part of a 1/100th minority I had plenty of company. :D
My first thought was that the difference was connected to the canon's cast size: if the cast is smallish and the focus tight, I tend to prefer the main character along with everyone else, while in sprawling megacast fandoms I'm more likely to get hung up on some minor nobody... but the facts don't really bear that out. If there's a pattern, I haven't sussed it out yet!
Re: I'm answering your second question separately.
Date: 2016-09-14 12:32 pm (UTC)Re: I'm answering your second question separately.
Date: 2016-09-15 12:58 am (UTC)Vorkosigan saga: MOAR ELENA, PLEASE?? I need the Adventures of Space Merc Elena like I need oxygen, yet there's nothing. :/
Valor series: For one thing, I really kept hoping that Huff would take a page from Weber's book of tricks and do a "main character's students have adventures of their own" spinoff series; I really want to see the Academy kids that Torin taught going off and applying their lessons. I also need like 200x more of Craig♦Presit (the only way I can stand Craig, really) and Torin&Kyster being mentor and mentee and adorable!
Honor Harrington: I hadn't really thought about it before, but it'd be kinda neat to have something featuring her dad, back at the start of his career and all! I'm a sucker for a good medical drama, especially ~~in SPACE~~, so I'd be there for a fic (or novel) that was all about that! Especially because there's some other fun stuff that the time period would involve - the increasing popularity (and generational effects) of Prolong, for instance, was much less known/less studied back then, so that could make for some interesting side-plot, or just bonus worldbuilding.
Re: I'm answering your second question separately.
Date: 2016-09-15 06:14 pm (UTC)Okay, I guess I could reply in detail to the rest of your comment, but it's all summarizable to "oh hello thing I never knew I wanted". Whoops. The danger of asking questions...
I want moar Torin & any of the Krai – my personal favorite is Werst. This probably says something profound about my character, idk.
And oooh Prolong! Worldbuilding! !!1!
(And I agree with you on the only way Craig is standable. What is it with MilSF woman protagonist/designated dude LI always being a NOTP, sigh.)
Re: I'm answering your second question separately.
Date: 2016-09-15 11:33 pm (UTC)HAHA, YES, COME TO THE DARK SIDE!
I mean, uh. Welcome aboard the We Want It And It Doesn't Exist train, with your conductor, Krait's Brain? :D
I don't know that I could put together a coherent prompt, but I'll think about it. I just need ELENA THE SPACE MERC. PLEASE. What did she learn from Miles, and from Baz, and from Quinn? Give me all of her zany adventures with the Dendarii, working her way up the ranks and watching Miles from the outside as he dives in and out again, no longer a shadow over her and increasingly a stranger. Give me her gradual growth into the power and position she holds, and her shifting opinions on Barrayar/her father/the Vor/the military, and the developing bonds she builds with the people she works with every day. (One imagines that Barrayarans don't have much respect for mercenaries; give me Elena's feelings about being one of them, and how they change!)
I like Werst a lot, too! He should definitely get more moments in the spotlight. (Plus, quite aside from his own merits, more Werst = less Craig?)
What is it with MilSF woman protagonist/designated dude LI always being a NOTP, sigh.
Huh. Hadn't really thought about it, but - yep. Except Paul Tankersley; I quite liked him and Honor together!
Re: I'm answering your second question separately.
Date: 2016-09-16 06:48 pm (UTC)Less Craig!
Paul Tankersley is in the rarer category of MilSF woman protagonist/designated dude LI: "What?" (Heris Serrano and Petrus also go here.) It's where suddenly there's a het relationship that I did not foresee at all, and I'm confused. I do not passionately loathe the dude with the passion of a thousand fiery suns, but I ... don't see the ship? So, mehTP in the new lingo.