40 Questions -- Meme For Fic Writers (continued)
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.
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? [rant about one of my favorite Bethyl fics getting deleted and NEUROTIC writers in this fandom]
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).
9) Which fic has been the hardest to write?
This is really subjective--writing for me is hard and easy--usually because when I want to write and have time, nothing happens, and when I don't have time words literally flow like running water. And lots of stories have bumps in the road so to speak while other parts are a breeze. Sometimes I get an idea and sit down and an hour later it's done. Other times I write something for six months just because that's how it goes. And at this point in my fanfic writing career (15 years and counting) there is SO much that I've written that I can't really tell you which was hardest.
10) Which fic has been the easiest to write?
See the above answer, because it's all the same, really.
11) Is writing your passion or just a fun hobby?
BOTH! Ha! Let me see if I can explain this: I can't live without writing. If I were ever to stop, it would be because I'm dead (or blind, or my fingers are broken or something). But at the same time, I don't know that I'm ever going to write anything the masses will read and I'm perfectly fine with that. (I wasn't always, but I finally got to that place in the last year or so, and the freedom of it is just AMAZING!) And while I'll always craft stories and write fic, I love to write meta as well. Outside of fannish things, I've written anecdotal type things about my faith and my experiences as a woman of faith, and sometimes I think about going that direction and writing about self-esteem and those kinds of things because I have been blessed with those things and I've always wanted to encourage it in other people. But who knows. We'll see what happens...