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).
12) Is there an episode above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?
I suppose The Walking Dead's episode 4x12 "Still" and 4x13 "Alone" -- simply because there was NO pay off on the show. So all fic that I wrote after that were fanfic to the utmost degree. I also found 4x10 "Inmates" particularly inspiring.
13) What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?
PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE. My writing has only gotten better as I've grown older because of continual practice.
14) What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever come across?
You can only write what you know. Hogwash. There is something innate and intuitive about true writers; you don't have to have experienced everything to write realistic human experience. Beyond that, a little research goes a long way.
15) If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?
The Broken Ones Series, for sure. You know, a completely different S5 of The Walking Dead.
16) If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?
Damon and Elena. OTP of OTPs of OTPs.
17) Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
Usually I'm pretty chronological, although sometimes I start with a particular scene, and then once I'm writing, I realize it's not the opening scene, so I have to go back and fill it in.
18) Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?
Ha. No. I'd probably me a much more effective writer if I did.