I’m borrowing this from lbilover and hope to see more people joining in. I’d really love to talk more about writing, how it works and what it means and all that - but I sort of needed a prompt to get started on it.

( the fanfiction and writing meme )

So I have a hard time writing something genuinely *happy*. Not like that's a big secret... There's some measure of angst in almost all my stories, even when there's happiness, and that actually makes it more tangible to me. It's that murky tracing of risk and loss around happiness and fulfillment, the bedrock of realism that sharpens its edges. ( Read more... )