Writing meme
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danceswithgary and
selinamoonfire , thanks!
This was fun to think about....
Ideas. Where the hell do they come from? Can you make those little fuckers show up?: They came from almost anywhere, recently dreamed an idea that I think will turn into a pretty good Clois... Never thought I'd write that pair, so sometimes you go where the muse takes you. I'm not sure I can deliberately think of a story, trying to deliberately engineer one seems to scare my muse away.
Wild horse-bunnies. When a story just gets pulled right out of you. Do you get them?: Sometimes, Laundry Emergency was like that.... It just sorta wrote itself. Somehow the Clois I'm working on seemed to start out that way and has ground spectacularly to a halt as soon as Superman showed up. *shrug*
Writer's block. Have you been scourged?: Oh, yeah... big time.
Clean up duty. Do you like editing?: Yeah, in school they said writing is rewriting.... I never get it right the first time, I have to craft it and hone it and then sometimes I'm still not happy with it...
The ending. Is it hard for you to find the ending? No, not at all. Always know the ending going in. For me, I have to have a goal to reach for. Sometimes the story might take an unexpected turn and the ending isn't quite what I had in mind, but it's usually pretty close. And usually the ending is the reason I write the story to begin with, which is why I'm frustrated by a S/B that is going no where... I think the hurt/comfort will be stellar and the ending reaffirming and healing, but I can't get through the damn second act...
The title. Where do you get yours? Do you have yours when you start the story: I suck at coming up with titles... Subject should be testament to that! :D I have no idea what to call that Superman/Batman with the ending I imagined would be wonderful, maybe something will come to me... I hope so, maybe if I give it a title I'll be able to work on it more....
Plot. If you plot out your stories first, raise your hand.: Hmmm... sorta. I don't write anything down or take notes or anything for fanfic, it's all in my head. That sucks if I forget what I wanted to do, I had this great idea for one of my stories but I got it in the middle of a car trip and I had nothing with me and then I got distracted by something and I forgot it..... Maybe it wasn't all that great to begin with, but now I cannot for the life of me remember what I'd thought of... LOL! However, with scripts I'm extra anal... have to have scene cards for every single scene before I start to write, but not with the fanfic. When I'm working on a script, I carry the cards everywhere... ready to jot down an idea at a moment's notice, desperate if I leave them at home.
POV. How do you choose your POV for a scene?: It sorta works itself out... I hadn't intended to write Mistletoe from Bruce's POV, but I started with him and it seemed to never to want to shift to Clark's POV, so I ended up sticking with the Dark Knight through out... It seemed to work out better that way anyway...
Sex. Do you like writing sex?: Hmmm... yes and no. I think it's hard to make sex hot and still describe what they're doing... it often turns into an instruction manual kinda thing... he did this, then they did that... very linear and boring. I like sex scenes that aren't too detailed about what the characters are doing and goes into more of what they're feeling... thoughts, emotions, sensation... Distilled down to that level, getting away from describing every little physical detail, I find it far sexier, but that's hard to write well and I'm not sure I'm all that good at it so my sex scenes often feel tacked on or contrived because of it.
danceswithgary and
selinamoonfire , thanks!
This was fun to think about....
Ideas. Where the hell do they come from? Can you make those little fuckers show up?: They came from almost anywhere, recently dreamed an idea that I think will turn into a pretty good Clois... Never thought I'd write that pair, so sometimes you go where the muse takes you. I'm not sure I can deliberately think of a story, trying to deliberately engineer one seems to scare my muse away.
Wild horse-bunnies. When a story just gets pulled right out of you. Do you get them?: Sometimes, Laundry Emergency was like that.... It just sorta wrote itself. Somehow the Clois I'm working on seemed to start out that way and has ground spectacularly to a halt as soon as Superman showed up. *shrug*
Writer's block. Have you been scourged?: Oh, yeah... big time.
Clean up duty. Do you like editing?: Yeah, in school they said writing is rewriting.... I never get it right the first time, I have to craft it and hone it and then sometimes I'm still not happy with it...
The ending. Is it hard for you to find the ending? No, not at all. Always know the ending going in. For me, I have to have a goal to reach for. Sometimes the story might take an unexpected turn and the ending isn't quite what I had in mind, but it's usually pretty close. And usually the ending is the reason I write the story to begin with, which is why I'm frustrated by a S/B that is going no where... I think the hurt/comfort will be stellar and the ending reaffirming and healing, but I can't get through the damn second act...
The title. Where do you get yours? Do you have yours when you start the story: I suck at coming up with titles... Subject should be testament to that! :D I have no idea what to call that Superman/Batman with the ending I imagined would be wonderful, maybe something will come to me... I hope so, maybe if I give it a title I'll be able to work on it more....
Plot. If you plot out your stories first, raise your hand.: Hmmm... sorta. I don't write anything down or take notes or anything for fanfic, it's all in my head. That sucks if I forget what I wanted to do, I had this great idea for one of my stories but I got it in the middle of a car trip and I had nothing with me and then I got distracted by something and I forgot it..... Maybe it wasn't all that great to begin with, but now I cannot for the life of me remember what I'd thought of... LOL! However, with scripts I'm extra anal... have to have scene cards for every single scene before I start to write, but not with the fanfic. When I'm working on a script, I carry the cards everywhere... ready to jot down an idea at a moment's notice, desperate if I leave them at home.
POV. How do you choose your POV for a scene?: It sorta works itself out... I hadn't intended to write Mistletoe from Bruce's POV, but I started with him and it seemed to never to want to shift to Clark's POV, so I ended up sticking with the Dark Knight through out... It seemed to work out better that way anyway...
Sex. Do you like writing sex?: Hmmm... yes and no. I think it's hard to make sex hot and still describe what they're doing... it often turns into an instruction manual kinda thing... he did this, then they did that... very linear and boring. I like sex scenes that aren't too detailed about what the characters are doing and goes into more of what they're feeling... thoughts, emotions, sensation... Distilled down to that level, getting away from describing every little physical detail, I find it far sexier, but that's hard to write well and I'm not sure I'm all that good at it so my sex scenes often feel tacked on or contrived because of it.