Fanfic asks
A meme I stole from tumblr. And since I seem to be really curious about this type of thing at the moment, I decided to post it. And I know I don't have a huge amount of LJ friends, but I'm leaving the post open so feel free to direct people here because, like I said, curious.
PS, You don't have to answer all questions if you don't want to.( Read more... )
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I'm really interested in all things fic at the moment. Reading and writing. I love talking (or writing I guess) about it or just reading what others say and discus. (you can even ask Haikuesque - I ended up asking them a whole heap of questions not so long ago XD) And sometimes I just look at a fic and go 'how did you do that?', 'how did you come up with that?', 'how did you make me feel like this?' And then I just sit and weep in awe.
This list was stolen but I was thinking about writing my own set of questions. More based on the writing process and the whys of things. I really like hearing what others like/dislike, their thoughts on different topics, how they work, etc. For example, today and yesterday I was writing on till receipt and napkins. It's literally been years since I've written anything with paper and pen. I started wondering if people did drafts/notes/etc on paper then typed things up. Which led to how many people draft? And so on ( ... )
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You should-it’s great fun. Crack-ish, but also sweet, and really cleverly written (Notaverse’s stuff is full of inside-JE-fandom-jokes-half of which I don’t get until I run across the references somewhere else, and then I go, “Oh, that’s what that was about…”). I also had a major Star Trek phase when I was a teenager, so I enjoy it for the Trek-spoofing too… ;)
“It's impressive that SDW was your second Akame fic considering how long it is and that you were probably new to the fandom then?”
I was very new to the fandom then-9 ½ Weeks was my first Akame fic, and like I say, when I started reading that I really thought the slash would freak me out (not to mention the real-people-fic thing, which I had always thought was a squick for me. Apparently I was wrong… ;). As it turned out, it took a little getting used to-but the story itself was so interesting that it just sort of slipped past “weird” and into “good” before I’d even realized it. As much as I enjoyed 9 ½ ( ... )
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Lol-it’s a good question. ;) And there are probably a lot of different ways to go about it, many of which I haven’t figured out myself yet-but I think in general my theory is to focus less on the fact that character X is crying, and more on why that person is crying. Because there has to be something to trigger it, and it’s the trigger that’s going to affect the audience (assuming they care about and empathize with character X, which is something that you build in over the course of the story), not the actual tears of the character. Also, I tend to fall back on some of the things I learned when I was studying acting. For instance, generally when a person cries, they’re not trying to cry-they’re trying not to cry. Crying is an emotional response to a stressful situation, but it’s not generally ( ... )
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“In your opinion, what would count as cotton candy material?”
Hmm, cotton candy material…well, I guess the answer is just that the characters would be acting silly and sweet in a manner that wasn’t justified by their personalities or tempered by any sense of reality. For example, if Jin brushes Kame’s hair back from his face and says, “Kame, you’re the most beautiful man I’ve ever known,” and Kame says, dead serious, “No, Jin-I’m nowhere near as beautiful as you”-that’s worthy of an eyeroll. But if Jin brushes at his hair and says, “Kame, you’re the most beautiful man I’ve ever known,” and Kame punches him in the shoulder and says, with a grin, “Stop distracting me while I’m driving or I won’t put out tonight”-that’s cute. It’s not necessarily the things they say-people can be mushy and ridiculous sometimes, and they can mean it. But when people do say things that are mushy and ridiculous, unless there’s a really good reason for them to be 100% serious (in which situations I tend to lean toward more ( ... )
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