Just dropping by...
Hey, long time no see (over here, anyway. The party is happening at Dreamwidth).
Since I intend to keep my DW journal relatively fanfic-free - particularly now that I have RL friends reading it - I decided to put up my recent award banner over here:
I also saw this meme (snagged from beer_good_foamy) and it looked like fun. Probably hardly anyone remembers my fic anymore, but I've always enjoyed talking about myself, lol, so I just couldn't resist:
I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are like, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" Which isn't so much talking about stories as it is writing more of a story. But you know how sometimes you read something and you're like, "I got ___ out of this story, I wonder if I have that right?" or "What on earth was ____ supposed to be?" and it's too awkward to ask the author? Now you could totally ask!
I've heard people say that writing is hard because you have to make decisions, but we never really talk about the decisions we make with stories or why we make them. We talk about plot bunnies, but not about how we actually turn them into a story.
And it seems like a lot more fun to do that than to do working.
So, if you wanted, ask me questions! (Or use this to ask your flist to ask you questions).
What were you trying to do [here]? Why did you decide to ____? This is what I thought about xyz, is that what you were going for? What made you write ____? Why did you decide to do this? And so on.
Fic master list here.
(And speaking of fic, haha, yeah, I never actually got around to revising When in Rome or my alt season six. I still kind of cringe thinking about leaving them as is, but writing fic - and Buffy fic in particular - has been so far from my mind lately that it seems rather unfathomable to actually go back to it. Oh well.)
Since I intend to keep my DW journal relatively fanfic-free - particularly now that I have RL friends reading it - I decided to put up my recent award banner over here:
I also saw this meme (snagged from beer_good_foamy) and it looked like fun. Probably hardly anyone remembers my fic anymore, but I've always enjoyed talking about myself, lol, so I just couldn't resist:
I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are like, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" Which isn't so much talking about stories as it is writing more of a story. But you know how sometimes you read something and you're like, "I got ___ out of this story, I wonder if I have that right?" or "What on earth was ____ supposed to be?" and it's too awkward to ask the author? Now you could totally ask!
I've heard people say that writing is hard because you have to make decisions, but we never really talk about the decisions we make with stories or why we make them. We talk about plot bunnies, but not about how we actually turn them into a story.
And it seems like a lot more fun to do that than to do working.
So, if you wanted, ask me questions! (Or use this to ask your flist to ask you questions).
What were you trying to do [here]? Why did you decide to ____? This is what I thought about xyz, is that what you were going for? What made you write ____? Why did you decide to do this? And so on.
Fic master list here.
(And speaking of fic, haha, yeah, I never actually got around to revising When in Rome or my alt season six. I still kind of cringe thinking about leaving them as is, but writing fic - and Buffy fic in particular - has been so far from my mind lately that it seems rather unfathomable to actually go back to it. Oh well.)