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31 Days of Writing
5. What tools do you use to write? Audio recordings, pen and paper, computer software, other methods, some mixture thereof?
Primarily, I type on my laptop (I use Open Office), but I do have a several notebooks near me, either in bags or for when I'm using the laptop for television/film based background, and therefore can't easily type as well.
5. What tools do you use to write? Audio recordings, pen and paper, computer software, other methods, some mixture thereof?
6. How do you come up with names and story titles?
7. Do you use beta reader(s)? If so, what do you look for in a beta reader? What specialties would your ideal beta have?
8. What kind of support, if any, do you get for your writing?
9. Do you share your writing publicly or keep it private? Have you or would you like to be published?
10. What's your biggest source of writer's envy?
11. How much detail do you usually leave out of a story?
12. Where do you turn when your research is coming up with nothing of value to the story?
13. Optimally, how many times does your work go through the revising process?
14. Do you make literary or cultural references in your work? If so, what sources do you usually draw on? How do you decide whether to make (or keep, when editing) a particular reference?
15. What repeated themes do you see running through your work?
16. How do you support your themes? How do you make sure your language reflects them, and how do you decide whether something belongs in the plot or the theme category?
17. What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever gotten?
18. What genres have you written in?
19. Do you write long stories, short stories, or both? What's challenging about writing a particular story length?
20. Is your writing generally plot- or character-driven? Why?
21. Do you ever participate in writing challenges? Which ones?
22. Out of all the characters you've ever written, which one is your favorite? Which one has surprised you the most?
23. Do you use unreliable narrators? Why or why not?
24. What do you like most about writing? What do you dislike?
25. Give some examples of how various story ideas have come to you. What forms did they come in?
26. What stories haven't you written that you would like to write?
27. Do you have any works in progress?
28. Do you visualize scenes when/before you write them? Or do you go by how the words sound in your head? Both? Something else entirely?
29. What do you do when the words just aren't coming?
30. Do you like to tell stories orally as well as writing them down?
31. What's your policy on remixes, podfic, and other transformative work?
30 Days of Fanfic
5 -If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?
Uh...what is this question, I don't understand. Also, uncomfortable, so I'm going to do what I do best and pretend like nothing is happening.
5 -If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?
6 - When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?
7 - Have you ever had a fic change your opinion of a character?
8 - Do you write OCs? And if so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues, and if not, explain your thoughts on OCs.
9 - Pairings - For each of the fandoms from day two, what are your three favorite pairings to write?
10 - Pairings - Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?
11 - Genre - do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?
12 - Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?
13 - Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?
14 - Ratings - how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?
15 - Warnings - What do you feel it most important to warn for, and what's the strangest thing you've warned for in a fic?
16 - Summaries - Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?
17 - Titles - Are they the bane of your existence, or the easiest part of the fic? Also, if you do chaptered fic, do you give each chapter a title, or not?
18 - Where do you get the most inspiration for your fics (aka "bunnies") from?
19 - When you have bunnies, do you sit down and start writing right away, or do you write down the idea for further use?
20 -Do you ever get bunnied from other people's stories or art in the same fandom?
21 - Sequels - Have you ever written a sequel to a fic you wrote, and if so, why, and if not, how do you feel about sequels?
22 - Have you ever participated in a fest or a Big Bang? If so, write about your favorite experience in relation to one. If not, are there any you've thought about doing? And if not, why not?
23 - When you post, where do you post to? Just your journal? Just an archive? Your own personal site?
24 - Betaing - How many betas do you like to use to make sure there aren't any major flaws in your fic? Do you have a Beta horror story or dream story?
25 - Music - Do you listen to music while you write? Do you make playlists to get into a certain "mood" to write your fic? Do you need noise in general? Or do you need it completely quiet?
26 - What is the oddest (or funnest) thing you've had to research for a fic?
27 - Where is your favorite place to write, and do you write by hand or on the computer?
28 - Have you ever collaborated with anyone else, whether writing together, or having an artist work on a piece about your fic?
29 - What is your current project or projects?
30 - Do you have a favorite fic you've written? What makes it your favorite? And don't forget to give us a link!
On an entirely different subject (and, alas, of limited interest to anyone bar me), I've been playing WoW again recently (I went through a bit of a slump for a couple of weeks), and I'm working on Northrend Loremaster (for the Loremaster title), and only have about 25 quests left in Ice Crown to get it.
So, okay, I only started playing last year, and despite being on the periphery of my brother when he was playing (for which, read: raiding. Because said brother has played for years and consequently only has quests/does quests on the back of new expansions, or because they're dailies), I've managed to remain fairly ignorant of what actually happens in-game in terms of the plot. So bumping up against the assorted Big Bads in the course of questing (even, or perhaps especially, when they're just cinematics like Veteran of the Wrathgate) is still enough to make me squeak and overbalance my laptop.
Imagine the volume and generalised flailing last night, then, when I started the quest chain that originates from setting off the saronite bomb and finding Arthas' frozen heart and then suddenly found myself actually playing as the Lich King. I totally nearly failed the quest because I got the giggles and kept on forgetting to replenish mana/health and totally got distracted from the actual point of the quest (raising ghouls from dead Alliance soldiers) by, uh, the opportunity to run around as the freaking Lich King, mowing down Ally NPCs left and right.
(yeah, it turns out that I'm a total Horde girl at heart. I become fixed on the silliest things)
Anyway, once I've got Northrend Loremaster, I need to drag my druid's arse back to Outland to get Loremaster for that before starting in on Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms (I...was only a few quests short of both before the Cataclysm patch that rendered the old scoring system out of date.). On the plus side, the vanilla zones should be easy, because, well, my druid is a level 85 not really boomkin who can solo 5-man elites up to WotLK end content, so it's just a case of griiiinding my way up on quest numbers. The hardest bit is actually completing the lower level quests that require you to capture an NPC alive because, uh, even a swat from my druid in travel form is enough to one-shot most things up to about level 30.
Still, got to do Outland first, which I got pissed off with because I'm four quests short for Hellfire Penninsula and there is nothing left in that damn zone to count towards the achievement (I've also done all the quests that start/finish out of HP that count towards the HP achievement). I'm 99% certain that I'm short because quests have been nixed in the past couple of patches, but the achievement counters haven't been reset to account for that. So, y'know, in addition to being a zone that I disliked anyway (that bloody Fel Reaver that was forever stomping my poor druid when she was levelling through the zone was deeply traumatic. I make a point of aggroing it everytime I'm in HP, just so I can kill it with starfall), HP is also the zone that's obstructing my obsessive need to do pointless achievements.
And now I'm going to go and eat quiche.
Also on DreamWidth, comment where you will!
5. What tools do you use to write? Audio recordings, pen and paper, computer software, other methods, some mixture thereof?
Primarily, I type on my laptop (I use Open Office), but I do have a several notebooks near me, either in bags or for when I'm using the laptop for television/film based background, and therefore can't easily type as well.
5. What tools do you use to write? Audio recordings, pen and paper, computer software, other methods, some mixture thereof?
6. How do you come up with names and story titles?
7. Do you use beta reader(s)? If so, what do you look for in a beta reader? What specialties would your ideal beta have?
8. What kind of support, if any, do you get for your writing?
9. Do you share your writing publicly or keep it private? Have you or would you like to be published?
10. What's your biggest source of writer's envy?
11. How much detail do you usually leave out of a story?
12. Where do you turn when your research is coming up with nothing of value to the story?
13. Optimally, how many times does your work go through the revising process?
14. Do you make literary or cultural references in your work? If so, what sources do you usually draw on? How do you decide whether to make (or keep, when editing) a particular reference?
15. What repeated themes do you see running through your work?
16. How do you support your themes? How do you make sure your language reflects them, and how do you decide whether something belongs in the plot or the theme category?
17. What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever gotten?
18. What genres have you written in?
19. Do you write long stories, short stories, or both? What's challenging about writing a particular story length?
20. Is your writing generally plot- or character-driven? Why?
21. Do you ever participate in writing challenges? Which ones?
22. Out of all the characters you've ever written, which one is your favorite? Which one has surprised you the most?
23. Do you use unreliable narrators? Why or why not?
24. What do you like most about writing? What do you dislike?
25. Give some examples of how various story ideas have come to you. What forms did they come in?
26. What stories haven't you written that you would like to write?
27. Do you have any works in progress?
28. Do you visualize scenes when/before you write them? Or do you go by how the words sound in your head? Both? Something else entirely?
29. What do you do when the words just aren't coming?
30. Do you like to tell stories orally as well as writing them down?
31. What's your policy on remixes, podfic, and other transformative work?
30 Days of Fanfic
5 -If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?
Uh...what is this question, I don't understand. Also, uncomfortable, so I'm going to do what I do best and pretend like nothing is happening.
5 -If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?
6 - When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?
7 - Have you ever had a fic change your opinion of a character?
8 - Do you write OCs? And if so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues, and if not, explain your thoughts on OCs.
9 - Pairings - For each of the fandoms from day two, what are your three favorite pairings to write?
10 - Pairings - Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?
11 - Genre - do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?
12 - Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?
13 - Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?
14 - Ratings - how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?
15 - Warnings - What do you feel it most important to warn for, and what's the strangest thing you've warned for in a fic?
16 - Summaries - Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?
17 - Titles - Are they the bane of your existence, or the easiest part of the fic? Also, if you do chaptered fic, do you give each chapter a title, or not?
18 - Where do you get the most inspiration for your fics (aka "bunnies") from?
19 - When you have bunnies, do you sit down and start writing right away, or do you write down the idea for further use?
20 -Do you ever get bunnied from other people's stories or art in the same fandom?
21 - Sequels - Have you ever written a sequel to a fic you wrote, and if so, why, and if not, how do you feel about sequels?
22 - Have you ever participated in a fest or a Big Bang? If so, write about your favorite experience in relation to one. If not, are there any you've thought about doing? And if not, why not?
23 - When you post, where do you post to? Just your journal? Just an archive? Your own personal site?
24 - Betaing - How many betas do you like to use to make sure there aren't any major flaws in your fic? Do you have a Beta horror story or dream story?
25 - Music - Do you listen to music while you write? Do you make playlists to get into a certain "mood" to write your fic? Do you need noise in general? Or do you need it completely quiet?
26 - What is the oddest (or funnest) thing you've had to research for a fic?
27 - Where is your favorite place to write, and do you write by hand or on the computer?
28 - Have you ever collaborated with anyone else, whether writing together, or having an artist work on a piece about your fic?
29 - What is your current project or projects?
30 - Do you have a favorite fic you've written? What makes it your favorite? And don't forget to give us a link!
On an entirely different subject (and, alas, of limited interest to anyone bar me), I've been playing WoW again recently (I went through a bit of a slump for a couple of weeks), and I'm working on Northrend Loremaster (for the Loremaster title), and only have about 25 quests left in Ice Crown to get it.
So, okay, I only started playing last year, and despite being on the periphery of my brother when he was playing (for which, read: raiding. Because said brother has played for years and consequently only has quests/does quests on the back of new expansions, or because they're dailies), I've managed to remain fairly ignorant of what actually happens in-game in terms of the plot. So bumping up against the assorted Big Bads in the course of questing (even, or perhaps especially, when they're just cinematics like Veteran of the Wrathgate) is still enough to make me squeak and overbalance my laptop.
Imagine the volume and generalised flailing last night, then, when I started the quest chain that originates from setting off the saronite bomb and finding Arthas' frozen heart and then suddenly found myself actually playing as the Lich King. I totally nearly failed the quest because I got the giggles and kept on forgetting to replenish mana/health and totally got distracted from the actual point of the quest (raising ghouls from dead Alliance soldiers) by, uh, the opportunity to run around as the freaking Lich King, mowing down Ally NPCs left and right.
(yeah, it turns out that I'm a total Horde girl at heart. I become fixed on the silliest things)
Anyway, once I've got Northrend Loremaster, I need to drag my druid's arse back to Outland to get Loremaster for that before starting in on Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms (I...was only a few quests short of both before the Cataclysm patch that rendered the old scoring system out of date.). On the plus side, the vanilla zones should be easy, because, well, my druid is a level 85 not really boomkin who can solo 5-man elites up to WotLK end content, so it's just a case of griiiinding my way up on quest numbers. The hardest bit is actually completing the lower level quests that require you to capture an NPC alive because, uh, even a swat from my druid in travel form is enough to one-shot most things up to about level 30.
Still, got to do Outland first, which I got pissed off with because I'm four quests short for Hellfire Penninsula and there is nothing left in that damn zone to count towards the achievement (I've also done all the quests that start/finish out of HP that count towards the HP achievement). I'm 99% certain that I'm short because quests have been nixed in the past couple of patches, but the achievement counters haven't been reset to account for that. So, y'know, in addition to being a zone that I disliked anyway (that bloody Fel Reaver that was forever stomping my poor druid when she was levelling through the zone was deeply traumatic. I make a point of aggroing it everytime I'm in HP, just so I can kill it with starfall), HP is also the zone that's obstructing my obsessive need to do pointless achievements.
And now I'm going to go and eat quiche.
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