Ahahaha what?
So yesterday at work was pretty much dead, except for the final hour and a half of opening (and the tiiiime beyond that I got as overtime) which was basically a big ol' steaming pile of what the actual fuck?
And the less said about this morning, probably the better, except that apparently I'm now the most attractive dog chew toy in the entirity of Kent. And by "dog chew toy" what I actually mean is "I am a dog and I dislike these shenanigans, so therefore I am going to sink my teeth into some part of e-cat in an attempt to make her bleed over everything." Not that there was actual bleeding over everything, because as clumsy an accident prone as I may otherwise be, I totally have veterinary nurse reflexes. Alas, I also have some new and interesting bruises. Le sigh.
31 Days of Writing
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?
To a large part I...don't? See, this question makes me feel really bad (a similar kind of bad to how I felt after the first time I went to MJ and thought that a panel on writing humour would be a good idea. Apparently, I'm doing it wrong by just, well, having it happen), because I am so not that careful and dedicated writer who sits there agnosing over every perfect word choice. I write whatever comes into my head, often in run on sentences of doom, complete with endlessly nested tangents and only a vague nod towards readability (if you read DW or LJ, or anywhere else that I'm stream-of-consciousness, you may well have noticed this). It's like I have a little narrative soundtrack in my head jsut spouting out the story, and my fingers have varying amounts of success in keeping up.
I am also not the writer who sits there agonising over sentence structure in beta. I mean, I change stuff, sure. But that's mainly a case of putting in punctuation and coralling thoughts/phrases into as few sentences as possible, rather than letting them run rampant.
Apart from that, the stuff I write just...happens? Sorry?
17. What's the best piece of writing advice you've gotten?
Use of semicolons. For serious. And I still totally get it wrong a lot of the time, but at least I'm aware of that these days?
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 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
16 - Summaries - Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?
I like having summaries, sure. Who doesn't? As for coming up with them: I sometimes reort to pulling a line of fic (usually by a blind scroll and click method of guessing), but I think I'm actual getting to be okay at coming up with pithy little things these days? (fell more than free to disagree with me).
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?
Sometimes they're the easiest (and, in fact, the bit that turns up first), and sometimes they're not, but they're never exactly a bane of my existence. I like to think that I do good title (hur hur hur). As for chaptered works, well, I've only done a couple, and one of those had chapter names, whereas the other has numbered chapters, but with phrases and/or subheadings. If you want consistency, you probably should read my stuff, especially no those bits of it that are blogs.
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!
Now, before I go to poke the coffee-walnut cake I'm baking, I feel the need to shout LISTEN TO THIS and gesticulate wildly in the direction of the Foo's new album Wasting Light. They recorded it in a studio they built in Dave Grohl's garage, you guys! There's guitars and rocking and drums and guitars and David Grohl's voice being auditory porn and guitars and--HEARTS. HEARTS IN MY EYES.
Also on DreamWidth, comment where you will!
And the less said about this morning, probably the better, except that apparently I'm now the most attractive dog chew toy in the entirity of Kent. And by "dog chew toy" what I actually mean is "I am a dog and I dislike these shenanigans, so therefore I am going to sink my teeth into some part of e-cat in an attempt to make her bleed over everything." Not that there was actual bleeding over everything, because as clumsy an accident prone as I may otherwise be, I totally have veterinary nurse reflexes. Alas, I also have some new and interesting bruises. Le sigh.
31 Days of Writing
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?
To a large part I...don't? See, this question makes me feel really bad (a similar kind of bad to how I felt after the first time I went to MJ and thought that a panel on writing humour would be a good idea. Apparently, I'm doing it wrong by just, well, having it happen), because I am so not that careful and dedicated writer who sits there agnosing over every perfect word choice. I write whatever comes into my head, often in run on sentences of doom, complete with endlessly nested tangents and only a vague nod towards readability (if you read DW or LJ, or anywhere else that I'm stream-of-consciousness, you may well have noticed this). It's like I have a little narrative soundtrack in my head jsut spouting out the story, and my fingers have varying amounts of success in keeping up.
I am also not the writer who sits there agonising over sentence structure in beta. I mean, I change stuff, sure. But that's mainly a case of putting in punctuation and coralling thoughts/phrases into as few sentences as possible, rather than letting them run rampant.
Apart from that, the stuff I write just...happens? Sorry?
17. What's the best piece of writing advice you've gotten?
Use of semicolons. For serious. And I still totally get it wrong a lot of the time, but at least I'm aware of that these days?
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 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
16 - Summaries - Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?
I like having summaries, sure. Who doesn't? As for coming up with them: I sometimes reort to pulling a line of fic (usually by a blind scroll and click method of guessing), but I think I'm actual getting to be okay at coming up with pithy little things these days? (fell more than free to disagree with me).
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?
Sometimes they're the easiest (and, in fact, the bit that turns up first), and sometimes they're not, but they're never exactly a bane of my existence. I like to think that I do good title (hur hur hur). As for chaptered works, well, I've only done a couple, and one of those had chapter names, whereas the other has numbered chapters, but with phrases and/or subheadings. If you want consistency, you probably should read my stuff, especially no those bits of it that are blogs.
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!
Now, before I go to poke the coffee-walnut cake I'm baking, I feel the need to shout LISTEN TO THIS and gesticulate wildly in the direction of the Foo's new album Wasting Light. They recorded it in a studio they built in Dave Grohl's garage, you guys! There's guitars and rocking and drums and guitars and David Grohl's voice being auditory porn and guitars and--HEARTS. HEARTS IN MY EYES.
Also on DreamWidth, comment where you will!