Perdi made me do it. D:
1. How often do you write and how do you feel about your output?
In theory, I write every day. In theory. Most of the time I like what I write because I spend way too long perfecting it.
2. Where does your inspiration come from? Where do you get your ideas?
Run down buildings and warehouses, dead trees, decay of any kind. Also, music, Music is important.
3. What are the first things you write? Dialogue? Sex? Something else?
I write straight through. If I have to write sex, I delay it forEVER because the actual sex part is really tedious to write and can get really boring fast.
4. How have you improved this past six months/year?
I've broken through a lot of my internal censors. This time last year I would have had a breakdown over writing a particularly graphic torture scene and skipped over it, now it seems to be my strong point and it doesn't phase me anymore. Whether or not that's an improvement is a matter of opinion, I guess.
5. Why do you write?
It changes. Right now, I write to exorcise my personal demons, to try and write something that someone will want to read. Also, I'm slowly becoming a pariah and I have a lot of free time.
6. Do you go through highs and lows? What are the triggers?
Yeah, mostly based on the free time I have ans were it's spent.
7. Do people in RL know you write slash?
Haha, yeeeaaaah. I mostly write fanfiction as gifts for people now.
8. Where do you write?
In my room or one of my two local coffee haunts, Ziggi's and Buzz.
9. Does music help or hinder?
Help. Music has single-handedly created characters and scenes for me. There's an incredibly powerful sequence (powerful to me, at least, no one else has read it) in one of my original stories that wouldn't have happened without Fragile by NIN. One of my most prolific characters wouldn't have existed with the The Vines album "Highly Evolved."
10. What are your props?
My headphones, occasionally fingerless gloves. I have a very small Chris Redfield action figure that I'm pretty sure channels my powers.
11. How seriously do you take your writing/ the writing process?
Not as seriously as I should. I'm starting to get more into the research process, trying to actually determine the way some of my characters would react in certain situations or other factual details that might take someone out of a story if they couldn't suspend disbelief because of a glaring error.
12. What are your strengths?
Vocabulary, and currently, graphic torture and homicide. Wheee.
13. What are your weaknesses?
Dialogue, character development, attention to detail.
14. If you beta, what do you get out of it?
I get the warm fuzzy feeling that someone trusted me enough to look over it before anyone else. That being said, I haven't beta'd in some time. XD
15. What do you write?
Fanfiction-wise? Mostly PWPs. My original stuff is all crime.
16. Which fic have you written that felt like bungee-jumping - you really had to feel the fear and jump?
One I'm currently working on. It's for the Preston/Child Pendergast novels, and it deals with such a taboo that I have to pretty much destroy every censor I have in order to work on it and I've barely started.
17. How do you feel about comments?
I like them, mainly just because they're proof that someone read my fic..
18. Do you give other writers feedback? Why/why not?
I do. Everything I read I try to find at least one nice thing to say about it (which usually isn't hard). Someone went out of their way to write this, it's not so hard for me to go out of my way to tell them that I liked it and why.
19. What is the indicator for you that your fic was a success/worked?
If I read it again six months later and still like it, it's good. I hate virtually everything I write once I have time to improve on it, and when I don't find anything wrong, it's a great success.
20. Do you write in the genre you like reading the most, ie crack, AU, angst etc?
Yes. I don't really read crack much, but I have written a couple of crack fics. Other than that I read what I write.
21. Do you write a straight through draft or is your first attempt bits and pieces?
Straight through draft.
22. What is it about this fandom that is eating your brain?
Uhhh... what fandom? I don't have a particular fandom eating my brain, aside from Preston/Child. (incidentally, if you're looking for something to read and you like fiction, pick up one or two of these books. DAMN I LOVE THEM.)
23. Is this your first time, or are you a serial monogomar with fandoms?
I'm a fandom slut these days. I'm currently working on two Resident Evil fics, one Preston/Child, and one Assassin's Creed,
24. Do you do drabbles, comment fic, challenges with deadlines - and how do you get on with these?
I don't write fic nearly as much as I used to, so consequently I don't go looking for challenges very often.
25. Anything else?
Not that I can think of.
In theory, I write every day. In theory. Most of the time I like what I write because I spend way too long perfecting it.
2. Where does your inspiration come from? Where do you get your ideas?
Run down buildings and warehouses, dead trees, decay of any kind. Also, music, Music is important.
3. What are the first things you write? Dialogue? Sex? Something else?
I write straight through. If I have to write sex, I delay it forEVER because the actual sex part is really tedious to write and can get really boring fast.
4. How have you improved this past six months/year?
I've broken through a lot of my internal censors. This time last year I would have had a breakdown over writing a particularly graphic torture scene and skipped over it, now it seems to be my strong point and it doesn't phase me anymore. Whether or not that's an improvement is a matter of opinion, I guess.
5. Why do you write?
It changes. Right now, I write to exorcise my personal demons, to try and write something that someone will want to read. Also, I'm slowly becoming a pariah and I have a lot of free time.
6. Do you go through highs and lows? What are the triggers?
Yeah, mostly based on the free time I have ans were it's spent.
7. Do people in RL know you write slash?
Haha, yeeeaaaah. I mostly write fanfiction as gifts for people now.
8. Where do you write?
In my room or one of my two local coffee haunts, Ziggi's and Buzz.
9. Does music help or hinder?
Help. Music has single-handedly created characters and scenes for me. There's an incredibly powerful sequence (powerful to me, at least, no one else has read it) in one of my original stories that wouldn't have happened without Fragile by NIN. One of my most prolific characters wouldn't have existed with the The Vines album "Highly Evolved."
10. What are your props?
My headphones, occasionally fingerless gloves. I have a very small Chris Redfield action figure that I'm pretty sure channels my powers.
11. How seriously do you take your writing/ the writing process?
Not as seriously as I should. I'm starting to get more into the research process, trying to actually determine the way some of my characters would react in certain situations or other factual details that might take someone out of a story if they couldn't suspend disbelief because of a glaring error.
12. What are your strengths?
Vocabulary, and currently, graphic torture and homicide. Wheee.
13. What are your weaknesses?
Dialogue, character development, attention to detail.
14. If you beta, what do you get out of it?
I get the warm fuzzy feeling that someone trusted me enough to look over it before anyone else. That being said, I haven't beta'd in some time. XD
15. What do you write?
Fanfiction-wise? Mostly PWPs. My original stuff is all crime.
16. Which fic have you written that felt like bungee-jumping - you really had to feel the fear and jump?
One I'm currently working on. It's for the Preston/Child Pendergast novels, and it deals with such a taboo that I have to pretty much destroy every censor I have in order to work on it and I've barely started.
17. How do you feel about comments?
I like them, mainly just because they're proof that someone read my fic..
18. Do you give other writers feedback? Why/why not?
I do. Everything I read I try to find at least one nice thing to say about it (which usually isn't hard). Someone went out of their way to write this, it's not so hard for me to go out of my way to tell them that I liked it and why.
19. What is the indicator for you that your fic was a success/worked?
If I read it again six months later and still like it, it's good. I hate virtually everything I write once I have time to improve on it, and when I don't find anything wrong, it's a great success.
20. Do you write in the genre you like reading the most, ie crack, AU, angst etc?
Yes. I don't really read crack much, but I have written a couple of crack fics. Other than that I read what I write.
21. Do you write a straight through draft or is your first attempt bits and pieces?
Straight through draft.
22. What is it about this fandom that is eating your brain?
Uhhh... what fandom? I don't have a particular fandom eating my brain, aside from Preston/Child. (incidentally, if you're looking for something to read and you like fiction, pick up one or two of these books. DAMN I LOVE THEM.)
23. Is this your first time, or are you a serial monogomar with fandoms?
I'm a fandom slut these days. I'm currently working on two Resident Evil fics, one Preston/Child, and one Assassin's Creed,
24. Do you do drabbles, comment fic, challenges with deadlines - and how do you get on with these?
I don't write fic nearly as much as I used to, so consequently I don't go looking for challenges very often.
25. Anything else?
Not that I can think of.