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I'm still taking questions for the get to know your author meme if there's anything you want to ask me. I plan to write up a post with the answers at the weekend. In the meantime I am mulling them over!

And since the summer Prompathon at be_compromised is still taking prompts until the end of Sunday (nudge nudge, hint hint) I thought I'd ask you all about

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I suck at leaving prompts. SUCK. I just can't come up with more than a few vague words or feelings and then they're so vague that no one gets inspired or takes a gander at writing it.

For exchanges, I'm much better at listing explicitly the kind of things I like and want and whatnot.

As a reader:
I squee equally if some fills my prompt (omg, that was such a cool idea you came up with based on my teeny tiny suggestion!) or exchanges (omg you wrote this JUST FOR ME.) Although I don't really consider a fill to my prompt as writing FOR ME, but I still get the thrill that I was able to tickle someone's muse not matter what.

As a writer:
I like prompts because I don't have to do anything. If something interests me, I'll do it. If my muse gets piqued by an idea, I'll write. But if I don't get that prick of interest, there's no need to move forward and I can just sit back and be a reader of all the lovely ideas that come from other writers. (So, I can be lazy if I want.)
For exchanges, it's nail biting. Will my muse find something from the request to latch on to? Can I manage to shape it the way I want within the allotted time? OMG OMG THERE'S A DEADLINE. And then there's the pressure of will my recipient LIKE what I come up with? Which doesn't make me not want to write exchanges, it just makes it a little more fraught.

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Vague can be good for inspiration though. Sometimes ones that are really specific don't do anything for me *shrugs*.

Yes, that, I don't see fills as gifts either but they give that thrill of 'yay, I inspired that' :) And I find writing prompt fills less stressful than exchanges too. But then I don't feel as driven to finish things, and I'm grafeful for some of the exchanges I've been in for the finished things I produced, so there's that *shrugs*.