Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means ( Read more... )

The Writing Meme:

1) Do I have a distinct style of writing?
2) If so, what exactly is it that defines my style?
3) Would you say my stories follow a certain theme?
4) Is there anything you feel I ought to improve or change?
5) Does my style (if I have one) remind you of anyone else?
6) Judging from whatever writing of mine that you've seen, what do you ( Read more... )

And it's still only halfway done!  So instead of Ten Things Head!Canon Luke Skywalker, it's only FIVE things.  But there was nice closure on #5 (I thought), so I decided to stop writing and post before I made a mess and gave up (again).

So here you go, elizabeth_hoot.  Five of your ten things!

Disclaimer: anything recognizable belongs to George Lucas. :)

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And I've done it myself a bunch of times before. (This is the meme that led to the Watto!fic.)  But I was talking to someone about highly-specific narrative structures in fandom earlier today (okay, just a few minutes ago, because I'm procrastinating the final stages of a term paper), and I thought … damn, let's do that again. So.

It works like this ( Read more... )

I discovered this meme on ansketil_rose's LJ, where she was doing it for Anakin/Palpatine. I immediately realized that it was going to be a dangerous meme for me, because there were too many pairings I could choose and too many pieces of fic it could generate (I don't think it was actually supposed to be a fic meme, but the plot bunnies got loose in it, and ( Read more... )

Ask me a question about one of my fanfics. It can be absolutely
anything in any fic and I will tell you the honest-to-god answer. Don’t
hold back. Ask about major upcoming plot points if you want to. Whatever
you ask, I have to answer truthfully. I will warn you in
advance if my answer contains major Spoilers. If you decide that you
still want to hear ( Read more... )

Leave me a prompt and I will do my best to write it.

But I have to put some fandom restrictions on it, lest I get myself into real trouble: Star Wars, White Collar or Doctrine of Labyrinths, please!

OCs and minor characters, totally fair game! :)

Give me a pairing and I'll answer the following. If it so moves you, give me a few pairs ( Read more... )

Ask me a question about any of my fanfics. Hell, ask me as many ( Read more... )

If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. -- Alfred Hitchcock

What would you expect to find in my fic?