Another one of those writing things...
HAY GURRRRRL, HAY!!
Translated for you all
1. Hello! Tell me something about you: Anything!
I’m Francesca, I’m a guitarist and that’s basically all that matters, my taste in music is fucking beautiful. Nice to meet you Fuck you.
2. How long have you been writing?
I’m afraid since I learned to write… I’ve kept diaries and things like that, then I got into stories and fanfictions and poems and things like that…
3. Do you read? What is your favorite book?
Of course I do. My favourite book is… 1984 by George Orwell.
4. Favorite author and the one you can’t stand:
I hardly dislike anything…
5. Do you prefer fanfictions, original stories or novels?
What about all of them?
6. Ever published anything on magazines or newspapers? Or you prefer writingfor free on the Internet?
No, I never published anything so far, in total honesty, I do not want, writing on the internet is just right.
7. Ever won any contests?
No.
8. Do you prefer poetry or prose to read? And to write?
I prefer to read poetry, but write mostly prose.
9. What’s something you like about writing?
Mhm… remembering emotions from the moment I wrote something.
10. Do you plan your story, or you let the wings of inspiration carry you?
Planning? I do not know this word in my vocabulary
11. Ever written a story after a nightmare or a dream?
I may have written a couple, or not.
12. Do you have any phrases that you use often when you write?
Oh I don’t think so.
13. Ever regretted writing a story?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
14. Ever regretted putting your characters in trouble?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
15. Do you identify with your characters ?
Yes, maybe because I’m always the character of whatever I write
16. Ever killed one of your characters? Have you cried for him/her?
I killed so many people I should have opened a funeral agency. No tears and no regrets.
I’m so hardcore.
17. What are the places and time you like to set your stories in?
I think I like a post apocalyptic scenery, the post-war London, or dark, small rooms, or no time and place at all.
18. What genre of stories you like to write about? And what you hate?
I like mostly sad, introspective stories, but if I’m given a prompt or a commission, I can write pretty much anything.
19. Have you read more green or red rated stories?
I’m like all the stories I read and wrote. HARDCORE.
20. Do you like happy endings, sad endings or open endings?
Sad or open endings.
21. Have you a role model who influenced your writing?
I think not.
22. Ever written something together with your friends?
I tried, it was not a wise decision, she forgot about it. Bitch.
23. Ever asked for help from a beta?
I still have no clear idea of what a beta is, but I have never asked help to anyone…
If I have any grammar errors in my stories (because English is not my native language and I write in English) I keep them. Because, hippie, I’m so goddamn hardcore.
24. Do you show to your friends your works in progress or do you keep them until they’re finished?
If I did keep them, no one would ever know I actually write.
25. How often do you go in writer’s block?
Too often.
26. Have you ever restarted writing something you abandoned for a while?
I can’t say I haven’t tried.
27. Your characters. What was the first you wrote about? Do you remember him? His/her history, his/her attitudes, his/her appearence?
Well, the very first thing I wrote was a sort of thing I don’t want to remember. I actually do remember, but… fuck off.
28. What is your favorite character among the ones you created? Describe him/her shortly.
My characters have no name, sometimes even no face, that’s what I love about them all.
29. What do you love about your characters? What do you hate?
I love nothing, I hate recognizing myself in them.
30. Do your characters resemble you?
I’m afraid yes, and too much.
31. have you ever created a Mary Sue or a Gary Stu?
If you’re talking about literary clichés… well… who didn’t at least once?
32. And what about slash? Do you write it?
Slash is my favourite guitarist… oh wait we’re talking about slash fiction?
Well I wrote some.
33. Did you start with a fanfiction or an original story?
If you’re talking about that very first thing, it was an original story… about a girl named Louise.
34. What was the first original story which contained slash?
Well I don’t think I wrote one of those. In my original stories there isn’t porn for free…
Then, if you mean when the characters have sex it’s a very recent one, Young Lust.
35. What was the first slash story you read? What was your impression?
I don’t remember exactly, I think it was about Green Day… it was damn good.
36. Have you ever written something involving S&M or BDSM?
No. Or maybe yes… Oh yes I did… It was a commission.
37. And involving Fluff?
Yes, I think it was a commission too.
38. Which is the disclaimer you have to use the most?
Uhhhhh… angst, implied or explicit sex. Sometimes bad language.
39. Do you ever imagine scenes for your story, based on real people?
I don’t know. Maybe sometimes.
40. Do you read doujinshi or manga-yaoi? Do you like them?
I used to, when I was into manga. Now I don’t anymore.
41. Last question: Who do you want to make this test?
Oh finally you go fuck yourself. I don’t know, who’s hardcore enough.