18 - Where do you get the most inspiration for your fics (aka "bunnies") from?That's the single most unanswerable question for any writer, IMHO ( Read more... )

Snagged from kerravonsen:

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

When I write a story, what do readers immediately look for?

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?I detest titles, they are my least favorite part of any writing project. Once in a blue moon I get a really good title early, but usually I have to resort to either looking up quotes on the ( Read more... )

16 - Summaries - Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?Summaries! I've gotten to the point where I refuse to read a fic that doesn't have a summary. Yes, even from authors I trust ( Read more... )

15 - Warnings - What do you feel it most important to warn for, and what's the strangest thing you've warned for in a fic?I have a lot of sympathy with those who don't like to warn at all. There are times when giving a warning gives away the story, gives away one's punchline, and if it's the sort of story that needs that moment of impact, then what ( Read more... )

14 - Ratings - how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?I'm usually quite comfortable writing up to PG-13 for most things; I've gone easily up to R for language and violence. If the story called for ( Read more... )

13 - Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?I am a canon girl all the way. Which doesn't mean I don't read or contemplate writing AUs, because the best AUs diverge elegantly from a canon base. I have actually gone out of my way to avoid ( Read more... )

12 - Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?

Nope.

I have *read* some, but very few, and still less of those were any good. Mostly, I have enough plot tribbles hanging around without trying (to reference one of the Really Good Ones) to write Alias does Ocean's Eleven. :)

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11 - Genre - do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?Okay, I'm going to assume that this question is using "genre" in the mainstream/AO3 meaning of the term, and not referring to such categories as gen, het, or slash ( Read more... )

10 - Pairings - Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?

Yes, just once. :) Don Eppes/Liz Warner (a canon pairing that I violently disliked), in Anesthetic (PG-13 for sexytiems)

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