Interactive meme stolen from half my flist:

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 my readers immediately look for?

16. Summaries - Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?Summaries (says the experienced FFnet reader) are the face a story presents to the world. They are therefore important, necessary, and difficult to come up with ( 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?In terms of rating for sexxins, I pretty much stick with G or PG. I've played around with attempts at PG-13 or light R, but they were utter fail ( 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'm hugely canon-nitpicky. (That would be why I started out as a beta reader, yes. Besides the having been a determined spelling-bee competitor in my grade-school days.) So in a fandom with ( 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?

...er, what? I can't write 'ship pairings, in general. And I usually don't try to write pairings I don't like - although the unexpected 2000 words of mirrorverse Odo/Quark wemblee ( Read more... )

9. Pairings - For each of the fandoms from day two, what are your three favourite pairings to write?

Three?! This is insane. The only thing I can even come up with that HAS three romantic pairings, off the bat, is "Pride and Prejudice". ;P But I'll talk about my favorite friendship pairings, and if I've written any romantic pairings (except James/ ( Read more... )

7. Have you ever had a fic change your opinion of a character?

One I was writing? ...no. Why would it ( Read more... )

6. When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?It's mostly male characters who grab my brain, seems as if. (I grew up reading those boys' adventure novels with no girls in them...) Even when there's a rockin' awesome lady like Sam Carter or Kira Nerys in one of my fandoms, she's not my "key" character. I just don't notice them ( Read more... )

Okay, who the heck just gave me fifteen extra userpic slots? Because, I mean, thank you! :D But... slightly startling to go rejigger your icons and find that you have 30 slots instead of 15.

ICOOOOOOOOOOOONS. I am not going to get back to bed at all this morning, am I. XD

Anyway. Interactive meme!

Give me a fandom, and I will tell you my ( Read more... )

5. If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?I let them, of course. ;-) My writing is composed almost entirely of characters taking over my brain and doing things which I then write down. It's what I'm good at. If a character wants to push their way into a story of mine, ( Read more... )