writing meme answers

[kindkit]

Some answers to the 40-questions writing meme. Feel free to ask me more if you want.

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[halotolerant]

I would like to ask (20) Describe your perfect writing conditions. Also interested in whether you write directly onto computer/into notebook etc - always very curious about this in other people *g*

I would love you to write about Captain Banks and I know you would do a great job with him - I hope your writing flow comes back to you soon, for him or for any other project.

[van]

I feel very similarly as you about AUs. I love little twists that take canon in a different direction, or explores alternate realities branching off from canon, but I just don't *get* coffee shop AU style things. They'd have to be so incredibly well done to even remotely work. Instead they almost always just feel like a mix of 1) original fiction 2) author being too lazy to research canon. It might work for a real world fandom like Glee, but when you start trying to sell me nu!Spock as a stoic barista instead of among the last of his race then yeah, you're missing a huge part of characterization. And even if you try to give Erik some ~tragedy~ to represent the Holocaust it just tends to come off as cheap (and in that case actually disrespectful). It doesn't surprise me that some people are into Coffee Shop style AUs, but it does surprise me just how *many* people are into them. In some fandoms they far out number the stories actually based in canon. And for me it's like, what is it about Draco that you like so much in canon to want