That writing meme...
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bexatious and christinekh
Ideas: Where the hell do they come from? Can you make those little fuckers show up?
Um. My usual complaint is - "I'm crap at coming up with ideas"! But asquaggy_mire keeps reminding me, I seem to have done okay so far :) Usually mine are somehow episode related - even though I don't write much stuff that stays in canon, the idea or the germ of it comes from an episode, or from where the characters 'are' at a particular point. Even the crazy Christmas fics I've written take a canonical starting point before veering waaaaay off into the non-canon woods!
Also -coloneljack is an evil person who will start a conversation with "do you know what I'd have liked to have seen?" knowing full well that I'll be writing it down twenty-four hours later.
Wild horse-bunnies: When a story just gets pulled right out of you. Do you get them?
Oddly, given what I've said about being crap at coming up with ideas, yes. Nearly all the things I've written have started out that way, at least. When I really get the bit between my teeth, I can turn out quite a lot in a couple of hours and I usually find, when I'm starting something, I get lots of unfinished scenes and dialogue in my head and they all fall over themselves to get onto 'paper'.
Writer's block: Have you been scourged?
Occasionally, but not very badly, I have to say.
Clean up duty: Do you like editing?
Yes. I beta a lot for others, and spend quite a bit of time fixing my own stuff, before it goes to my beta(s) and after - and after it comes back! Sometimes I do it because I'm either avoiding writing new stuff, or am a bit stuck, or because I'm a stubborn bitch who won't leave something she doesn't think is as 'right' as it can be - even though I know the majority of readers probably won't notice, I will, so I have to fix it.
The ending: Is it hard for you to find the ending?
Not usually. I've had the odd fic where finding an ending has been difficult - I found the one in Paying the Price quite tricky, but mostly, the last scene and/or line will come to me at some stage and then I know where I need to get to!
The title: Where do you get yours? Do you have yours when you start the story?
I think most people will say this. Sometimes, they just jump out at me as I'm writing and sometimes it's like pulling teeth. Someone else has found a title for me a handful of times.
Plot: If you plot out your stories first, raise your hand.
Um... it depends I guess. I did make a lot of notes for Keeping the Spirit, but then seeing as I had the idea for a Christmas fic back in May, I had to keep track of ideas and snippets of dialogue somehow. Usually, it's more a case of my starting to write, and having ideas for later, so I write notes and then go back and flesh them out.
POV: How do you choose your POV for a scene? For a story?
For a story... when I started writing, I'd write and see what happened. Now, I'm much more conscious of the POV thing, and pay more attention to it. Reading some of my earlier stuff, I think there are more POV shifts there than there would be if I wrote the fics now. So I do think about it now, but there are some things that I find easier to write from a certain POV.
Challenge: Do you like them? Do they inspire you?
Well, I've entered ficathons, so I guess I don't dislike challenges. But I do panic for a couple of days after I get my prompts! (See comment #1!) I'm not good with a blank page and a deadline! Which is crazy, when you consider I spent most of the last ten years I worked before I had my kids in PR, so a blank page and a deadline was pretty much par for the course!
Sex: Do you like writing sex?
Um... if you know me you won't be surprised at the answer to this one! Yes, I do. For some reason, I find writing smut fairly easy, although I'm incredibly pernickity about it, because I think there's a very fine line to be trod between writing something hot and something laughable or something clinical. I try to keep a sense of humour about it - I sit here giggling over word choices. The difficult thing, I find, is trying not to repeat myself, or at least not too often. But usually, it works out okay, or so I'm told ;)
And a belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY! toimperviousness. Hope you had a good one :-)
bexatious and christinekhIdeas: Where the hell do they come from? Can you make those little fuckers show up?
Um. My usual complaint is - "I'm crap at coming up with ideas"! But as
quaggy_mire keeps reminding me, I seem to have done okay so far :) Usually mine are somehow episode related - even though I don't write much stuff that stays in canon, the idea or the germ of it comes from an episode, or from where the characters 'are' at a particular point. Even the crazy Christmas fics I've written take a canonical starting point before veering waaaaay off into the non-canon woods!Also -
coloneljack is an evil person who will start a conversation with "do you know what I'd have liked to have seen?" knowing full well that I'll be writing it down twenty-four hours later.Wild horse-bunnies: When a story just gets pulled right out of you. Do you get them?
Oddly, given what I've said about being crap at coming up with ideas, yes. Nearly all the things I've written have started out that way, at least. When I really get the bit between my teeth, I can turn out quite a lot in a couple of hours and I usually find, when I'm starting something, I get lots of unfinished scenes and dialogue in my head and they all fall over themselves to get onto 'paper'.
Writer's block: Have you been scourged?
Occasionally, but not very badly, I have to say.
Clean up duty: Do you like editing?
Yes. I beta a lot for others, and spend quite a bit of time fixing my own stuff, before it goes to my beta(s) and after - and after it comes back! Sometimes I do it because I'm either avoiding writing new stuff, or am a bit stuck, or because I'm a stubborn bitch who won't leave something she doesn't think is as 'right' as it can be - even though I know the majority of readers probably won't notice, I will, so I have to fix it.
The ending: Is it hard for you to find the ending?
Not usually. I've had the odd fic where finding an ending has been difficult - I found the one in Paying the Price quite tricky, but mostly, the last scene and/or line will come to me at some stage and then I know where I need to get to!
The title: Where do you get yours? Do you have yours when you start the story?
I think most people will say this. Sometimes, they just jump out at me as I'm writing and sometimes it's like pulling teeth. Someone else has found a title for me a handful of times.
Plot: If you plot out your stories first, raise your hand.
Um... it depends I guess. I did make a lot of notes for Keeping the Spirit, but then seeing as I had the idea for a Christmas fic back in May, I had to keep track of ideas and snippets of dialogue somehow. Usually, it's more a case of my starting to write, and having ideas for later, so I write notes and then go back and flesh them out.
POV: How do you choose your POV for a scene? For a story?
For a story... when I started writing, I'd write and see what happened. Now, I'm much more conscious of the POV thing, and pay more attention to it. Reading some of my earlier stuff, I think there are more POV shifts there than there would be if I wrote the fics now. So I do think about it now, but there are some things that I find easier to write from a certain POV.
Challenge: Do you like them? Do they inspire you?
Well, I've entered ficathons, so I guess I don't dislike challenges. But I do panic for a couple of days after I get my prompts! (See comment #1!) I'm not good with a blank page and a deadline! Which is crazy, when you consider I spent most of the last ten years I worked before I had my kids in PR, so a blank page and a deadline was pretty much par for the course!
Sex: Do you like writing sex?
Um... if you know me you won't be surprised at the answer to this one! Yes, I do. For some reason, I find writing smut fairly easy, although I'm incredibly pernickity about it, because I think there's a very fine line to be trod between writing something hot and something laughable or something clinical. I try to keep a sense of humour about it - I sit here giggling over word choices. The difficult thing, I find, is trying not to repeat myself, or at least not too often. But usually, it works out okay, or so I'm told ;)
And a belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY! to
imperviousness. Hope you had a good one :-)
