Meme : Writing Questions
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selinamoonfire.
Ideas. Where the hell do they come from? Can you make those little fuckers show up?: Everywhere! A conversation, a Smallville episode, a manip, a movie, a song, a quote. I really have no problem getting ideas. The problem is getting them to wait their turn.
Wild horse-bunnies. When a story just gets pulled right out of you. Do you get them?: Yes. Those are the ones I can write in a few hours - something clicks and I go. Usually a song or manip inspires them.
Writer's block. Have you been scourged?: Very rarely and usually only for a day or two. I just move to another story or WIP or write recs or manip or beta and it comes back.
Clean up duty. Do you like editing?: For other people more than my own.
The ending. Is it hard for you to find the ending?: I often have the ending written long before anything else. If I know where I want it to end, that helps me figure what I need to do to get there. Example: The Rarer Action had a scene near the end that left Clark helpless. Knowing that, I had to setup the reasons for being helpless very early in the fic. If I hadn't, I couldn't have made that scene work. Of course, always having a happy ending works in my favor. :-D
The title. Where do you get yours? Do you have yours when you start the story: A phrase or quote or movie or song title, usually. I always have the title before I start - it keeps me on track. The title is often the base of the fic by the time I've decided on it. Example: Speak Not In Whispers started as simple remix of the episode Whisper. I googled for quotes on 'whisper' and settled on a Swedish proverb "People who whisper, lie." That gave me my title and my plot - revealing secrets/lies and the consequences. I did something similar for Second Course by looking for quotes on 'sleep' for a cliche!fic. The quote I selected from MacBeth structured the plot around sleep healing and the need for sleep.
Plot. If you plot out your stories first, raise your hand.: Hand way up in the air. I have to know what I'm going to write and a basic structure. That tells me how I need to write it (flashbacks, exposition, reverse order, POV's, how many POV's switch, characters and how they'll behave, the story itself)
POV. How do you choose your POV for a scene?: It's usually the other way around. I write the scene based on the POV(s) I chose when I started. POV also tells me what the reader will learn as the story progresses. POV choice is also dependent on type and length of story. I usually choose to follow a character or switch between characters (not in a single scene).
Sex. Do you like writing sex?: Like writing it? If it fits into the story, sure. I think the times it aggravates me is when I'm feeling as if I'm shoehorning it in and it's not a natural progression. I can't tell you how often I think a story is going to be NC-17 and it turns into PG-13 because sex would take away from the story I'm trying to tell.
selinamoonfire.Ideas. Where the hell do they come from? Can you make those little fuckers show up?: Everywhere! A conversation, a Smallville episode, a manip, a movie, a song, a quote. I really have no problem getting ideas. The problem is getting them to wait their turn.
Wild horse-bunnies. When a story just gets pulled right out of you. Do you get them?: Yes. Those are the ones I can write in a few hours - something clicks and I go. Usually a song or manip inspires them.
Writer's block. Have you been scourged?: Very rarely and usually only for a day or two. I just move to another story or WIP or write recs or manip or beta and it comes back.
Clean up duty. Do you like editing?: For other people more than my own.
The ending. Is it hard for you to find the ending?: I often have the ending written long before anything else. If I know where I want it to end, that helps me figure what I need to do to get there. Example: The Rarer Action had a scene near the end that left Clark helpless. Knowing that, I had to setup the reasons for being helpless very early in the fic. If I hadn't, I couldn't have made that scene work. Of course, always having a happy ending works in my favor. :-D
The title. Where do you get yours? Do you have yours when you start the story: A phrase or quote or movie or song title, usually. I always have the title before I start - it keeps me on track. The title is often the base of the fic by the time I've decided on it. Example: Speak Not In Whispers started as simple remix of the episode Whisper. I googled for quotes on 'whisper' and settled on a Swedish proverb "People who whisper, lie." That gave me my title and my plot - revealing secrets/lies and the consequences. I did something similar for Second Course by looking for quotes on 'sleep' for a cliche!fic. The quote I selected from MacBeth structured the plot around sleep healing and the need for sleep.
Plot. If you plot out your stories first, raise your hand.: Hand way up in the air. I have to know what I'm going to write and a basic structure. That tells me how I need to write it (flashbacks, exposition, reverse order, POV's, how many POV's switch, characters and how they'll behave, the story itself)
POV. How do you choose your POV for a scene?: It's usually the other way around. I write the scene based on the POV(s) I chose when I started. POV also tells me what the reader will learn as the story progresses. POV choice is also dependent on type and length of story. I usually choose to follow a character or switch between characters (not in a single scene).
Sex. Do you like writing sex?: Like writing it? If it fits into the story, sure. I think the times it aggravates me is when I'm feeling as if I'm shoehorning it in and it's not a natural progression. I can't tell you how often I think a story is going to be NC-17 and it turns into PG-13 because sex would take away from the story I'm trying to tell.