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skoosiepants) wrote2006-09-06 01:27 pm
skoosiepants) wrote2006-09-06 01:27 pm
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are you a robot?
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joyfulseeker:
1. Keyboard or notebook? I get phrases, descriptions, bits of dialogue popping into my head all the time, so I carry a notebook with me everywhere. I can write out a barebones scene, then flesh it out on the comp. So while actually cohesive story writing gets done with my computer, I'm a lot more focused on paper. A lot of my throw-away clever lines come from that (clever-ha!). I've got about fifteen notebooks filled with my scribblings - that even I can't read half the time, because my handwriting is truly horrendous - from the past year.
2. Beta or No Beta? Depends. And I have no clue how to gauge it. Sometimes I want to get it read before I post it, sometimes I don't care. It has nothing to do with length, either, because I've had short pieces beta'd and long pieces not-beta'd. Weird. But betas are love.
3. Plot? I totally suck at plot. And I find if I focus on plot, I sacrifice the characters. So mostly I stick to fast-paced dialogue and long and winding sentences interspersed with short, pointed descriptions and screw plot. Mainly, I say to myself, I want A with B and I want A to have, fuck, I don't know, amnesia or something, and along the way C is going to get caught picking his nose and D and E'll shrink to tiny pocket-sized versions of themselves and get into wacky pocket-sized adventures, and B will be totally oblivious of A wanting to have a hot, torrid, manly affair with him and possibly nuture whatever babies he might have, even though A can't even remember his name, or maybe because he can't remember his name, and also there will be lots of name-calling and pot-use and irritating hand-gestures and dark looming against the forshadowing backdrop of overly bright, headache-inducing sunshine. A-hem.
4. Title? Mostly I hate coming up with titles, and mostly they make no sense.
5. Smushy or Smutty? Um... neither? I can lean towards them both, but hardly ever cross over. I'm sort of in the middle. If it starts getting too fluffly, I throw in more comedy. And vice versa. Nothing stops a love-scene faster than morning breath that smells like burnt dog hair. Yes.
6. Summary? Back in FA days, I used to agonize over this, because if your summary wasn't snappy, no one would click on your story. Now I just pick a quote and plop it in there. You want to know what the story's about? Read it.
7. Funniest Fic? Er. I think I've got maybe a handful of serious fic out there, so. This is hard to choose. I'm overly fond of The One About Pancakes, though.
8. Most popular fic? Oooooo, tough, because this would have to be Dirty Trousers, although I think the Furry Octopus fic gets more recs. Tight race, though.
9. Most fun to write? Even though I've scaled back considerably (am I even still writing it? Who knows!), I've never had so much fun writing a fic as I have writing Dirty Trousers. Hands down.
Although, really, if writing wasn't all around fun, I wouldn't be doing it.
10. Best and Worst? Worst, I'm thinking Origin of Storms. A definite poster-fic for me sacrificing characters for a crappy plot. I mean, I think I was on drugs when I wrote that. Also, it was so damn long I was getting seriously tired by the end.
Best, gah. I don't know. I think it has problems, but... This Is Not A Story About Lavender still stands out for me.
11. Coulda been contenders?
Worst - Twilight of the Dawn, because time-travel paradoxes suck, unless you're riffing on it with comedic purpose. Which I wasn't. *shakes head sadly*
Best - I will be forever proud of the scope of Dirty Trousers.
12. Strengths? Um... dialogue, decriptions, characters...
13. Weaknesses? I tend to repeat myself without realizing it until it's too late. I get a phrase stuck in my head, I reuse it.
14. Dirty little secrets? Um. Not sure how dirty this is, but... When I set out to write facial expressions, I usually make them myself, only exaggerated. Like, a lot. No matter where I am. J makes fun of me.
joyfulseeker:1. Keyboard or notebook? I get phrases, descriptions, bits of dialogue popping into my head all the time, so I carry a notebook with me everywhere. I can write out a barebones scene, then flesh it out on the comp. So while actually cohesive story writing gets done with my computer, I'm a lot more focused on paper. A lot of my throw-away clever lines come from that (clever-ha!). I've got about fifteen notebooks filled with my scribblings - that even I can't read half the time, because my handwriting is truly horrendous - from the past year.
2. Beta or No Beta? Depends. And I have no clue how to gauge it. Sometimes I want to get it read before I post it, sometimes I don't care. It has nothing to do with length, either, because I've had short pieces beta'd and long pieces not-beta'd. Weird. But betas are love.
3. Plot? I totally suck at plot. And I find if I focus on plot, I sacrifice the characters. So mostly I stick to fast-paced dialogue and long and winding sentences interspersed with short, pointed descriptions and screw plot. Mainly, I say to myself, I want A with B and I want A to have, fuck, I don't know, amnesia or something, and along the way C is going to get caught picking his nose and D and E'll shrink to tiny pocket-sized versions of themselves and get into wacky pocket-sized adventures, and B will be totally oblivious of A wanting to have a hot, torrid, manly affair with him and possibly nuture whatever babies he might have, even though A can't even remember his name, or maybe because he can't remember his name, and also there will be lots of name-calling and pot-use and irritating hand-gestures and dark looming against the forshadowing backdrop of overly bright, headache-inducing sunshine. A-hem.
4. Title? Mostly I hate coming up with titles, and mostly they make no sense.
5. Smushy or Smutty? Um... neither? I can lean towards them both, but hardly ever cross over. I'm sort of in the middle. If it starts getting too fluffly, I throw in more comedy. And vice versa. Nothing stops a love-scene faster than morning breath that smells like burnt dog hair. Yes.
6. Summary? Back in FA days, I used to agonize over this, because if your summary wasn't snappy, no one would click on your story. Now I just pick a quote and plop it in there. You want to know what the story's about? Read it.
7. Funniest Fic? Er. I think I've got maybe a handful of serious fic out there, so. This is hard to choose. I'm overly fond of The One About Pancakes, though.
8. Most popular fic? Oooooo, tough, because this would have to be Dirty Trousers, although I think the Furry Octopus fic gets more recs. Tight race, though.
9. Most fun to write? Even though I've scaled back considerably (am I even still writing it? Who knows!), I've never had so much fun writing a fic as I have writing Dirty Trousers. Hands down.
Although, really, if writing wasn't all around fun, I wouldn't be doing it.
10. Best and Worst? Worst, I'm thinking Origin of Storms. A definite poster-fic for me sacrificing characters for a crappy plot. I mean, I think I was on drugs when I wrote that. Also, it was so damn long I was getting seriously tired by the end.
Best, gah. I don't know. I think it has problems, but... This Is Not A Story About Lavender still stands out for me.
11. Coulda been contenders?
Worst - Twilight of the Dawn, because time-travel paradoxes suck, unless you're riffing on it with comedic purpose. Which I wasn't. *shakes head sadly*
Best - I will be forever proud of the scope of Dirty Trousers.
12. Strengths? Um... dialogue, decriptions, characters...
13. Weaknesses? I tend to repeat myself without realizing it until it's too late. I get a phrase stuck in my head, I reuse it.
14. Dirty little secrets? Um. Not sure how dirty this is, but... When I set out to write facial expressions, I usually make them myself, only exaggerated. Like, a lot. No matter where I am. J makes fun of me.
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So you are working on this story right now? Yes? ;)
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