Fanfic meme
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sheenianniBecause it looks fun.
1. How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?
2. Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?
3. What character do you identify with most?
4. Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?
5. If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?
6. Care to share a favorite hurt/comfort fic?
7. Care to share a favorite crack fic?
8. How would you describe your style?
9. Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?
10. Write or describe an alternative ending to [insert fic].
11. What's the angstiest idea you've ever come up with?
12. What's the weirdest AU you've ever come up with?
13. Got any premises on the back burner that you'd care to share?
14. Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?
15. How do you begin a story--with the plot, or the characters?
16. Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an "architect" or a "gardener"? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)
17. Do you have any discarded scenes/storylines/projects?
18. Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?
19. Any fandom tropes you can't resist?
20. Any fandom tropes you can't stand?
21. A pairing you might like to write for, but haven't tried yet.
22. A secondary (or underrated) character you want to see more of in fic?
23. Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?
24. A character you enjoy making suffer.
25. A character you want to protect.
26. Major character death--do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can't tolerate?
1. How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?
2. Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?
3. What character do you identify with most?
4. Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?
5. If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?
6. Care to share a favorite hurt/comfort fic?
7. Care to share a favorite crack fic?
8. How would you describe your style?
9. Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?
10. Write or describe an alternative ending to [insert fic].
11. What's the angstiest idea you've ever come up with?
12. What's the weirdest AU you've ever come up with?
13. Got any premises on the back burner that you'd care to share?
14. Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?
15. How do you begin a story--with the plot, or the characters?
16. Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an "architect" or a "gardener"? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)
17. Do you have any discarded scenes/storylines/projects?
18. Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?
19. Any fandom tropes you can't resist?
20. Any fandom tropes you can't stand?
21. A pairing you might like to write for, but haven't tried yet.
22. A secondary (or underrated) character you want to see more of in fic?
23. Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?
24. A character you enjoy making suffer.
25. A character you want to protect.
26. Major character death--do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can't tolerate?
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Date: 2016-09-15 07:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-16 09:58 am (UTC)Verya little visual description, often dialogue-based, often with a story and a plot but those are mostly a stage for the underlying semotions and relationships. Some angst. I can be conscise, but sometimes I get distracted and then there's too many words and unnecessary sideplots.
Instead of one continuous narrative, I write in scenes. I think my natural writing media would be a theatre play, or a script for a movie.
20. Any fandom tropes you can't stand?
I'm not sure if you'd call it a trope, but I hate with a passion this scenario of a victim in an abusive relationship, who is continuously abused by her partner but through her bravery and power of love "changes" him or her and they live happily ever after.
It's not the "terrible relationship turns friendship/true love" that bothers me. That can actually make for a great story. What I hate is when you have a victim who is continually abused and suffers and suffers, until finally by the end her abuser "sees light", realizes he/she acted horrendously, true love ensures and they live happily ever after. HELL NO. It's usually stories written by 13 years old teenager in love with a sexy villain actor, and it sends all the wrong messages to the world.
Certain slavefics also hit hard my "yuck" button - if it's a non-con "relationship" where the abuse is justified or trivialized by the writer and "all the victim needs to do is accept it and be happy". Which is not to say all slavefics are bad - I've enjoyed a quite a few of them, but it's definitely a trope that needs to be handled with care.
Finally, I can't stand character bashing and I'm especially annoyed by it if it's used as a tool to promote the writer's favorite character or pairing. I mean, if you want to write Draco/Hermione, sure, but you have to work for it; don't try to sell me on it by bashing Ron, Harry and everyone around.