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I want to do a creative/meta meme but there is nothing going around,and it's not like I have that much fic to be asked about*. But ask me writing questions anyway?
*I had to remove that part, it is a dirty dirty lie where I am concerned.
'Writing questions' can mean pretty much anything you want it to mean, my sweets. I have a lot of work to do tonight and I'm going to need something to do in my breaks.
schiarire's:I want to do a creative/meta meme but there is nothing going around,
*I had to remove that part, it is a dirty dirty lie where I am concerned.
'Writing questions' can mean pretty much anything you want it to mean, my sweets. I have a lot of work to do tonight and I'm going to need something to do in my breaks.
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So what I'm going to have to go with is Will Turner. Because that fic was not hard to write, but I never ever felt quite like I'd managed to pin the character down. I felt like I was taking refuge in nice prose because he kept slipping out of my headspace.
And I have the same problem with Naruto, actually. I've made my peace with Sasuke (after 'Anchored in Dust', we have declared a truce) and Sakura was always as easy as breathing, but I still fight to keep any kind of coherency in Naruto's POV voice. Which is why I haven't used it since 'The Listening Sky', except for the brief segment in 'Solfege'.
RP-wise, I find Kenneth the hardest to inhabit, but that's probably because I never played him enough to get to know him. Large parts of him are still a mystery to me.
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List three of your favorite interpersonal dynamics!
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1) Unspoken mutual trust! I love love LOVE dynamics that are about trusting the other person with your life, even if your surface interactions are all about mild conflict. This is what hooked me into Kara/Lee and Booth/Brennan, even though the latter is less conflict-driven on a daily basis, and it's what I'm enjoying about Arthur/Merlin. Let's say I like dynamics that are mostly bickering but with occasional serious moments of 'I trust this person completely'.
2) Created families. Bulletproof. This is what I love about fictions which concentrate on small ensembles or small sub-groups of an ensemble; the slow development of dependence and protectiveness and a family dynamic.
2a) Siblings protecting each other!
3) I have a thing about loyalty to a mentor figure, actually. I am mostly very ambivalent towards Harry Potter as a character, but I'm Dumbledore's man hit me pretty hard. I find student-mentor dynamics to be interesting.
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Major themes you return to?
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23) Twisty romances. I like love stories that are a little bit disturbing, and imperfect people who love each other despite the imperfections and despite the complicating factors (I like complicating factors). I like people who prioritise each other when they possibly shouldn't.
24) Scientific principles as metaphors for basically anything.
25) Ooh! Consequences. I think this comes from writing fanfic as a reaction to canons; I like playing with realistic/dark consequences to throwaway things.
26) Personal codes of morality, both individual and group, and how they can arise from the false prerogatives of intelligence and/or power.
27) Weirdly, self-improvement and making peace with oneself are both themes I like to explore.
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You. Mistful. Michael Ondaatje. Diana Wynne Jones. William Gibson. Jeanette Winterson. Tom Stoppard.
That is just off the top of my head, I'm sure I could name hundreds more.
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What is a plotline you find yourself re-enacting? I guess you kind of addressed this with themes, but.
Your thoughts on worldbuilding!
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My worldbuilding tends to be better when I start with a couple of main concepts (eg. eyai, pipe & tube -- Victoriana in fashion) and then let the rest of it grow more organically as I write.
I am now a HUGE fan of communal worldbuilding, as happened in Wasteland and Praiseworthy and eyaiverse, because other people flesh out areas you yourself might have never thought of, and by the time you come to write your next story there is a whole lot of new stuff for you to play with.
I completely adore universes where the worldbuilding is complete, seamless, creative and self-consistent, and where it's introduced to you gradually but you nevertheless end up with a very coherent sense of the world. I think Avatar does this beautifully.
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- There are certain words that I use almost automatically because I love the images that you can use them to elicit. Words like edge, shadow, curve, sharp, thin, little words you can push together into new combinations. I probably overuse a lot of words. But they are the ones that slide to the front of my tongue with the greatest ease, so to speak.
- RHYTHM. Obviously. Where the emphases are and where they need to be. I think this also might be why I sometimes abandon contractions completely, because it's a lot easier to get the rhythm right when the words are separate.
- Sometimes I just find new words that I really like, and shove them into whatever I'm writing at the slightest excuse. This is not a very good habit. But I do it nonetheless!
- And then there's the fact that I just have not-very-rational hatreds of particular words and refuse to use them. My characters are far more likely to mutter something than mumble it because I DO NOT LIKE the word 'mumble'. Obviously they're not interchangeable because they convey completely different moods and tones, but if someone needs to mumble something...I will often express it in more words. Different words. (This is what Dieter calls shooting yerself in the foot. <--- I AM ALARMED THAT I CAN QUOTE THAT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, FOR THE RECORD.)
- Because really, I love choosing words that express a concept with great elegance. Why use two sentences to describe what 'solipsistic' or 'vertiginous' can do with a single word? Yes, yes, I'm terribly inconsistent.
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How does TV influence the way you write? Pick one or two shows if that's easier.
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As for the 'where my ideas come from' inspiration, that is never something I seek out. It is something that happens to me.
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What is a fic (or what are SOME fics) you have put much too much of yourself into?
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I think probably take to witness all the gods? But I don't know. It's werid because that is not a fic where I identify strongly with the characters involved (I could name a lot of THOSE, easily) but it's probably the most personal of all of my fics.
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- Ditto for Arthur Pendragon!
I was going to say 'sometimes the Master' but actually I identify more with Aria's Master than my own.
POSSIBLY MORE TO COME.
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I have that problem! Not that they are empty, but maybe... I don't know. It's like all the focus is on them, like a spotlight, and there are no shadows that I can sneak in and shine light on in a fic.
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