Tag: a writing meme i could answer

an ask meme for fic writers ♥

fuckyeahdiomedes:

osunism:

boleynqueens:

  • 1: what inspires you?
  • 2: one of your favorite comments/reviews on this chapter/verse?
  • 3: what motivates you?
  • 4: what time of the day/night do you like to write?
  • 5: do you write scenes in a linear fashion or do you write future scenes/dialogues sometimes?
  • 6: hardest/easiest character to write for?
  • 7: hardest/easiest verse to write for?
  • 8: (if you have either or both) how do you manage time with writing, work, school etc.?
  • 9: what tv shows, books, or movies inspire for this verse, if any?
  • 10: any writing advice?
  • 11: (if you use) what do you like about archiveofourown?
  • 12: anything you would do to make archiveofourown different/change it?
  • 13: why did ___(character) do ____ in this fic/verse/chapter/scene?
  • 14: what is the arc for this character (redemption, etc.)? 
  • 15: ask me any spoilers you’re curious about for a verse, and i’ll post the answer in the tags
  • 16: do you ever hand write? why or why not?
  • 17: do you listen to music while you write?
  • 18: any fanmixes you’ve made for this fic/verse?
  • 19: any edits or art you’ve made for this fic/verse/any edits readers have made? if not, what visuals would you use for one?
  • 20: what songs were you listening to during this scene/chapter?
  • 21: this character’s best/worst memory?
  • 22: favorite line/quote/inner monologue from this character?
  • 23: feelings on epistolary fic?
  • 24: do you outline?
  • 25: if you outline, do you edit it frequently?
  • 26: anything you’re planning to write in your fic that you’re worried readers might like?
  • 27: when you read fic, how often do you comment?
  • 28: any scene/line you wrote that you didn’t expect to write/that surprised you once it was written?
  • 29: do you eat or drink anything while you write?
  • 30: any backstory questions about characters
  • 31: any other questions you want to ask
  • 32: what are your stats for this story/verse?
  • 33: favorite one-shot you’ve written?
  • 34: a scene/paragraph you wrote that you’re proud of
  • 35: any foreshadowing/symbolism you wrote that you hope readers didn’t miss?
  • 36: any scenes you wrote that parallel the canon verse?
  • 37: do you use quotes in the beginning notes/intro to your chapters? if so, what are some of your favorites/what are their significance?
  • 38: do you title your chapters? what’s your favorite chapter title? what’s its significance/why did you choose it?
  • 39: any alternate fic titles you were considering for this verse?
  • 40: chapter you’re most proud of in this verse?
  • 41: chapter that was the most fun to write in this verse?
  • 42: five songs that this character has on their iPod/iPhone?
  • 43: emoji this character uses the most whilst texting?
  • 44: have you shared your outline with anyone? if so, what did they think of it?
  • 45: anyone you share excerpts with?
  • 46: story with the most kudos (AO3)?
  • 47: story with the most comments?
  • 48: a happy future moment you’ve written/have planned for this ship? (will post under read more for spoilers)
  • 49: this character’s starbucks order?
  • 50: this character’s guilty pleasure?

Hey guys I’m bored on this road trip back to Atlanta so send me stuff!

please ask me stuff!

send an ask: get to know your author

polyamoryavengers:

1)
is there a story you’re holding off on writing for some reason?

2)
what work of yours, if any, are you the most embarrassed about existing?

3) what order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?

4) favorite character you’ve written

5) character you were most surprised to end up writing

6) something you would go back and change in your writing that it’s too late/complicated to change now

7) when asked, are you embarrassed or enthusiastic to tell people that you write?

8) favorite genre to write

9) what, if anything, do you do for inspiration?

10) write in silence or with background noise? with people or alone?

11) what aspect of your writing do you think has most improved since you started writing?

12) your weaknesses as an author

13) your strengths as an author

14) do you make playlists for your current wips?

15) why did you start writing?

16) are there any characters who haunt you?

17) if you could give your fledgling author self any advice, what would it be?

18) were there any works you read that affected you so much that it influenced your writing style? what were they?

19) when it comes to more complicated narratives, how do you keep track of outlines, characters, development, timeline, ect.?

20) do you write in long sit-down sessions or in little spurts?

21) what do you think when you read over your older work?

22) are there any subjects that make you uncomfortable to write?

23) any obscure life experiences that you feel have helped your writing?

24) have you ever become an expert on something you previously knew nothing about, in order to better a scene or a story?

25) copy/paste a few sentences or a short paragraph that you’re particularly proud of

(different!) AO3 meme

meme from @anghraine

Only have 31 fics on AO3, so my answers will be boring.


What’s your first and second most common work ratings?

Almost everything I write I’ve labeled as Gen, though four more recent works I’ve labeled Teen because of slight violence or implied torture or sexual winks- that honestly I’m tempted to go back and label Gen again because I’m not consistent. And frankly, is anything I’ve written and posted to AO3 needing a Teen Rating? (Actually, please answer this. Please)

What’s your most common archive warning? Least common? Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?

No Archive Warnings Apply and Choose Not to Warn – only once have I used the Major Character Death, and that was for Hold Fast Err Night Comes because the deaths were on-screen and of named Silmarillion characters (and the fic’s narrator). You would (I thought) think that I would have used this warning more, considering the Band of the Red Hand series where the focus is the deaths of each OC narrator in the dungeons of Sauron, but those tend to be off-screen and of my minor OCs and IDK if I should be tagging that.

Me and tag warnings are a fuzzy thing, because I imply deaths and torture and suicidal depression and sex, but yeah, not an adventurous writer when it comes to graphically writing smut or going out there in plots or scenarios. (Not even the original fic stuff I admit strays far from my comfort zone)

How many fics have you written in each relationship category? Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?

Most are gen with a background canon het pairing that is rarely the focus. (So far the only pairings where I’ve tagged them for more than one fic is Thingol/Melian, Angrod/Edhellos, and Aegnor/Andreth. And theon/Jeyne, but that’s a weird one) There’s the one Indis/Nerdanel fic that can be read as completely gen, so it doesn’t earn the right of f/f. Of the fics that even mention the canon m/f pairings (or canon character and his textual ghost wife), the only ones that really deserve the label of a relationship fic where the focus or plot is driven by said relationship is … that one Thingol/Melian fluff piece, Ingwë/his wife, the one chapter in YBoC about Imin and Iminyë taking codependency to an art-form, Whatcha Gonna Call It? for on-screen Aegnor/Andreth (it’s technically baby!fic), Release from Bondage as a slow burn and the other AU Theon/Jeyne. And the first two and last ones on this list are the ones that are any bit shippy. 

What are your top four fandoms by numbers? Are you still active in any of them, and do you tend to migrate a lot?

30 Silmarillion fics and one that I put in the ASoIaF category though The Hunter-bold and Maiden-brave is basically original fiction. And if I was a little more honest or bold, Release from Bondage belongs in both and Promise You Won’t Forget and its upcoming companion piece are as close to fanfic for Final Fantasy VII as I can get. 

Now stuff I read? some dormant, some very active, drifting in and out. But I write only original universe and Tolkien. 

What are your top four character tags? Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?

My top character tags are Original Characters (6), Original Female Characters (5), Sauron (4), and Easterlings (4). Which is hilarious because it barely reflects just how dominant OCs and mortal OCs at that are in my works – problem with writing full series staring them. And then there’s Sauron, of which he’s only a character in the Ilmarë chapter but he’s tagged in the Tol Sirion fics because I needed at least one canon character tag. And good lawrd he’s no where near my favorite character to write or otherwise except as the villain just off-screen.

What are your top two most used additional tags, and your bottom two? What would happen if you combined all of these into a fic?

Drama in Nargothrond (Which is actually tagged Nargothrond Soap Opera) (6) and War of Wrath (5) versus Threats of Violence and Grief/Mourning at (2) – though i have a bunch of tags I’ve used only once so no fair.

And let’s face it, all of those tags are “Release from Bondage”. I’m writing that fic.

How many WIPs do you have currently running on AO3? Any you don’t plan on finishing?

3 or four. Two are the short story/one shot collections, so I leave them open-ended. Only Of Ingwë Ingweron and Release from Bondage are the real WIP with a definite ending. And tie me to the rack and torture me with corkscrews I swear I’ll finish them. 

Fanfic Ask Meme

A: How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?
B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?
C: What character do you identify with most?
D: Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?
E: If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?
F: Care to share a favorite hurt/comfort fic?
G: Care to share a favorite crack fic?
H: How would you describe your style?
I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?
J: Write or describe an alternative ending to [insert fic].
K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?
L: What’s the weirdest AU you’ve ever come up with?
M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?
N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?
O: How do you begin a story–with the plot, or the characters?
P: 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?)
Q: Do you have any discarded scenes/storylines/projects?
R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?
S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?
T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?
U: A pairing you might like to write for, but haven’t tried yet.
V: A secondary (or underrated) character you want to see more of in fic?
W: Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?
X: A character you enjoy making suffer.
Y: A character you want to protect.
Z: Major character death–do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can’t tolerate?

Audience Participation: Fic-Writing Edition

cosmictuesdays:

Taken from someone else on another network, deemed too good not to use.

Ask me a question about one of my fics or series. It can be absolutely anything in any project and I will tell you the honest-to-goodness answer (even on the progress/plans for next chapters of current series).

Don’t hold back. Whatever you ask, I’ll answer as truthfully and as completely as possible. You can also ask about my writing as a whole, if you like.

Audience Participation: Fic-Writing Edition

cosmictuesdays:

Taken from someone else on another network, deemed too good not to use.

Ask me a question about one of my fics or series. It can be absolutely anything in any project and I will tell you the honest-to-goodness answer (even on the progress/plans for next chapters of current series).

Don’t hold back. Whatever you ask, I’ll answer as truthfully and as completely as possible. You can also ask about my writing as a whole, if you like.

fanfic meme

@anghraine tagged me, and as I have most of my fics on AO3, this was easy enough for me to fill out.

Give a quick overview of your fic posting/experience of the doing the meme if you want, and your overall AO3 wordcount:

Overall AO3 wordcount: 101,439

1. Fanfics with the most comments:

Whatcha Gonna Call It? wins with the most different people (which, at three isn’t much, but then I don’t get or expect comments. I have better luck on tumblr, but that’s because of mutuals)

2. Fanfics with the most kudos:

image

Again, 

Whatcha Gonna Call It? has a surprising 47 kudos, and I still have notices that come in with another kudo on this story once a month or so. The next contenders sit at just above or around the 20 mark.

3. Your Oldest Fanfic:

Published online? While I didn’t post it to AO3 first, In the Camps of the Bór is my oldest Silm fic. It’s not the oldest idea, and my original fic I posted on my very old Livejournal back when I was in high school have some fusions in their roots, some closer to the surface than others. Hold Fast Ere Night Comes in closer in spirit, though, being the second published and idea-conception-wise very old. And thus the first to A03.

4. Your Latest Fanfic:

Published to A03? The Swanships

5. Your Proudest Fanfic:

Sophie’s Choice, why don’t ya’ … While it might be a toss-up between the Bór series and the Ingwë of Cuiviénen for overlooked or more unique spotlight shining – I’m not the only Silm fic writer to focus on the People of Bór or the Vanyar or even pre-Journey Ingwë, it’s not like there’s a lot of those fic to go around. Or fic focused on the Falmari or Sindar especially pre-Darkening. The various ones loosely dealing with the Bëor, be it Brides of Death or Hold Fast or even Neighborhood Watch/Boromir and the Swamps which are more defenses of Finrod+Bëorians, I really like because they are these stubborn bittersweet celebrations of that generational friendship between Nóm and his brothers to the decedents of Bëor. But as a fic? To be honest Release from Bondage has some of imho my strongest lines and it’s the longest and beta’ed and it combines my ‘make you cry over OCs’ of the Red Band series plus ‘fusions of other canon to make said OCs’ which is something I find incredibly fun and where I can fuse or reference other canon and make it correlate to Silm canon is something that I get very smug and proud over (see examples of…way too much of my stuff) with a pov, place, and time period not covered to death in Silm fic, which is my MO goal.

6. Your Longest Fanfic: 

At 24,981 words, 

Release from Bondage laps the other two contenders(

The Hunter-bold and Maiden-brave (11,988 words) and

Of Ingwë Ingweron (12,954 words)

).

7. Fanfics with the most Bookmarks:

The Brides of Death and Hold Fast Ere Night Comes both have 6 (but teh second has a note, so it wins).

8. Your top 3 crossover fanfics:

I do fusions instead of crossovers, some of which I only note in author’s notes. If I could get around to writing it, the Vagabond Gondor would trump all others in personal appeal. but by AO3, Bull and the Tides is more popular via kudos than Release from Bondage – length and format being part of that, no doubt. And as I haven’t finished the other Band of the Red Hand that are crossover-fusion characters like the Girls of Minas Tirth, these three are the only fusion-conceived OCs in my Silm fic.

Now, what The Hunter-bold and Maiden-brave counts as, if that’s a crossover, can be #3.

9. Your favourite character to write in fanfic:

I adore writing from the snarky pov of my Angrod and various Bëor. Same with Faron. As far as characters, Elu was surprisingly easy for me and coming up in fic over and over. Young versions of him and Ingwë in Cuiviénen, but that’s probably half because of the setting and world-building. I love Edhellos and Ilsë. And Bledda and his mother.

But writing the Ainur, to be honest. Because either I make them as wink-nudge-present as metaphoric description (the end of the latest chapter of

Release from Bondage) or Melian or Oromë where I go from very human to science jokes to pile on the descriptors and metaphors.

10. Tag some fanfic writers: (optional) Hasn’t everyone been tagged? If you haven’t, try this. 🙂