Tag: writing meme

Reblog if you are a fanfiction author and would like your readers to put one of your fic titles in your ask + questions about it

outside-the-government:

(Originally posted by @bams-boleyn – copied and pasted so it wouldn’t blow up the formatting on my blog.)

  • 1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?
  • 2: What scene did you first put down?
  • 3: What’s your favorite line of narration?
  • 4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?
  • 5: What part was hardest to write?
  • 6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?
  • 7: Where did the title come from?
  • 8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?
  • 9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?
  • 10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?
  • 11: What do you like best about this fic?
  • 12: What do you like least about this fic?
  • 13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?
  • 14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?
  • 15: What did you learn from writing this fic?
  • This is so unique, reblogging on the off chance anyone is interested!

tagged by @heckofabecca

Go to your current work in progress and share the following:

  • The first line of the work.
  • The first line of your current chapter (or if it’s a one-shot, the first line of the tenth paragraph).
  • The last line you wrote.
  • A line for a chapter/part you haven’t written yet.

So current work is the mermaid story interlude from the original story slush pile:

First Line: “Boy, get up here!” 

First Line Current/Tenth Line Overall: Amabel started guffawing.

Urwin whispered the phrase ‘Pure Ones’, which scared Gislin, but then Amabel grabbed the young man’s hand and pulled his attention back to her. 

Last Line Written: “In battle the brothers were terrible foes, and Garabel no less a force. The war was not swift, nor clean, but by the end their enemies drowned.”

Not Written Yet:  “Why is Hirabel here?” I ask myself, only I am fool enough to say it aloud, and fool enough to say it loud enough for another to hear me. 

A writing/reading ask meme!

silvertalonwriteblr:

1: Do you/would you like to write professionally?

2: Which author has influenced you the most?

3: Any guilty pleasures (books/fics)?

4: What’s better (or the least bad): character over plot or plot over character?

5: Do you think stories can change lives? Is there a story that has changed yours?

6: What’s your biggest pet peeve when it comes to writing?

7: Do you listen to music while you write/read?

8: Favorite quotes?

9: If you could wish for a new book from any author, who would it be?

10: What’s your favorite trope?

11: What’s your (least) favorite overused trope?

12: Which trope would you absolutely abolish?

13: Are there any tropes you’re embarrassed for enjoying?

14: Do you have a go-to AU?

15: What kind of character do you wish you saw portrayed more often?

16: What’s more frustrating: plotholes or OOC characters?

17: What’s more draining: writing smut, fluff or angst?

18: Are you a ‘neatly designed outline’ writer or a ‘fuck it i’ll figure it out as i go’ writer?

19: Do you think major character deaths are ever necessary?

20: If you could ‘unkill’ any character from any story, who would it be?

21: Would you like to write an alternative ending for any of your favorite shows/books/etc?

22: Are you more likely to be the person who starts reading a 100k slow burn fic at midnight or the person who starts writing a drabble at 4 a.m.?

pick just one:

23: fluff or angst?

24: fantasy or sci-fi?

25: fake dating AU or inpromptu babysitting AU?

26: road trip AU or high school AU?

27: coffee shop AU or florist AU?

28: stuck in an elevator AU or camping gone bad AU?

29: 20s AU or 50s AU?

30: high school AU from a fantasy/sci-fi story or fantasy/sci fi AU from a realistic story?

31: mythological creature AU or superhero AU?

32: meet cute or meet ugly?

Fanfiction Writer Asks

criminal-minds-fanfiction:

Most of the writer ask posts I come across are only like ten or so questions long so I thought I’d try to make a longer one because we like talking about our writing! Feel free to reblog!

1) How old were you when you first starting writing fanfiction?

2) What fandoms do you write for and do you have a particular favourite if you write for more than one?

3) Do you prefer writing OC’s or reader inserts? Explain your answer.

4) What is your favourite genre to write for?

5) If you had to choose a favourite out of all of your multi chaptered stories, which would it be and why?

6) If you had to delete one of your stories and never speak of it again, which would it be and why?

7) When is your preferred time to write?

8) Where do you take your inspiration from?

9) In your xxx fic, what’s your favourite scene that you wrote?

10) In your xxx fic, why did you decide to end it like that? Did you have an alternative ending in mind?

11) Have you ever amended a story due to criticisms you’ve received after posting it?

12) Who is your favourite character to write for? Why?

13) Who is your least favourite character to write for? Why?

14) How did you come up with the title for the xxx? – You can ask about multiple stories.

15) If you write OC’s, how do you decide on their names?

16) How did you come up with the idea for xxx?

17) Post a line from a WIP that you’re working on.

18) Do you have any abandoned WIP’s? What made you abandon them?

19) Are there any stories that you’ve written that you’d really love to do a sequel to?

20) Are there any stories that you wished you’d ended differently?

21) Tell me about another writer(s) who you admire? What is it about them that you admire?

22) Do you have a story that you look back on and cringe when you reread it?

23) Do you prefer listening to music when you’re writing or do you need silence?

24) How do you feel about writing smutty scenes?

25) Have you ever cried whilst writing a story?

26) Which part of your xxx fic was the hardest to write?

27) Do you make a general outline for your stories or do you just go with the flow?

28) What is something you wished you’d known before you started posting fanfiction?

29) Do you have a story that you feel doesn’t get as much love as you’d like?

30) In contrast to 29 is there a story which gets lots of love which you kinda eye roll at?

31) Send me a fic recommendation and I’ll post it for my followers to see! (The asker is to send the rec not the answerer)

32) Are any of your characters based on real people?

33) What’s the biggest compliment you’ve gotten?

34) What’s the harshest criticism you’ve gotten?

35) Do you share your story ideas with anyone else or do you keep them close to your chest?

36) Can you give us a spoiler for one of your WIP’s?

37) What’s the funniest story you’ve written?

38) If you could collab with any other writer on here, who would it be? (Perhaps this question will inspire some collabs!) If you’re shy, don’t tag the blog, just name it.

39) Do you prefer first, second or third person?

40) Do people know you write fanfiction?

41) What’s you favourite minor character you’ve written?

42) Song fic – What made you decide to use the song xxx for xxx.

43) Has anyone ever guessed the plot twist of one of your fics before you posted it?

44) What is the last line you wrote?

45) What spurs you on during the writing process?

46) I really loved your xxx fic. If you were ever to do a sequel, what do you think might happen in it?

47) Here’s a fic title – insert a made up title. What would this story be about?

48) What’s your favourite trope to write?

49) Can you remember the first fic you read? What was it about?

50) If you could write only angst, fluff or smut for the rest of your writing life, which would it be and why?

7-7-7

The rules are as follows: Go to page 7 of your WIP, go to the seventh line, share seven sentences, and tag 7 more writer-bloggers to continue the challenge. 

tagged by @mirandatam

Going just by the draft of the next chapter(s) of Of Ingwë, the seventh page brought me to what will be the following chapter, but by going with the seven lines it ended exactly on the last line of the opening scene. That was neat.

Winds brought heavy ash to fall over the valley of Cuiviénen until a more powerful wind smelling of burning frankincense pushed in from the west, clearing the air of ash. Distant fires and the smoke and ash that they produced were not the only troubles to scare the elves. The ground would tremor violently, and people feared for their houses. After the sweet-smelling west wind, the tremors were never as savage, but it became common to feel the earth tremble beneath their feet.

It was the crashing thunder and lightning, and the bellowing sound that accompanied no lightning yet still echoed from every hill, that most frightened the Kwendî, for that continued even after the earth-tremors lessened. It was not normal lightning. Elwë described it as if a hammer was being taken to the roof of the black sky itself, trying to shatter it into a thousand pieces.

tagging ummm… @heckofabecca @anghraine @kareenvorbarra @allonsymiddleearth @swampdiamonds @yavieriel and @vefanyar. There! I finally tagged actual people.