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fiachairecht) wrote2019-02-08 06:53 pm
fiachairecht) wrote2019-02-08 06:53 pm
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A Meme!
I am mooching off coffee shop wifi, having been helpfully reminded that it is an unsecured connection and anyone can see information I send/receive, so I hope everyone is enjoying my smutswap nominations and Swedish lessons. Shall we additionally chat about:
A: How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?
B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?
C: What member do you identify with most from [insert fic[?
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: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
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: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
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: How do you feel about collaborations?
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: Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.
V: If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
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?
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kimaracretak, for [insert fic] ones
A: How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?
B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?
C: What member do you identify with most from [insert fic[?
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: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
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: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
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: How do you feel about collaborations?
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: Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.
V: If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
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?
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and also
O: How do you begin a story–with the plot, or the characters?
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F: I am not, on the whole, amazing at dialogue - I tend towards internal monologue and indulgent scenery description, but I'm really proud of a lot of the dialogue in among the fallen stones, especially:
"It was more than anyone else would give me, at the time. My thanks were sincere, despite what you might believe of me." She pauses, and the night's tension has nothing to do with anything outside their small circle of light. "What belief keeps you with me?"
"I believe in life and death." If she shuts her eyes, especially here in the Shadowfell, it's beyond too easy to hear the screams of the dead and the dying. Percy's family. Her own friends. "I believe you upset that balance and don't care, except when you do." She opens her eyes. "I believe you want me, because only a druid understands what your guns mean."
"Oh, good," Ripley breathes, and sways that much closer. She's all shadows in the firelight. "Very, very good."
"What is it that you believe in?" Kelyeth asks again, edging on desperation. She can barely hear her own voice. "It has to be something. Anything. Anything that ... you know, guides you. Lets you keep doing ..." What did you have to believe in to do the things Ripley had done so dispassionately?
Keyleth doesn't want to know. She couldn't bear not finding out.
"Myself," Ripley says simply. The easy answer, the obvious one. Keyleth waits. "I believe in money, in invention and progress and the thrill of discovery. And ..." she hesitates, and the next words come with the studied deliberation of a thought the speaker has been considering for much longer than they'd admit, and perhaps never expected to give voice to at all. "I believe that you'll see us safely home, and you won't kill or capture me as soon as my back is turned."
When I first drafted this scene I wasn't entirely sure how I felt about them both stating their motivations so plainly, but explicitly starting from a point of 'what keeps you, my enemy, with me' rather than simply 'what do you believe in' gave the conversation a performative spin that I really enjoyed - neither of them are quite lying, but they're also both very clearly focussing on {a} their points of similarity and {b} things that force the other to want to keep them alive. Manipulation of the person you know you could have been! I love it.
O: Characters! Usually characters + a song lyric, honestly. I go less for plot and more for characters worrying or plotting or dreaming alone or with one other person. I've also been working a lot more with setting-enforced unreality elements recently, and it's less 'what's happening' and more 'who thinks this is happening'.