Writing Meme
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tullycatI'm avoiding working on a wip which means it's the perfect time to talk about writing instead.
1. Do you re-read your own completed fic? If so, which one do you re-read most often?
Yes, but only after enough time has passed for me to forget what I've written. And even then, it's usually to assess my work with a fresh eye. I'm not really reading my fics to entertain myself. It's the writing process that satisfies me, not reading my fics after.
2. When you re-read your fic, does it evoke the emotions it's supposed to in you? i.e. are you able to experience it not as the person who wrote it but as you think any other reader might?
If I have left it alone for long enough, yes, I have usually forgotten what I've written. I think the only emotions I've been able to evoke in myself have been amusement?? It's nice to know that I find myself funny, even if no one else does.
3. When you're writing, how often/how intensely do you actually feel the emotions that the characters in the scene are feeling?
Very rarely. A handful of instances come to mind, one of which was the jeongcheol I just posted. Turns out I have some sadness about my ult of 6 years enlisting! So that fic made me teary to write.
4. What's the biggest risk you've taken with a fic?
Major character death, screenplay format, second person POV are all fairly outside of normal ao3 conventions. In a different sense, every fic that I have poured my heart into sometimes feels like a risk when posting because what if it doesn't connect with anyone else y'know?
5. What do you think is your comfort zone in fic? The one type of scene/trope/dynamic that you feel confident you can nail every time?
I think I have honed the art of the crisp, 1000 word fic. When I only read fics and didn't write, I would've never read a 1k fic because I thought it was too short. Turns out, you can actually put a lot into 1k. It forces you to condense to the very heart of the idea and nothing more.
6. Do you like to share fic ideas as they come to you or do you keep them close to the vest until they're done?
I keep them close to the vest! I let one person read my wips as I'm working. For ideas, sometimes I only share like 50% of what I'm thinking and then lock it away in the gladiator battle of my memory to see which idea is strongest to survive for sometimes years before I'm ready to write it.
7. Have you ever had to write something you really didn't want to (a scene, conversation, etc) because the story needed it to work?
Yes. I am a firm believer that sometimes if you are really stuck writing a scene, you might be going in the wrong direction. But sometimes writing is just hard and I'm tired and want the fic to be done already, why does it need an epilogue! This is why betas are helpful to help you decide which is which.
8. Ever had to cut something you loved out of a fic because it wasn't working?
I'm going to say no and then immediately remember something I had to cut, but.....no. I'm not really the type of writer who goes back and cuts out a 5k scene. My vision for a fic is pretty clear before I start writing. If it's not working I usually edit it before I move on. If anything, I just have to cut little lines.
9. Is there a trope you've yet to try your hand at, but really want to?
I've never written a stereotypical soulmate fic, so I'd give that a go. I also want to try amnesia???
10. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?
I'm guessing this is asking about wips, but 'nurturing' is making me think about my ideas that are still ideas and haven't been started yet. I currently have one actual wip. I have many ideas I'm nurturing....for ateez, I'd like to write sansang dating and Wooyoung getting jealous. For svt, I have a shelved seokhanhao wip that still haunts me. It might see the light of day after Jeonghan enlists and I need to entertain myself. For the Boyz, my current wip is the idea I've been nurturing longest, so another one hasn't risen to take its place yet.
11. Share one of your weaknesses.
On the apple visualization scale, I'm apparently a 2 ish which means sometimes I have a hard time making my characters exist in space. If I'm really struggling, I will give them an object to play with for the scene. I think this tends to mean I don't add a lot of description to my scenes.
12. If you could only write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?
I'm not sure I could write one pairing for that long, since I tend to jump around pairings a lot. However I probably have more milcob ideas in me.
17. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
I write from start to finish, but there are times when I'm 50% through and I can very clearly visualize how the fic will end. I will write out the scene very messily and put it in a separate word doc and then continue writing in chronological order until I hit that scene.
18. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?
Yeah, it's whatever my boykisser of the day is doing with his members. Honestly canon provides me with so many fic ideas, I will never be able to write them all. Sometimes I write a full canon moment, and sometimes there is one specific thing that haunts me until I can put it into a fic.
19. Describe your perfect writing conditions.
If I waited for perfect writing conditions I would probably never write. This goes hand in hand with my writing advice, which is that you have to actually write. Write 10 words a day. You can bang out 10 words in a surprising number of places.
20. How do you feel about collaborations?
I love cowriting <3 pop and I are 17 fics deep and have no plans of stopping.
21. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
Ok I'm going to answer this incorrectly, but MY fic that I want to write a sequel to is my nyucob fic that teases milnyucob. Maybe that's the Boyz fic I am nurturing.... And it doesn't need a sequel, but the universe I would be most interested in playing in is probably tradeverse.
Questions taken from here and here......chose the ones I was most interested in.
1. Do you re-read your own completed fic? If so, which one do you re-read most often?
Yes, but only after enough time has passed for me to forget what I've written. And even then, it's usually to assess my work with a fresh eye. I'm not really reading my fics to entertain myself. It's the writing process that satisfies me, not reading my fics after.
2. When you re-read your fic, does it evoke the emotions it's supposed to in you? i.e. are you able to experience it not as the person who wrote it but as you think any other reader might?
If I have left it alone for long enough, yes, I have usually forgotten what I've written. I think the only emotions I've been able to evoke in myself have been amusement?? It's nice to know that I find myself funny, even if no one else does.
3. When you're writing, how often/how intensely do you actually feel the emotions that the characters in the scene are feeling?
Very rarely. A handful of instances come to mind, one of which was the jeongcheol I just posted. Turns out I have some sadness about my ult of 6 years enlisting! So that fic made me teary to write.
4. What's the biggest risk you've taken with a fic?
Major character death, screenplay format, second person POV are all fairly outside of normal ao3 conventions. In a different sense, every fic that I have poured my heart into sometimes feels like a risk when posting because what if it doesn't connect with anyone else y'know?
5. What do you think is your comfort zone in fic? The one type of scene/trope/dynamic that you feel confident you can nail every time?
I think I have honed the art of the crisp, 1000 word fic. When I only read fics and didn't write, I would've never read a 1k fic because I thought it was too short. Turns out, you can actually put a lot into 1k. It forces you to condense to the very heart of the idea and nothing more.
6. Do you like to share fic ideas as they come to you or do you keep them close to the vest until they're done?
I keep them close to the vest! I let one person read my wips as I'm working. For ideas, sometimes I only share like 50% of what I'm thinking and then lock it away in the gladiator battle of my memory to see which idea is strongest to survive for sometimes years before I'm ready to write it.
7. Have you ever had to write something you really didn't want to (a scene, conversation, etc) because the story needed it to work?
Yes. I am a firm believer that sometimes if you are really stuck writing a scene, you might be going in the wrong direction. But sometimes writing is just hard and I'm tired and want the fic to be done already, why does it need an epilogue! This is why betas are helpful to help you decide which is which.
8. Ever had to cut something you loved out of a fic because it wasn't working?
I'm going to say no and then immediately remember something I had to cut, but.....no. I'm not really the type of writer who goes back and cuts out a 5k scene. My vision for a fic is pretty clear before I start writing. If it's not working I usually edit it before I move on. If anything, I just have to cut little lines.
9. Is there a trope you've yet to try your hand at, but really want to?
I've never written a stereotypical soulmate fic, so I'd give that a go. I also want to try amnesia???
10. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?
I'm guessing this is asking about wips, but 'nurturing' is making me think about my ideas that are still ideas and haven't been started yet. I currently have one actual wip. I have many ideas I'm nurturing....for ateez, I'd like to write sansang dating and Wooyoung getting jealous. For svt, I have a shelved seokhanhao wip that still haunts me. It might see the light of day after Jeonghan enlists and I need to entertain myself. For the Boyz, my current wip is the idea I've been nurturing longest, so another one hasn't risen to take its place yet.
11. Share one of your weaknesses.
On the apple visualization scale, I'm apparently a 2 ish which means sometimes I have a hard time making my characters exist in space. If I'm really struggling, I will give them an object to play with for the scene. I think this tends to mean I don't add a lot of description to my scenes.
12. If you could only write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?
I'm not sure I could write one pairing for that long, since I tend to jump around pairings a lot. However I probably have more milcob ideas in me.
17. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
I write from start to finish, but there are times when I'm 50% through and I can very clearly visualize how the fic will end. I will write out the scene very messily and put it in a separate word doc and then continue writing in chronological order until I hit that scene.
18. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?
Yeah, it's whatever my boykisser of the day is doing with his members. Honestly canon provides me with so many fic ideas, I will never be able to write them all. Sometimes I write a full canon moment, and sometimes there is one specific thing that haunts me until I can put it into a fic.
19. Describe your perfect writing conditions.
If I waited for perfect writing conditions I would probably never write. This goes hand in hand with my writing advice, which is that you have to actually write. Write 10 words a day. You can bang out 10 words in a surprising number of places.
20. How do you feel about collaborations?
I love cowriting <3 pop and I are 17 fics deep and have no plans of stopping.
21. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
Ok I'm going to answer this incorrectly, but MY fic that I want to write a sequel to is my nyucob fic that teases milnyucob. Maybe that's the Boyz fic I am nurturing.... And it doesn't need a sequel, but the universe I would be most interested in playing in is probably tradeverse.
Questions taken from here and here......chose the ones I was most interested in.
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Date: 2024-09-27 06:09 pm (UTC)I always thought I was fine at visualizing things because it happened when I was immersed in reading but after looking at the scale I was like oh you mean not everyone's visualizations are murky and cloudy? Interesting