Writing Meme: Theme & Style
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stonepicnicking_okapiSet of fourteen questions about writing.
1. What made you start writing fanfic?
2. Which of your own fanfics have you reread the most?
3. Describe the differences between your first fanfic and your most recent fanfic.
4. Do you think your style has changed over time? How so?
5. You've posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you'd written it?
6. Name three stories you found easy to write.
7. Name three stories you found difficult to write.
8. What's your ratio of hits to kudos?
9. What do your fic bookmarks say about you?
10. What's a theme that keeps coming up in your writing?
11. What kind of relationships are you most interested in writing?
12. For E-rated fic, what are some things your characters keep doing?
13. Name three favorite characters to write.
14. You're applying for the fanfic writer of the year award. What five fanfics do you put in your portfolio?
misbegotten and orchid314 asked for #10.
10. What's a theme that keeps coming up in your writing?
I found a line from one of my earliest fics [Impaired Judgment] that sums one theme up nicely:
“And know,” said Lestrade as she gave John’s hand a squeeze, “That you are not alone.”
I am almost always writing the story of John Watson (even when I'm writing the story of Sherlock Holmes), someone draining into a cesspool of idlers and loungers, wounded, aimless, thinking they're without kith or ken, thinking they're damaged beyond repair, thinking they're alone, thinking what they like (sexually, romantically, emotionally) makes them deviant and shameful and finding out, in the most extraordinary ways, they're not.
Charity. Compassion. Mercy. Tolerance. Forgiveness. Acceptance. But always with acknowledgement of the grief and injury and burden and pain. Not that you should dwell on it unnecessarily, but I think having your suffering ignored or dismissed by others or the world is its own brand of suffering.
mafief asked for #4.
4. Do you think your style has changed over time? How so?
I had a look at some earlier fics and I have to say I don't think it's changed a whole lot in five years. What I write about has changed tremendously and I don't employ quite as much creative punctuation as I did in the early days (e.g., I use periods very freely. To describe just how I hear phrase. In my head.) I think I was actually a bit more descriptive then than now. I know a few more Britpick tricks than I used to. I am more aware of the organizing a story: trying to zing hard with the first line and 'stick' the ending. So the forest looks different, but the leaves on the trees are still very familiar.
2. Which of your own fanfics have you reread the most?
3. Describe the differences between your first fanfic and your most recent fanfic.
6. Name three stories you found easy to write.
7. Name three stories you found difficult to write.
8. What's your ratio of hits to kudos?
9. What do your fic bookmarks say about you?
11. What kind of relationships are you most interested in writing?
12. For E-rated fic, what are some things your characters keep doing?
13. Name three favorite characters to write.
14. You're applying for the fanfic writer of the year award. What five fanfics do you put in your portfolio?
misbegotten and orchid314 asked for #10.10. What's a theme that keeps coming up in your writing?
I found a line from one of my earliest fics [Impaired Judgment] that sums one theme up nicely:
“And know,” said Lestrade as she gave John’s hand a squeeze, “That you are not alone.”
I am almost always writing the story of John Watson (even when I'm writing the story of Sherlock Holmes), someone draining into a cesspool of idlers and loungers, wounded, aimless, thinking they're without kith or ken, thinking they're damaged beyond repair, thinking they're alone, thinking what they like (sexually, romantically, emotionally) makes them deviant and shameful and finding out, in the most extraordinary ways, they're not.
Charity. Compassion. Mercy. Tolerance. Forgiveness. Acceptance. But always with acknowledgement of the grief and injury and burden and pain. Not that you should dwell on it unnecessarily, but I think having your suffering ignored or dismissed by others or the world is its own brand of suffering.
mafief asked for #4.4. Do you think your style has changed over time? How so?
I had a look at some earlier fics and I have to say I don't think it's changed a whole lot in five years. What I write about has changed tremendously and I don't employ quite as much creative punctuation as I did in the early days (e.g., I use periods very freely. To describe just how I hear phrase. In my head.) I think I was actually a bit more descriptive then than now. I know a few more Britpick tricks than I used to. I am more aware of the organizing a story: trying to zing hard with the first line and 'stick' the ending. So the forest looks different, but the leaves on the trees are still very familiar.
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Date: 2019-03-11 04:54 pm (UTC)