Writing Meme: Questions 7 & 8
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stonepicnicking_okapi7. What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?
Because I write in a lot of literature-based fandom, I'm trying to approach the style of the original author (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, etc.) and even for the TV/film fandoms I am trying to make the dialogue in-character [regardless of the AU]. Whether I succeed or not is up to the reader :)
I am a poet by nature so there is the poetic language and sometimes even poetry itself.
Lately, I feel as if I spend a lot of time describing characters turning their heads and looking at something else. And chuckling. So much chuckling!
I will let my long time readership weigh in any other features of interest in my personal writing style :)
8. Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?
No, my writing is much more varied than my reading. I read my friends' fic in many (but not all) of their fandoms and I read Joe/Nicky fic in The Old Guard and (very recently) I am reading Suga/Jimin fic in BTS fandom. On rare occasion, I read a very, very small subset of authors in fandoms I don't write (Teen Wolf, Harry Potter, Hannibal) because they write really filthy smut in a few, shall we say, 'fringe' kinks.
But I write in a lot of fandoms. Over a hundred. Mystery/detective fiction fandoms, mostly.
1. Tell us about your current project(s) – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?
2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project
3. What is that one scene that you’ve always wanted to write but can’t be arsed to write all of the set-up and context it would need? (consider this permission to write it and/or share it anyway).
4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like).
5. What character that you're writing do you most identify with?
6. What character do you have the most fun writing?
7. What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?
8. Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?
9. Are you more of a drabble or a longfic kind of writer? Pantser or plotter? Do you wish you were the other? Both, or neither?
10. How would you describe your writing process?
11. What do you envy in other writers?
12. Do you want your writing to be famous?
13. Do you share your writing online? (Drop a link!) Do you have projects you’ve kept just for yourself?
14. At what point in writing do you come up with a title?
15. Which is harder: titles or summaries (or tags)?
16. Tried anything new with your writing lately? (style, POV, genre, fandom?)
17. Do you think readers perceive your work - or you - differently to you? What do you think would surprise your readers about your writing or your motivations?
18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.
19. Is there something you always find yourself repeating in your writing? (favourite verb, something you describe 'too often', trope you can’t get enough of?)
20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)
21. What other medium do you think your story would work well as? (film, webcomic, animated series?)
22. Do you reread your old works? How do you feel about them?
23. What’s the story idea you’ve had in your head for the longest?
24. Would you say your writing has changed over time?
25. What part of writing is the most fun?
Because I write in a lot of literature-based fandom, I'm trying to approach the style of the original author (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, etc.) and even for the TV/film fandoms I am trying to make the dialogue in-character [regardless of the AU]. Whether I succeed or not is up to the reader :)
I am a poet by nature so there is the poetic language and sometimes even poetry itself.
Lately, I feel as if I spend a lot of time describing characters turning their heads and looking at something else. And chuckling. So much chuckling!
I will let my long time readership weigh in any other features of interest in my personal writing style :)
8. Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?
No, my writing is much more varied than my reading. I read my friends' fic in many (but not all) of their fandoms and I read Joe/Nicky fic in The Old Guard and (very recently) I am reading Suga/Jimin fic in BTS fandom. On rare occasion, I read a very, very small subset of authors in fandoms I don't write (Teen Wolf, Harry Potter, Hannibal) because they write really filthy smut in a few, shall we say, 'fringe' kinks.
But I write in a lot of fandoms. Over a hundred. Mystery/detective fiction fandoms, mostly.
1. Tell us about your current project(s) – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?
2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project
3. What is that one scene that you’ve always wanted to write but can’t be arsed to write all of the set-up and context it would need? (consider this permission to write it and/or share it anyway).
4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like).
5. What character that you're writing do you most identify with?
6. What character do you have the most fun writing?
7. What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?
8. Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?
9. Are you more of a drabble or a longfic kind of writer? Pantser or plotter? Do you wish you were the other? Both, or neither?
10. How would you describe your writing process?
11. What do you envy in other writers?
12. Do you want your writing to be famous?
13. Do you share your writing online? (Drop a link!) Do you have projects you’ve kept just for yourself?
14. At what point in writing do you come up with a title?
15. Which is harder: titles or summaries (or tags)?
16. Tried anything new with your writing lately? (style, POV, genre, fandom?)
17. Do you think readers perceive your work - or you - differently to you? What do you think would surprise your readers about your writing or your motivations?
18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.
19. Is there something you always find yourself repeating in your writing? (favourite verb, something you describe 'too often', trope you can’t get enough of?)
20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)
21. What other medium do you think your story would work well as? (film, webcomic, animated series?)
22. Do you reread your old works? How do you feel about them?
23. What’s the story idea you’ve had in your head for the longest?
24. Would you say your writing has changed over time?
25. What part of writing is the most fun?
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Date: 2021-09-17 07:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-09-17 12:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-09-20 08:25 am (UTC)I really like your writing…descriptions of small events and moments in particular…and your poetic style…differs from my narrative style…wider ranging and more depth and sideways moves:-)
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Date: 2021-09-20 07:24 pm (UTC)Aw. Thank you. I really, really appreciate your words. It is nice to hear specifics about what someone recognizes and likes because, of course, I can't usually tell myself.