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scheherezhad's journal, and since I am procrastinating on my Losers Big Bang/Complememt, WHY NOT? IGNORE THE BEARS. Most of my writing is here.
A. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.
B. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?
C. Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?
D. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?
E. Share one of your strengths.
F. Share one of your weaknesses.
G. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
H. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
I. Which fic has been the hardest to write?
J. Which fic has been the easiest to write?
K. Is writing your passion or just a fun hobby?
L. Is there an episode section of canon above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?
M. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?
N. What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever come across?
O. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?
P. If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?
Q. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
R. Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?
S. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?
T. Describe your perfect writing conditions.
U. How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
V. Choose a passage from one of your earlier fics and edit it into your current writing style. (Person sending the ask is free to make suggestions).
W. If you were to revise one of your older fics from start to finish, which would it be and why?
X. Have you ever deleted one of your published fics?
Y. What do you look for in a beta?
Z. Do you beta yourself? If so, what kind of beta are you?
AA. How do you feel about collaborations?
AB. Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.
AC. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
AD. Do you accept prompts?
AE. Do you take liberties with canon or are you very strict about your fic being canon compliant?
AF. How do you feel about smut?
AG. How do you feel about crack?
AH. What are your thoughts on non-con and dub-con?
AI. Would you ever kill off a canon character?
AJ. Which is your favorite site to post fic?
AK. Talk about your current wips.
AL. Talk about a review that made your day.
AM. Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them?
AN. Write an alternative ending to a fic you've written (specify by title, link or general description).
scheherezhad's journal, and since I am procrastinating on my Losers Big Bang/Complememt, WHY NOT? IGNORE THE BEARS. Most of my writing is here.A. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.
B. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?
C. Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?
D. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?
E. Share one of your strengths.
F. Share one of your weaknesses.
G. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
H. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
I. Which fic has been the hardest to write?
J. Which fic has been the easiest to write?
K. Is writing your passion or just a fun hobby?
L. Is there an episode section of canon above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?
M. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?
N. What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever come across?
O. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?
P. If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?
Q. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
R. Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?
S. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?
T. Describe your perfect writing conditions.
U. How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
V. Choose a passage from one of your earlier fics and edit it into your current writing style. (Person sending the ask is free to make suggestions).
W. If you were to revise one of your older fics from start to finish, which would it be and why?
X. Have you ever deleted one of your published fics?
Y. What do you look for in a beta?
Z. Do you beta yourself? If so, what kind of beta are you?
AA. How do you feel about collaborations?
AB. Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.
AC. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
AD. Do you accept prompts?
AE. Do you take liberties with canon or are you very strict about your fic being canon compliant?
AF. How do you feel about smut?
AG. How do you feel about crack?
AH. What are your thoughts on non-con and dub-con?
AI. Would you ever kill off a canon character?
AJ. Which is your favorite site to post fic?
AK. Talk about your current wips.
AL. Talk about a review that made your day.
AM. Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them?
AN. Write an alternative ending to a fic you've written (specify by title, link or general description).
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Hmmmm. I've been told I have a great sense of dramatic timing. Let's go with that.
G Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
Hmmm. This is a tough one. My urge is to automatically go for Here Mid the Ash Trees, but... I'm going to go with my Alex/Raven fic Dinner and a Movie which, shockingly, is not in my index. That needs to be corrected.
Why this is one of my favorites, though? I guess it's because this piece, although it's not technically part of the actual canon universe, just has so many little details that I love. Alex being co-dependent, and Raven being an absolute slob, and I just love these guys. Excerpt:
Raven watched him for a long moment, but Alex ignored him, grabbing the remote and turning the television on. Raven left, the door clicking quietly behind him, and Alex sighed, his shoulders slumping even further. He flipped channels for a couple of minutes and then turned the TV off and went into the kitchen to wash the dishes. After that, he put Raven's books on their shelves and gathered the last strewn bits of Raven's clothing from the back of the couch, the recliner, the lampshade, and beneath the refrigerator (peeking out just enough that Alex wondered how the hell Raven had gotten it there) and tossed them into Raven's room with the rest of his clothes, shutting the door behind him.
H Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
I'm terrible at dialogue. D: That being said, this part from And on the shore, our haggard bed is something that I deeply, deeply love, just because Cheri is such a hard ass and Ernest is such a coward and I love mixing it all up here.
She covered the wound back up and laughed. "Houston, you’re nuts. This is just a flesh wound. Don’t scare me like that, asshole."
"You know me." Ernest said shakily. "I live on the edge."
"This is what we’re going to do, okay? You listening to me?" Ernest nodded, so Cheri continued. "We’re going to rest here for a little while, and then we’re going to fight our way down to the docks, because we’re fucking badass. We’ll take the ferry, swim the fucking channel if we have to, and we’ll let Rankor Island eat itself up. How’s that for a plan?"
"Sounds good, Cheri."
Cheri rested her hand against Ernest’s forehead to sweep back his hair, and she could already feel the fever, the infection beginning to take hold. She picked up her gun and cleaned off the handle before reloading. "Where we going once we hit New York?"
"I was thinking Maui," Ernest said. "They have great beaches."
"You don’t want to see me in a bathing suit." Cheri set her thumb on the hammer and cocked it, drawing it back and rolling the first chamber. "I’ll blind you. I look like a dead fish."
"I know better. You’ll look great. Like a mermaid." Ernest twisted in Cheri’s arms, his brown eyes calm.
O If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?
Hands down, it's Here Mid the Ash Trees. It's visual, and quite frankly, I absolutely believe it's still the best thing I've ever written.
Y What do you look for in a beta?
Mostly, I look for characterization help. That's always what I'm shakiest on, and what worries me the most. From there, it's tense, because I can't keep past/present straight for the life of me. I like betas that ask me questions that make me think of the bigger world of the story, even if it doesn't show in that particular story I'm writing. So I'm really just saying that my friends are the best, because they do this for me. <333333