Oh, this meme looks like fun! Let's do this!

[kate]

Pick one, two, a few, or many, and I will answer in the comments! :D My collected works at kisahawklin, if you need that.

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].

Comments

[grammarwoman]

Oooo, ooo, O or Q!

[kate]

O. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?

Ooooooh, this is a good question!!!! Well, if I'd finished Impromptu, it would TOTALLY be that. But since I haven't, I think antechamber of another world would be cool as hell - I'd really like to see that world.

Q. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

I'm mostly a linear writer. I don't do outlines, and I don't generally figure out specific throughlines on fics (though, unless it's a huge novel, I do generally know where it's going to end up (and of course, even that has been untrue from time to time)). Sometimes I don't even know where the story is going until I start writing it.

The few times I've written scenes before I've gotten to them in the main story, I've had to dump them because things just didn't line up when I actually got there.

I'm doing this right now; I've got a story where I started writing, and I also started writing the sex that's about a third of the way through (because I was inspired to, and I'm not interested in writing sex a lot of the time, so I have to write it when I'm inspired) and already I can see the cracks, things I wrote into the sex that don't line up with where the main body of the story has gone. I may be able to massage the sex to make it fit, but I'm not really sure it'll be possible - I may just have to rewrite the whole thing.

[grammarwoman]

Impromptu would be fabulous to see!

I totally respect following the whims of the porn muse, even if it means bashing it into shape later - porn is HARD. ;)

[kate]

Yeah, I would love to see Impromptu on the big screen, even if they would likely get the music stuff all wrong (I can't honestly imagine Hewlett playing violin or JFlan playing piano all that convincingly - though, if he put his mind to it, pretty sure Jason Momoa would look great as a conductor).

Gods, yes. Sometimes porn works for me. The same story I'm talking about above, I was just writing the main body of the thing and it was like, "oh, shit, time for porn" and it just came out while I was writing, no muss, no fuss. But it was a lot less complicated - the choreography, the POV (the POV character was being a voyeur), and and the emotional landscape were all much simpler. The later one is twenty times as complex.