Writing meme

[citrus_java]

Snagged from balder12

I haven't finished and posted that much fic, so perhaps I'll answer about writing in general, if I don't have a good enough fic answer.

Put a number in the comments and I’ll answer accordingly. The mission for those of us who answer the questions, should we accept it, is to stay positive about our writing and ourselves, but to also be fair about our shortcomings.

1. Of the fic you’ve written, of which are you most proud?
2. Favorite tense
3. Favorite POV
4. What are some themes you love writing about?
5. What inspires you to write?
6. Thoughts on critique
7. Create a character on the spot... NOW!
8. Is there a character you love writing for the most? The least? Why?
9. A passage from a WIP
10. What are your strengths in writing?
11. What are your weaknesses in writing?
12. Anything else that you want to know... (otherwise known as Fill in the Blank)

Comments

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

7.!

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

Oh, crap!

Hmm, OK.

[warning for ick, gore, self harm] [and... irresponsible writing ]

He is a scientist, young, upcoming and kinda insensitive. He has the wild hair, though it's black, still. He's waiting for when he becomes that trope of a respected, successful scientist. When he's alone at the lab at light, he sniffs the different substances, and it smells exciting and like home at once. He has issues with his body. The prefect image of the scientist, even the crazy ones, can never have bulk. They're all about the brain, they can't be fat, and they most certainly cannot have muscles. If they're tall, they have to, have to be particularly thin. This guy doesn't waste his time in front of the mirror, guys like him just don;t do that. But he knows his size. And he knows his clothes. And he knows the way the lab chairs don't quite fit his body. Sometimes, just talking to someone or doing his work, part of him mind wanders. and that part of his mind has made plans, which that guys waves off. He'd never do any of that. Of course not. But while he was working, his mind helpfully calculated acid to water ratio for getting rid of some bulk. Acid burns are perfectly acceptable for scientists.

[balder12.livejournal.com]

Ewww (awesome)! Creepy and sort of blackly comic at the same time.

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's an awesome compliment! Thank you!

[applegeuse.livejournal.com]

2!

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

You know, for some reason I very often write in present tense. Maybe it's because I feel like I'm observing it and letting the readers know what's going on. Perhaps cause in past tense there is a certain security -it's already happened, nothing to be done about it. Nothing is urgent anymore, there is time to tell the tale. You're not part of it, not in it. It happened to someone else, a long time ago. But if I write write "Sam's about to buckle in, when Dean grabs fistfuls of his shirt and tucks his face in them, inhaling deeply", I feel a bit of the urgency, confusion, uncertainty how to react, that Sam might feel, more than I would had it been a story about something that already happened. As a writer, an interested shipper, and an observer of the scene, I hope to discover what will happen next. But then, "Dean is pulling Sam closer towards him, so hard the material is beginning to rip" is a bit much for me, cause it really yells "nownownow!".


At that point Sam stares at Dean all sort of breathless and round-eyed, and Dean says "Sammy" in a soft voice that's about to crack, and Sam looks like he is going to cry he's so raw, and he takes himself and walks away from the Impala. Because angst milkshake. But it's OK. They'll be so happy in the end.

[applegeuse.livejournal.com]

UGH YES! You have captured so much about what I love about present tense! When it's really well done, present tense is my favorite of the tenses. There's such a delicious urgency. <3 In non-fic writing, I utterly adore really well-done first person POV in the present tense--when it works, it really, really works...but when it's bad, it's horrid. /o/

Because angst milkshake.

BEST XD

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

but when it's bad, it's horrid.

You know, I've heard that a lot, and I don't really get what people are talking about, seems like (and I'm wondering whether that means I'm doing that, so I should get it...!).

I guess if people rely on the format to make the piece work, it's probably gonna be very bad. Like with 3D movies - we get it, it's 3D. Now stop waving that around as if it's enough to make your film good.


BEST XD

All for you, BB *wriggles eyebrows*
I liked what you wrote about angst and that last scene.

[balder12.livejournal.com]

10, please!

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

Oh nose.
Can I interest you in some faults, instead?
(I know where your blog is, balder12! I'll come over and make you do the same!)
:-)

OK, here goes :-)

I am often good at giving room for and hopefully describing tactile, sensual things. Textures, colors, light, smell, I used to write those a lot.

I try to find unusual angles or ideas - and those are often what temps me into writing. Even if/when I don't go through with the execution, chances are, if I'm writing, I'm trying out a less common interpretation, plot, characterization, kink, pairing (yeah, right), format, something.


Or, the other thing that gets me writing, is expressing something of myself, that's often raw and messy - and I try to be very honest - as honest as I can, about it. There is still a way for me to go on that one, and then managing to make it coherent and arranged is - often beyond me - but still that part rocks, I think and believe :)
This complements the previous thing - cause I often think.feel tings that are not quite the usual thing, so. I rock , with that :-)


And - when I write characters that already exist, I put attention and care, and effort, into getting to know them, love them, their gestures, their ways... that often messes with my writing, it's hard and mixes me up sometimes. I have a bunch of partially-written fic I can't finish cause I can't imagine Sam doing things, or Dean doing things, that I;ve read in other people's fic and been OK with... *And* it doesn't always even come across, and sometimes I feel like I'm having a conversation with myself... but the good side of it is, that I sometimes can capture truths, or possible truths about the characters that are worth looking at. And that is cool.


OK. OK, OK, I did this. I ROCK! :-)
Thanks for asking! < 3