End-of-year writing meme!
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chocochipbiscuitI love memes!!!!
I am just terrible at filling them out, outside of asks!!!!
So ask or comment away and indulge my narcissism? :)
Favourite work: (out of all your projects, finished or unfinished)
Work you're most proud of: (which is not necessarily the same as your favourite work)
Your most under-appreciated work: (the work you think is great but which hasn't got a lot of attention)
Your most over-appreciated work: (the work that's been more popular than you would have expected)
Favorite title: (the title that just perfectly fits your project)
Least favorite title: (the title you stuck on the project at the last minute, in desperation, because you couldn't think of anything else)
Where do your titles come from and what type of title do you use most often? (a quote from the work itself? quotes from classic literature or poetry? a quote from a song? a joke? one word? article-adjective-noun?)
What kind of working titles do you use? Simple and straightforward ("Medieval Murder Mystery Book 1") or cryptic and crazy ("Project from hell version 3 with added sass")? Or do you always come up with the definitive title as soon as you start writing?
Most unsuitable/funniest working title: (the title you yourself use to refer to the project when you're thinking about it, but which you've no intention of using as an official title, e.g. Sexy Shenanigans in Regency England, Steampunk Sherlock Holmes with Crocodiles, Crazy Long Western Space Opera Version 3)
Weirdest thing you had to research for a writing project:
Project you had the most fun researching:
Project that was the most difficult to research:
Project that was the most difficult to write:
Project that's been a work-in-progress for ages, that you just can't seem to finish: (If you don't have one, congratulations!)
Work you want to write one day, but haven't yet started:
Work you thought you would never write, but finally did:
Genre you write most often:
Genre you thought you would never write, but finally did:
Genre you want to write some day, but haven't yet done so (and why not):
Genre you'd like to write more of:
Genre you think you'll probably never write:
Longest amount of time passed between starting a project and finally finishing it:
Favourite character: (your own original character or a fandom character you write about)
Character who is the most difficult to write:
Character who simply writes themselves:
What's more difficult, plot or characters?
(If you outline) biggest difference between the outline you prepared in advance and the finished work:
Perfect word, and the context you used it in: (word that just perfectly conveyed what you wanted, that you found after spending ages looking in the dictionary and thesaurus or racking your brains)
Favourite opening line: (for a chapter or your entire work)
Favourite ending line: (for a chapter or your entire work)
Setting you managed to write about without ever having visited: (whether that's because it's in a part of the world you've never visited, or because it doesn't exist, or because it's in the past or future, or any other reason)
Favourite POV to write: (1st, 2nd, 3rd, multiple different 3rd, alternating 1st, etc.)
POV you would never consider writing: (if any)
Do you mostly write for challenges/contests/fic exchanges/publishers' calls for submissions, etc. or do you mostly write in your own time?
(If you write stories with relationships) Mostly first time or established relationship? or something else ?
Oneshots/standalone stories or series?
Is there a type of story you read but would never write? Or maybe one that you've written, but rarely read?
(Meme taken from this GYWO community post.)
I am just terrible at filling them out, outside of asks!!!!
So ask or comment away and indulge my narcissism? :)
Favourite work: (out of all your projects, finished or unfinished)
Work you're most proud of: (which is not necessarily the same as your favourite work)
Your most under-appreciated work: (the work you think is great but which hasn't got a lot of attention)
Your most over-appreciated work: (the work that's been more popular than you would have expected)
Favorite title: (the title that just perfectly fits your project)
Least favorite title: (the title you stuck on the project at the last minute, in desperation, because you couldn't think of anything else)
Where do your titles come from and what type of title do you use most often? (a quote from the work itself? quotes from classic literature or poetry? a quote from a song? a joke? one word? article-adjective-noun?)
What kind of working titles do you use? Simple and straightforward ("Medieval Murder Mystery Book 1") or cryptic and crazy ("Project from hell version 3 with added sass")? Or do you always come up with the definitive title as soon as you start writing?
Most unsuitable/funniest working title: (the title you yourself use to refer to the project when you're thinking about it, but which you've no intention of using as an official title, e.g. Sexy Shenanigans in Regency England, Steampunk Sherlock Holmes with Crocodiles, Crazy Long Western Space Opera Version 3)
Weirdest thing you had to research for a writing project:
Project you had the most fun researching:
Project that was the most difficult to research:
Project that was the most difficult to write:
Project that's been a work-in-progress for ages, that you just can't seem to finish: (If you don't have one, congratulations!)
Work you want to write one day, but haven't yet started:
Work you thought you would never write, but finally did:
Genre you write most often:
Genre you thought you would never write, but finally did:
Genre you want to write some day, but haven't yet done so (and why not):
Genre you'd like to write more of:
Genre you think you'll probably never write:
Longest amount of time passed between starting a project and finally finishing it:
Favourite character: (your own original character or a fandom character you write about)
Character who is the most difficult to write:
Character who simply writes themselves:
What's more difficult, plot or characters?
(If you outline) biggest difference between the outline you prepared in advance and the finished work:
Perfect word, and the context you used it in: (word that just perfectly conveyed what you wanted, that you found after spending ages looking in the dictionary and thesaurus or racking your brains)
Favourite opening line: (for a chapter or your entire work)
Favourite ending line: (for a chapter or your entire work)
Setting you managed to write about without ever having visited: (whether that's because it's in a part of the world you've never visited, or because it doesn't exist, or because it's in the past or future, or any other reason)
Favourite POV to write: (1st, 2nd, 3rd, multiple different 3rd, alternating 1st, etc.)
POV you would never consider writing: (if any)
Do you mostly write for challenges/contests/fic exchanges/publishers' calls for submissions, etc. or do you mostly write in your own time?
(If you write stories with relationships) Mostly first time or established relationship? or something else ?
Oneshots/standalone stories or series?
Is there a type of story you read but would never write? Or maybe one that you've written, but rarely read?
(Meme taken from this GYWO community post.)
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Date: 2019-12-29 09:28 pm (UTC)Project that was the most difficult to write?
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Date: 2019-12-31 04:05 am (UTC)breath (and all the ways of holding) was difficult in terms of just taking the longest, having to do research on various bits and fitting them back and then requiring several significant revisions to smooth out the pacing and delete (and add) scenes. Because it spanned a decade's worth of canon, I had to constantly recheck events and refresh my memory to check where I wanted to be canon-compliant and where I was just going to break away completely. Plus just...*vague hand waving* a longer emotional arc and trying to convey the complexities of a relationship with flawed people and poor communication but that still winds up in a promise to do better and trying to embrace the idea that people can be flawed, make mistakes, but still ultimately want to be there for one another and try to make up for their past missteps.
It was difficult in terms of craftsmanship and writing, essentially.
The New Normal was shorter than breath (and all the ways of holding and was set between games, so there were less moving parts for me to watch out for. So it was easier, in that sense. More emotionally draining in others because it deals with some heavy topics with regards to mental health, medication, and me trying to balance a line with Janey's love and support being important for Athena's recovery but also trying to stay away from implying that a good relationship is all that's necessary to 'fix' bad brains. It was also more personal in terms of me writing about depression, and more difficult in that way. Because as much as I want to focus on the craftsmanship of a fic, the writing and storytelling aspects, when I put something in that feels more personal it's more difficult for me to remain impartial, and to get my own pride or ego tangled up with outside validation.
So! Both were difficult, just hard for me to pick one as being more difficult than the other. But those were my two most difficult finished projects for the year.
The WIP project that's the most difficult is still Danse Does Vegas. *shrug emoji* It's a lot of smut in search of an emotional core, and I have resigned myself to being unable to make genuine progress with it until I reoutline the whole thing.
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Date: 2019-12-29 10:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-31 04:11 am (UTC)...basically it's everything my jam and everything I've wanted in a Leliana/Morrigan fic, so I wrote it almost entirely as an exercise in self-indulgence but it also shows some of my best work and writing it (and rewriting it) helped me grow a lot as a writer, so I have an extremely soft spot for it.
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Date: 2019-12-30 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-31 04:15 am (UTC)So uh. Rom-com, maybe? Or action/horror where the characters get to face scary things but ultimately get their happy ending. I'm also a big fan of 'hurt characters figure out how to heal and recover with friends' but don't quite know what genre to pin that down as, sorry!