Fun meta asks for writers!

[chocochipbiscuit]

OH  BOY  I  LOVE  MEMES!!!

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?
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?

Crossposted from Tumblr, via hobbitdragon. OP is justwhumpythings

Comments

[chocochipbiscuit]

Yep, the latter! I guess the fact I didn’t even think of clarifying shows how used I am to Tumblr-style ask memes!

7) What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?

I try to focus on sensory immersion and emotional entanglements. Also, I write a bunch about food and sex. I think others would agree. :P

8) Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?

Mostly, yes? One of the reasons I write is because I love a particular scenario or idea but can’t read it (yet). There is a variety of stuff I read but don’t write because a) my imagination doesn’t work that way, or b) I might enjoy a particular take on a character, but struggle with writing it myself. And very rarely, I write things that I don’t actively seek out to read because I am very particular with my headcanons or character dynamics.

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?)

I am cheating and C&Ping my answer from Tumblr because I’ve already answered it there!

OH MY GOD this is one of my favorite things about writing longer stories because it just gives me so much more room to go hog wild with references and to develop particular themes!!! Like with Danse Does Vegas, I want to point out that the Winchester mystery house and the eternal light bulb are both real locations in California, and the Atari burial site is a real thing but I was originally thinking about the rapid obsolescence of technology and how an item as simple as paper or books can be read centuries after they are printed, but digital media is impossible to access unless you have the appropriate technology to read them. Also how synths are theoretically immortal at first glance (barring injury) but also hey what about if/when their parts start breaking down???

Oh, and the Donut Dunkers Club is also real. As is the Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame.

(asdfsgs if anyone wants to ask this question about a particular fic, feel free. I’m still just gushing over Danse Does Vegas because it’s my most recent longfic.)