please ask me a question! :)

[fannishliss]

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

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

How about AM?

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

I do not get rude reviews. I don't get tons of reviews anyway, so people don't bother to leave rude ones. I remember once I had a reviewer who was really pushy with the concrit, but that was constructive overall I think. She wanted to see the story go a certain way, and kept pushing for it, and was never really satisfied, which was pretty strange, but it did make me keep taking the story further, which was good.

I am more likely to get upset over exchanges where I can't make myself clear. Basically I am the "rude" one. It's hard to argue on the internet because of tone. I like to have a good meaningful back and forth of ideas, but I always try to be respectful... but sometimes people just don't like to argue and take it the wrong way. I've been told off more than once! :)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Oh I know what you mean about being taken the wrong way when you are writing a comment instead of speaking it - it is very difficult sometimes to know exactly how someone will read something when there is no tone of speech or facial cues to read with it. It's great that you don't get rude reviewers though!

[hanorganaas.livejournal.com]

AD!

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

Yes, I happily accept prompts. I am behind right now, but I love prompts very much! :D

[kalliel]

B and C!

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

Tropes I love and fear. hmm.

There are plenty of tropes I haven't written.... but I don't know there's anything I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. I have this philosophy that reading/writing challenging tropes helps us grow as humans. Probably I'm just assuaging myself for reading too much porn! But, I mean, every trope, even the really disturbing ones, grow out of some human emotion. I think it's good to try and see through other people's eyes. Even stories about things that are abusive and wrong can help build compassion in the reader's mind for people in real life who have suffered like that (because for every horrifying fiction, there is probably someone out there living that reality).

I've been feeling this desire to do some sort of bingo card... I really should. :)

If there were a trope I really wanted to try my hand at -- I would already be working on it? :)

[kalliel]

Oh man, can I just draw hearts around this answer? It's so thoughtful and inspirational! And hee hee, I'd love to do a bingo card of like, all the tropes I said I'd never write. PWP, mpreg, de-aging... I'm sure I could think of so many more!

[paperbackwriter.livejournal.com]

AB please! x

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

That is really hard. I read voraciously and there is so much great stuff out there.

Astolat. Speranza. Vera_DragonMuse.

Those are the ones who have rocked my world recently. I love to fall headlong into a story, to be swallowed up by the emotions... Like, I just clicked on Vera's ao3 to see how her name is spelled, and there was a Guardians story at the top of her works, that was simply beautiful. Ostensibly it was about Peter Quill sleeping with anything, but it was really so much more. And the last Speranza story I read (a City on the Edge of Forever retelling) made me sob the whole way through it. And Astolat makes me laugh and cry and clench up in every story. So -- emotionally hardhitting writing is what I remember the most. :D

[paperbackwriter.livejournal.com]

Oooo, I'm not sure I've read any of these! Thank you so much for the recs, Hun : ) x

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

U, please!

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

I revise constantly. Even stories that are already posted, I continue to polish sentences.

I always write a story, then edit, then edit again, then usually my husband reads it (or I have my computer read it out loud) and I edit it one more time. Husband's my only beta reader, except if I'm at a comm where a formal beta is required. :)

[wings128.livejournal.com]

P please :)

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

One pairing!

That's a very hard question. I wrote Nine/Rose almost exclusively for about a year and a half, so I like them a lot. I also write a lot of brotherly Winchesters... currently I'm writing Steve/Bucky but I don't know if I could write them forever.

It makes me think of Patrick O'Brien, who never stopped writing Aubrey/Maturin. :) There has to be a platonic element -- which makes me lean toward Winchesters; but the love element is also very attractive -- so that makes me lean toward Rose/The Doctor. Bucky/Steve is all around me right now, but who knows what the next thing will be that takes me over?

In real life I am super monogamous, but in pairings I am all over EVERYTHING. :D

[wings128.livejournal.com]

It is isn't it, I'm quite relieved no one asked me it. :)

I'm a multishipper too and love all my pairings for different reasons, none of which I'd ever want to stop writing.

Thanks for your answer, hun.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

AD please :)

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

Very much so -- I love to be prompted! Nothing feels better than to write a satisfying story just for a friend. :D

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

I love prompts too, they seem to make my brain go into overdirve :D

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

h and m!

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

H. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you've written and explain why you're proud of it.

I like my dialogue pretty well, but I can't seem to think of a good example. My husband advises me to cut back my dialogue as much as possible. I think it's true that less is more. :)

Here is a fun one anyway, a Doctor/Master story where everything the Master says is from the popsong "Inside Out" by Eve 6.
Tie Me to the Bedpost! http://archiveofourown.org/works/651670

M. What's the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?
Actually LJ Friend quickreaver gave me the best writing advice for me: "Take it further." The idea of digging in, digging deeper, taking it further really works for me.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

if i get that song stuck in my head i am going to blame you. :p i love the idea of it, tho, where everything the master says is a song lyric.

and that is good advice! i should probably listen to it too.

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

yes! that's the whole point of the song! :D
The Master is using it as a psychic shield because he knows it's impenetrable!! :D

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

Yes, there are certain moments that I go back to again and again.

For Nine/Rose, it's the Bad Wolf scene which I've revisited a million times.

For Bucky/Steve, it's that look in Bucky's eyes, when he is remembering that he knew Steve, and then again, when he is whaling on him on the helicarrier, and suddenly realizes to his horror what he is doing. Basically, Bucky's liferuining FACE.

For Sam and Dean, there are so many.
--the moment in the Pilot when Sam tells him he is capable of hunting alone and Dean says "I don't want to."
-- the moment when they've found John and Dean says how he wants them to be a family again.
--in Jus In Bello when Sam stands up to defend Dean.
-- when Dean is on the meathooks screaming for Sam.
-- when the two of them unconsciously mirror one another's posture.
-- when they work together seamlessly.
-- when they laugh and play together.
--s8 finale when Dean tells Sam to abandon the final trial.
... and many more!