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[acchikocchi]

Shamelessly swiped from meretricula. Comment by tomorrow morning and you'll give me something to do on the plane! (edit: obviously, later comments are okay, too. that was just a shameless ploy to keep me busy.)

I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are like, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" Which isn't so much talking about stories as it is writing more of a story. But you know how sometimes you read something and you're like, "I got ___ out of this story, I wonder if I have that right?" or "What on earth was ____ supposed to be?" and it's too awkward to ask the author? Now you could totally ask!

I've heard people say that writing is hard because you have to make decisions, but we never really talk about the decisions we make with stories or why we make them. We talk about plot bunnies, but not about how we actually turn them into a story.

So, if you wanted, ask me questions!

What were you trying to do [here]? Why did you decide to ____? This is what I thought about xyz, is that what you were going for? What made you write ____? Why did you decide to do this? And so on.

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Also, can someone familiar with Yuletide answer a couple questions about sign-ups/matching? I am confused and looking through yuletide unfortunately hasn't helped. DDD:

Now I will finish packing and go to sleep. Er, soon.

edit: fic snippets in comments!

Comments

[chaosraven.livejournal.com]

What kind of questions?

[wintersjuly.livejournal.com]

actually i want to ask, because i find it interesting - how do you start writing something? as in, what gets you to the point where you go, "i have a story i want to write?" do you need to plan it all out? or it is pure imagination/where the pen (hur hur hur) takes you?

and also, what's the easiest and the most difficult fic you've written?

[pinkpapyrus.livejournal.com]

What's one fic you've really wanted to write but for whatever reason you couldn't get into it or finish?

Or, alternatively, did you have to cut anything from Tay*J that you wish you could have kept in?

[snowqueenofhoth.livejournal.com]

Ooh, this looks like a cool meme. *steals*

[pithetaphish]

What's your process? Where do most of your ideas spawn from and how do you go about translating that into words? You've said you rarely plan, so how do you get from build up to climax to denouement? I seem to recall you saying you don't write linearly?

Also, bonus q, how do you feel pressure and/or deadlines affect your work/process?