starlady: Uryuu & Ichigo reenact Scott Pilgrim (that doesn't even rhyme)
Electra ([personal profile] starlady) wrote2010-11-17 12:02 am
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Ask me about writing (icon unrelated, but awesome)

Great afternoon and evening hanging out in the southerly part of the bay, good feelings slightly soured by opening my email account when I got home & reading school stuff therein. Strongly suspect this is a "this too shall pass" moment, or at least a "the world does not revolve around you" moment; in any case, I don't want to talk about it now.

Instead, a meme! somewhat in honor of Yuletide.

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.

And it seems like a lot more fun to do that than to do working.

So, if you wanted, ask me questions! (Or use this to ask your flist to ask you 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.


The master list (it's short) of my fic is here on DW; everything is also at [archiveofourown.org profile] starlady on the AO3. I feel like I've made…unusual choices in my writing; if you think the same, please do ask. There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.
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[personal profile] dancing_moon 2010-11-17 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Euh, hello *waves*

I found a link to your manga meta and it was all very interesting and instructive. So I thought I'd friend you and do the polite thing and whatnot, and introduce myself. So, hi =)