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Weird Questions for Writers Meme
1. What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting? Calibri Light and no, I really don't care as long as it's readable.
2. If you had to give up your keyboard and write your stories exclusively by hand, could you do it? If you already write everything by hand, a) are you a wizard and b) pen or pencil? I COULD write it by hand but would I?
3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed? I don't have one and I don't believe in curses.
4. What’s a word that makes you go absolutely feral? I'm not often all that feral but omegaverse will do it.
5. Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true? No
6. What is your darkest fear about writing? That I'll run completely out of words.
7. What is your deepest joy about writing? That I can write at will.
8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go? IN the trash, I expect.
9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know No
10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you? No and it means nothing.
11. Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve? I - huh? No, I don't kill my darlings. Often.
12. If a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? Btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current WIPs into Lorem Ipsum, I don’t make the rules To write stuff that makes me happy to read, to write stuff other people want to reas, to write as much as I want. (And I don't know what Lorum whatsit is.)
13. What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy? Subject matter? No idea... there's stuff I won't write so maybe that. Most things are easy to write about.
14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back? No, I do not loan books.
15. Do you write in the margins of your books? Dog-ear your pages? Read in the bath? Why or why not? Do you judge people who do these things? Can we still be friends? I do not do these things and of course I judge people who do! We can be friends but don't touch my books.
16. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark? a leaf?
17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text. Tony and Steve are at a beach in France, a secluded one with wide, white beaches. Tony's house is light inside, with blond floors and bright colored cushions. The deck opens out onto to the beach - Tony drinks naked there late at night when he thinks of his life up to this point... he's 63 in 2033 so he worries about not keeping up with Steve.
18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.
'Lastly, Bucky stepped forward and handed Steve a package. “This is from Tony, Sam and me.”
Tony found he was holding his breath as Steve tore the paper off the box. He opened it and stared, not saying anything at all for a long while. When Steve looked up, there were tears in his eyes.
Inside the box was a framed photo of his mother and father, maybe from when they married as they were both in their Sunday best and so very young. Under the photo was a photo album. Steve lifted it out and opened it.
There was a photo of him as a small boy, smiling shyly at the photographer, as he sat on an old-fashioned love seat. As he flipped through it, he found photos of him and Bucky as boys at Coney Island, a few photos of him and his mother, a few of him and Bucky as soldiers and on the last page was a group photo of him, Bucky, the other Howlies, Peggy Carter, Howard Stark and Colonel Phillips. They were all standing in front of the barracks in England. They all looked so young and happy at that moment in time.
He didn’t even try to hide his tears as he smiled. “Thank you all so much. I didn’t even know these things existed still.”
“Some of them Tony found and some of them came from my sister’s grandkids. They kept all the old photos of us and the box of photos you left with my mom when you went to war,” Bucky said. “Tony thought you might like them.”
Steve turned to Tony and looked him in the eye. “Tony was right. This is best gift ever. Thank you all.”
Sam cleared his throat, “They said there’d be cake,” he said with a grin.
“Yes! Cake for everyone!” Steve stood.
“You gotta blow out the candles and make a wish,” Bucky said.
“I’ll blow out the candles but I already have everything I ever wished for,” Steve said. He pulled Tony into his arms and kissed him. “Now, where is this cake?” Steve asked with a wink at Tony."'
It was for Cap's actual birthday - July 4th. I love old Avengers stories and this one just popped out. There is not much change from beginning to end - I don't do rewrites very often.
19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going? I always wanted to write and when I discovered fanfiction about 22 years ago, I knew that it was perfect for me.
20. If a witch offered you the choice between eternal happiness with your one true love and the ability to finally finish, perfect, and publish your dearest, darlingest, most precious WIP in exactly the way you've always imagined it — which would you choose? You can’t have both sorry, life’s a bitch Love - always choose love.
21. Could you ever quit writing? Do you ever wish you could? Why or why not? I hope I never quit because it makes me happy. I write what i want to read - it's that simple.
22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud? Not terribly organized. I open a doc, write a story and toss it into the appropriate folder on my HD and make a backup somewhere now and then.
23. Describe the physical environment in which you write. Be as detailed as possible. Tell me what’s around you as you work. Paint me a picture.
The room is my study - a room filled with books and fan stiff. Books in stacks and in bookcases and stuffed here and there. The room is on the end of the house and has two regular sized windows and one double one so it's quite light. My computer desk actually faces a wall so as not to take up too much space in the room. The desk has stacks of papers with prompts and ideas printed on them, extra paper, pens, pencils and other writer-ish stuff.
24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it? I do a lot of research and sometime I do tend to get bogged down, but I love learning new stuff so it's all good.
25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story? Steve Rogers is like the energizer bunny and he never ever has a refractory period.
26. How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place? I have no idea how to get into a character's head, but getting out is easy. I save the doc and get u- from the computer...
27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why? I wrote a story about a man who imprisons and tortures a man who he believes himself to love. Getting into the obsessed lover's head was scary because he was convinced he was in love and the other man loved him back, all the while he was torturing and abusing him.
28. Who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? Why? I once invented a character that was King Thranduil's cook. She was with him from the time he was a boy in Doriath forward, helping him raise his son and providing wisdom and friendship to him. I adored her. Her name is Bellothia and the story is here - https://archiveofourown.org/works/2252301)
29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry? Songs, poems, prompts, challenges and when the inspiration is low, I hunt more of those things. And I revisit the source material.
30. Talk to me about the role dreams play in your writing life. Have you ever used material from your dreams in your writing? Have you ever written in a dream? Did you remember it when you woke up? Not sure they play any role at all.
31. Write a short love letter to your readers.
Dearest Reader,
I am glad you're there to read my little stories and I hope that you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them. I'd love to hear from you if you'd like and wish you all the best.
32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you? “Love is so short and forgetting is so long.” – Pablo Neruda. I just love it.
33. Do you practice any other art besides writing? Does that art ever tie into your writing, or is it entirely separate? I used to paint but not so much anymore.
34. Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go: If it clarifies meaning, yes. If not, no.
35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens? I often don't write in full sentences since I use lots of thought and emotion in my stories.
36. They say to Write What You Know. Setting aside for a moment the fact that this is terrible advice...what do you Know? A little about a lot of things and I'm a very good googler.
37. If you were to be remembered only by the words you’ve put on the page, what would future historians think of you? That I wrote mostly romantic erotica
38. What is something about your writing process YOU think is Really Weird? If you are comfortable, please share. If you’re not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us? I don't wrote drafts. What you read is pretty much it.
39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up? I'll tell you when I feel like giving up.
40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.
[love is more thicker than forget] BY E. E. CUMMINGS
love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail
it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea
love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive
it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky
no subject
- Erulisse (one L)
no subject
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I once invented a character that was King Thranduil's cook.
That's a delightful idea for an original character.