Writing style meme
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libra_travellerGrabbed from thegrrrl2002 A very cool meme. Everyone should do this! The questions are as follows:
Ideas. Where the hell do they come from? Can you make those little fuckers show up?
Wild horse-bunnies. When a story just gets pulled right out of you. Do you get them?
Writer's block. Have you been scourged?
Clean up duty. Do you like editing?
The ending. Is it hard for you to find the ending?
The title. Where do you get yours? Do you have yours when you start the story?
Plot. If you plot out your stories first, raise your hand.
POV. How do you choose your POV for a scene? For a story?
Challenge. Do you like them? Do they inspire you?
Sex. Do you like writing sex?
Ideas. Where the hell do they come from? Can you make those little fuckers show up?
Various places, sometimes when listening to songs the images will just come with them. Other times the ideas aren't there until I'm a paragraph into the story. And still more there's just a larger plotty idea that came from just thinking 'what if....'.
Wild horse-bunnies. When a story just gets pulled right out of you. Do you get them?
Yes, occasionally. At least the wild part! As for the really big horse bunnies they come but I rarely ever finish them, usually I only get three to five pages in, realize it would be about 50 pages or more, and then my muse runs scared and I can't write another word.
Writer's block. Have you been scourged?
Way too often. It ends up being a 'I want to write' theoretically, but I don't. Other times what I'm supposed to be writing completely uninspires me to the point that I don't really enjoy anything I'm writing, and I think that's still writer's block, because though I can make with the words I'm still cut off from the passion and inspiration.
Clean up duty. Do you like editing?
Does anyone? I always read over my work after I've finished it to catch spelling and grammar, the problem comes when I don't have the patience to wait a few days to do that, so inevitably I miss a lot during that read through. Though editing I can live with, it's the revisions that I fear, they bring out their own joy though because I'm creating again, but at the same time I feel, if I'm revising a story that means the story pre-revision will itself be scrapped, and I don't want to say goodbye to it.
The ending. Is it hard for you to find the ending?
I can always write an ending, that's not a problem, but afterwards looking at it, I'm not sure it's the best ending line or scene or phrase. But then when I revise it I can usually come up with something clever to end it. But it always varies on the story type. If it's humor, then that last line is easy. If it's more drama or mystery, then I find it more difficult, because I want to leave the reader still engaged in the story but fulfilled at the same time, and that's difficult.
The title. Where do you get yours? Do you have yours when you start the story?
LOL, I love titles, coming up with them. Sometimes I'll invent a story idea just so I can use a title I came up with. I don't always have a title as I'm writing, though I'll always in the back of my mind be trying to come up with one. It's usually a problem only when I don't know where the story is going to end, so I don't really know what the story is about. But if I have it all planned out, oftentimes the first thing I type on the page is the title.
Plot. If you plot out your stories first, raise your hand.
*Half raises it* because I do some times and other times I don't. Granted if it's a longer story and I'm coming up with ideas that are farther in the future for the writing, I'll write those down, whether phrases, dialogue, images, or a whole layout of a scene. But I do that because I write linear, I can't write the ending or middle before I write the beginning, but I do have ideas for the middle and ending, so I just make notes. There have been times when I've completely outlined a story and followed it step by step. It made it easy to write ten thousand words in four days, so I know it's doable for me. But I don't always write like that, sometimes I have a blank page, total silene in the room and just write whatever phrase pops into my head and then the next and all the while I'm thinking, who am I writing about, and then I go from there. Oh and usually I always write while listening to music.
POV. How do you choose your POV for a scene? For a story?
I rarely ever switch point of views because it's hard enough to get either in someone's head or at least focus on them. I would only ever do it if there's a scene I really want to show and my main character isn't there. Usually I avoid it though. For choosing whose POV is easy, always go for the main character of the story, and to know who the main character is I decide who has the most at stake in the story and who grows because of the event. What I find harder is choosing whether third or first person, I don't dabble in second. The problem is that I like reading both third and first, and I get something out of writing both. So in the end it's always simply which one I'm more comfortable with that day or that story. The other issue I have in writing, is whether I'm going to write in present tense or past tense because they both give something different. And sadly I'll be writing a scene one day, come back to the story the next day and find after a couple pages that I switched, so now I've written in both present and past, so I have to decide which to keep and then go back and edit it all so that it's in one tense.
Challenge. Do you like them? Do they inspire you?
They do inspire me but I almost never finish them, and it pisses me off too, the not finishing them. On the otherhand when I do a fic exchange though it's difficult to write, I've gotten them finished in time because something about writing for someone else appeals to me, because that's why I write in the first place. I write for myself, but I write in hopes of entertaining or touching the people that read my story.
Sex. Do you like writing sex?
I love reading the stories with sex scenes, and I love imagining my own, and I even write a couple once in awhile, but I'm not as comfortable with it, as say writing about someone emotionally damaged. I think part of the problem is that I wouldn't be able to talk to my mom about what I'm writing, and it's not because she'd be uncomfortable with me talking about a sex scene, though she might, but because she would not want to hear about a sex scene I'm writing between two guys, ah well.
thegrrrl2002 A very cool meme. Everyone should do this! The questions are as follows:Ideas. Where the hell do they come from? Can you make those little fuckers show up?
Wild horse-bunnies. When a story just gets pulled right out of you. Do you get them?
Writer's block. Have you been scourged?
Clean up duty. Do you like editing?
The ending. Is it hard for you to find the ending?
The title. Where do you get yours? Do you have yours when you start the story?
Plot. If you plot out your stories first, raise your hand.
POV. How do you choose your POV for a scene? For a story?
Challenge. Do you like them? Do they inspire you?
Sex. Do you like writing sex?
Ideas. Where the hell do they come from? Can you make those little fuckers show up?
Various places, sometimes when listening to songs the images will just come with them. Other times the ideas aren't there until I'm a paragraph into the story. And still more there's just a larger plotty idea that came from just thinking 'what if....'.
Wild horse-bunnies. When a story just gets pulled right out of you. Do you get them?
Yes, occasionally. At least the wild part! As for the really big horse bunnies they come but I rarely ever finish them, usually I only get three to five pages in, realize it would be about 50 pages or more, and then my muse runs scared and I can't write another word.
Writer's block. Have you been scourged?
Way too often. It ends up being a 'I want to write' theoretically, but I don't. Other times what I'm supposed to be writing completely uninspires me to the point that I don't really enjoy anything I'm writing, and I think that's still writer's block, because though I can make with the words I'm still cut off from the passion and inspiration.
Clean up duty. Do you like editing?
Does anyone? I always read over my work after I've finished it to catch spelling and grammar, the problem comes when I don't have the patience to wait a few days to do that, so inevitably I miss a lot during that read through. Though editing I can live with, it's the revisions that I fear, they bring out their own joy though because I'm creating again, but at the same time I feel, if I'm revising a story that means the story pre-revision will itself be scrapped, and I don't want to say goodbye to it.
The ending. Is it hard for you to find the ending?
I can always write an ending, that's not a problem, but afterwards looking at it, I'm not sure it's the best ending line or scene or phrase. But then when I revise it I can usually come up with something clever to end it. But it always varies on the story type. If it's humor, then that last line is easy. If it's more drama or mystery, then I find it more difficult, because I want to leave the reader still engaged in the story but fulfilled at the same time, and that's difficult.
The title. Where do you get yours? Do you have yours when you start the story?
LOL, I love titles, coming up with them. Sometimes I'll invent a story idea just so I can use a title I came up with. I don't always have a title as I'm writing, though I'll always in the back of my mind be trying to come up with one. It's usually a problem only when I don't know where the story is going to end, so I don't really know what the story is about. But if I have it all planned out, oftentimes the first thing I type on the page is the title.
Plot. If you plot out your stories first, raise your hand.
*Half raises it* because I do some times and other times I don't. Granted if it's a longer story and I'm coming up with ideas that are farther in the future for the writing, I'll write those down, whether phrases, dialogue, images, or a whole layout of a scene. But I do that because I write linear, I can't write the ending or middle before I write the beginning, but I do have ideas for the middle and ending, so I just make notes. There have been times when I've completely outlined a story and followed it step by step. It made it easy to write ten thousand words in four days, so I know it's doable for me. But I don't always write like that, sometimes I have a blank page, total silene in the room and just write whatever phrase pops into my head and then the next and all the while I'm thinking, who am I writing about, and then I go from there. Oh and usually I always write while listening to music.
POV. How do you choose your POV for a scene? For a story?
I rarely ever switch point of views because it's hard enough to get either in someone's head or at least focus on them. I would only ever do it if there's a scene I really want to show and my main character isn't there. Usually I avoid it though. For choosing whose POV is easy, always go for the main character of the story, and to know who the main character is I decide who has the most at stake in the story and who grows because of the event. What I find harder is choosing whether third or first person, I don't dabble in second. The problem is that I like reading both third and first, and I get something out of writing both. So in the end it's always simply which one I'm more comfortable with that day or that story. The other issue I have in writing, is whether I'm going to write in present tense or past tense because they both give something different. And sadly I'll be writing a scene one day, come back to the story the next day and find after a couple pages that I switched, so now I've written in both present and past, so I have to decide which to keep and then go back and edit it all so that it's in one tense.
Challenge. Do you like them? Do they inspire you?
They do inspire me but I almost never finish them, and it pisses me off too, the not finishing them. On the otherhand when I do a fic exchange though it's difficult to write, I've gotten them finished in time because something about writing for someone else appeals to me, because that's why I write in the first place. I write for myself, but I write in hopes of entertaining or touching the people that read my story.
Sex. Do you like writing sex?
I love reading the stories with sex scenes, and I love imagining my own, and I even write a couple once in awhile, but I'm not as comfortable with it, as say writing about someone emotionally damaged. I think part of the problem is that I wouldn't be able to talk to my mom about what I'm writing, and it's not because she'd be uncomfortable with me talking about a sex scene, though she might, but because she would not want to hear about a sex scene I'm writing between two guys, ah well.
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on 2008-01-25 07:53 pm (UTC)Sometimes I like it better than actually writing.
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on 2008-01-25 08:12 pm (UTC)And hey, nice to know you weren't someone else pretending to be you. Or, er, something like that. ::g::
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