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Writing Meme
Nov. 22nd, 2020 04:07 pmI copied these questions from Tumblr more than a month ago. The source is Just Whumpy Things.
1. Tell us about your current project(s) – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it? I can't tell you much about it because it'll be anonymous – a contribution to Winter Exchange for HP rare pairs. I've barely started it, but because it doesn't have to be and mustn't be big, I feel relaxed enough to procrastinate by finally making a DW post that's not only a fic I've recently posted on AO3.
2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project. I've signed up for a few fests with deadlines in early 2021 but I'm not really thinking about those future projects yet. I've recently even had doubts I'll continue to write for fests. But I still look forward to writing such parts of my ficverse which are set in 1980 and 1981.
3. What is that one scene that you’ve always wanted to write but can’t be arsed to write all of the set-up and context it would need? (consider this permission to write it and/or share it anyway). I don't think I've really ever kept thinking about any such scene... unless perhaps about showing how Remus and Sirius dance at James and Lily's wedding, while I still haven't cared to write a story set at the wedding. I guess I simply start a story with any scene I'm tempted to write, or I come up with the urge to write a particular scene only when a story has taken me to where it fits and is needed.
4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like). It's too hard to choose one – and such a small part of any fic I'm proud of! Seriously, it would easier to choose a fic, and I'm usually somehow proud of my latest one. I'm critical and I tend to see flaws if I try to choose a paragraph, and few sentences and paragraphs reveal their value without the context. But perhaps... the opening paragraph of a bit exceptional, non-linear story, From the Oblivion: She wants to keep staring at the golden, lacy border. But once again she can't resist pressing her palms and her nose – her snub nose, which she is just learning to turn flatter or perkier according to her wishes, since she's still small, as she always is in this dream.... To press her bare skin under the border, on the thick layer of frost.
5. What character that you’re writing do you most identify with? Amelia Bones, or Cho Chang in To Know What She's Seeking.
6. What character do you have the most fun writing? Fun... Perhaps Luna? She's full of surprises.
7. What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree? I write a very close perspective of a single character (sometimes two or several perspectives but in clearly separated, long segments, trying my best to make it immediately clear whose experiences I'm taking the reader to share, and where and when). I avoid long descriptions and expositions, and in order to show vivid scenes, I insert the characters’ sense perceptions and observations of their surroundings in small doses between thoughts and lines of dialogue, trying to anchor their internality to the outside reality. At least the reader who once commented like this agreed: he's preoccupied with his thoughts, but his surrounding, too, are triggers for his self-reflection. The combination of well-described space and character introspection give the story a planted feeling.
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1. Tell us about your current project(s) – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it? I can't tell you much about it because it'll be anonymous – a contribution to Winter Exchange for HP rare pairs. I've barely started it, but because it doesn't have to be and mustn't be big, I feel relaxed enough to procrastinate by finally making a DW post that's not only a fic I've recently posted on AO3.
2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project. I've signed up for a few fests with deadlines in early 2021 but I'm not really thinking about those future projects yet. I've recently even had doubts I'll continue to write for fests. But I still look forward to writing such parts of my ficverse which are set in 1980 and 1981.
3. What is that one scene that you’ve always wanted to write but can’t be arsed to write all of the set-up and context it would need? (consider this permission to write it and/or share it anyway). I don't think I've really ever kept thinking about any such scene... unless perhaps about showing how Remus and Sirius dance at James and Lily's wedding, while I still haven't cared to write a story set at the wedding. I guess I simply start a story with any scene I'm tempted to write, or I come up with the urge to write a particular scene only when a story has taken me to where it fits and is needed.
4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like). It's too hard to choose one – and such a small part of any fic I'm proud of! Seriously, it would easier to choose a fic, and I'm usually somehow proud of my latest one. I'm critical and I tend to see flaws if I try to choose a paragraph, and few sentences and paragraphs reveal their value without the context. But perhaps... the opening paragraph of a bit exceptional, non-linear story, From the Oblivion: She wants to keep staring at the golden, lacy border. But once again she can't resist pressing her palms and her nose – her snub nose, which she is just learning to turn flatter or perkier according to her wishes, since she's still small, as she always is in this dream.... To press her bare skin under the border, on the thick layer of frost.
5. What character that you’re writing do you most identify with? Amelia Bones, or Cho Chang in To Know What She's Seeking.
6. What character do you have the most fun writing? Fun... Perhaps Luna? She's full of surprises.
7. What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree? I write a very close perspective of a single character (sometimes two or several perspectives but in clearly separated, long segments, trying my best to make it immediately clear whose experiences I'm taking the reader to share, and where and when). I avoid long descriptions and expositions, and in order to show vivid scenes, I insert the characters’ sense perceptions and observations of their surroundings in small doses between thoughts and lines of dialogue, trying to anchor their internality to the outside reality. At least the reader who once commented like this agreed: he's preoccupied with his thoughts, but his surrounding, too, are triggers for his self-reflection. The combination of well-described space and character introspection give the story a planted feeling.
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