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Seen various places ... pick a question and leave it in the comments. :)
1. How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?
2. Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?
3. What character do you identify with most?
4. Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?
5. If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?
6. Care to share a favorite hurt/comfort fic?
7. Care to share a favorite crack fic?
8. How would you describe your style?
9. Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?
10. Write or describe an alternative ending to [insert fic].
11. What's the angstiest idea you've ever come up with?
12. What's the weirdest AU you've ever come up with?
13. Got any premises on the back burner that you'd care to share?
14. Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?
15. How do you begin a story--with the plot, or the characters?
16. Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an "architect" or a "gardener"? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)
17. Do you have any discarded scenes/storylines/projects?
18. Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?
19. Any fandom tropes you can't resist?
20. Any fandom tropes you can't stand?
21. A pairing you might like to write for, but haven't tried yet.
22. A secondary (or underrated) character you want to see more of in fic?
23. Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?
24. A character you enjoy making suffer.
25. A character you want to protect.
26. Major character death--do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can't tolerate?
1. How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?
2. Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?
3. What character do you identify with most?
4. Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?
5. If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?
6. Care to share a favorite hurt/comfort fic?
7. Care to share a favorite crack fic?
8. How would you describe your style?
9. Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?
10. Write or describe an alternative ending to [insert fic].
11. What's the angstiest idea you've ever come up with?
12. What's the weirdest AU you've ever come up with?
13. Got any premises on the back burner that you'd care to share?
14. Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?
15. How do you begin a story--with the plot, or the characters?
16. Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an "architect" or a "gardener"? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)
17. Do you have any discarded scenes/storylines/projects?
18. Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?
19. Any fandom tropes you can't resist?
20. Any fandom tropes you can't stand?
21. A pairing you might like to write for, but haven't tried yet.
22. A secondary (or underrated) character you want to see more of in fic?
23. Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?
24. A character you enjoy making suffer.
25. A character you want to protect.
26. Major character death--do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can't tolerate?
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And #22.
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(I really do want to write season two someday. I think I'd actually do a much better, more upbeat job with it now that I'm no longer in quite such a dark place regarding the show.)
#22 - Ohhhh, there's usually at least one of these in any given fandom for me. In Agent Carter, I definitely want more Jack (although there's getting to be more fic around that features him than there used to be). Back in WC, I really feel like the fandom needs more fic with ANY of the female characters in central roles; I started to name one, then was going to go with another ... but, no, it's a cast-wide problem. Elizabeth and Diana are in a lot of fic, but almost always in very secondary roles as part of an ensemble (and we've talked about the problem with Elizabeth even getting sidelined in OT3 fic, when she should be part of the central pairing). And poor Sara, Kate, etc. hardly ever get anything to do.
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Although, honestly, one thing I want even more than that in AC fandom is more plotty, canon-compliant, well-researched casefic. There are SO MANY possibilities (really weird SSR/SHIELD stuff, Cold War spy shenanigans, sci-fi tropes like time loops and doppelgangers, Dottie coming back to frenemy with Peggy some more) and there just ... isn't that much of it. There are some good ones out there, but never enough!
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Presumed dead is another one that really gets me. (Why isn't there more of this?)
I also really love AUs, though not in every case (some fandoms really go for AUs that twist the characters in ways that just don't work for me). But seeing all the fannish variants on the canon relationships under different circumstances is really interesting to me.
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Also, #23 (Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?), and whether it changes from fandom to fandom, prompter to prompter, genre to genre, or on any other axis.
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Really, even leaving aside the ever-widening and expanding creative vortex of shifter romance (the sheer number of series that I have in mind at the moment, including various more- or less-genre-adherent variations on the basic tropes, is ridiculous), I feel like it just never STOPS. If I leave my brain unattended for one moment, it goes and throws ideas at me. A sample of unwritten projects include:
- an urban fantasy murder mystery set in ancient Sumeria with flame-winged bull-griffin-creatures, in which the detective character is a cynical middle-aged naditu (cloistered priestess of the city's patron god), with a sister who is a tavern keeper (a surprisingly unrestrictive occupation for women in the time period, with the slight caveat that, because it tended to go along with suggestions of prostitution, priestesses weren't allowed to set foot in taverns under penalty of death and/or divine punishment; this results in the protagonist having a lot of conversations with her sister through the window, therefore technically avoiding the prohibition, because she's that kind of person)
- a thing I've been kicking around for decades (literally since I was grade school aged) and may actually be starting to figure out how to write, involving a version of our world in which the humans are only 3 inches high and everything else (ecosystem-wise, at least) is more or less the same. It started out as a thought experiment in coming up with various human adaptations to being that tiny -- cities in baskets hanging from trees, and the like -- which is something I've enjoyed doing just about ever since I can remember; the first time I ever remember doing this was when I read Bambi at about age 6 and promptly thought, "What if deer built a city? What would that look like?" Anyway, I've got an entire binder full of 30 years' worth of noodling about tiny people cities, and the notes for a whole series of books, if I could just get a handle on what the first book is about.
- an SF novel in which humanity started out terraforming worlds using giant autonomous terraforming rigs, but later, in a more enlightened age, stopped doing that and started adapting themselves to the local conditions instead, so now the galaxy is full of flying gas-giant humanoids, and silicon humanoids, and methane breathers on ice worlds with hydrocarbon rain, and so forth. And then, in one of these solar systems, one of the terraforming rigs shows up -- launched millennia ago, wandering between stars, and completely forgotten about, it has now found a likely-looking system to terraform. SHIT! Their future don't have FTL travel or communications, so they can't warn anybody else or get help, and their entire solar system is going to be destroyed (read: forcibly converted to planets with earth-compatible ecosystems) unless they can stop or destroy the thing, which is going to involve several groups of biologically incompatible people (human-derived, but essentially now aliens), who don't really get along or understand each other, working together.
AND THAT'S JUST THREE. *cries*
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I hope you some day write that one :D
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Re: the second one, I don't know how much basis in science this has, but I read somewhere that there was a theory about human size being especially well-adapted to things like fire-tending, and all the things that unlocks; something about how large a fire has to be to be relatively stable at that size without dying out too quickly or going out of control. I kinda wonder what the physics of campfires would be for three-inch people.
...completely unrelated to previous thought: apparently the person who wrote Bambi also wrote a pornographic novel called Josephine Mutzenbacher: The Life Story of a Viennese Whore.
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But you're right, it does vary, because I also really enjoy doing h/c bingo, and those are usually fairly general/nonspecific. (Although even there, I find the more specific prompts easier than the general ones, usually -- like, it's easier for me to write "knife wounds" than "apocalypse.") And the danger with specific prompts is ones that are SO specific they just don't work for me, especially if it involves a reading of canon that actively works against my preferred reading, and since I started taking prompts on Tumblr, I have received a few of those. So it's a double-edged sword.
(And also ... hello! :D I have missed our chats, and just talking to you about creative stuff generally!)
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(Hello! I've also missed our writing chats! Unfortunately, I've also also been completely buried under life ridiculousness, and I'm still floundering around trying to dig myself out of it all. >_o How are you, these days? Any exciting writerly developments not otherwise obvious from your blog?)
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and no one cares. But this is absolutely NOTHING compared to some of my unfinished catharsis fic. The worst one I remember planning (though I don't think I actually wrote any of it, or at least not more than occasional snippets) was a Stargate one in which evil mirror universe versions of John and Jennifer kill their real versions and replace them. It went downhill from there.