fanfic ask meme

[amovingtarget]

I posted four whole fics this year so far! I think that calls for a writing meme!

Cribbed from runicmagitek

A: How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?
B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?
C: What member do you identify with most?
D: Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?
E: If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?
F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
H: How would you describe your style?
I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?
J: Write or describe an alternative ending to [insert fic].
K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?
L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?
N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?
O: How do you begin a story–with the plot, or the characters?
P: 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?)
Q: How do you feel about collaborations?
R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?
S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?
T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?
U: Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.
V: If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
W: Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?
X: A character you enjoy making suffer.
Y: A character you want to protect.
Z: Major character death–do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can’t tolerate?

Comments

[amovingtarget]

C: What character do you identify with most?

That's pretty tough. Can I have more than one? I'm gonna put down more than one. I think I'd have to go with FF15's Gladio -- written one fic for him here: in this desperate, fleeting time or Dragon Age's Cullen -- written two fics and one in progress, but the big character study is here: afraid of all that i've built. I think honourable mention should go to Cloud, although I haven't written any fic for him yet.

The three of them all have very different pasts and personalities, but I think the core of their stories come down too... trying to move on, to move forward, to get better. That's something I still haven't really been able to do, so to be able to give that to the characters I relate and love the most? For them to be able to grieve and hurt and struggle, and survive it all, and find themselves again? Yeah.

L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

I usually allow for at least one major revision pass, and one personal read through where I tweak words here and there but usually just see that I'm happy with it and enjoy it. Although, in practice, I don't usually do the major revision pass except for big works and I can't remember the last time I did, so they've kind of merged into one revision?

So I guess the current process is that I do one revision, and enemyofperfect will do one, and that's been enough for me, in recent memory.

M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?

Oh man, so many... maybe I should make a whole post for that? I've been toying with the idea of making one for all my ideas, ancient and recent, just so I can have it in one place....

I'll give you one right now, though. I mentioned Cloud, so I will tell you that there's a fic I've been dying to write for him. I've titled it blue shoulders instead of feathers (from this poem by Richard Siken) and it's kind of a diptych of a fic. One part takes place before Advent Children, where Tifa and everyone else is trying to move on and Cloud is trying to keep up, but between his head being a mess and Sephiroth toying with him through the developing geostigma, he just can't. The second part is after, where he finally gets to move on himself, and it's largely based on the post credit scene where we see the Buster Sword restored and put up in the church -- that was what Cloud did to finally get some closure for himself, so he can finally let himself be happy with Tifa.

[runicmagitek]

I do love how when we reflect on our faves and the ones we relate to, there's always a common theme amongst them. I know for me it's usually the ice queens trying to taking on the world without asking for help and learning to open to others. I love that we can find ourselves in fiction like that :) thank you so much for sharing that!

OOOOOOO I am in love with this fic idea for Cloud! And that's so fitting for him, too. I was always frustrated that he was never allowed time to heal post-canon. Even if Advent Children, he hadn't really moved on, so to speak. I wanted him to recover in a health manner and have the life he was deprived of. I would love to read something like this, so I fully support it :D

[amovingtarget]

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