Fic writers meme: 2, 4, 7, 15, 19, 30, 31, 33. I am very curious about your brain, okay.
2) Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?hMmmm. I generally try to avoid approaching writing with a specific trope consciously in mind, at least in my serious works. I’m also really bad at consciously identifying them unless they are ones that drive me crazy, and in that case I wouldn’t want to write them xD RPs, back when I did them, were full of tons of fun tropes, but this is asking about ones I haven’t tried... so... I think most of the obvious ones are covered already.I dunno if this counts, but I have yet to actually write the “Actual Villain is completely redeemed” or “Hero turns to the dark side” trope in any of my stories since I half attempted it in my fantasy novel as a teenager with meh results. Writing Anakin going darkside doesn’t count because him going darkside is canon and thus not my choice.I also have a great temptation to write a death scene where the person is talking as they die but I know that’s so overdone that I probably won’t do it :PI also haven’t written the “we’re all gonna die in (insert exact time limit) unless you can do (nearly impossible thing) first!” ... I wonder if there’s a way to do that that doesn’t feel silly.Also I would like to try and write a character who seems absolutely obnoxious and awful and unlikable at first and then make the reader like them or at least enjoy what they bring to the story because I am always impressed when that happens to me.
4) How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?I dunno about nurturing... I’m only actively thinking about the upcoming Boba one shots, LtFAD, and the one that will have Luke and Vader and Padme feels. But I have about... 12-14 clone wars one shot ideas in a little notepad.One of them involves the 501st and 212th going swimming in a lake or in the ocean on a super hot planet. Dogma thinks this is completely undisciplined of his brothers, and gets pushed in :P7) Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.Oh no!! How do I choose? Hmm. I guess I will go with the fan favorite of Chapter 12 Dwelling on these details was all his mind could do to make it seem real. Or perhaps that was what made it seem unreal. To a part of him, this was just like any other mission: if he was prepared, he had a better chance of success. But the rest of him, the slowly suffocating majority which felt the passing of each second as being one second less for him to live, understood that it was not. And down there, in the hangar, was the last thing that would give way to make it final, and real, and different from all the other missions he’d faced so far. Cody stood next to Obi-Wan, a tiny white and goldenrod figure, talking and gesturing easily as the rest of his men disembarked with their wounded. Rex pulled his eyes away and turned to make the walk down, each step taking him forward faster than he expected down a hallway which seemed endless… into the lift that pulled his heart into his throat in a way it never had before, and didn’t let it back down even after he stepped out. His body moved on its own, and he was a passenger, letting it carry him forward before this small window of time, this one crucial moment, was wasted.I’m proud of this (although it relies on the surrounding narrative for full effect) because I think I captured the feeling of detachment and reality of impending death that would make sense for Rex to have, preparing to say goodbye to his closest friend.15) If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?Live to Fight Another Day, for sure!! As long as I could make sure they didn’t mess it up, haha. So much I want to see in visual form and hear in the actual voices.
19) Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?My muse took the form of my fantasy character Isorin for many many years. He would yell at me when i got his characterization wrong and grumble and poke me to write more and listen to me ramble about plot questions and give cryptic answers and suggestions that would tease out more ideas. Since I stopped writing any stories involving him, I don’t really see him as the muse for my current projects. I think usually one particular character in each project becomes the muse for that project. So for LtFAD it’s Rex... and Cody too I guess. For my ds9 fic it was Garak. They ride around in my head all day reminding me that their stories are still waiting to be finished.
30) Do you accept prompts?I’m not very good at being concise, so I haven’t really tried accepting fic prompts on tumblr before because I’m too busy working on my longer projects, and if I like an idea it usually tends to take up at least 4000 words if not become its own novel. If I’m chatting with friends, say, and someone says “OMG YOU SHOULD WRITE A FIC ABOUT THIS SCENARIO” with characters we both love, and if it makes sense to me, then I guess that counts as a prompt? And I file it away in my one-shot notepad for whenever I have time.
31) Do you take liberties with canon or are you very strict about your fic being canon compliant?I am pretty strict. Part of this is because Cal is very strict, but I tend to enjoy the challenge of writing stuff that COULD be canon. It’s a great exercise for improving writing style and thinking about continuity and logical plot/character progression as well. One of my favorite things to hear is “I forgot this was a fanfiction” or “I forget this isn’t canon”. Usually if I’m writing a fic it’s because I already love the canon a lot but there was something particular I wanted to see more of, within that universe.
33) How do you feel about crack?
Crack fic can be a lot of fun but I have to be in a very specific mood to read it anymore. I had years of RPs that were basically constant crack fics and they start to get a little repetitive. I guess the logical side of my brain is starting to dominate my writing process a lot more than just the “I wrote this because I felt like it”. Either that or I just get more easily embarrassed these days. If I write anything like crack it’s usually just ideas in a chat deriving from some typo or joke at 3 AM, like with Twenty-Two having an extra hand growing out of his knee or an au where a glittering werewolf fett clone saves the republic and all the clones get released into the wild to form natural broherds. They amuse me enough in the chat form that I feel no need to actually write a fic and show it to the general public. Crack as an inside joke between very few people is more my thing ;)
