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osprey_archer ([personal profile] osprey_archer) wrote2013-03-17 03:17 pm
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A writing meme!

From [livejournal.com profile] carmarthen, a writing meme. I think you're supposed to pick questions off the list to ask me.



1. Which is your favorite of the fics you've written for X fandom?


2. Favorite piece overall?


3. Which was the hardest to write, in terms of plot?


4. Which has the most “you” in it, however you'd define that?


5. What is an image/set of images that you're particularly proud of?


6. Idea that you always wanted to write but could never make work?


7. Least favorite plot point/chapter/moment?


8. Favorite plot point/chapter/moment?


9. Favorite character to write?


10. Favorite line or lines of dialogue that you’ve written


11. If I’m showing off just one of your pieces to someone, which one should it be?


12. What WIPs do you have going now? Are you excited about them?


13. Are there any things that might have happened in any of your stories, but you changed them at the last minute? (So-and-so dies, they don’t actually kiss, main character has long extended ballet-based dream sequence, etc.)


14. Would you want to write canon for any of your fandoms (like being hired by a showrunner to do an episode)? Which one?


15. Does font matter to you when you’re writing a draft?


16. Three favorite comments ever received on fanfic.


17. Any mean comments? How’d you deal with it? Who laid the smackdown?


18. If you could go back and revise one of your older stories, which would it be?


19. Do you make up scenes at work/on the bus/at the gym? Who are the characters that pop up the most? Do you write them down?


20. Go nuts, and talk about writing. Or write me a little ficlet-whatsit using a character/image/line I shall now specify.

[identity profile] seascribe.livejournal.com 2013-03-17 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
9, 10, 16, and, for Eagle, 1!

[identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
1. Which is your favorite of the fics you've written for Eagle fandom?


Noooo they are all my children, how can I pick just one! Uh...I think for sheer happiness, my favorite is Vixen (http://archiveofourown.org/works/553100), the story where Cottia transforms into a fox, because fox!Cottia, so perfect! For angst value, though, I really like Wings (http://archiveofourown.org/works/631687), because it takes a totally cracky premise - wingfic! - and tells, I think, a serious story with it.

9. Favorite character to write?


This changes all the time. I looooove writing Cottia and Esca in Eagle - nothing against Marcus's character, but his voice has always been harder for me.

10. Favorite line or lines of dialogue that you’ve written
.

I thought this would be easy, but looking at my favorite lines, most of them only make sense if you know the canon/have read the story. Let's see...from Five Times Jess & Jules Kissed in Public (http://archiveofourown.org/works/143440), my Bend It Like Beckham fic, the line There is not a world-wide Punjabi network spying on your virtue was a real favorite.


16. Three favorite comments ever received on fanfic.


1. I got a piece of fanart for Vixen (http://osprey-archer.livejournal.com/245238.html)! (The link goes to the picture, rather than the AO3 story. I should figure out how to embed the picture in the AO3 story...) I guess that is not exactly a comment, but it was incredibly awesome.

2. A lot of people commented on Mr. Yunioshi's Photographs (http://archiveofourown.org/works/38014) that after really the fic, they could watch Breakfast at Tiffany's again without having it spoiled by what a racist caricature Mr. Yunioshi was in the movie.

[identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh, and I forgot to give a third example for my favorite comment! No specific comments jumping to mind at the moment, but any variation on "This is my new headcanon" or "This made me cry (or laugh, depending on the fic)" is pretty awesome.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Ditto on No. 1 for Eagle!--oh wait, I see your answer <3
Edited 2013-03-18 02:29 (UTC)

[identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Hee, I figured you would see it in a moment. But as you asked, I'm also awfully fond of Daughters (http://archiveofourown.org/works/645335),about Cottia's relationship with her own mother and her plot to name her daughter something not Roman. I think it's fun in it's own right, and it sets up the OT3 story of angst that I still mean to write.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
That's another good one!

And what's the one called where Cottia, Marcus, and Esca first all come together, where each couple gets to have time together, and they conceive that maybe they could make it work, the three of them? That one's really nice too.

[identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Silentium (http://archiveofourown.org/works/502626)! Also fun.