Memage!

[osprey_archer]

Via goldjadeocean: Forty questions meme for fic writers.

Give me numbers, and I will answer your questions! (My traveling companion is ill - just a cold, nothing major - so it's going to be a quiet day, so please, please pick as many numbers as you want.)

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I find it very interesting and heartening that you always end up writing out of order. I never do--I have a superstitious fear that it will end up meaning I don't finish the piece--and seeing that for some people (well: you, at least) it actually works out makes me think that sometimes maybe it would be worth a try.

And I agree with the "provided you use it as an aspiration rather than a cudgel" proviso on the writing advice. I am horrible at doing anything in a without-fail way, and yet, obviously, the more you write, the better.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Where would writers be without superstitious fears? Actually, I think your fear is not entirely without justification, because for a while I didn't finish things: I would end up with a conglomeration of scenes that didn't quite fit together, and for which I didn't have an ending, and then I'd just drop the whole thing in despair.

I've found it helps a lot if I know what the ending will be. It helps keeps me from going off too far on tangents.