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osprey_archerMore meme answers! littlerhymes asked:
9. If you could wish for a new book from any author, who would it be?
I actually don’t read Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone mysteries, but even so, I would wish for her to finish up the Z book because it’s just so cosmically frustrating to me that she got all the way to Y and then died ONE BOOK before finishing her twenty-six book series. SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR. Every time Y is for Yesterday comes through the check-in at the library, I die a little inside.
16. What’s more frustrating: plotholes or OOC characters?
The answer for this one varies depending on whether I’m reading fanfic or original works. For fanfic, I tend to find OOC characters more frustrating, partly because it’s easier to say “So-and-so was OOC” when there’s an established character from which this particular version varies, but also because I don’t read very many long fics so there’s not much chance for plotholes.
In original fic, it’s harder to pick - how do you decide that a character is OOC when this version of the character is the canonical character? I didn’t enjoy CAPSLOCK!Harry in Order of the Phoenix, for instance, but just because I didn’t like the direction in which JKR developed the character, that doesn’t mean it’s OOC.
Probably the worst thing is something like the later Obernewtyn books, where the plot falls apart - the term plot holes doesn’t really cover it; it suggests that there’s an entire plot that has a hole in it, when in fact the plot is just holes on holes - and many of the secondary characters lose all their individuality. I was so invested! And it never paid off even a little! And you can’t just backbutton out of the fic and go off to find a better version, because this is the definitive version, and it’s so bad that no one is going to remain invested enough to write fix-it fic!
18. Are you a ‘neatly designed outline’ writer or a ‘fuck it i’ll figure it out as i go’ writer?
Hahaha so I’m sure my life would be easier if I had outlines, but no, I’m definitely more of a “let’s throw it at the wall and see what sticks!” kind of writer. The one exception to this general rule is that I always try to have an ending in mind before I start writing or at least early in the process (even if that ending is as simple as “Now kiss!”), because otherwise I’m apt to get about 30,000 words in and get completely stuck because I have no idea where the story should go next, on account of I have no idea where it’s going.
littlerhymes asked:9. If you could wish for a new book from any author, who would it be?
I actually don’t read Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone mysteries, but even so, I would wish for her to finish up the Z book because it’s just so cosmically frustrating to me that she got all the way to Y and then died ONE BOOK before finishing her twenty-six book series. SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR. Every time Y is for Yesterday comes through the check-in at the library, I die a little inside.
16. What’s more frustrating: plotholes or OOC characters?
The answer for this one varies depending on whether I’m reading fanfic or original works. For fanfic, I tend to find OOC characters more frustrating, partly because it’s easier to say “So-and-so was OOC” when there’s an established character from which this particular version varies, but also because I don’t read very many long fics so there’s not much chance for plotholes.
In original fic, it’s harder to pick - how do you decide that a character is OOC when this version of the character is the canonical character? I didn’t enjoy CAPSLOCK!Harry in Order of the Phoenix, for instance, but just because I didn’t like the direction in which JKR developed the character, that doesn’t mean it’s OOC.
Probably the worst thing is something like the later Obernewtyn books, where the plot falls apart - the term plot holes doesn’t really cover it; it suggests that there’s an entire plot that has a hole in it, when in fact the plot is just holes on holes - and many of the secondary characters lose all their individuality. I was so invested! And it never paid off even a little! And you can’t just backbutton out of the fic and go off to find a better version, because this is the definitive version, and it’s so bad that no one is going to remain invested enough to write fix-it fic!
18. Are you a ‘neatly designed outline’ writer or a ‘fuck it i’ll figure it out as i go’ writer?
Hahaha so I’m sure my life would be easier if I had outlines, but no, I’m definitely more of a “let’s throw it at the wall and see what sticks!” kind of writer. The one exception to this general rule is that I always try to have an ending in mind before I start writing or at least early in the process (even if that ending is as simple as “Now kiss!”), because otherwise I’m apt to get about 30,000 words in and get completely stuck because I have no idea where the story should go next, on account of I have no idea where it’s going.
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Date: 2019-08-27 11:12 am (UTC)when in fact the plot is just holes on holes
Oh the eternal sadness of Obernewtyn...
I usually feel like your work is all of a piece, as in they seem to hold together very well, so it's interesting to me that you get there in a exploratory way!
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Date: 2019-08-27 01:07 pm (UTC)I'm glad my work holds together well in the end! The secret is ruthless pruning once the exploratory part is done.