Writing Meme, day 8

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In which I answer the question “What Support Do You Have For Your Writing” and ponder telling the people across the street that their car’s bass is too damn loud.

What kind of support, if any, do you get for your writing?

Friend-wise, most of my friends are fandom, with a few exceptions (one of my coworker-friends knows I like Power Rangers but not that I write fanfic). So, they’re pretty supportive, though I’m sure they wish I wouldn’t kind of go into this obsessive state and write very odd AUs. Family-wise, my mom knows I write fanfic, one of my aunts has some of my fanfic bookmarked (I’m not sure she knows what fanfic is, though), and two of my cousins read chapter 1 of “Discovering the Sun”. Neither of them has read more due to the fact that one of them’s six and the other one I’m not sure if they’d take to slashfic. Most of them, I think, wouldn’t mind at all if I managed to become a professionally published author (I do write non-fandom stuff). Work-wise, nobody knows about the fanfic end, but my boss was very proud that I passed the first cut on the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards a year or so ago on one of my non-fandom works. (He later read it and found out perhaps why it didn’t make the second cut….)

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9) Do you share your writing publicly or keep it private? Have you or would you like to be published?
10) What’s your biggest source of writer’s envy?
11) How much detail do you usually leave out of a story?
12) Where do you turn when your research is coming up with nothing of value to the story?
13) Optimally, how many times does your work go through the revising process?
14) Do you make literary or cultural references in your work? If so, what sources do you usually draw on? How do you decide whether to make (or keep, when editing) a particular reference?
15) What repeated themes do you see running through your work?
16) How do you support your themes? How do you make sure your language reflects them, and how do you decide whether something belongs in the plot or the theme category?
17) What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever gotten?
18) What genres have you written in?
19) Do you write long stories, short stories, or both? What’s challenging about writing a particular story length?
20) Is your writing generally plot- or character-driven? Why?
21) Do you ever participate in writing challenges? Which ones?
22) Out of all the characters you’ve ever written, which one is your favorite? Which one has surprised you the most?
23) Do you use unreliable narrators? Why or why not?
24) What do you like most about writing? What do you dislike?
25) Give some examples of how various story ideas have come to you. What forms did they come in?
26) What stories haven’t you written that you would like to write?
27) Do you have any works in progress?
28) Do you visualize scenes when/before you write them? Or do you go by how the words sound in your head? Both? Something else entirely?
29) What do you do when the words just aren’t coming?
30) Do you like to tell stories orally as well as writing them down?
31) What’s your policy on remixes, podfic, and other transformative work?

Crossposted from Ramblings Yet Once More here.