Writing Meme, day 10

[estirose]

Details? What details?

11) How much detail do you usually leave out of a story?
Waaay too much. That’s my weakness; I’m terrible with detail. I don’t have to be, but my natural inclination is to not describe things, which is bad of me. I only seem to remember to write detail when I’m writing anonymous fic (or anonymous-for-a-time fic).

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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.