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cruiscin_lan) wrote2009-12-22 04:03 pm
cruiscin_lan) wrote2009-12-22 04:03 pm
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Hey writers. Let me poll your brains.
Man. I've got writer's block like whoa right now. I can't write anything smutty, and I can't write anything even remotely humorous that doesn't turn to crack instantly. The only thing I can write right now is angst, and that is not working out with my ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
heroes_exchange prompt.
So you know what I'm going to do instead of write? I'm going to do a poll. I love polls.
For anyone who has ever written before, this one's for you. We'll be playing it fast and loose with definitions, so don't stress it too much. I'm just wondering what you write, why, and how. Ticky box poll so you can check as many boxes as you need!
[Poll #1502315]
What
I think, for me, most of these poll questions would depend on the fandom I'm writing for. I haven't written much for Veronica Mars, but what I have written leans towards angst/romance. Glee lends itself more to cracky or funny fics. I've written so much for Heroes that it probably relies more on the characters or pairings (i.e. Mohinder/Elle tends to be fluffy and silly, whereas Sylar/Claire is really dark and angsty).
Why
As far as why I write what I write is concerned, lately much of my output has been generated by prompts. I would even say that I prefer working with prompts for one primary reason: I like to know that someone's going to read what I've come up with. Normally the length or genre is dictated by the prompt or challenge, so that's taken care of for me. When I choose prompts, it's often determined more by what seems feasible than anything else. I tend to stick close to canon when I can.
How
My writing process right now is kind of ridiculous. For some reason when I write a scene I always start by writing the dialogue first, and then I go back and fill in all the action and description. While it's really useful to do this a lot of the time, it's not the best way way to go about writing scenes that don't require a lot of dialogue, like a really smutty scene, or a scene driven only by one character. I very rarely do any outlining, unless it's a really, really long fic or I'm trying to make sure it fits a specific prompt; otherwise my stories develop pretty much organically. I don't write from beginning to end, though - I normally start with one or two scenes and then fill in scenes around them as I feel necessary.
Okay, flist. Tell me about how you do things.
heroes_exchange prompt.So you know what I'm going to do instead of write? I'm going to do a poll. I love polls.
For anyone who has ever written before, this one's for you. We'll be playing it fast and loose with definitions, so don't stress it too much. I'm just wondering what you write, why, and how. Ticky box poll so you can check as many boxes as you need!
[Poll #1502315]
What
I think, for me, most of these poll questions would depend on the fandom I'm writing for. I haven't written much for Veronica Mars, but what I have written leans towards angst/romance. Glee lends itself more to cracky or funny fics. I've written so much for Heroes that it probably relies more on the characters or pairings (i.e. Mohinder/Elle tends to be fluffy and silly, whereas Sylar/Claire is really dark and angsty).
Why
As far as why I write what I write is concerned, lately much of my output has been generated by prompts. I would even say that I prefer working with prompts for one primary reason: I like to know that someone's going to read what I've come up with. Normally the length or genre is dictated by the prompt or challenge, so that's taken care of for me. When I choose prompts, it's often determined more by what seems feasible than anything else. I tend to stick close to canon when I can.
How
My writing process right now is kind of ridiculous. For some reason when I write a scene I always start by writing the dialogue first, and then I go back and fill in all the action and description. While it's really useful to do this a lot of the time, it's not the best way way to go about writing scenes that don't require a lot of dialogue, like a really smutty scene, or a scene driven only by one character. I very rarely do any outlining, unless it's a really, really long fic or I'm trying to make sure it fits a specific prompt; otherwise my stories develop pretty much organically. I don't write from beginning to end, though - I normally start with one or two scenes and then fill in scenes around them as I feel necessary.
Okay, flist. Tell me about how you do things.
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So where can I find this? :P
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...Okay, now it is. Stuff in blue by me, stuff in black by
15 - Quintology (script, 3,188)
http://www.whoaisnotme.net/others/fics/qtl1.doc
Keanuspawn: Griffin, Traven, Keanu, Constantine, Neo, Ted, Conor, Klaatu, Kevin
Quintoplets: Sylar, Spock, Zachary Quinto
Honorary Appearances: Peter, Luke Skywalker, Future!Peter, Agent Smith, Heroes Writers, Tim Kring, The Oracle, Milo Ventimiglia, Trinity, ZQ Fangirls, Jack the Dog, Greg Grunberg, Half of Heroes Crew, Other Half of Heroes Crew, Awkward Silence
Summary: Spock gives Sylar a totally uncalled for nerve-pinch. Sylar is pissed off and decides to kill him - and anyone else in the way - as revenge, when he figures that it would be a better idea to impersonate Zachary Quinto and wreck havoc on the Heroes set.
17 - Quintology 2 (script, 370)
http://www.whoaisnotme.net/others/fics/qtl2.doc
Keanuspawn: Keanu, Neo
Quintoplets: Sylar, Spock, ZQ
Honorary Appearances: Greg Grunberg, Twitter Followers, Sylar Fangirls, Peter, Milo, Heroes writers
Summary: In which Sylar is finally temporarily defeated by fangirls from Twitter
30 - In Which Milo Ventimiglia Ends Up on the Neb (script, 1,686)
http://www.whoaisnotme.net/others/fics/qtl3.doc
Heroes Actors and Characters: Milo, Peter
Keanuspawn: Neo
Other Important Characters in this Fic: A Bartender, Carrie-Anne-Moss, the Matrix trilogy, Trinity, Morpheus, Popcorn, Awkwardness
Summary: While getting drunk in a bar with a less-drunk Peter, Milo encounters Carrie-Anne Moss and freaks out. She decides that the only way to get rid of him is to let him meet Neo and Trinity.
31 - Quintology 4 (script, 4,109)
http://www.whoaisnotme.net/others/fics/qtl4.doc
Heroes Actors and Characters: ZQ, Milo, Peter, Sylar, Matt Parkman
Honorary Appearances: The Matrix and its awesomeness, Awkward Silence, Police, Guards #1-3
Summary: Zach offers to rescue Peter from drunk!Milo and bring him home, only to encounter Sylar, who locks him unconscious in a bathroom until police cart him away to a maximum security jail.
34 - Quintology 5 (script, 10,349)
http://www.whoaisnotme.net/others/fics/qtl5.doc
Quintoplets: ZQ, Sylar, Spock, Smudge (<3)
Other Heroes Actors and Characters: Milo, Peter, HRG, Claire, Matt, Mohinder Suresh, Molly Walker, Hiro Nakamura, Sandra Bennet, Mr. Muggles
Honorary Appearances: Awkward Silence, James T. Kirk, Aliens, Kirk's Chair, Random Redshirts, A Snowglobe, Noah Quinto, Bill, Ted, A Waitress, Waffles, FBI Agents #1-3, Special Agent Utah, Trinity, Crowd Members #1-5, Chris Pine
Summary: Pure epicness that no summary can do justice to.
36 - Quintology 6: The One with the Dogs (4997)
http://www.whoaisnotme.net/others/fics/qtl6.doc
Quintoplets: ZQ, Sylar, Smudge
Other Heroes Actors and Characters: Peter, Claire, Mr. Muggles
Keanuspawn: Alex, Keanu, Neo, Constantine, Marlon, Eddie K., Klaatu, Ted, Perry, Conor
Honorary Appearances: Jack the Dog, Trinity, Noah Quinto, Random Hobo, Natalie, Morpheus, A Crowd, Awkwardness, Silence, Their Offspring
Summary: When Jack the dog escapes, Alex and Keanu trace him to Zach's house where they find a bunch of dogs obliviously engaged in a threesome as other chaos occurs around them. Peter and Sylar yell at each other. Peter leaves, Sylar is depressed, and Zach ignores his better judgement and makes him waffles.
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We didn't expect it to deviate into Heroesfic and were kind of trying to get back to the story we were originally writing, but that kind of failed...
The later ones are mostly Heroes-centred, though, especially the fourth one. And you've seen ZQ's cameo in Off Centre, right? the one with the bisexual guinea pig?
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BRB GOOGLING FURIOUSLY
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Smudge. <3