Ask Away...You Know, If Anyone is Still on LJ

[amberfocus]

I haven't done one of these in ages. Since I'm stuck in bed except when it comes to feeding and watering children and livestock, I figured I'd hang out around LJ this week and try to write something. Anything. Stolen from earlgreytea68

Put a number in the comments and I’ll answer accordingly.

The mission for those of us who answer the questions, should we accept it, is to stay positive about our writing and ourselves, but to also be fair about our shortcomings.

1. Of the fic you’ve written, of which are you most proud?
2. Favorite tense
3. Favorite POV
4. What are some themes you love writing about?
5. What inspires you to write?
6. Thoughts on critique
7. Create a character on the spot... NOW!
8. Is there a character you love writing for the most? The least? Why?
9. A passage from a WIP
10. What are your strengths in writing?
11. What are your weaknesses in writing?
12. Anything else that you want to know... (otherwise known as Fill in the Blank)

Comments

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'll ask you!
Please ask me back as well! :)

Here are the four questions I like best, in order (in case you don't get a lot of responses):

4. What are some themes you love writing about?
11. What are your weaknesses in writing?
1. Of the fic you’ve written, of which are you most proud?
8. Is there a character you love writing for the most? The least? Why?

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

I'm finally getting this done. I answered 3 of them. I'm saving question 1 for another person who asked.

http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/589878.html

[jer832.livejournal.com]

Continuing from fannishliss's questions, with #12

(Based on 2 & 3 if you squint) Have you found that one specific tense fits a specific pov or theme best or better than others in your short stories? (e.g., Rose ->UST->present tense)

Are there stories that, looking back on now, you would have done quite differently?

This is my multi-part "Wolf Moon" question. Rose tells the Doctor she wonders how real their love and attraction are, and he tells her that he'd have been attracted and fallen for her regardless but probably she'd have had to make the move. Were you ever concerned about their free will? How did you come up with the premise -which is absolutely brilliant and in a strange Occam's razor kind of way incredibly simple and straightforward. Did it come to you full-blown, or did you work it out? Do you plan to finish the series?

Do you still intend to write the "Moments in Darkness" branch with Nine not regenerating?

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

I've answered the first part based on the meme.

http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/590135.html

I'll need to do some more thinking on the Wolf Moon questions and go back and check my notes from when I was writing it.

As for the Ninth Doctor branch of Moments in Darkness series, it is doubtful it will ever see the light of day. I'm not sure I will even finish the Tenth Doctor one.

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

7.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Done. And now I want to write it.

http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/590498.html

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

Do it!!

[hungrytiger11.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm curious about 3.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

I kind of answered this one in my response to Jer here:

http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/590135.html

But a more direct answer, if you're meaning whose viewpoint do I like to write the best, it is a toss up between Rose and Nine. Otherwise it's second person point of view so I can be an omniscient narrator.

[corusca.livejournal.com]

I feel like LJ is completely abandoned and it makes me sad :( or maybe Whofandom is just dead? maybe that...which is even sadder. :( :(

Anyway.

6 is one I'd like answered.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Done.

http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/590819.html

And yes, I agree, it is sad what has happened to LJ, but LJ shot itself in the foot with unwanted interface changes. I don't think Who fandom is dead. A lot of it moved to Tumblr. But I think a lot of people have given up because of Moffat. And not having new canon, after a while, makes many people drift away. Teaspoon is still plenty active, though.

[empressnan]

How about #9?

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

And here you go.

http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/590995.html

[develish1]

hmmm, #1 and #5 please, if you have time to do both :)

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/591466.html

[azriona.livejournal.com]

I think everyone asked everything. (That's the problem with a short list, I suppose.) Hmm. Okay.

12. What's the story you WANT to write, but haven't yet, for whatever reason? (Or if you'd rather not tell us the story itself, what's the reason you haven't written it?)

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Done.

http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/591714.html