Writing Meme

[amberfocus]

Stolen from lostwolfchats

Ask me a question about any of my fics: http://www.whofic.com/viewuser.php?uid=4243
and I promise to answer you truthfully.

Comments

This is fun :)

[stargirl577.livejournal.com]

Does "You're What?" have a happy ending for both the Doctor and Rose?

I really enjoying the story either way.

Re: This is fun :)

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does. *laughs* I'm too much of a romantic to not give them a reasonably happy ending.

[lostwolfchats.livejournal.com]

Which is your personal favourite of your stories and why?

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Wolf Moon, because I just adore the interactions between Rose, alt!Nine, and alt!TARDIS. Because it has so many ups and downs, so much sexual tension, so much will they/won't they and when, and the most character development of any story I've ever written.

A Place in Time is a very close second.

[salimali.livejournal.com]

Q1- Just where do you get all your ideas from?
Q2- how do you keep on top of all your diff fics?
Q3- Ten girl here! Are you going to write any Ten fic soon?
Q4- How on earth do you find the time to write?- I too have a child, work full time and by the time I've read all the fab fics out there, I've NO time to write any!!
Keep up the fab work x

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

1. I dream a lot of them, I brainstorm with my DH when I get blocked, and some just come fully formed from out of the ether. Sometimes I won't know where I'm going until I sit down and start writing and then it just takes off and flows out of my fingertips.

2. I have a nearly perfect photographic memory with about a 90% retention rate. I also tend to outline most of my stories so I know where I'm going with almost all of them. I don't alway keep on top of them, though. Sometimes I'll let one or two go for quite some time because I get blocked on them or the muse is busy elsewhere.

3. When I'm done with Hunger Moon I'm going to write the next Time Eternal story before I write Chaste Moon. And Guilt will have Ten. And hopefully I'll get unblocked on my in progress Ten story soon, too. It's being difficult.

4. Well, I don't work full-time, just ten hours/week. My kids are both in school full time and even when they're not they aren't clingy, they'll be out and about playing. I don't really watch television much, certainly never live (commercials waste time), and that frees up a lot of time, too. Honestly, I only spend about two or three hours a day writing most days. It tends to come out fast and easily.

[azriona.livejournal.com]

I want to ask which of your fics is your favorite, but that's sort of like asking you to pick which child is your favorite, so I won't. Instead:

Which fic/storyline/chapter are you most proud of having written?

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Wolf Moon is the story I'm most proud of writing. I lived and breathed it. Over 118,000 words in 2 months and one week and I didn't drop the plot, characterization, or the through-line once. Not easy, I might add. *grins*

[wiggiemomsi.livejournal.com]

I'm popping in to just ask (1)if you have updated or changed your list of "Moon" stories? I'm looking forward to "Thunder Moon," which is like 3 stories away. You had written about the several choices of names for this story that:

"... I decided Thunder Moon is probably the best of the bunch because we will see the Oncoming Storm and there’s no saying I can’t use a different one in the future if I so choose. Very sketchy ideas still other than it will be task 3 for the Quest and there will be some serious jealousy and possessiveness and anger in this story when another man (a powerful alien) tries to make the Doctor surrender Rose to be his mate. Rose will take none too kindly to the alien’s machinations. I am toying with the idea of Rose being forced to kill him to save herself at the end of the story and the repercussions of that playing out in the next story."

Really-really-really looking forward to this one; the plot sounds great!

And if I may be so bold as to ask a second question, (2)are you going to post the next "Hunger Moon" chapter any time soon??? (I ADORE this Doctor/Rose and alt!univ that you've created!)

*Hugs*

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Well, I am thinking about maybe changing the order, but I have no firm plans to do so just yet. It really depends on which plot bunnies hit.

I'm planning on writing the next HM chapter today and tomorrow, possibly also Tuesday. I've got some little twists coming up and I want to place them properly.

[bluevolvic.livejournal.com]

How do you manage to write so quickly and not get distracted to come up with such wonderful fics? :D

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

I think fast and I can type 70 words per minute. I can write out a 1400-1900 word chapter in an hour and a half, usually, a 3000 word one in three hours. I do get distracted, though. That's why sometimes I'll go a couple of days without posting anything new. Or I'll spend a lot of time just thinking stuff out in my head and then just sit down and it flows.

I think some of it is also that my dad and I used to play word games and pun games at the dinner table when I was growing up and you had to be very fast to keep up with his wit. I got used to thinking on my feet and coming up with clever things, and that translates into dialog and keeping the words flowing.

[wiggiemomsi.livejournal.com]

OK ... I want to be just like you when I grow up!

*Admiring Hugs*