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pitry ([personal profile] pitry) wrote2013-03-17 02:42 pm

Stolen writing meme

from [livejournal.com profile] lost_spook, or as she is known in these parts, She Who Gets Meme Stolen From.
Because why not? It's more enjoyable than syntax!


Give me a number and I'll answer the question (or try to anyway):

1. Which is your favorite of the fics you’ve written for [name of fandom]?
2. Favorite piece overall?
3. Which was the hardest to write, in terms of plot?
4. Which has the most “you” in it, however you’d define that?
5. What is an image/set of images that you’re particularly proud of?
6. Idea that you always wanted to write but could never make work?
7. Least favorite plot point/chapter/moment?
8. Favorite plot point/chapter/moment?
9. Favorite character to write?
10. Favorite line or lines of dialogue that you’ve written
11. If I’m showing off just one of your pieces to someone, which one should it be?
12. What WIPs do you have going now? Are you excited about them?
13. Are there any things that might have happened in any of your stories, but you changed them at the last minute? (So-and-so dies, they don’t actually kiss, main character has long extended ballet-based dream sequence, etc.)
14. Would you want to write canon for any of your fandoms (like be hired by showrunner to do an episode)? Which one?
15. Does font matter to you when you’re writing a draft?
16. 3 favorite comments ever received on fanfic.
17. Any mean comments? How’d you deal with it? Who laid the smackdown?
18. If you could go back and revise one of your older stories, which would it be?
19. Do you make up scenes at work/on the bus/at the gym? Who are the characters that pop up the most? Do you write them down?
20. Go nuts, and talk about writing. Or write me a little ficlet-whatsit using a character/image/line I shall now specify—

Re: stolen meme --> stolen request

[identity profile] pitry.livejournal.com 2013-03-19 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
Lol.

Mean comments... Did I get mean comments? I mean, it's hard to tell, where does the line go between mean and simply negative? I definitely have my share of negative comments, after all, I post everything on FFN as well as AO3. And some of them... I don't know whether to call them mean, but frustrating? Like someone completely ripping off to how could I not explain my AU and it makes no sense... 3 hours after I posted the chapter that's actually explaining it, so that was like 'yeah, if you would have read past chapter 1...'

OH I KNOW! The people on FFN who don't understand that the characters listed ≠ ship and blamed me of ship baiting when I wrote a story whose main characters were Harry and Hermione (but Hermione was with Ron, because, hello, CANON). I had a bunch of those and I wanted to scream.

There usually isn't a smackdown because most people who post negative comments on FFN do it anonymously and I don't think I got a negative, let along a mean comment in a different website. So I just shrug and move on... and TBH usually even if they can be replied to I still don't bother. Nothing good can come out of it.

(I was actually afraid of posting Superheroes Anonymous to FFN because I was afraid of offending DC/Marvel fans. In the end I only uploaded it as Doctor Who and got no negative comments, so... huzzah!)