Writing Meme

[misanagi]

From darthanne and lil_1337

Ask me anything about my stories and/or writing process: inspiration, process, characters, what the hell was I thinking, etc. No limit on questions, just ask away.

In other news, application all done handed in. Now nothing to do but wait.

Comments

[sharona1x2.livejournal.com]

Which is easier for you to write: romance or lemon?

[razberrycreme.livejournal.com]

GOOD LUCK ON YOUR APPLICATION!!! YOU CAN DO IT YOU CAN DO IT ♥!!!

what the hell were you thinking when you wrote cow/tree, coming up with that idea all by yourself, with no outside help whatsoever?

Hmm, what to ask, what to ask ^____^

[misanagi.livejournal.com]

Oh tricky question...

For me, romance requires more thought. Lemon flows easier, it's more a question of making things heat up and visualizing what's happening. Romance, well I keep worrying about crossing the line into cheesy stuff. I usually put a lote more care to romance stories than to lemons. They have to be balance just so for the relationship, the feelings, to seem real and not fake.

I struggle a lot with the crossing between friendship and romance. Not whith the moment the feelings come to light and the characters act on it but with the process when the character's feelings change or evolve. I find it challenging to make that process seem believeable.

I like writing romance a lot, but as I said, it requires a lot more care. I couldn't write romance drabbles as hurried as I do smut for pervy_potluck for example.

[merith.livejournal.com]

what do you find is the single most inspiring element when you write? (music, environment, friend(s)...)

[misanagi.livejournal.com]

Well the applications thing is out of my hands now...

*points to you* You are the cow/tree obsessed and the instigator and the one who made me write it. It's all your fault. Yours. Yours and no one else's *firm nod*

[razberrycreme.livejournal.com]

I know you'll do great!!!!

NO idea what you're talking about mis. o.o *gives you some crazy pills* I mean..*non crazy pills* ^____^

[misanagi.livejournal.com]

*thinks about this* Man this is complicated... Friends, I think. If I know there's someone who wants or is excited about the story it makes me write faster. Friends are a great encouragement. Now if we are talking about the ideas and how they are born, well the shower... many many bunnies bite in the shower, and then friends feeds them ^_^

[darthanne.livejournal.com]

What do you find easier to write, drabbles or the long multichaptered fics? Do you have a preference between the two?

[merith.livejournal.com]

the shower! oh yes... when i've got a nibbling of an idea and it's not quite there, i'll shower or lay down... and the idea just germates (normally).

yes! *lurvs mis bunnies*

[misanagi.livejournal.com]

Drabbles are easier. The flow faster and usually I don't think a lot about them before I write them, I just start typing. I like them because I can go straight to the point, and image or a thought I want to write about and let that be that. I don't have a preference between the two. They are just different. Multi chapters require a lot more work, but you can also include that many more things in it. I like writing scenes as much as I like complicated stories filled with plot so I like both types of stories ^-^

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

What language do you prefer for writing fiction and how is it different to write in each one?

[vr2lbast.livejournal.com]

Do you think of your fics as pictures that you translate into words or as words that you have to string together to make a complete picture?

[misanagi.livejournal.com]

Oh this is difficult... at first I liked Spanish better, but then after writing for so long in English I've grown fond of the language too. I still like Spanish better but the difference is so so small now.

The structure, for starters, is different. The languages are very different so the way you build a sentence varies a lot. The little quircks too. The thing is, I can't see me writing fics in Spanish. When I first saw the series it was in English, and the names and everything about the characters, in my head, is in that language, and it feels very awkward just to try writing them in Spanish.

A lot of things are moods. There are moods that translate better in one of the two languages and not as well in the other. It never fails that if I'm writing in English I have a word or saying that fits in Spanish and can't quite translate, and the same for the other way around.

[misanagi.livejournal.com]

Both, in a way. They are like pictures with a narrative into the inside of the characters' heads. I have to translate the visuals of the place thei are in into words, the movements they make, their clothing... but their thoughts, emotions, and even the stuff the characters' notice about the room flow as words, so it's a mix between them both.

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

That was really interesting to read. *hugs* Thanks for answering it even though the question was tough.