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edenfalling19 – When you have bunnies, do you start writing right away, or do you jot down the idea for later use?
If a plotbunny seems very short and is very insistent, I will write it immediately. Otherwise I try ignoring them for a few days, on the theory that any story worth paying attention to will stick around and anything that I forget was probably worthless anyway. Then I generally try to make a few notes in a background file and maybe write a few hundred words of rough draft, after which I return to ignoring the bunny, again on the theory that the strong ideas will survive.
Sometimes they won't go lurk quietly in the background, though, and I have to write them whether I wanted to or not.
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20 – Do you ever get bunnied from other people's stories or art in the same fandom?
Sometimes, sure, but not usually in the sense of a direct response or a story to go with a picture. It's more that a story may make me start thinking about a particular character or plot element. After a while that combines with something else and hey presto, I have an idea.
For example, I started writing fanfiction because I had read a lot of Harry/Ginny stories that I thought were varying degrees of awful -- they were flat-out badly written, and/or they glorified teenage pregnancy, and/or they depended on mystical soulbonds instead of character development to get the two together, and/or they had a mystifying obsession with boxers, socks, and tartan, and/or they were hideously melodramatic, etc. After a while I said to myself, "What might a tentative beginning relationship between these two teenagers actually be like?" and wrote how I thought that pairing should go.
So yes, it was a response to what I'd read, but it was not a direct response to any particular story.
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21 – Sequels: have you ever written a sequel to a fic you wrote? If so, why? If not, how do you feel about sequels?
Yes, I have. The biggest and most obvious is The Guardian in Spite of Herself, which is the WIP sequel to The Way of the Apartment Manager, but I have written sequels (and also companion fics) to various other stories as well, such as Undertow, which is a sequel to Tides, and First You Have To Get There, which is a sequel to Five Years Is an Awful Lot of Later.
I feel that writing a sequel just to write a sequel is dumb. A sequel should be its own story with its own reason for existing. That said, it is nice to have a built-in audience, presuming people liked the first story and want to see more of those particular characters in that particular setting. It is also nice to have a lot of the character introductions and world-building already done in the first story, so the second can get into elaboration instead of basic set-up. And, of course, it's always fun to spend more time with characters I like.
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You know something? I went looking for the cut scene from my NFE fic and I cannot find it anywhere. Normally I save things like that in a separate file, generally labeled "alternate scenes" or somesuch, in case I want to use bits of them later on, but this time I seem to have accidentally deleted it wholesale. Very frustrating!
If a plotbunny seems very short and is very insistent, I will write it immediately. Otherwise I try ignoring them for a few days, on the theory that any story worth paying attention to will stick around and anything that I forget was probably worthless anyway. Then I generally try to make a few notes in a background file and maybe write a few hundred words of rough draft, after which I return to ignoring the bunny, again on the theory that the strong ideas will survive.
Sometimes they won't go lurk quietly in the background, though, and I have to write them whether I wanted to or not.
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20 – Do you ever get bunnied from other people's stories or art in the same fandom?
Sometimes, sure, but not usually in the sense of a direct response or a story to go with a picture. It's more that a story may make me start thinking about a particular character or plot element. After a while that combines with something else and hey presto, I have an idea.
For example, I started writing fanfiction because I had read a lot of Harry/Ginny stories that I thought were varying degrees of awful -- they were flat-out badly written, and/or they glorified teenage pregnancy, and/or they depended on mystical soulbonds instead of character development to get the two together, and/or they had a mystifying obsession with boxers, socks, and tartan, and/or they were hideously melodramatic, etc. After a while I said to myself, "What might a tentative beginning relationship between these two teenagers actually be like?" and wrote how I thought that pairing should go.
So yes, it was a response to what I'd read, but it was not a direct response to any particular story.
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21 – Sequels: have you ever written a sequel to a fic you wrote? If so, why? If not, how do you feel about sequels?
Yes, I have. The biggest and most obvious is The Guardian in Spite of Herself, which is the WIP sequel to The Way of the Apartment Manager, but I have written sequels (and also companion fics) to various other stories as well, such as Undertow, which is a sequel to Tides, and First You Have To Get There, which is a sequel to Five Years Is an Awful Lot of Later.
I feel that writing a sequel just to write a sequel is dumb. A sequel should be its own story with its own reason for existing. That said, it is nice to have a built-in audience, presuming people liked the first story and want to see more of those particular characters in that particular setting. It is also nice to have a lot of the character introductions and world-building already done in the first story, so the second can get into elaboration instead of basic set-up. And, of course, it's always fun to spend more time with characters I like.
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You know something? I went looking for the cut scene from my NFE fic and I cannot find it anywhere. Normally I save things like that in a separate file, generally labeled "alternate scenes" or somesuch, in case I want to use bits of them later on, but this time I seem to have accidentally deleted it wholesale. Very frustrating!
