[Meme] mini-ficlet meme, & fic-specific questions meme

[edenfalling]

A couple memes from Tumblr, because why not. (Well, and because I want a place to archive an answer to the second meme, and as awkward as DW is for archiving, Tumblr is ten million times worse.)

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Mini-ficlet meme

Leave the first sentence of a fic in a comment and I will write the next five.

(May not be exactly five.)

Things To Do Post-Sburb When You're Bored: Rose said later that "I was really fucking bored" was insufficient explanation or indeed justification for the First Triennial Human/Troll Flashstepping Competition. (Homestuck, 575 words, for madamehardy)

Tomorrow's Memory: Because she had stopped counting the passing of daymonths after reaching one thousand, Aeriel could scarcely believe the change wrought in Avaric. (The Darkangel, 425 words, for rosaxx50)

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Fic-specific questions meme

Drop the title of one of my fics and a number in a comment, and I will tell you:

1. What was my inspiration for this fic? How did it come to me?
2. What's my favorite part of the fic?
3. What's the part of the fic I'm most proud of?
4. What part of the fic was the hardest for me to write?
5. What part of the fic am I still dissatisfied with?
6. Who's my favorite character in the fic?
7. Were there any major decisions I made about the fic that could have made it go a whole different direction?
8. Was there anything I only learned about the fic after I had finished it? (themes, motifs, symbolism, etc)
9. Did anyone in the fic surprise me by doing anything? If so, what?
10. If I had to sum up this fic in a sentence, what would it be?
11. If I were to rewrite this fic, what would I change?
12. Did any thing about this fic's reception surprise me?
13. What were my beta's major comments about the first draft of this fic?
14. If I were to write a sequel to this fic, what would it be about?
15. Any other question about the fic!

Comments

[edenfalling]

(Note: this comment is an archived version of a Tumblr post from Sunday, April 19, 2015.)

Asuka asked: trollstuck! 1. What was my inspiration for this fic? How did it come to me?, 5. What part of the fic am I still dissatisfied with?

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Trollstuck: Make Her Pay

1. What was my inspiration for this fic? How did it come to me?

In late March 2012 (so, not quite two months after I fell into Homestuck fandom, for which I totally blame you, Asuka *grin*), I ran a little prompt!fic meme on my journal and explodingfrogs prompted me to write, and I quote, "an AU in which the human kids grew up as trolls alongside the canon troll kids on Alternia." I asked if this meant all eight kids or just the beta kids, they said whatever, and I said okay, the alpha kids can be the beta kids' Ancestors.

Then I turned the idea around in my head for a couple weeks while I fought a different prompt!fic, decided the best place to jump in was the aftermath of the Team Charge debacle (but before Vriska kills Aradia), set the beta kids' blood colors and a few group relationships, and started writing. Typing quirks, backstory, and so on developed as needed while I wrote.

I do not remember when or why I decided to try writing an audience participation story. My knee-jerk impulse just now was to say it might have been a 'take that!' response to the ff.net crusaders' screeds about 2nd person being inherently interactive, but I went to check the respective dates and that mess didn't happen until October 2012, so. *shrug* What I said at the time was, and I quote, "I have decided, partly because outside pressure is a useful source of motivation in some specific cases, and partly because while I know more or less where I want this story to end, I have no attachment to any specific method of reaching that ending (so long as I hit a few particular scenes en route), that I am going to write explodingfrogs's prompt fic as a sort of collaborative audience participation thing."

As for why the story is occasionally illustrated, that just sort of happened. I didn't want to have to do art! But sometimes a plot bunny is really insistent, and I figured what the heck, experimentation is good for the soul.

5. What part of the fic am I still dissatisfied with?

A) It's still unfinished. *headdesk*

B) I don't think I got Karkat's or Terezi's verbal tics down as well as I should have, and in the first chapter Jade is a little too fanon-y rather than canon. Ah well, so it goes.

C) I do wish I were better at drawing faces and bodies.