the deep moans round with many voices

( 25 - Music: do you listen to music while you write? Do you make playlists to get into a certain mood to write your fic? Do you need noise in general, or do you need it completely quiet? )

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( 26 - What is the oddest (or most entertaining) thing you've had to research for a fic? )

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( 27 - Where is your favorite place to write, and do you write by hand or on the computer? )

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Today I was moderately productive: I paid my rent and credit card bills, organized and filed a bunch of financial papers, and opened and dealt with the sheaf of junk mail and charitable pitches that had been collecting all month. It's always a good feeling to look at the cleared area on my coffee table and the cascade of paper in my recycling and know I don't need to deal with that until next month. :-)

At work, I inventoried the maps and decided we needed to order new copies of the Mapless Map (which is exactly what it says on the tin -- a listing of how to get to various places around Ithaca without having to trace the route visually on a schematic)... except once I found the consignment forms and the record of past orders, I ran in to the rather baffling fact there's an order dated January of this year but our inventory level never went up, which means the order never came in -- or perhaps was never actually placed. So I clipped all the documents together and left a note asking PM what was going on, since the last order form is in her handwriting.

Tomorrow I get to work with BW instead of MS, boo hiss. Firstly, BW tends to annoy me in general, and secondly, MS and I have Monday evenings down to a science (rather like ET and I used to), whereas with BW I always feel half a step out of rhythm. Oh well, I am sure MS can use a break!

( 19 - When you have bunnies, do you start writing right away, or do you jot down the idea for later use? )

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( 20 - Do you ever get bunnied from other people's stories or art in the same fandom? )

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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? )

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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!

( 13 - Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material? )

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( 14 - Ratings: how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead? )

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( 15 - Warnings: what do you feel it most important to warn for, and what's the strangest thing you've warned for in a fic? )

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Work was boring today. PM, MS, and I got everything done so efficiently that PM left half an hour early and I left 45 minutes early, abandoning RE to staff the smoke shop alone from 5:15 until closing. I love when things work out like that. :-)

( 7 - Have you ever had a fic change your opinion of a character? )

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( 8 - Do you write OCs? If so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues? If not, explain your thoughts on OCs. )

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( 9 - Pairings: for each of the fandoms from question two, what are your three favorite pairings to write? )

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I hashed out a couple plot points for "The Courting Dance" at work tonight, and will hopefully get Bree's chapter finished tomorrow. *crosses fingers* I also want to revise the scene I chopped out of my NFE fic, because I think it's kind of interesting in its own right (comparative religions, argh) and also because I might want to stick it back into the eventual revised version, depending on how my edits go. And it is where I worked out a couple metaphysical points and the motives of one character, so it might also be useful just to clarify some details.

Ah well, I will deal with it tomorrow.

This meme has been making the rounds for a couple months now, and I thought it might be interesting to answer the questions. But I do not have the patience to keep up a single meme for thirty days, so I am going to answer them in batches.

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( 1 - How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote for? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in? )

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( 2 - Name the fandoms you've written in, how much you've written in each fandom, and if you still write in them. )

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( 3 - For each of the fandoms from day two, what were your favorite characters to write? )

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More tomorrow-ish...

In other news, I am back to working on "Weregild," but the next piece is going a bit slowly because A) I am out of the swing of the story, and B) I have to talk about guns from Arthur's POV, and I know fuck-all about guns. If the finished section sounds even vaguely believable, it will be entirely thanks to CyanideBreathmint's invaluable four-part guide to guns, judiciously supplemented by Wikipedia and Google. (Gnrgh, research. *grumble grumble pfah*)

And in other other news, fics are going up over on narniaexchange, one per day. I am trying to make a point of commenting on each one -- partly because I know how much it sucks to not get feedback on a purpose-written story, and partly because I am terrible about giving feedback and am having a temporary fit of conscience over that and trying to improve. These fits never last, but now and then I do try. :-/