OMG, you're hitting my area of personal pride here! Dialogue is my baby! I'm proud of really nearly all of it! I like dialogue that's quirky and really distinct in the voice, and I think I'm pretty good at it; I think it's a theatre thing. I hear voices like Resonant, damn her, gets touch and smell (I never get touch and smell! I don't know what the fuck things feel or smell like! but boy do I hear voices
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O is easy - I was just asked this on DW. But Chicago's Most Wanted--I've actually been noodling a screenplay of it for years, I think it would film beautifully.
P is impossible! Right now I'd say Steve/Bucky but I know that all things end and that some day there will be somebody else (though I never stop loving the characters I loved!) (OK, I lie - except Star Wars. I can't believe how broken up/ "angry exes" I am with Star Wars.)
M - Writing advice, is it really awful to say MINE? :D But honestly, i remind myself of my own advice all the time, that writing is a verb, you have to just go and make things, and the only way to get to the next thing is through this thing. Which I summarize as "Write what you can write when you can write it."
S. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?
Fandom is my muse, and I mean that literally, not sentimentally (though I can talk sentimentally about fandom all you want) - but honestly, I like writing in a big fandom where there's lots of energy. I rarely write directly to the source. I write to the energy of other fans, I write the stories that fandom isn't giving me. I was talking about this at Vividcon, because a lot of vidders told me that they don't watch vids in their fandoms until they're done making theirs, which I get because there are limited clips to use, but I'm the opposite--if I'm not reading in a fandom, I'm not writing in it, because I write in and for the community.
B. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?
I feel this is a disappointing answer but no! :D I mean, there are tropes I haven't written because they didn't seem plausible to me in any of the fandoms that I've been in, but I never felt that there was something I wanted to do that I haven't done. The fandom suggests the stories to me--I don't actually go to the fandom with favorite tropes in hand (unless you call it a trope to say "They go on an adventure/do something heroic/have something crazy happen to them that is emotionally fraught and end up falling in love/having sex at the end of it" which is pretty much all my stories ever.
That is not a disappointing answer! I'm much the same way, in fact; I'm writing primarily in a real world fandom these days, so sex pollen just doesn't come up in my head at all... except for the trope inversion fic I ended up writing where it's just a bunch of beautiful flowers that makes one of them want to kiss the stuffing out of the other. So I totally understand. :)
And I like pretty much all of your stories ever, so keep up the good work with the Cesperanza-trope. :D
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M - Writing advice, is it really awful to say MINE? :D But honestly, i remind myself of my own advice all the time, that writing is a verb, you have to just go and make things, and the only way to get to the next thing is through this thing. Which I summarize as "Write what you can write when you can write it."
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Fandom is my muse, and I mean that literally, not sentimentally (though I can talk sentimentally about fandom all you want) - but honestly, I like writing in a big fandom where there's lots of energy. I rarely write directly to the source. I write to the energy of other fans, I write the stories that fandom isn't giving me. I was talking about this at Vividcon, because a lot of vidders told me that they don't watch vids in their fandoms until they're done making theirs, which I get because there are limited clips to use, but I'm the opposite--if I'm not reading in a fandom, I'm not writing in it, because I write in and for the community.
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I feel this is a disappointing answer but no! :D I mean, there are tropes I haven't written because they didn't seem plausible to me in any of the fandoms that I've been in, but I never felt that there was something I wanted to do that I haven't done. The fandom suggests the stories to me--I don't actually go to the fandom with favorite tropes in hand (unless you call it a trope to say "They go on an adventure/do something heroic/have something crazy happen to them that is emotionally fraught and end up falling in love/having sex at the end of it" which is pretty much all my stories ever.
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And I like pretty much all of your stories ever, so keep up the good work with the Cesperanza-trope. :D
Thanks for answering!
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