"Why do you hate Jesus?"

[hihoplastic]

Ask me a question about one of my stories or my approach to writing in general. It can be absolutely anything in any fic and I will tell you the honest-to-god answer. Don’t hold back. Anything. Whatever you ask, I will try my best to answer.
- from irony_rocks

- I finally wrote fic! It's tenacious_err's fault.

- cutting_onions is amazing. ♥ ...she's also mine, so. GTFO. ;P

Comments

[vickysg1]

I went back to some of your older fics for this meme, so I'm gonna ask about "So far, so good (is only the beginning)": what happens to them after the door closed? ;)

[hihoplastic]

Umm. I'm pretty sure in that one they went straight to the bedroom, lol. ...or maybe the couch. Possibly the kitchen table?

On a grander scale, they probably would have done a lot of what they did on the show - bicker, make-up, have sex, bicker, fight, bicker, have sex, repeat. Although, I don't particularly agree with Cuddy's reasoning for dumping him, so. That would not have happened had this fic continued. ;)

[vickysg1]

Yeah, I don't agree with her reasoning either. And I don't agree with TPTB saying that they explored the relationship fully when I don't think they did.

[hihoplastic]

Yeah, agree. I thought her reasoning was kind of shoddy, and frankly not very Cuddy-esque. She's the one who's been saying that he deserves a chance to change, and then one little setback and she's all up in his grill? No thanks, PTBs. I mean, if that had been like, the fourth or fifth vicodin-esque fail, then yeah, okay. But one slip after all those months and she kicks him to the curb? DNW.

/rant

[anuna_81]

How does your writing process start? Aka, do you start with one scene and build from there, or does it start with a general idea you work on then in more detail? :)

And *hugs*. For everything.

[hihoplastic]

Usually it's a line that pops into my head, and then the story somehow builds around that. Like, for this is the place, the line "Every morning and every night, she stands on the porch and waits" came into my head, and I thought, "Now how can I make this a JE fic when there are no porches on Atlantis?" lol. The same for in the city and the forest - the first line of the first section wouldn't leave me alone, and I just went with it. I knew right away that it was about Elizabeth's son, but I didn't know the rest of it until I'd been working on it for a few months. It just sort of happened.

Other times, it'll be a conversation that I work on first, that then becomes a fic. Like the 5 times dancing fic, that whole first conversation with Ford was just dialogue at first, and then slowly became a fic. So. It's usually one of those two things. I rarely have any idea what the story is actually about until I get halfway through it, lol.

[anuna_81]

That is completely amazing! And completely different than my own writing process (I usually see one scene unfold. I either know what lead to it, or what happens next, I know the basic circumstances around what's happening in that scene. Then I try to tell how it happened and why and mostly, about emotions behind it all).

So, no porches on Atlantis led you to one of the angstiest angstfests known to men??! I surely must be careful when I give you prompts in the future. (instead of, hey! Think of Elizabeth on the beach, I think it's much safer to ask for fluff).

But, I totally love your writing process - it sounds like an adventure, and literally discovering what the story will be about. That must be awesome :)

[hihoplastic]

It is really interesting! I like this meme a lot. :D

So, no porches on Atlantis led you to one of the angstiest angstfests known to men??

lmao, pretty much. I usually get a line stuck in my head that I know I want to build a fic around (even if it's not the first line) and I don't like to alter the line itself. So like, I could have made it "stands on the balcony and waits," but that just didn't have the same flow/sound to it. So...lol. Insert angsty angstfest.

But, I totally love your writing process - it sounds like an adventure, and literally discovering what the story will be about. That must be awesome :)

Most of the time it's really awesome. Other times it just makes me want to throw shit across the room, lmao.

[mylittleredgirl]

If you could (magically, with no actual effort) rewrite any one of your early fics with the writing style you have now, which one would you choose? :)

[hihoplastic]

Ummm. Out of the fics on my comm, to be entirely honest, I probably wouldn't change any of them. I really like looking back and seeing what worked and what didn't, whether I've made any progress, etc.

I definitely have some old Pretender fics that could use a SERIOUS revamp, considering I was like, 15 when I wrote them, lol. But I'm too afraid to open the document to work on it, lmao. So, I guess I'd say those. Just...blanket magic!away the fail of my Pretender fics. \o/

As far as editing goes, though, I really want to take a pitch-fork to In The City and the Forest. I loved it when I finished it, but I think I was so relieved to be done after a year and a half, that I didn't spend as much time on revisions as I should have. I read it a few weeks ago and was like, "Oh, god, what have I done?" lol. So. That one will probably go down sometime soon so I can fix it.