#Seven fanfic wips five short story wips and 6 outlines including one for the fic WIP that’s 5.6k words long for the first CHAPTER

[cowchickenbeefpork]

My two fanfic wips being 4.6k and 5.5k respectively and non derivative short story wip being 1.2k long who’s gonna clap for meeeee

[october-rosehip]

Writer Process Meme

Oh look, a meme I'm not tempted to illustrate! Stolen from @starlanellwrites.

Rules: tag 5 or more other writers. If you want, feel free to use these questions anyway and consider yourself tagged!

1. Short stories, novels, or poems? 

I prefer to write medium length fiction but my current writing projects have all got the better of me and I have a few hundred thousand words sitting around that I'm trying to shape into something like three novels and a visual project.

I failed poetry in college. Well, I got a D+ which I think is worse. That plus just makes it more insulting, like “Well, you only MOSTLY suck.” So I don't write a lot of poetry.

2. What genre do you prefer reading? 

I prefer speculative fiction of the sort that makes you stare at the wall afterward wondering what the fuck that was. Writers I will drop everything to read the moment they have something out include Amal el-Mohtar, Berit Ellingsen, Sofia Samatar, and Daniel Jose Older (though his are less... startling, but still insightful.)

3. What genre do you prefer writing?

Apparently I prefer to write long, meandering fanfic.

4. Are you a planner or a write-as-I-go kind of person? 

I plan. I have outlines coming out of my ears but then my brain drags me out of bed first thing in the morning after a dream or something going “Haha, bitch you thought” and seven thousand completely unplanned words later, my outline is useless.

5. What music do you listen to while writing? 

Usually nothing, but I do like ambient like any of Bill Laswell's many projects, or Kinoslav Studio Orchestra. When there are words, you're not supposed to pay them undue attention. Bands like Qntal are all right, too, because I don't speak most of the languages they use. If the noise of my surroundings is too much, I also like to find background noise like “rainy street” or “marsh at night” type recordings to drown out whatever nonsense is around me.

6. Fave books/movies? 

Books I have read A LOT: Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, War for the Oaks by Emma Bull, I have a collection of Victorian ghost stories that is falling apart, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Empty City by Berit Ellingsen; Cat Valente's Space Opera JUST came out and I've already read it twice so I think that might be a new one for the frequent-reads pile. One short story for you; Amal El-Mohtar's “Seasons Of Glass and Iron”. It is online, and I really suggest you go read it. It is magnificent.

Movies: Electric Dreams, Labyrinth, The Lost Boys, (the original, thank you.) Nosferatu, Trollhunter (originally Trolljegeren, I believe), Ravenous, The Last Unicorn, Spirited Away. Recent additions that I suspect will stand the test of time: Your Name, and I must thank @raymurata for suggesting I watch The Way He Looks. It is to date only the second portrayal of a blind person that didn't piss me off.

7. Any current WIPs? 

Holy mother of pearl, yes.

Fanfiction: Strange Luck: Follows Warden Macsen Surana through the blight and beyond. I have a LOT done for it. And still more to do.

I have several fics in the works featuring Ceilidh Tabris. These are mostly short fiction and I try to make them stand alone, but with mixed success.

Original Work: Novel: a wizard (glorified governess) and the slacker noble son who probably wasn't going to inherit are the only survivors of the arson of his family's city estate. It is civil war but the government doesn't seem to know it, yet. Can these two sheltered people navigate the political intrigue and survive repeated assassination attempts? Spoilers: They do NOT wind up together!

Short story, better performed than read. (To the youtubes?!!) The Sisters and the Silent Ones. Tolkien races in a post-apocalypse with mythology, motorcycles, and certain destruction- with a side of found family.

8. If someone were to make a cartoon out of you, what would your standard outfit be? 

Wide-brimmed hat, a frock coat inspired by the late 1800s that has assorted buckles and laces where they are wholly unnecessary ( @icy-warden Vergil Surana would steal it from me) over a tank top and either wide leg jeans or a long black skirt. Black boots with silver buckles. Alternative summer outfit: tank top, loose cargo pants, bare feet, wider-brimmed hat, I’m-melting expression.

9. Create a character description for yourself: 

The leaves skirl around you in the wind, falling from the five trees on the hill above. Wait, is there a house up there? It had been hidden. “Evening,” comes a voice from above you. What the-? Your eyes adjust to the darkness and you realize the patch of purple, green, and black shadow in the tall grasses under the trees is a human, or more likely a halfling. They take a drink from a jar of swirling, colorful liquid. “Damn,” they mumble. “Then I probably rinsed the brush in my tea, again.”

10. Do you like incorporating people you actually know into your writing?

No, that is asking for trouble. I may steal events from their lives, though.

11. Are you kill-happy with characters? 

Not at all. I won't say I never do, (see novel above) but it'll never be unnecessary.

13. Coffee or tea while writing?

You'll make fun of me: whichever my main character would prefer.

14. Slow or fast writer?

I have taken to trying to write 500 words every day. I don't always and then sometimes the words grab me by the throat and I snap out of it at the end of the day having eaten absolutely nothing for ten hours and wondering wtf just happened.

15. Where/who/what do you find inspiration from?

My dreams, usually. In the case of fanfic, I am inspired by the original creators dropping the ball.

16. If you were put into a fantasy world, what would you be? 

A witch. I'm probably not the main character. I'm just around, dispensing healing/food/dire warnings.

17. Most fave book cliche? Least fave book cliche? 

Most favorite: The happy ending that is NOTHING like the one the protagonist thought they were looking for.

Least favorite: disabled person commits suicide/is mercykilled. This happens more than you probably think, and has a real world bodycount resulting from the perception that disabled people don't want to be alive, anyway.

19. Fave scenes to write? 

Plot what plot? Slices of daily life. Food, sleep, affection.

20. Most productive time of day for writing?

The blue hour of morning. My brain is fresh and so are my dreams.

21. Reason for writing:

The stories keep finding me, I may as well give them a home.

I will tag @raymurata and @icy-warden since I’ve already mentioned them. Additionally, @madamsnark, @sanguinifex, @panterry, and that’s five- but anyone else who wants to. I’m very curious!