writing questions for writers who write

sakuratsukikage:

bonnefoy:

qichi:

red: when and how did you first realize you loved writing?
orange: who is your greatest literary inspiration, and why?
yellow: what is your favorite style?
green: whose style do you imitate the most?
blue: what is your favorite genre/subject on which to write?
indigo: what do you think is the greatest flaw in your writing?
violet: what is your favorite thing about your writing?
pink: what attracts you to writing in general? why do you love it?
silver: top three sources of inspiration
black: your dreams! be published, be a critical success? what?
lemon: do you write fanfiction? if so, what genre? otp?
lime: what are some of the most prevalent themes in your work?
brown: three favorite novels
rainbow: three favorite authors
white: weirdest thing you’ve ever written BE HONEST 

with the clarification that i don’t write anything original so all of this will be about fic, haha, but! go ahead :3

I can do orgfic o/ 

Fanfic or original stuff, guys, fire away. :D

Same here. <3

(Source: worldaccordingwrites)

─ The Order Dictates: Emergency Commissions ─

blamethetemplar:

For the last—almost a year, I’ve been under some hard times. Until recently, I’ve been able to scrape by with what little I had in my savings. That has since dwindled to nothing, and with no job in sight, I find myself in a position where any source of income is better than none. That said, I’ve…

SIGNAL BOOST FOR SCIENCE.  <3

People, get this awesome lady to write for you.

So… writing a little Aveline/Isabela and google music thinks it’s HILARIOUS.  I’ve had Aveline/Fenris songs, Cullen/Bethany songs and a whole slew of other angsty pairing songs.  I swear it’s on shuffle, but it really wants me to write anything OTHER than what I’m writing.  B|  Or maybe it just wants me to write more angsty things.  

But, I will persevere.  And there will be some sort of sexy times before I’m done.

1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

2. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.

3. Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

4. If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there.

5. Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing.

6. If you are using dialogue—say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.

neil-gaiman:

alreadypre-knownknowledge:

So I made this because of this.

Feel free to use if you are planning on seducing a writer. Or writer-like person. Or anyone, really.

I thought, I wonder if anyone’s made one, yet. So I looked, and there it was. I love it when things move at the speed of internet.

(Source: twohundredandtwentyonebravo)

As requested by too many people: making the last post rebloggable

tinydragongina:

neil-gaiman:

birdartpoetry asked: Mister Gaiman, you’re kickass. I was just wondering, what do you think is the best way to seduce a writer? I figured your answer would be pretty spectacular.

In my experience, writers tend to be really good at the inside of their own heads and imaginary people, and a lot less good at the stuff going on outside, which means that quite often if you flirt with us we will completely fail to notice, leaving everybody involved slightly uncomfortable and more than slightly unlaid.

So I would suggest that any attempted seduction of a writer would probably go a great deal easier for all parties if you sent them a cheerful note saying “YOU ARE INVITED TO A SEDUCTION: Please come to dinner on Friday Night. Wear the kind of clothes you would like to be seduced in.”

And alcohol may help, too. Or kissing. Many writers figure out that they’re being seduced or flirted with if someone is actually kissing them.

#A Really Useful Post

How to Write and Accurate Gay Sex Scene by Lemon-Sprinkles

iapetusneume:

lemon-sprinkles:

You asked, I delivered.

 So you wanna know how to write a good smut scene, eh? Well first you’re going to have to understand human anatomy- mostly male anatomy. It might be kinda gross, but knowing these things will help you write an accurate and steamy sex scene!

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Not sure if this is the essay Cherith was talking about, but it’s still incredibly helpful and I’m reblogging and tagging it for future reference.

So these are the ones I was thinking of:

http://lemon-sprinkles.tumblr.com/post/15704310030/how-to-write-gay-sex-scenes-preperation-for-anal-sex

http://lemon-sprinkles.tumblr.com/post/15813515314/how-to-write-a-gay-sex-scene-anal-sex-positions

http://lemon-sprinkles.tumblr.com/post/15663131469/things-gay-men-can-do-other-than-anal-sex

Things you never knew you needed to know.

Looks like David Gaider has found out about Den Asaan.

maybethings:

This morning, it tastes of schadenfreude.

─ This is your brain on Shakespeare ─

(Source: commissionergordonn)

Long overdue obligatory Yuletide/Secret Santa round-up

So, due to being sick and pretty much asleep for the majority of Yuletide sign-ups, I actually missed signing up as a writer.  But, like I have the past few years, I picked up a few pinch-hits and ended up writing two stories.  Neither in fandoms I’ve given a lot of thought to.  As with a lot of stuff I write that’s outside my normal fandoms, I was super nervous to write these, and I’m still not completely happy with them.  But, I wrote them.

(All Story links go to AO3)

• Ifs, Whens & Maybes - The Secret Circle [Cassie/Jake]
• The Force - The Star Wars Volkswagen Commercial

And then somehow (I didn’t know they did this to be honest) I was able to sign-up to get a story anyway, because I picked up more than one pinch-hit.  Quel surprise! And then, I didn’t get one, but SIX gifts, and I just was over-the-moon.  So, for your reading pleasure:

• An Honest Mistake - Dragon Age [Isabela/Aveline] (a special treat for me by virusq because technically DA isn’t a Yuletide fandom)
• Purgatory - Carnivale [Henry & Management]

There’s more, but let me first say that I’ve requested Little Red Riding Hood stories every year I’ve done fandom and I’ve been super impressed every year by what people come up with.  I got four LRRH stories this year and I love each of them.  You’ll see by the tags, I have a type for LRRH stories and I think all of these are slightly smutty.

• Snow White and Red Riding Hood by Kastaka
• Different than Good by Aja [Red/Wolf f/f]
• The Beating of her Bound Heart by kassidy [Red/Wolf]
• My Lupe by keerawa [Red/Wolf] (This is f/f with POCs - with warnings for age difference)

As for Dragon Age fandom, I wrote a few things for that (and one co-written piece) by far the longest of which is Of Wolves (which you might be tired of hearing about, but I’m not tired of talking about it - {see love of LRRH stories})

• All Sweetness & Light / When No One is Looking [Isabela/Bethany] (a two-parter for onlytowardschaos and signcherie)
• A Special Assignment [Nathaniel/Cauthrien] (written on the DA Kink meme as a Christmas gift for serindrana - technically unfinished, but reads pretty well as a complete piece)
• Two Sides of the Same Coin [f!Cousland/Ser Gilmore] 
• Of Wolves written with serindrana [Bann Teagan/Ser Cauthrien]

And I got some cool stuff too:

• Of Pride and Home by serindrana [Bann Teagan/Ser Cauthrien]
• A Chance Encounter by seeherwrite (tumblr link)[Bann Teagan/Bethany]
• If Death Should Part Us by theflowergirl (LJ link) [Neria Surana/Alistair]

I think… that’s everything.  It’s a lot.  And it’s awesome.