Fic Meme: Fanfic Questions
Mar. 6th, 2016 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
argentum_lsTumblr has ask box memes. I reblog them, yet rarely get anyone to take me up on them. This time, someone did!
Reblog if you are a fanfiction author and would like your readers to put one of your fic titles in your ask + questions about it
1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?
2: What scene did you first put down?
3: What's your favorite line of narration?
4: What's your favorite line of dialogue?
5: What part was hardest to write?
6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?
7: Where did the title come from?
8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?
9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?
10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?
11: What do you like best about this fic?
12: What do you like least about this fic?
13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?
14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?
15: What did you learn from writing this fic?
3. What’s your favorite line of narration?
I have to go with the first line. It’s easily one of my top 3 favorite first lines. Not only did it set up the whole premise for the story, it was so easy to follow on.
Richie’s twenty year streak of not waking up from the dead in the morgue ended with a bang.
Fun fact: the original version of this line was “fifteen year streak,” and that version was on the story up until maybe a week before posting, when it occurred to me to go check the date of the referenced episode, and I discovered the show aired longer ago than I’d thought.
5: What part was hardest to write?
I can’t believe I’m saying this: none of them. This story came damn close to being one I read at the same time as I wrote it. There were a few bits that underwent substantial revision after the first draft: the scene where Henry & Richie are first talking in Henry’s apartment, the alley scene, the scene where Richie, Henry, and Liam are walking down the street together, and the conclusion. However, first drafts of all the scenes fell into place with minimal angst or fuss on my part.
11. What do you like best about this fic?
I call this one my compare & contrast essay on immortality, which is what I most enjoy about the story. Every part of the story where Richie and/or Henry are misjudging each other based on their own framework for immortality still makes me giggle with joy.
14. Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?
I’ve been a Richie fan since I first got into Highlander. Per usual, this meant I was a fan of the character that almost no one else liked. In fairness, the show did make it hard to like him since he was often character-bashed within the show for the sake of making Duncan look better. And then they killed him off in the most asinine way possible.
Writing this story gave me the chance to write Richie the way I saw him when Duncan’s shadow was removed. Plus, I got to imagine how he might have matured, and which parts of his personality he was never going to grow out of.
So, I guess what I wanted readers to learn was how awesome Richie could have been as a character if he’d been treated fairly.
Should you want to play, inboxes work as well as ask boxes.
Reblog if you are a fanfiction author and would like your readers to put one of your fic titles in your ask + questions about it
1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?
2: What scene did you first put down?
3: What's your favorite line of narration?
4: What's your favorite line of dialogue?
5: What part was hardest to write?
6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?
7: Where did the title come from?
8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?
9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?
10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?
11: What do you like best about this fic?
12: What do you like least about this fic?
13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?
14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?
15: What did you learn from writing this fic?
truthisademurelady asked:
For the fic meme - Something Called Living: 3, 5, 11, 14?
3. What’s your favorite line of narration?
I have to go with the first line. It’s easily one of my top 3 favorite first lines. Not only did it set up the whole premise for the story, it was so easy to follow on.
Richie’s twenty year streak of not waking up from the dead in the morgue ended with a bang.
Fun fact: the original version of this line was “fifteen year streak,” and that version was on the story up until maybe a week before posting, when it occurred to me to go check the date of the referenced episode, and I discovered the show aired longer ago than I’d thought.
5: What part was hardest to write?
I can’t believe I’m saying this: none of them. This story came damn close to being one I read at the same time as I wrote it. There were a few bits that underwent substantial revision after the first draft: the scene where Henry & Richie are first talking in Henry’s apartment, the alley scene, the scene where Richie, Henry, and Liam are walking down the street together, and the conclusion. However, first drafts of all the scenes fell into place with minimal angst or fuss on my part.
11. What do you like best about this fic?
I call this one my compare & contrast essay on immortality, which is what I most enjoy about the story. Every part of the story where Richie and/or Henry are misjudging each other based on their own framework for immortality still makes me giggle with joy.
14. Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?
I’ve been a Richie fan since I first got into Highlander. Per usual, this meant I was a fan of the character that almost no one else liked. In fairness, the show did make it hard to like him since he was often character-bashed within the show for the sake of making Duncan look better. And then they killed him off in the most asinine way possible.
Writing this story gave me the chance to write Richie the way I saw him when Duncan’s shadow was removed. Plus, I got to imagine how he might have matured, and which parts of his personality he was never going to grow out of.
So, I guess what I wanted readers to learn was how awesome Richie could have been as a character if he’d been treated fairly.
Should you want to play, inboxes work as well as ask boxes.
