EDIT: Formatting.

Since I have no real visual artistic skills, I suppose this is probably the only artist meme I can competently do (musicians don't tend to have memes, sadly XP). This time of year is a good one for self-reflection, so I took this from a random blog and decided to do it.

1. What's the last thing you wrote?

Aside from correspondences of various sorts, that would the second chapter of my enormous fanfic, We Who Suggest Ourselves.  Also this meme, but that doesn't count.

2. Is it any good?

As to the fic in general, any who have read and understood it have told me it made for interesting reading.  It is by no means an accessible read, for which I make no apologies, but it seems to be proving my theory that sufficiently competent execution, regardless of the subject matter, can make an interesting, even engaging work, which a far cry from the rest of the genre of fanfiction.

3. What's the first thing you ever wrote that you still have?

Hiding in a box somewhere are my old creative writing books... from grade three.  They will never, ever see the light of day again.  God willing.

4. Favorite genre of writing?

Fiction, and I suppose by association, fanfiction.  To go further, science-fiction and fantasy, and/or fanfics of works in those genres.  Aside from that, I like expository pieces and essays.  Who knew? X3

5. How often do you get writer's block?

Rarely as such.  I've found doing WWSO that the closest thing that I do experience would be attempting to start from section breaks (which WWSO has very many of) and proceed somewhere with the narrative.

6. How do you fix it?

Agonise for a while before finding an angle I like and running with it.  In the case of WWSO, I embark on some tangential but related discussion, then link back into the narrative.  For there record, this is essentially the core of WWSO's structure, so it does seem to work.

More generally, I reread over the entire rest of the chapter's draft (or if starting out, the previous chapter), possibly make a few minor revisions here and there, then try to start out again.  At the very least this usually gives me some orientation.

7. Do you save everything you write?

In general, yes.  Anything that isn't otherwise posted on the interwebs is usually shown to at least one other person anyways, and is always saved.

8. How do you feel about revision?

Fine.  I try to avoid sweeping changes to plot without good reason, but as my overall conceptions of a plot are never more than approximate, I don't have too much of a problem altering things if I feel they work better differently.


9. What's your favorite thing that you've written?

At any given moment, it's usually the very last thing of any consequence I've written.  You get one guess as to what that might be.  Just one.  Don't think too hard, now. XDD


10. What's everyone else's favorite thing that you've written?

Being that it is my only published work, the same piece.  My somewhat related Ivalician Theory of Continuity probably rates a mention, and indeed, large swathes of the FFFTA3 Project's backstory, but though well-received, neither of these were intended for a wider audience.  Yet.



11. What writing projects are you working on right now?

As mentioned repeatedly, We Who Suggest Ourselves, a self-insert Ivalice Alliance fanfic in which I am attempting to blatantly subvert all the stigma associated with the genre.  Also an extended plot for an animation project I'm involved with, though that's not entirely my thing.  I'm also still technically a part of FFFTA3, but that's in development hell.

12. What's one genre you have never written, and probably never will?

Huh.  Hard to say.  If I had to answer, it would probably be smut, though I couldn't promise that I wouldn't write some lemon down the track.  Maybe.  That said, I doubt I could write anything that used sex as anything more than a plot device in good conscience.

13. Do you write for a living?

Nope.  Like the rest of my artistic pursuits, they're just passions.  I'm not sure I'd want it any other way, at least as far as writing is concerned.

14. Quote something you've written, the first thing to pop into your mind.

From the current draft of the second chapter of WWSO, occurring before the third section break, and containing the third word I've made up in the course of the fic.  Try to find it. X3

"Burkhalter had no time left now, as all the air in his lungs had been supplanted by muck.  He could only lie there now, in peaceful, if slightly regretful contemplation, waiting for death, wondering where fortune was hiding now.  Where the plan was hiding now.

His thoughts became blurry, less coherent, simpler, as he slipped back into the monologue of the semi-conscious, and then into the nihilogue of the unconscious.  By which time it seemed to be all over."