questions for writers #1
Apr. 22nd, 2025 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poppyseedheartI've been re-training my community interaction muscle and I started by making a couple of threads on bluesky with questions for writers to answer. They were written with fic in mind, but anyone can answer! hwarium encouraged me to archive them here on dreamwidth so they don't go to an early grave in case of social media implosion or account deletion, so this is the first bunch of questions for posterity. Feel free to copy-paste and answer on your own journal, or just drop some thoughts in the comments!
1. of all the tropes you've written, which would be least appealing or applicable to you irl? e.g. you wrote a fic with a pivotal bedsharing scene but can never fall asleep yourself if you have to share a bed
2. what is a classic "you"-ism that often slips into your writing? e.g. you often experience road rage, so all of your characters hate stop and go traffic with a vengeance
3. what is the most interesting or memorable thing you've learned while doing research for a story?
4. share a little about your "white whale" story, aka the idea you have had for a long time but haven't been able to bring yourself to write for whatever reason.
5. tell us your secret! what's your favorite sneaky (or not so sneaky!) trick that you implement in your writing to draw out an emotional response from your reader? e.g. inverting a trope, highlighting parallels, quoting canon, etc. bonus points for examples
hwarium encouraged me to archive them here on dreamwidth so they don't go to an early grave in case of social media implosion or account deletion, so this is the first bunch of questions for posterity. Feel free to copy-paste and answer on your own journal, or just drop some thoughts in the comments!1. of all the tropes you've written, which would be least appealing or applicable to you irl? e.g. you wrote a fic with a pivotal bedsharing scene but can never fall asleep yourself if you have to share a bed
2. what is a classic "you"-ism that often slips into your writing? e.g. you often experience road rage, so all of your characters hate stop and go traffic with a vengeance
3. what is the most interesting or memorable thing you've learned while doing research for a story?
4. share a little about your "white whale" story, aka the idea you have had for a long time but haven't been able to bring yourself to write for whatever reason.
5. tell us your secret! what's your favorite sneaky (or not so sneaky!) trick that you implement in your writing to draw out an emotional response from your reader? e.g. inverting a trope, highlighting parallels, quoting canon, etc. bonus points for examples
