Ask me about my writing, a meme

[aldersprig]

Stealing this one from recessional, who stole it from lizbee:

I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are like, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" Which isn't so much talking about stories as it is writing more of a story. But you know how sometimes you read something and you're like, "I got ___ out of this story, I wonder if I have that right?" or "What on earth was ____ supposed to be?" and it's too awkward to ask the author? Now you could totally ask!

I've heard people say that writing is hard because you have to make decisions, but we never really talk about the decisions we make with stories or why we make them. We talk about plot bunnies, but not about how we actually turn them into a story.

And it seems like a lot more fun to do that than to do working.

So, if you wanted, ask me questions! (Or use this to ask your flist to ask you questions).

What were you trying to do [here]? Why did you decide to ____? This is what I thought about xyz, is that what you were going for? What made you write ____? Why did you decide to do this? And so on.

Comments

[inventrix]

Which do you usually (and/or prefer to) come up with first: a setting idea, a story idea, or a character idea? Which of the three do you find the easiest, and which the hardest?

[aldersprig]

Hunh.

Scenes.

Setting is probably the hardest, then stories, then characters.

[inventrix]

Another question! :D Which part of writing short or micro fiction do you find the most frustrating, and which part of writing long fiction?

[aldersprig]

SHort - endings. Sometimes they just don't want to wrap up nicely

Long... momentum. I get lost.