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AUs and Day 27 of Writing Meme
To make me happy, please give me prompts for the next meme!
The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write in, and give me a type of AU (space opera AU, pirate AU, superhero AU, Ancient Rome, Regency England, circus AU, Lovecraft, etc). Edit: More suggestions of AUs from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
au_bingo! I will then explain what story from your chosen fandom I would write for your chosen type of AU.
Bleach
Teen Titans
Justice League (sometimes JLU)
Avatar the Last Airbender
Harry Potter
Transformers (movie, G1, animated)
Star Trek (2009 movie)
Iron Man
Inception
Card Captor Sakura
Supernatural
Pushing Daisies
Lord of the Rings
The Matrix
Last Exile
Witch Hunter Robin
Weiss Kreuz
Sailor Moon
His Dark Materials (aka The Golden Compass and the like)
Edit 2: Because Ten pointed out I wrote STARK Trek instead of Star Trek, and I forgot Iron Man
And now for the writing meme:
1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you've worked with and why
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you're writing about fictional places)?
4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!
5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?
6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol' pen and paper?
7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?
8. What's your favorite genre to write? To read?
9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.
10. What are some really weird situations your characters have been in? Everything from serious canon scenes to meme questions counts!
11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite?
12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?
13. What's your favorite culture to write, fictional or not?
14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?
15. Midway question! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether professional or not!
16. Do you write romantic relationships? How do you do with those, and how “far” are you willing to go in your writing? ;)
17. Favorite protagonist and why!
18. Favorite antagonist and why!
19. Favorite minor that decided to shove himself into the spotlight and why!
20. What are your favorite character interactions to write?
21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?
22. Tell us about one scene between your characters that you've never written or told anyone about before! Serious or not.
23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story—from planning to writing to posting (if you post your work)?
24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What's the most interesting way you've killed someone?
25. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.
26. Let's talk art! Do you draw your characters? Do others draw them? Pick one of your OCs and post your favorite picture of him!
27. Along similar lines, do appearances play a big role in your stories? Tell us about them, or if not, how you go about designing your characters.
Oh yes. The advantage of being in a manga/anime fandom is that there's a glut of fanart, so I usually don't have to draw anything myself. I have a hyoooooooge fanart folder that I sometimes refer to when I want an image of a character in say, plain clothes. And well, I'm a mental fashion designer so I'm always on the look out for clothes my characters can wear. The appearances are usually again, plot-driven, though I try to have a formal dance scene as far as possible, because I love gowns. =) Having said that, the toughest clothes for me to think up of are always men's clothes though - until now, I still do not understand the subtleties of formal wear for men. I know that the cutting makes a difference, and I know that certain types of shoes are much better than others, but I really really can't grasp it.
Casual wear I get though. I do sneaker shopping and there are some trousers/jeans cuts that make the looker go mmmmmmmmmm. Also I have a weakness for T-shirts with words.
Rest of the Questions:
28. Have you ever written a character with physical or mental disabilities? Describe them, and if there's nothing major to speak of, tell us a few smaller ones.
29. How often do you think about writing? Ever come across something IRL that reminds you of your story/characters?
30. Final question! Tag someone! And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!
The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write in, and give me a type of AU (space opera AU, pirate AU, superhero AU, Ancient Rome, Regency England, circus AU, Lovecraft, etc). Edit: More suggestions of AUs from
au_bingo! I will then explain what story from your chosen fandom I would write for your chosen type of AU.Bleach
Teen Titans
Justice League (sometimes JLU)
Avatar the Last Airbender
Harry Potter
Transformers (movie, G1, animated)
Star Trek (2009 movie)
Iron Man
Inception
Card Captor Sakura
Supernatural
Pushing Daisies
Lord of the Rings
The Matrix
Last Exile
Witch Hunter Robin
Weiss Kreuz
Sailor Moon
His Dark Materials (aka The Golden Compass and the like)
Edit 2: Because Ten pointed out I wrote STARK Trek instead of Star Trek, and I forgot Iron Man
And now for the writing meme:
1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you've worked with and why
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you're writing about fictional places)?
4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!
5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?
6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol' pen and paper?
7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?
8. What's your favorite genre to write? To read?
9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.
10. What are some really weird situations your characters have been in? Everything from serious canon scenes to meme questions counts!
11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite?
12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?
13. What's your favorite culture to write, fictional or not?
14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?
15. Midway question! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether professional or not!
16. Do you write romantic relationships? How do you do with those, and how “far” are you willing to go in your writing? ;)
17. Favorite protagonist and why!
18. Favorite antagonist and why!
19. Favorite minor that decided to shove himself into the spotlight and why!
20. What are your favorite character interactions to write?
21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?
22. Tell us about one scene between your characters that you've never written or told anyone about before! Serious or not.
23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story—from planning to writing to posting (if you post your work)?
24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What's the most interesting way you've killed someone?
25. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.
26. Let's talk art! Do you draw your characters? Do others draw them? Pick one of your OCs and post your favorite picture of him!
27. Along similar lines, do appearances play a big role in your stories? Tell us about them, or if not, how you go about designing your characters.
Oh yes. The advantage of being in a manga/anime fandom is that there's a glut of fanart, so I usually don't have to draw anything myself. I have a hyoooooooge fanart folder that I sometimes refer to when I want an image of a character in say, plain clothes. And well, I'm a mental fashion designer so I'm always on the look out for clothes my characters can wear. The appearances are usually again, plot-driven, though I try to have a formal dance scene as far as possible, because I love gowns. =) Having said that, the toughest clothes for me to think up of are always men's clothes though - until now, I still do not understand the subtleties of formal wear for men. I know that the cutting makes a difference, and I know that certain types of shoes are much better than others, but I really really can't grasp it.
Casual wear I get though. I do sneaker shopping and there are some trousers/jeans cuts that make the looker go mmmmmmmmmm. Also I have a weakness for T-shirts with words.
Rest of the Questions:
28. Have you ever written a character with physical or mental disabilities? Describe them, and if there's nothing major to speak of, tell us a few smaller ones.
29. How often do you think about writing? Ever come across something IRL that reminds you of your story/characters?
30. Final question! Tag someone! And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!
Card Captor Sakura, film noir
Li Syaoran has been in the detective business for a long time. A touch of the Sight has always helped him with his cases, but he hasn't had to use actual magic - until now. Heirness Daidouji Tomoyo has been sponsoring her long time friend and playmate Sakura in her magic performances, but lately Sakura's performances have been a bit too magical. Tomoyo would be happy with her friend finding true magic, if it weren't for signs that Sakura was having trouble controlling this magic - a bruise here, an injury there. Tomoyo wants Syaoran to find out the source of Sakura's improvements in her magic, and protect her from it at all costs.
Syaoran soon finds himself in the middle of a magic world that he'd thought he had left behind, full of mysterious dark haired wizards and magic sources that he had believed to be myths. But far more dangerous of all is that Syaoran is falling under Sakura's spell - and love is the most dangerous magic of all.
Syaoran burst into the room, gun at the ready, and had to check himself. Sakura was kneeling alone in the dreary room, but she was surrounded by a whirlwind of cards, magic keeping the individual cards afloat.
"What the - " Syaoran began, and bit his tongue to stop himself from swearing in polite company. But Sakura heard him, head snapping up to face him. Her green eyes held his for a long breath, two.
Syaoran lowered the gun. "My apologies, Miss Kinomoto - " he began. It was a good thing he had put his gun away, because in the next moment he had an armful of very happy Sakura. How she had escaped the whirlwind of cards he had no idea, but the feel of her was too real to be an illusion. "Miss Kinomoto," he said awkwardly.
She let him go long enough to beam happily at him, cheeks flushed. Syaoran felt his own flushing at how attractice the glow made her. "You can see them?"
It took Syaoran a while to twig onto what Sakura was saying. "You mean the cards ma'am?"
"You can!" Sakura hugged him again. "Oh I wanted to tell everyone so so much, but no one else could see them, not even Tomoyo, and I didn't want them to think I was crazy! But you can see them and I don't have to be so alone anymore." Finally realising the compromsing position they were in, she leapt back, blushing. It was only then that Syaoran noticed that the cards had fallen into a neat pack on the scuffed wooden floor of the dance studio. "What are these?"
"Clow cards," said Sakura, as if it were a term one bandied about every day. (290 words)