我要飞Faye

( Days 1 to 16 )


17. Favorite protagonist and why!

Note: for the next three questions I'll be answering this in terms of the series I write fanfic for, as opposed to characters in my own stories.

The easier answer would be Rukia from Bleach, but as you all know she's my favourite character to write, so that would be just repeating myself. Instead I'll talk about Harry Potter and how he captured the imagination of myself (and plenty of my friends).

( Harry Potter babble )

Too bad I don't write more HP fanfic, other than the stories for my friends. =)


( Days 18 to 30 )

I went to watch Inception yesterday, which I would have done soon or later because I am big on the dream hopping thing (had an OC based entirely around that concept). My general reaction can be summed up as thus:

- Awesome despite being confusing
- Guys, guys, whose mind do I have to hack in order to get some Eames/Arthur/Ariadne fic??? Because HOT DAMN. (And no, I do not want to write it myself, I have 39 items on my list *weeps*)

We return to your regular schedule of the writing meme.

( Days 1 to 14 )


15. Midway question! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether professional or not!

Diane Duane and PTerry, hands down. While I've only followed one series of each (So You Want to be a Wizard and Discworld), these authors have been the most consistent in writing characters and stories I adore. I've copied the most quotes from these two authors.

What do I admire about them? Diane Duane I admire for the images that she paints with words. In her first book, she wrote about a freaking Apocalypse, and still made it beautiful. She also makes the reader care about her characters. E.g. Fred! FRED ALWAYS MAKES ME CRY omg. She's also the only author who excels in describing both technology and nature without sounding stilted in one or the other. I also was very impressed by her description of the Fair Folk (even if the other stuff in the book made me raise an eyebrow, but still).

PTerry I admire for his humour. It's so much a part of his universe (Discworld is a flat world borne by 4 elephants on a tortoise moving through space!) that it lends itself easily to parodies and amusing descriptions. Also because I have a deep abiding love for Death and Susan. Omg. <3 Thief of Time is still my favouritest story EVAR. like EVAR. *sighs happily*


( Days 16 to 30 )

( Days 1 to 12 )


13. What's your favorite culture to write, fictional or not?

Hmmm. This is not actually something I'm aware of, as I write to the fandom, not the culture. And since I've been following Western and Japanese animation, it kind of follows that I'd write for those two cultures. Do I like either of them over the other? No, not really. So in that sense, I don't have a favourite to write - it's just there and it's something that I have to do research on.

If you're asking me which comes easier, admittedly it's Western culture. The media here is chockful of it that it's pretty hard to avoid and even easier to research. Japanese culture has definitely become more accessible, but not as much. In addition, I find I have a pretty bad habit of trying to superimpose my own culture onto it, which is wrong wrong wrong.

I guess the final answer is: I've no preference.


( Days 14 to 30 )

( Days 1 to 10 )


11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite?
Rukia from Bleach hands down. She's both complex and easy to write for me - complex enough that I can do pretty interesting things with her in a storyline, and easy enough that I don't get frustrated when writing those complex topics. She's also well placed for a narrator - she's a shinigami, which means that she understands the spirit world, she stayed in the living world the longest out of the characters I like to write, which means that I can put her in almost any setting, and she's close to Ichigo, which is the other character I like to write about. Oh, and she's a girl. =)

Disclaimer before I go into my least favourite character - I am talking about the perspective of a writing on ease of writing, not so much about about the character itself. That's why my least favourite character is Raven from Teen Titans, even though I love her to bits. It's terribly easy to fall into stereotypes with her, because even the show is a little guilty of that sometimes. And getting the balance between getting the character right and getting a paper cut out makes me want to tear out my hair. So that makes her my least favourite character to write.


( Days 12 to 30 )

( Days 1 to 8 )


9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.

Uh. Um. I don't really write OCs. BUT if forced at gunpoint, I would say that my OCs come as a result of plot, not as a driver of plot. What that means is that I'd develop the bare bones of the story first, complete with themes, and then pick and choose characters that would help bring across those themes.

( Long example under cut )

As you can see, it's a pretty painful process, which is why I tend not to create OCs. At least in fanfic, I can leap into the stories I want to tell without the hassle of creating characters. It's like playing with a ready made dollhouse, instead of creating my own out of Lego.


( Days 10 to 30 )

( Days 1 to 7 )


8. What's your favorite genre to write? To read?

Fantasy hands down. There's just something really interesting about people with powers or magic that makes me want to write about them, even if they're doing perfectly ordinary things. But the possibility of writing about the extraordinary always attracted me. It's probably why superheroes are my second favourite thing to write. I wonder what they count as - fantasy or sci-fi?

Likewise, I love to read fantasy, with sci-fi a very very close second. Although sci-fi tends to get grouped under fantasy sometimes! This is closely followed by mysteries, which I've always wanted to write but never got around to. Maybe someday I will.

(In contrast, I HATE romances and rarely read them, but it's where my writing goes to. Go figure.)


( Days 9 to 30 )

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?

Based on sheer familiarity, the place I am most comfortable writing is in my bedroom on my laptop. I've used that laptop at this desk for... about 6 years now, and have written the most fics on it. It's a good place to write because I have the internet for research and fics, chat with people when I want it, and music when it's needed.

I don't have a specific time of date I sit down to write. Personally I prefer the mornings when I'm not as tired out, but since I tend to be working at that time I write at night instead. Sometimes I will write on the train - it's dead time where there's not much else to do, and I know the route by heart.

I've written the most fic on the computer, since I have to prep the fic for posting on lj or dw anyway. The muse hasn't shown any particular pref, since I almost exclusively wrote on pen and paper during school, and lately I also have been writing on my handphone. Multiple mediums can be a blessing!


( Days 7 to 30 )

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!

Oh man, do I have to? To be honest, I can't remember and I don't want to find out. My first few stories were all narrations while I was playing with my toys - I would record the story and act out the actions with my toys at the same time. My parents STILL have the tapes - they think it's cute, but I find it embarrassing.

My first story in written form was when I was in primary school. I don't remember those either, because my teacher loved to pick my stories to read to the class, which I found embarrassing. I was already a nerd - now I had to be a teacher's pet too? The teachers would make us sit on the floor for these readings, and I would make sure to sit myself in the middle so I could stare at my knees, stick my fingers in my ears and go la la la so I couldn't hear my story being read.

I was a very easily embarrassed kid.

My first story for fandom was a Sailor Moon fanfic, which of course involved a Mary Sue. It was written in, bizarrely, a mix of English and Chinese, the latter because it was the language I watched Sailor Moon in. It explored the possibilities of other heavenly bodies having Sailor Soldiers, and when canon started to go into that too I stopped writing it. I still have the notebooks (which were appropriately Sailor Moon themed) but don't remember the order they were supposed to be read in.

And much much later on, I published my first fanfic in the Harry Potter fandom - a strange little story about the story of Tom Riddle mirrored to that of the Gingerbread Man. Yeah, I'm weird. =)


( Days 5 to 30 )

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?

To be honest, I don't keep track. My OCs tend to be organic - I create as many of them as I need for the writing and rarely count them. But if I had to, off the top of my head I have 15 OCs that I've really spent energy on, and 3 that I have thought about lately.

My preference for male/female OCs went through an evolution actually! When I was younger, I loved the Famous Five/Secret Seven setup that I was very careful with the gender mix of my characters. So there would always be about equal numbers of boys and girls where possible, and if I had an odd number there would be one more boy. Then I went to a girls school and my main characters all became female because it was simply the most common interaction around me. Now that I'm working things have evened out again, although I tend towards more females now because I want to see more of them in writing.

Funnily, for fanfic it's been the exact opposite of the evolution. I was mainly in shojo fandoms when I was at my girls school, so the characters I wrote about were males. Then I moved on to ensemble shows, so things have evened out a bit to maybe 55:45 in favour of males, depending on how narrowly I define the focus group of characters.

( Days 3 to 30 )

This journal belongs to Faye, e optional. I will mostly store my creative works here, which include fics and the odd AMV or two.

The post will be updated with my completed fics (when they're done!).

Zootopia
Wilde Spirit verse
Exorcist Blues (Wilde Spirit remix)
A Zootopia remix in which Judy Hopps is an exorcist that specialises in hunting dark spirits. And Nick Wilde is dead, but not gone.

Zoo Boldly Go verse - Star Trek/Zootopia crossover
the map that leads to you
Nick knows the rules in Communications, including this unwritten one: never get attached to Away teams. But Ensign Judy Hopps from Security keeps making it back. Missing her check in with Nick just doesn't happen. Until it does. Now it's up to Nick and the starship crew led by Captain Bogo to bring their Away team back.

true colours (burn those jet pack blues)
Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6
Judy Hopps doesn't do diplomacy. Nick Wilde doesn't do Away missions. Both of them are going to have to make up for what the other lacks if they're going to survive Draconis and maybe save Captain Bogo while they're at it.


Bleach
Fic - One Need Not Be a House
Ichigo is haunted in a Halloween fic that involves everyone.

Fic - A Hand That Meets My Own
Masaki has a counteroffer to make Isshin. Spoilers for Bleach 535, trope_bingo fill.

( Random spec in fic form )

Marvel movie-verse
Fic - Centre of the Web

In order to recreate her identity, Natasha Romanoff decides to go back to her roots. She didn't bargain on going all the way to the start of the Black Widow program. trope_bingo fill.

Fic - Ruffling Feathers
Sam disagrees with Loki - natural isn't always better. trope_bingo fill.

Fic - Every Me and Every You
Natasha knows what it's like to know another person completely. trope_bingo fill.

Fic - At World's End
A cultist predicted the world's governments and economies would fail on 30 June 2012, and that he and his followers would undergo a transformation that would allow them to fly and walk through walls. No really trope_bingo fill.

Fic - Lead my Spirit Home
If the villains could disturb the final rest of Steve Rogers, Captain America and a national icon, it was probably too much to hope that they would leave his best friend alone. A supernatural take on Captain America and the Winter Soldier. trope_bingo fill.

Fic - The Circus is in Town
Tony Stark ran away to the circus as a kid, but he isn't sure he likes it there. trope_bingo fill.

Pacific Rim
Fic - The Private Myth of Dreams
Mako and Raleigh shouldn't Drift together. Too bad no one told their subconscious that. trope_bingo fill.

Fic - One Girl Revolution
Mako doesn't care that you shouldn't Drift alone. trope_bingo fill.

Fic - You don't have to (but I don't mind if you do)
Three kiss that Mako Mori and Raleigh Becket did not share, and one they did. trope_bingo fill.

Fic - No White Flag
After the movie, Mako and Raleigh set about creating the resistance that Stacker envisioned. trope_bingo fill.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Fic - The Road to Hell (Is Paved With Good Intentions)
Magic girls vs Zombies, round 1. trope_bingo fill.

Fic - The Baby Steps Guide to Recovering Your Memory
A girl who can't remember her name and a baby who gives her one go for a walk. trope_bingo fill.

Fic - Little White Tail
Those who see the Little White Tail will be granted a wish. trope_bingo fill.

( 31_days challenge )

AMV - Scarborough Fair

FST - Time after Time: a Homura FST

Cross-overs
Fic - Bless the little queens
Fusion of Macross Frontier and Pacific Rim. All Ranka and Sheryl need is the power of song and the Drift to defeat the Kaiju

General
Music - Halloween 2011 Mix


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