20 questions for fic writer #tag

I found this on tumblr and the original maker is roinheta (but that blog is gone) so I guess the next best thing is to credit the blog I found it from: oreosmunroe -> go to this url for the original tag, I kindda shaved it down to 20 question because 40 question is A LOT. 
 


 

1. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.
A time-jumpy oneshot that tells a simple relationship of two people LOL. I guess it's realistic/slice-of-life/hurt-comfort kindda thing? That's at least a type of story that doesn't intimidate me, so comfort zone it is!
 

2. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?
High fantasy adventure ala Lord of the Rings, or being whisked to a high fantasy world ala Narnia (and of course that needs a /the chosen one/ trope too so it's gonna be fun LOL). It's so scary and I don't think I'm ready to tackle that but I really want to write about it one day. 
 

3. Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?
Supernatural horror. I tried touching it, but man o man no more. I LOVE reading supernatural horror (heyooo nosleep) but NO. NONONONONONO IM NOT WRITING IT. Conveying horror is so hard that I just don't want to even attempt it ever again. No.
 

4. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?
Holy . uhh ok idk where to start but well I'll share three

1. Kingsman!AU multichapter monster-of-a-story with various kpop idols and other fictional characters which is going to be a to write in term of trying to discipline myself (but i know it's gonna be fun)
2. A boy and his flower nymph, which is an idea i've had for sooooooo long it's probably one of my first fanfic idea ever? But I've just found a good way to end this story and a good pairing that fits the roles (honestly I saw Taeyong in NCTlife osaka and i was like 'I found my nymph wtf') so yeah gonna write it soon.
3. Red velvet 80s b-movie-esque cheesy slasher thriller inspired by Russian Roulette MV. It's gonna be cheesy and campy and cliched and all the good bits of those old timey slasher novels that I like to read when I was a kid. 
 

5. Share one of your strengths.
I don't know if it's really my strength but I think (emphasise that think ok I don't know for sURE) I can write well fleshed out characters (even though sometimes I feel like I'm just writing the same people over and over again LOL).
 

6. Share one of your weaknesses.
Grammar? Keeping my mind set to write just one story? Finishing a story I started?
Ok but seriously I think I'm not that good at making a good pacing for my story? It's either too slow or too fast and like idk man i'm just winging it.
 

7. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
(this is really hard because I never really have take notice of like, my fave anything in my writing??? So I'll just choose my fave paragraph from one of my fave written works ever)

Sometimes, when I had one too many glass of wine, I could finally cry out my tears and blame the world. I would blame myself for not loving someone that was more cowardly, for not being more selfish and begged harder for her to stay, so that I could have all of her for myself. Screw the country. Screw honor. I would gladly call myself a disgrace to humanity just so I could stop hanging on this uncertainty.
 

8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

"I never thought I would live to see it, let alone be a first hand observ-bless you." 

"Thankyou," JN wiped off the shooting snot with one hand as the other was occupied in keeping the ship stabilized. As if one sneeze was not enough, two others followed closely after. 

"Three times the luck." Hoseok tried to lighten up the situation by laughing, but JN didn't stop sneezing until the fifth count.

"What about five?"

"Extreme luck."


IDK why but I love this dialogue LOL (tbh all dialogue from Man, You're is my fave I still weep for that fic. I promise I'll continue it when I have the courage)


9. Is writing your passion or just a fun hobby?
I've always wanted to be a writer since I was a kid. But my laziness and fear of commitment (lol) kindda stopped me from fulfilling my dream of writing a novel. Right now it's just a hobby but who knows? There're tons of good one shot collections out there so maybe I can just tailor my dream so that I can be like Dewi Dee Lestari and write bomb oneshot collection novels. 
 

10. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?
I forgot the exact words but it's from one of the WongFu production's member and he said that "the best and worst part of writing is you have full control over your work". It's not even an advice per se but i just love it LOL.
But for a serious advice it's probably "read a lot if you wanna write a lot"
Oh and ofc, "Be drunk when you write, be sober when you edit" = my life 


11. If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?
(why)
uhhhHhhhhhhHHHHHH IDK MAN
YoonJin tho lol who am I kidding. 
 

12. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?
My muse is myself LOL HONESTLY I'm the type of writer that need to pull from things that I've experienced so 
Or well the people I'm crushing at any moment are surefire muses too.
 

13. Describe your perfect writing conditions.
A glass of wine and silence. There.
 

14. How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
Usually twice before posting, then once or twice when they're up to weed out the grammatical error (altho they still have a ton of grammar mistakes even after all that)


15. Choose a passage from one of your earlier fics and edit it into your current writing style. 

"Hey! Are you done yet?" The others greeted us. Ah, at the sight of a chair, I immediately sat down, ignoring their questions.

"No, there was an accident, so they let us rest." Kyuhyun said as he tried hard to held back his laugh.

(from my very first fic in this site. oh god why)

"You're done? That's quick." I ignored their greetings and speedwalked straight to the chair. Screw being nice and dignified. The weirded out frowns that they were giving were no match to the sense of relief that washed over me after I got to cancel the effect of gravity on my poor, poor balls.

"There was an accident," Kyuhyun, that little , started to break out into giggles as he tried his best not to just go out on a guffaw while pointing straight at my face, "so they let us out early."

(well I hOPE you see some improvements)
 

16. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
The first one that came to my mind is "Without You" by taeminki. I wanna just write SOMETHING in that universe. But their writing is just too good I won't ever dare go near it nah man. 


17. How do you feel about ?
lmao I'm a writer so
I love well written , I hate badly written . Simple as that. 
 

18. Talk about a comment that made your day.
Every comments made my day. But I love it when people say "you characterized them well" or "it makes me 'feel things'" or "your writing style is really nice" and omg of course Yoo's comment gotta make it to this section when she said "Also also uMm omg I forgot what I was gonna say OH yeah I'm still wondering why you're not a New York best-selling author with the way you write :I" I mean it's a stretch but thankyou Yoo ily. 


19. Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them?
Not really no. I think someone criticised my grammar once but I know it's so i was just like "yes I know, thankyou for noticing" LOL


20. Write an alternative ending to [insert fic title] (or just the summary of one).
For 'with you i'll watch the world burn', Taeyong managed to reunite with Winwin and they live happily ever after. But I'm not that nice. So no reunion for you. 
 

 

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