The Friday Five for 8 November 2024

[anais_pf]

Since NaNoWriMo is this month, here are some writing themed questions from pebbleinalake.

1. Where do you get ideas/inspo for your writing?

2. Do you have a favorite place to write?

3. What are your tricks for getting through writers block?

4. Favorite genre to write? Do you have a different favorite genre for reading?

5. What is something you really want to write but haven't gotten around to yet?

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[toothpastepancake]

https://cutopen.dreamwidth.org/4372.html

[intothisshadow]

I answered :) https://intothisshadow.dreamwidth.org/602852.html

[vaxhacker]

My responses are here in honor of both NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo.

[supermario128]

Here are my answers.

[guildrone]

Hi all, first time here—and what a nifty little concept!

[cornerofmadness]

You can find mine here.

[catness]

https://catness.dreamwidth.org/574781.html

[smallhobbit]

My answers are here: https://smallhobbit.dreamwidth.org/514693.html

[wearing_tearing]

Here!

[sallymn]

1. Where do you get ideas/inspo for your writing?
I only wish I knew, then I could go and mine more of 'em... some from my own reading, some from things I hear when I am out and about, some just from the weird and wonderful clutter in my own head... an appalling number when I am totally unable to write the damn thing down which means that by the time I do, it has morphed into something else. Oh, the things I will never write as I first thought of them....

2. Do you have a favorite place to write?
The armchair I am in right now, with a lap 'stable table' or small side table for my laptop and coffee by my side :)

3. What are your tricks for getting through writers block?
Firstly wail and whimper and complain. Then brainstorm. And then (if there is a deadline) write the first thing that comes into my head.

4. Favorite genre to write? Do you have a different favorite genre for reading?
Fantasy and comedy, with a leaning towards meta as well... but it's whatever comes. I am not picky.

5. What is something you really want to write but haven't gotten around to yet?
I don't think there is something, unless you count the topics of my oh so loweringly large pile of WIPs...

[lilly_c]

1. Where do you get ideas/inspo for your writing? Life, fandom itself usually something within canon, behind the scenes or interviews, weird and wonderful news (those bits of "news" that don't fit in any category can be good to look through)

2. Do you have a favourite place to write? wherever the laptop is so sofa, kitchen, bed and of course I have a PC so sometimes my desk too. When I'm out and about, as long as I can get a table in a pub or a café I can handwrite a fair bit in my notebook in those places it's just reading through it later that can be tricky.

3. What are your tricks for getting through writers block? change projects if there's several on the go, do some art bits (icons, wallpapers etc), watch something else, take a break for a day or so then go back to it, putting the music on and listening on headphones rather than speakers.

4. Favourite genre to write? Do you have a different favourite genre for reading? I only write fanfic. Usually non-fiction, crime/mystery, some sci-fi and horror. Reading fic tends to be whatever fandom/ship/character I'm obsessed with but sometimes I'll read fandom/ship/character that I have no knowledge of too.

5. What is something you really want to write but haven't gotten around to yet There's a few! Although I'm not writing Taggart fic anymore I wanted to do a ep tag fic to The Best and the Brightest which was going to deal with everything glossed over in the ep (reducing the times from almost 3 hours to just under an hour really hurt the show!) same fandom, I wanted to do a ep tag fic around Skin Deep to address all of those complicated relationship feels and also an ep tag around the Falling In Love/Death Trap/Fire Burn trilogy which had Jackie's wedding, Burke's arrival and Michael's murder but I never got to it. Pretty sure I had some notes for each of those back when I was writing fic for it but likely lost them. My main WIPs in Wycliffe, SG-1 and L&O: SVU that I talked about a little bit here are included.