Quid pro quo, Clarice.

[sarashina]

So I just came off a hellacious couple of weeks (which I will explain properly sometime soon) and I am feeling FREE AS THE WIND BLOWS. Best part? So many of my mental processes have been freed up, and I've been thinking about writing a lot more than I have been lately. Which feels so, so good.

I was thinking of a simple exercise I used to do with writing partners - I was actually telling moonsheen about it the other day - and I thought I'd put it up here so that we all could play.

Here's how it goes: you ask me a question about a writing project, I answer, and ask a question about yours. Simple as that! It could be about a specific project, or something in general (like, say, "Who is your most ____ character?" or something like that.) And the questions can keep going back and forth for as long as you like.

I've always found that it's easier to get enthusiastic about a project and dive right into it when you can share your enthusiasm with someone else. And there are my ulterior motives, of course - I get to find out about everyone else's writing, too.

Just to remind you all, my big projects are:

Completed:
In Descending Order
Grandmaster Draw

In progress:
Catalyst
The Imperial Guard
The Hungry Ground
Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law

And there are also short stories like "The Mountain Sleeps" (and the not-yet-written universe based around that story), and cowriting and such.

Let's play?

Comments

[lacunarity.livejournal.com]

I'll bite!

What character surprises you the most when you write him/her?

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

*BODYSLAMS THIS POST

What sort of antics would you like in future coprojecting?

[sandvich.livejournal.com]

Oh, this looks like fun! ♥

What types of settings do you prefer to write? When you write fantasy, how much of your worldbuilding is done beforehand and how much of it is supplemented as you go along?

[evilsimon.livejournal.com]

How do you get a sense for how characters will interact? Does the relationship come before the fully-formed personality, vice versa, or simultaneously?

oh god incoherency

[ivory-and-horn.livejournal.com]

Have you ever unshipped any your characters? In the sense that the idea of them together provokes a reaction like "oh man that would be a train crash of EPIC PROPORTIONS".

[glass-icarus.livejournal.com]

FAVORITE CRACK PAIRING(S)? ;D

[cerine.livejournal.com]

Me, me! I wanna start insane comment chains wit' chu. <3

Um, um. Hhmmm. Are there any 'ships of certain characters that you'd absolutely would dislike? The ones that make you go "Dear gods, no, never, eeewww, where is my pumice stone?"

I swear I did not just have a brownie with coffee. I am lying, of course.

[quatredeathlady.livejournal.com]

This looks like fun! I read most the other comments to try and not repeat a question, but...there are a lot of questions already, so I might. If you've answered this already, I'll come up with another. XD

How organized or disorganized do you consider your writing process, and why do you think that process works well for you? (For example, do you plot everything out very meticulously before you sit down to write anything, or do you just write and see where it goes and tweak later, etc.)