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[nny]

Still ficcing merrily away. Distractions, however, are always welcomed.

*ponders*

Er... an easy meme. Ask me a question and I will answer honestly.

Unless the answer impacts on more than just myself, you know how it is. :)


Oh! And I forgot to say, you're welcome to go anonymous.

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I shall ask more than one

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Because I, too, am bored.

1. What's this fic about? Is it fan or original?

2. What do you find most difficult about writing? Easiest?

3. Is there a particular form of literature you'd like to try your hand at (poetry, articles, whatever) but feel you can't? If so, why?

4. How badly does *mine* suck?

5. Favourite folk tales?

6. WHY ISN'T IT LUNCHTIME YET?

Re: I shall ask more than one

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Gracious.

1. It's a Good Omens fanfic, which is essentially immediately post-canon vaguely fluffy dealings. I had intended to be writing a Milliways AU in which Aziraphael fell and brought Lucifer terribly messy presents, but my brain revolted and beat me into submission with snarking and sweetness. Damn brain.

2. I find editing most difficult. Mostly I type things directly into the update box and post and run away. It's very very rare that I will actually save things and go back to them later, because on rereading I tend to think it sucks. Easiest is definitely dialogue; I have a talent for character voice, which is something I've just recently started admitting to myself.

3. I want to write stories. With plot, and length, and suchlike. Only I'm absolutely dreadful at planning and maintaining interest for that long.

4. I don't actually know. I'm horrible! I don't read nearly as much as I ought to, although I've read some of your longer posts and your style of writing is certainly intriguing enough and grammatically correct enough that I suspect I'd enjoy it. You have anything you'd like to recommend to me?

5. Hmm. That's an interesting one, actually. I always liked... um. Very simplistic ones, about taking a horse to market and meeting a faery in the path, that sort of thing. The kind that come in big anthologies and are never interesting enough to get sugar added by Disney.

6. It totally is! Even though I'm eating breakfast!

Re: I shall ask more than one

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

1. You ARE going to post that when you're done, right? ;)

2. Editing is an evil whore. I spent god knows how long trying to get the hang of that, and IMO the only way you can do it effectively is with someone helping you and bringing you tea when you start screaming "WHY DID I WRITE THIS SHITE" and pointing out that it's not really that bad. And, you do. You really do.

3. Writing ahead with scenes that come in later on seems to help with this.

4. Heh, the most popular stuff thus far as been the joint nano project with Z (http://community.livejournal.com/2soldiersinlove/profile), and the twins (http://community.livejournal.com/100originalfics/tag/hamiltwins) (more of that, longer ones, on fuckfiction. I write Harry Potter fanfic only rarely and it's usually disgusting and unreadable and wrong and headdesky.

5. Ayeaye. I've always been fond of the Russian and Norwegian ones myself - the ones with the Really Scary Witches and trolls and where the hero is always called Vassily.

6. My watch says I have half an hour yet! My stomach is going GRRRRMMMMRRRR!

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

What is the sound of an egg giggling?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Listen hard (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v84/villainny/Villainny%20icons/EGG.jpg).

XD

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! The secret of life EGG is revealed!

[unravels.livejournal.com]

*stares at first question's response*

Ooooh, story! *bounces* Will we eventually get to see Aziraphael's messy presents for Lucifer, too? I admit am deeply fascinated and more deeply terrified by fallen Aziraphale stories. I blame Ganster No. 1.

Hmmm, questions. In the interest of actually getting a question out before I have to leave for work, I'm recycling one I have attacked with on another question meme and liked a lot. :D If you could have a perfect photograph of anything, anywhere, any time, what/who would it be?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

...*giggles in faintly horrified manner* Um. Possibly?

Um... Aziraphale and Crowley feeding the ducks? Does that count?

I don't know, really. I mean, most of the subjects with which I'm fascinated are entirely fictional. I'm not huge on history because I never continued with it and don't know nearly enough about Momentous Events to say something hugely deep and meaningful at this point.

I'd kinda like a photo of the Sphinx with its nose. And possibly before, too, since it's been speculated that it was originally a larger statue - the head is out of proportion with the rest of the body so it was possibly Egyptians putting their mark on something from before.

I dunno. I'll keep thinking about this.

[unravels.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd say that counts. I did say it could be anywhere. ;) I have a similar problem with this question and I still haven't come up with my own answer, so it feels like I'm cheating a little. There's a lot I'd really like to see, but as far as all-consuming passion for a historical moment, not so much.

Anyway. How're you? :]

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Also, do you have any zombie contingency plans?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna find Simon Pegg and hide behind him. And possibly raid his tea supplies and play Resident Evil or whatever with him, with the curtains shut, until the danger's over.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

That may be slightly difficult to do from behind someone...

[tropes.livejournal.com]

Are you still scared of me?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I'm not scared of you.

I so absolutely was, but that was just... I dunno. I think it was a depression thing that I'm getting over. I was so fucking bad at seeing things from someone else's perspective. I'm totally working at it, and I'm totally doing better at it, but it's something I still have trouble with.

I had trouble seeing past the front, and the capslock, and the simmering rage that seemed to come across, although it doesn't nearly so much as it did, any more. And that made me wary of talking to you, which meant I never did see past that. My being scared of you was fucking stupid, and I'm really glad it's past.

'cos you fucking rock.

[tropes.livejournal.com]

:x

We loves you, sweet pea.

:)

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[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I totally wouldn't. I'd buy you drinks and me drinks and get sloshed enough to come and stand up and caterwaul with you.

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

yay!

Cause I would toally need someone to caterwaul with... Isha bad bad thing when a Sam sings.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

D'YOU --

D'YOU HAVE LEGS?!

Ummm, describe your favorite outfit.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Brown trousers, wide legged with a faint herringbone look to them. They have turn ups at the bottom, and are long enough to ruck up a little on my shoes. Shoes, yes. Brogue style mary janes, in brown and cream, with brown socks underneath that have ridiculously coloured spots on them. A fifties nylon geometric shirt in black and white and grey and off-white with a large collar, and a dark moss green v-neck jumper over the top of it, so the crazy pattern can only be seen in a thin line at the bottom of the jumper and in the collar. And of course, tweed, because I'm predictable.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Oooooh.

What is a book I should read?

[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

Nnylet, what is your idea of romance? Your own romance, no one else's.

[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

DAMN IT. JI BEAT ME. *SHAKES FIST AT THE JI*

But I love the Ji. Drat it all.

If you could be a coconut anywhere in the world and doing anything, what would you be?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Quirky and idiosyncratic.

A banana covered in carefully biro'd Neruda or a carefully cooked meal or a cup of tea just when I'm feeling at my most down. A hug when I need it. Getting dressed up and going to a gallery and symbolically presenting someone with a work of art that maybe they've never seen before but I know they'll love. A pineapple in y-fronts for valentines day. Things that take thought rather than money. Someone knowing me well enough to know exactly what I like - someone paying enough attention to my ridiculous ramblings and remembering the little things and giving them to me exactly when I'm most in need of them.

Do you believe in love at first sight?

Do you believe in love before that?

[vimeslady.livejournal.com]

I think you asked me this one and then I asked you back but I don't remember ever getting an answer. So if I did (get an answer), I really apologize for forgetting.

Are you religious?