Writer's Meme

[brightly_lit]

Because it looks SO FUN!

Put a number in the comments and I’ll answer accordingly. The mission for those of us who answer the questions, should we accept it, is to stay positive about our writing and ourselves, but to also be fair about our shortcomings.


1. Of the fic you’ve written, of which are you most proud?
2. Favorite tense
3. Favorite POV
4. What are some themes you love writing about?
5. What inspires you to write?
6. Thoughts on critique
7. Create a character on the spot... NOW!
8. Is there a character you love writing for the most? The least? Why?
9. A passage from a WIP
10. What are your strengths in writing?
11. What are your weaknesses in writing?
12. Anything else that you want to know... (otherwise known as Fill in the Blank)

Comments

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

I can see hating him--he's so awful and relentless and irrational, but as a character he's SO. MUCH. FUN.

Doncha hate it when you feel one way about something and the people you're watching it with feel exactly the opposite so you don't get to revel in it?? That has happened to me SO often, because I always seem to feel differently from everyone around me ...

[kalliel]

God he's HYSTERICAL, THOUGH. XD I mean, not all the time. But yes, exactly, he is so much fun. And for a crazed lunatic, pretty incredulous of the crazed lunacy of others. (His reaction to Kubrick's revelation that Sam Winchester is the anti Christ = priceless. XD)

I HATE IT VERY MUCH. ): And sometimes it gets me so nervous/distracted that it's hard to actually enjoy the thing I'm watching and I know I'd otherwise be enjoying.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Yes, hysterical! Increasingly as time goes on, too.

BAHAS I forgot about his reaction to Kubrick--because that's the thing: Gordon IS smart and competent and rational after his fashion; it's that his perspective is skewed JUUUST far enough that he's, as previously mentioned, batshit. But you can see how he got to that point, which is yet another thing that makes him such a great fucking character.

And sometimes it gets me so nervous/distracted that it's hard to actually enjoy the thing I'm watching and I know I'd otherwise be enjoying.

YEEESSS.

[kalliel]

I maintain that Gordon Walker was then what other hunters probably feel the Winchesters are now.

"Good hunter. BUT DON'T YOU WORK WITH THEM. THEY ARE PSYCHOPATHS."

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

This is such a great point. And that's such a wonderful moment with Ellen, "Sure, he's a good hunter--NO, DON'T WORK WITH HIM!" She does, after all, say people tend to get hurt when they do. Maybe that's what all hunters eventually become ...

As I recall, Sera was the one who really got the good stuff going with Gordon. And watching S2, I'm growing convinced she's one of the few who really knows how to write Dean, too. (Come back, Sera!)

[kalliel]

Omg, circa S6 fandom spoke AT LENGTH about how much of a Samgirl Sera was and how biased she was towards him vs. Dean and I was like ARE YOU KIDDING ME. Sera is the Deanest of all Dean!girls and a H/Cer to boot. XDD Though I will give Carver credit for picking up for S9, because I like what he's doing (and not doing) with Dean right now quite a bit. Not that being a hot mess is at all flattering, I mean. But I think it should be allowed.

Butttttt Sera will forever be the only writer I've ever trusted to the ends of the earth; Kripke included. In interviews she could say the dumbest things--things that I knew she knew were not even true--but at least I also knew that the place from which she spoke was very rarely the place from which she actually practice and wrote. XD Oh Sera. <3

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

SERA GOT THEM BOTH but you are so right, she SOOO gets Dean. That's so funny that fandom was saying that. Well, not FUNNY, but, you know, cringey.

(I'm going to whisper here that I didn't trust Kripke at all and with a couple of exceptions his scripts weren't so good BUT HEY, THE SHOWRUNNER DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A GREAT WRITER, JUST A GREAT SHOWRUNNER AND HE WAS.)

I would be interested to hear what these dumb things were that she said. Carver says dumb things, too, and Singer; I think maybe behind-the-camera people get overexcited and blurt out something when they don't know what to say or something. Except Edlund. Dude talks like he thinks in uber-intellectual poetics.

[kalliel]

Kripke nailed horror, and I will always respect him for that, but if SPN were stranded on a desert island I would send Sera to save it. XD

Ahaha omg, Sera. Well, the summer between S5 and S6 I wasn't spoiler-free yet, and I swear to god she just kept talking. XD I'm reasonably certain we knew the plot to over half of S6 before July was out. But she'd say things like, oh man, Dean's that guy who just likes to have fun!

And I'd be like, Sera. We're halfway through S7. Sam is Great Wall of Sam-ing it, Castiel was Godstiel and is now (however temporarily Deadstiel), Bobby's dead, they're wanted by the FBI, they have no Impala, people have expressed concern over Dean's mental health in every single episode so far, and he's expressed suicidal ideations in like, half of those--up to and including threats of murder-suicide. THIS IS PROBABLY SO FAR FROM THE OPPOSITE OF FUN IT WOULD BE STUPID TO EVEN THINK ABOUT "LIKING TO JUST HAVE FUN." XP I KNOW YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT.

Ahhh, Sera. <3 Oh yeah, Carver totally stays dumb things, and Singer possibly the dumbest, though he often opts not to say anything at all, which I respect, baha. I have complicated, wary feelings about Edlund. XP