Writer Meme

[red_lasbelin]

Snagged from keiliss, ilye_elf and others.

Ask me a question about one of my fics or series. It can be absolutely anything in any project and I will tell you the honest-to-goodness answer (even on the progress/plans for next chapters of current series).

Don’t hold back. Whatever you ask, I’ll answer as truthfully and as completely as possible. You can also ask about my writing as a whole, if you like.

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[minuial_nuwing]

Do you have a vision of the future in Valinor for your Haldir and Elladan from 'There Moves a Thread'? Where will they settle? How will their families react, since it seems their relationship is still semi-secret?

And what sort of bribe would convince you to write about it? :D

[red-lasbelin.livejournal.com]

Not ignoring this - I have a notepad file with the starting sentence of a ficlet with Dan and Hal. I need to just get a little quiet space to sit down and write it. If I told you in a comment, I probably wouldn't write it. :(

[minuial_nuwing]

**waits patiently**

[ilye-elf.livejournal.com]

What is it that makes you absolutely have to sit down and write?

[red-lasbelin.livejournal.com]

Deadlines, lol. I'm a horrible procrastinator, plus perfectionist, plus I have a tiny voice in my head saying, "you are not a writer." So external force is often needed to make me sit down, to make me start something. Usually once the story is going, it's because I want to see where it ends up - the best stories, I'm figuring the details as I go along.

Unfortunately, for me, if I start seeing a story in my mind and finding out all the little details that make it breathe, I don't tend to ever get the story on the page. (I have lost so many ideas to that, and now I can't remember the stories I've made up in my head.)

But - love of characters makes me write, when I get past my issues. Of seeing something, a whisp of something, and wanting to try and share it, get it out of my head and onto paper.

Dunno if that makes any sense. Hard question, had to think about it.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

When you've finished avoiding MA because you think you can't write it, where to next?

*leaves, cackling*

[red-lasbelin.livejournal.com]

Not a clue. I still want to write a sequel to Fifteen Years, and I have a bunny nibbling on my toes about Ghosts. If only I had the discipline to actually sit down and write it.

[levade001.livejournal.com]

If you had supreme confidence and no doubts at all, a perfect idea and the words were flowing, what story would you tell us?

[red-lasbelin.livejournal.com]

Three things:

1. If I didn't mind being laughed out of fandom, I would write a AU story about Galadriel having an early, illicit affair with Manwe, and a secret love child, Glorfindel. It all goes pear-shaped, she crosses the ice and Glorfindel grows up, watches the future events unfold, and the family issues, the identity question and consequences/tensions. I don't know where the idea came from, but I like it. I think people would think it is utterly ridiculous and not inline with canon and stupid, though, so - not likely to ever be written.

2. I would finish my story idea for Muse's Anatomy, my elven medical soap opera. But the ideal of trying to write hospital/healthcare related details, plus a story that has so many threads and is so large, intimidates the hell out of me.

3. I would write a Glorfindel/Gil-galad, meeting in Valinor for the first time, and getting to know each other, and eventually falling in love, interspersed with memories from their previous lives, a good look at Valinor's politics, how they spend their time in Valinor and their respective families and friends. But I have no confidence in writing Gil, at all. I love him, but I've seen him written so well, between you and Kei, that I feel my poor attempts don't do him justice.