The Day of Many Memes
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meddowNabbed from the many on my f-list who have done this recently.
The Post One Sentence From Your WiPs Meme
If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence (or more) from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favourite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your discretion. Mention the title (and genre) if you like, but don't mention anything else -- this is merely to whet the general appetite for your forthcoming work(s).
At the sight of his unguarded smile, Elizabeth wished then that she could truly dislike James Norrington.
- Absence
“Governor. I do appreciate your sentiments. However, I find myself in an impossible situation. Either I am the only one who is right and the entirety of Port Royal is in danger and nobody believes me. Or I am mad, and since even a brief foray into insanity should not be tolerated in an officer, I should resign my commission.”
- Untitled Norrington/Tia Dalma Mystery/Horror
Tonks seemed to be thinking for a second. “Oh,” she said, a look of recognition on her face. “Dung stole it….I was just trying it on.” She seemed distracted, distant all of a sudden. “I though I took it off…obviously not,” she said making a brief half smile he knew to try and stop him from worrying.
- The Locket
“I meant Muggles. If you had fallen in love with a Muggle I would not have cared. But Remus is diseased! And I…” Andromeda yelled at her daughter.
- From not yet published Chapter Nine of Growing
The problem was, with a pro-environment and anti-nuclear policy, not to mention the public distaste for genetic engineering, there was a lack of effective means to acquire superpowers in the first place.
- From my original novel
The Fanfic Writer's Meme
Keyboard or biro?
Keyboard. I need to be able to cut and paste. Though I do have some fics that have started off life as something scribbled onto a piece of refil in the university library.
Beta or no beta?
I'm 50/50 I think. Which is appalling since my spelling and grammar skills are just awful [slaps wrist].
Plot?
Plots are essential in fics over 500 words IMHO, for both me to read them and write them. So I've very pro-plot.
Title?
Some come automatically in my head with the plot bunny, like Hostile Takeover and The Illusion of Whole, but usually I really struggle to come up with something and I end up with my novel length having the worst title ever.
Smushy or smutty?
Can I go with neither. I think I'm awful at both and try to distract from that by giving my fic a plot.
Summary?
Same with titles, either come with the bunny or don't come at all and I struggle.
Funniest fic?
Hostile Takeover since I like humour to be in the dialogue.
Most popular fic?
Hostile Takeover again. By far.
Best and Worst?
I'm quite happy with The Illusion of Whole at the moment. Worst is definatly Vanity, Thy Name is Hippogriff. I've a very early fic and I just could not pull that type of narration off.
Coulda been Contenders?
I keep on meaning to fill in the gaps between Paper Aeroplanes and ADC Case 1229. There is three fics in there: a set of letter written between Remus and Tonks during PoA, a fic dealing with the fallout from the Shrieking Shack incident and an adventure/mystery set in Albania shortly before the third task.
There was also this Black Sisters fic I wrote last summer where they were triplets. Bellatrix got expelled and while the others were at school she got knocked up, went nuts and Andromeda and Narcissa came home to find her about to kill the baby. By then JKR brought out the Black family tree and made it AU so I didn't bother with it anymore.
Strengths
Characterisation and, I've been told, humour.
Weaknesses?
Spelling, grammar, my complete inability to write a nice romance fic or smut. Details.
Dirty Little Secrets?
I was really, really bad at high school English. Eventually I dropped it in favour of biology.
The Post One Sentence From Your WiPs Meme
If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence (or more) from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favourite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your discretion. Mention the title (and genre) if you like, but don't mention anything else -- this is merely to whet the general appetite for your forthcoming work(s).
At the sight of his unguarded smile, Elizabeth wished then that she could truly dislike James Norrington.
- Absence
“Governor. I do appreciate your sentiments. However, I find myself in an impossible situation. Either I am the only one who is right and the entirety of Port Royal is in danger and nobody believes me. Or I am mad, and since even a brief foray into insanity should not be tolerated in an officer, I should resign my commission.”
- Untitled Norrington/Tia Dalma Mystery/Horror
Tonks seemed to be thinking for a second. “Oh,” she said, a look of recognition on her face. “Dung stole it….I was just trying it on.” She seemed distracted, distant all of a sudden. “I though I took it off…obviously not,” she said making a brief half smile he knew to try and stop him from worrying.
- The Locket
“I meant Muggles. If you had fallen in love with a Muggle I would not have cared. But Remus is diseased! And I…” Andromeda yelled at her daughter.
- From not yet published Chapter Nine of Growing
The problem was, with a pro-environment and anti-nuclear policy, not to mention the public distaste for genetic engineering, there was a lack of effective means to acquire superpowers in the first place.
- From my original novel
The Fanfic Writer's Meme
Keyboard or biro?
Keyboard. I need to be able to cut and paste. Though I do have some fics that have started off life as something scribbled onto a piece of refil in the university library.
Beta or no beta?
I'm 50/50 I think. Which is appalling since my spelling and grammar skills are just awful [slaps wrist].
Plot?
Plots are essential in fics over 500 words IMHO, for both me to read them and write them. So I've very pro-plot.
Title?
Some come automatically in my head with the plot bunny, like Hostile Takeover and The Illusion of Whole, but usually I really struggle to come up with something and I end up with my novel length having the worst title ever.
Smushy or smutty?
Can I go with neither. I think I'm awful at both and try to distract from that by giving my fic a plot.
Summary?
Same with titles, either come with the bunny or don't come at all and I struggle.
Funniest fic?
Hostile Takeover since I like humour to be in the dialogue.
Most popular fic?
Hostile Takeover again. By far.
Best and Worst?
I'm quite happy with The Illusion of Whole at the moment. Worst is definatly Vanity, Thy Name is Hippogriff. I've a very early fic and I just could not pull that type of narration off.
Coulda been Contenders?
I keep on meaning to fill in the gaps between Paper Aeroplanes and ADC Case 1229. There is three fics in there: a set of letter written between Remus and Tonks during PoA, a fic dealing with the fallout from the Shrieking Shack incident and an adventure/mystery set in Albania shortly before the third task.
There was also this Black Sisters fic I wrote last summer where they were triplets. Bellatrix got expelled and while the others were at school she got knocked up, went nuts and Andromeda and Narcissa came home to find her about to kill the baby. By then JKR brought out the Black family tree and made it AU so I didn't bother with it anymore.
Strengths
Characterisation and, I've been told, humour.
Weaknesses?
Spelling, grammar, my complete inability to write a nice romance fic or smut. Details.
Dirty Little Secrets?
I was really, really bad at high school English. Eventually I dropped it in favour of biology.
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Date: 2006-08-22 02:53 am (UTC)I'd love to readthe one whereAndromeda is being a hypocrit. "Remus is diseased" - does she want to set off the inner Remus
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Date: 2006-08-22 04:44 am (UTC)Andromeda's heart is in the right place, even if she does come across as a hypocrite.
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Date: 2006-08-22 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-23 10:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-22 03:03 am (UTC)And now I have something to fill out.
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Date: 2006-08-22 04:48 am (UTC)