Ask me things

[kawuli]

Cross-posted from Tumblr (I'm paperairplanerace) via phone because I am exhausted and bored.

Ask me questions?

What is your favorite fic you have under your belt?
What is your favorite snippet of dialogue?
What inspired [insert fic]?
Do you prefer writing long or short fics?
What’s your favorite headcanon you use in fics?
What’s the detail you wait on bated breath for readers to notice?
How much do you like symbolism in your fics?
How often do people catch onto your little details?
What’s the fic you like the least?What would you change if you had it all to do again?
What’s a fanfic idea you haven’t done yet?
What’s the hardest thing to write for you?
Do you have a favorite character to write for?
What’s your favorite shipping fic you’ve written?
Favorite gen fic?
Give us a snippet of something from your WiPs!

Comments

[xanify.livejournal.com]

SNIPPET /cough

And because I love details, how about:

What’s the detail you wait on bated breath for readers to notice?
How often do people catch onto your little details?

[kawuli.livejournal.com]

Most of the little details in my fic are worldbuilding things. So there's bits and pieces about d6 scattered haphazardly through all the Rokia fics, and the D9 one has SO MUCH random head canon that I mostly just refer to vaguely because not everyone wants a treatise on agriculture disguised as fic.

The D9 "Tractors..." one is the only one where I'm actually trying to do anything, er, literary? In that the structure and tone is supposed to be a callback to Grapes of Wrath. Otherwise, I'm just writing for fun, there usually aren't deep hidden meanings for things :-P

SNIPPET, from the 71st Tour, which I started writing in Finnick POV before switching to Johanna. It works much better from her POV but I like this bit, so now it can see the light of day:

Finnick will never admit it, least of all to Johanna, but he is profoundly relieved to see her in the Capitol at the end of the Tour.

It’s pretty much the only good thing about the day. She puts in an appearance at the President’s Gala, laughing and only half-drunk with one of the Capitol kids she parties with, and they leave pretty much right after the President welcomes the new Victor girl. Rokia -- Finnick pulls himself back from the distance he’s falling into, she’s Rokia. She looks different here, of course, from how she looked in Four, carefully crafted the way everything is in the Capitol. And you have to know what you’re looking for to see the fear in her eyes.

Her mentor looks worse, tense and furious and radiating guilt and rage from his position at the edge of the room. Phillips would hate this party even if it had nothing to do with his miracle girl getting turned out for the Capitol sharks to catch her scent. The one persistently sober mentor from Six isn’t exactly friendly, he’s gruff and standoffish and disapproving by default, but word has it he broke down and cried when his girl won.

Finnick wonders how he’s reacting to everything that comes with Victory. Gets a drink, because he doesn’t want to fucking think about it, works the room with his mind far away.

[xanify.livejournal.com]

Hahhh Finnick /o\

Poor non-Two Victors and the way the Capitol uses them.

[kawuli.livejournal.com]

Break them in or break them down. SO GROSS.

[kawuli.livejournal.com]

Oh also details: all the little Mali/West Africa things I use for D6. They're fun :)