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I officially fail at productivity today, so let's try this instead:
Pic a fic/series/thing and some numbers:
1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?
2: What scene did you first put down?
3: What's your favorite line of narration?
4: What's your favorite line of dialogue?
5: What part was hardest to write?
6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?
7: Where did the title come from?
8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?
9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?
10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?
11: What do you like best about this fic?
12: What do you like least about this fic?
13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?
14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?
15: What did you learn from writing this fic?
Pic a fic/series/thing and some numbers:
1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?
2: What scene did you first put down?
3: What's your favorite line of narration?
4: What's your favorite line of dialogue?
5: What part was hardest to write?
6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?
7: Where did the title come from?
8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?
9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?
10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?
11: What do you like best about this fic?
12: What do you like least about this fic?
13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?
14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?
15: What did you learn from writing this fic?
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The Line Between Hunger and Anger: 2, 5, 8, 11, 13
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I wrote this one in order, pretty much. I knew I wanted to bring Sara into this one more, but I didn't want you to have to already have read all the Rokia stuff for it to make sense, so I tried to write the D6 tour scene as an introduction to Sara, who she was and her connection to Rokia and at least enough to go on from there.
5. What part was hardest to write?
Man, this one was just hard. I had the bones of the story by the time I'd finished Tractors, but figuring out the details of all the scenes and the logistics and stuff, idk it just took a lot of thinking, at a time when I didn't have a lot of spare brainpower to devote to it. So it really dragged on. I probably should have done some more work revising before I posted but by that point I just wanted it to be DONE. It'll do.
8. Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?
Noooooot really? The background stuff from Tractors still (er, i did these out of order, whoops), but not much other than that.
11. What do you like best about this fic?
That I finished it? XD okay, I like how... tight?... it ended up. There's not a lot of words but a lot of stuff happens. It makes for an interesting contrast with Tractors, which feels very slow by comparison, although they're about the same length and Tractors actually covers a longer time span. There's a lot more urgency to this installment, which makes sense given what's happening.
13. What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?
Oh hey this is the one case where I actually do have a specific album. For the series, really, F#A#∞ by Godspeed! You Black Emperor ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKIFMVLfmdg ). It's precisely the right thing for post-apocalyptic agrarian cyberpunk dystopia. And apart from the beginning there's no words so it's good for writing.
The series title is from the first track, and actually the other title option I was thinking about for "The line between hunger and anger" was "The skyline was beautiful on fire" from here, but I decided to stick with Grapes of Wrath quotes.