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[kawuli]

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?

Comments

[lorata.livejournal.com]

1, 2, 5, 14 (bonus 9 :D) for the Rokia in the Arena!

[kawuli.livejournal.com]

1. What inspired you to write the fic this way?
Ha, well I basically had written backstory and post-arena stuff and went “WELP I guess I really should write the actual Games part.” Plus I think you’d just written the part of the Alec one where Creed dies and I was like ….oooookay time to do the thing

2. What scene did you first put down?
I wrote the part with Phillips and Brutus after she wins on my phone on a long car ride with annoying people in Mali, actually! Ha I think that was one of the evaluation trips I had to do with USAID people @_@ I think I wrote the Creed bit early too, after you wrote that part of the Alec fic. Other than that I pretty much wrote it in order.

5. What part was hardest to write?
The Arena parts in general, because it’s such a weird mix of “literally nothing happens” and “oh shit gotta kill a child now” and like…that’s a weird mix? And writing from the POV of someone who’s basically trying not to die of starvation and/or exposure while completely isolated from other people for a couple of weeks and then also having to kill people when the worst she’s ever done is get into fistfights…..that’s not easy to do. Not sure how well I did at that tbh but oh well.

14. Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?
I mean, mostly it’s the introduction to Rokia and Phillips as characters, I think? The Arena in itself is definitely not the most important thing about their stories, except in that it’s the catalyst for everything that comes after. So I mostly wanted the important character bits to come through, Rokia’s wary tough practical stubbornness and Phillips being in over his head and still determined to do right by his girl.

9. Were there any alternate versions of this fic?
Well there’s the one where she wins in 68, but this one is better :) And the Sara-POV one was fun, because Sara’s perspective is so outside the Games Industrial Complex—she doesn’t keep track of who wins or what happens, doesn’t watch gossip or analysis or anything, so she’s really coming at things without knowing how they’re supposed to go. And it was interesting to think about what’d happen in Six while Rokia was away, and from that for Sara to realize just how much Rokia’s juggling constantly up to that point (poor kid).