Talking about writing

Man, I totally forgot that for the December monthly writing challenge at sailormoonland , we are supposed to write a WAFF-y holiday story, not just any kind of holiday story. Now I'm going to have to start over from scratch, because the story I was writing was a sad one and I can't really think of a way to turn it into a happy ending without going AU. And I was almost halfway through, too! *sigh* Oh, well, I might go ahead and finish this story anyway for Christmas if I have time. (Major "if".)

Speaking of time, I probably won't be posting a new chapter of Melting Ice next month, since I have next to nothing written for it. Just a heads up. There's just way too much going on at sailormoonland  this month with the Advent Calender challenges on top of all the regular challenges too. (Yeah, I know I don't have to do everything, but I can't help myself!) Fans of To Be By Your Side have no need to worry; Chapter 10 will be coming out in early January on schedule.

To cap off this writing update, here's an interesting meme I happened to come across:

I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are like, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" Which isn't so much talking about stories as it is writing more of a story. But you know how sometimes you read something and you're like, "I got ___ out of this story, I wonder if that right?" or "What on earth was ____ supposed to be?" and it's too awkward to ask the author? Now you could totally ask!

I've heard people say that writing is hard because you have to make decisions, but we never really talk about the decisions we make with stories or why we make them. We talk about plot bunnies, but not about how we actually turn them into a story.

And it seems like a lot more fun to do that than to do working.

So, if you wanted, ask me questions!

What were you trying to do [here]? Why did you decide to ____? This is what I thought about xyz, is that what you were going for? What made you write ____? And so on.


In a nutshell, feel free to ask me "why" or "how" questions about any of my stories.