Ask the Author Meme

[attackfish]

Ganked from avocado_love.



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 I have 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! (Or use this to ask your flist to ask you 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 ____? Why did you decide to do this? And so on.


No limit on questions or amount of questions; feel free to ask anything you want about anything I've written!

Comments

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

As for the title, it wasn't just the old saying, but one of the meanings behind it. Part of the reason (north-western European) sailors thought women were such bad luck was that they were so ignorant and knew so little about sea custom that they might whistle up a storm. So rather than teaching women coming on a ship the way they would a man, they just tried to keep them off and were sullen to them when they had to have them there.

And the thought was that women would do this by accident. I think sometimes raising a storm does some good.