A short set of writing questions.

[silveradept]

kindkit did a questions set about composition and fic creation, and enough of the questions are interesting to me that I thought I might also try answering it, because what is a journaling site for, if not journaling games, right?

1. Describe your comfort zone—a typical-you fic.
   
   Relatively short and firmly grounded in my conception of what the world is like, or, alternately, building an entire narrative around a single scene, action, or gag (often punny). (People who have read my fic, what do you think that answer is?)


2. Is there a trope you've yet to try your hand at, but really want to?
   
   Omegaverse, but probably not the regular version of it, mostly because there's a lot about it that I kind of tilt my head at and go "no, we can do better than that." So classification and caste systems, sure, possibly even heat and mating cycles, but all of it done with people who have the advantages of as much technology and societal familiarity as they can muster against it. (Even though, yes, it's very much a sex trope that evolved a society around it.) Knowing me, I'd probably be writing beta role POV in a few of them, because it really feels like there's an "outside observer and snark" space available to the people who aren't in the constant striving of alpha and omega.


3. Is there a trope you wouldn't touch with at ten-foot pole?
   
   I can write things that require the Archive Warnings (and things with other possible content warnings that aren't the Archive Warnings), but I really don't like writing a lot of things that are actively cruel and evil to characters that haven't established themselves as deserving it. Sometimes, it's the canon that does the work for me in fic, sometimes, I have to do it myself. I might be able to make things work for me if I know there's the comfort part happening after the hurt, but I don't really do much for the hurt part unless I have to or it's someone that I feel that's deserved it.


4. How many fic ideas are you nuturing right now? Care to share one of them?
   
   I tend to not have a thousand plot bunnies running through my head. If you look at most of my work, you'll find that it's the exchange circuit, writing to other people's ideas. (Even though, since I'm on the exchange circuit, I'm coming up with fragments and plots as possible requests for others to write.) Writing on the circuit also keeps me busy trying to put things together for others. Occasionally, someone doesn't provide prompts or a description, and I end up writing the thing I would have written myself for them, but for the most part, I'm focusing on the next deadline.
   
   That said, there is one persistent idea that I'm trying to grapple around, and probably should get caught up to canon with to see if it shakes loose any other ideas on how to proceed, but it's way too fragmentary at this point to be worth anything, even though I've written at least one work in the universe of that space. I feel like I probably need to know more to be able to write more of it.