Ask the author meme

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.

This is a pretty great meme!  Especially as I've just finished the draft of my white_lotus fic, and am tossing up whether I'm ready to go back to completing the Epic Tophzula (aka the Avatar Big Bang fic) or make a start on the next project. 

Of course, if anyone did want to ask, "What happens next?" or "Tell me about Character A", that's cool as well. 

Questions relating to my Avatar fic will be especially well-received, mostly because I'm more likely to remember what I was thinking with those.