Admin: volunteer for question #3!

[sage]

Yay, we've gotten off to a great start! Now we need someone to step up and tackle a third question.

Here's a recap of the guidelines.

What: Snag a question from the list and write something up that addresses the topic.

Who: If you've got a fair amount of writing experience under your belt, you are absolutely welcome to volunteer.

How: Pick ANY question from the list that you feel like you can answer based on your own experience writing fic. You don't have to cover all the angles -- just enough to set up a discussion.

When: Now! *g* We'd like to see your post go up any time between 2/23 and 2/28!


Format guidelines: Please put the question in and behind the cut and the general topic in the subject line (use #1 as a template if you like). If you'd like to use specific examples to illustrate a point, it would probably be best to make them up for the sake of discussion. Critiquing pro-fic is one thing, but I'm of a mind that fanfic is a gift of love and ripping it apart without authorial permission (and participation) is just not cool. Besides, most of us know each other, and hi, we're the fandom of relentless, Fraser-like courtesy, yes? *g*


Again, this is a Q&A series, so the Question AND the Answer should inspire discussion. You don't need to cover every angle in your answer -- just offer your take on the solution and open the floor for comments to explore it further. :D

It's first come, first serve, so if you're up for doing the next one, please comment here!

Thanks!! :D


ETA: Anyone can add more questions to the list at any time! Just leave a comment in that post.


ETA #2: vienna_waits has asked to be on deck for the exposition question the FOLLOWING week, and I'm cool with that. But we still need someone to grab a question to respond to sometime between 2/23 and 2/28! YAY sprat to the rescue with kissing! Woohoo!! \o/

Comments

[vienna-waits.livejournal.com]

I'd like to tackle the question about how to write/insert exposition, but can I plead for the #4 position? I am crazy busy this week and won't have time to write up a proper post until the beginning of March (3/3 or therabouts). But this question does interest me and I have some concrete ideas about how to answer it.

[sage]

Sure! And yay! (I'm fighting with the stupid exposition in...well, actually I fight with the stupid exposition in everything I write, so this would be awesome!) :D

*edits post*

[sage]

Heya! Sprat ran a little late, but she's just posted. Would it be possible for you to post on exposition sometime between this Friday and next Tuesday? (Friday is great if you have it ready, but Tuesday's also totally okay if you want some more time on it.)

Yay workshop!! :D

[sprat.livejournal.com]

I have some thoughts about writing kissing and/or sex scenes. I'm still going to be mostly offline until the end of this week, but I could have it ready for posting by the 28th. Will that work?

[sage]

Oh, that would be FABULOUS!!! Thank you so much!

And hurray kissing and/or sex scenes! \o/

[dkwilliams.livejournal.com]

I'd be willing to tackle china_shop's question:

4. How to know when you've reached the end. I often cut off as soon as I see an exit sign, but sometimes that's too early, but I don't figure that out until much later.

Since I've done this topic before on a writers' list, I've got it pretty well written out, so I could do it at any time, now or a couple weeks out.

[sage]

Oh, that would be very cool! Endings are so hard to see sometimes, so that would be awesome. :) As far as when to post, I'm a little leery of stacking too many topics too close together -- I really want every question to have a chance for some discussion to happen before we move onto the next thing -- so would it be okay if you planned to post two or three days after vienna_waits covers exposition?

[dkwilliams.livejournal.com]

Sure! I can even wait a week if that makes more sense, to allow discussions to flow on the other topic. Just let me know when and I'm there.

[sage]

Woot! Thank you! \o/

[sage]

Heya! vienna_waits posted this morning! :D Do you think it would be possible for you to do your endings post sometime between this Thursday and next Monday?

[dkwilliams.livejournal.com]

Will do! I have it written; I'll just fine-tune it this week and post it this weekend.

[the_antichris.livejournal.com]

Yay! Kissing! *cannot wait*

And in the spirit of the Fandom Appreciation Challenge, I wanted to say how much I'm loving this question series - it's already been incredibly useful.

[sage]

Yayayay! Thank you, I'm SO glad! This series is turning out even better than I'd hoped! \o/

And also, sprat's kissing post is expected very soon and I'm soooo excited about it. *G*

[vienna-waits.livejournal.com]

*waves* My exposition post is nearly done, although it is CRAZY LONG (including excerpts from fic and canon, it is probably going to clock in at around 3,000 words). Could I possibly have one of our fine mods beta this puppy before it goes out, see if some of it needs to be cut, explicitated, whatever? It's such a huge subject, and maybe I need to focus more tightly. Help?

[sage]

Yayayayayay! I'm so excited about this one bc I STRUGGLE with it like you wouldn't believe. And yes, I'd be happy to look at the draft! Email me @ sageness at gmail & I'll have a look. :D

[vienna-waits.livejournal.com]

I just have two more paragraphs to flesh out (and probably two more examples to find) and a conclusion to write. I promise to send it to you tonight or tomorrow morning (EST) at the very latest. Thank you kindly in advance!

[vienna-waits.livejournal.com]

You've got mail! :-)