Fanfic memes
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misscamCam's Meme of the Week:
A fic challenge. Give me one - it can be anything. Though try to make it something I can actually write (if I don't know the fandom, for instance, I can't really write it. Ask if you're unsure if I know a fandom or not). I will pick one from the offered suggestions and write it. Be as specific or broad as you want. Feel free to post anon if you don't want me to know who is suggesting it.
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gehayi
1. You're a handsome devil. What’s your name?
Camilla, Cam or Miss Cam as I'm often known as.
2. Ever write under any other name?
No.
3. Look around you. How did you end up here?
I was born. I was raised. When I was 14, I read Lord of the Rings. When I was 18, I got the Internet and played around in several fandoms. When the movies came, I was lured here and have stayed. So far.
4. Favourite line from the song you're listening to right now, or last listened to?
"We can weigh all the tears in one hand
Against the laughter in the other
We could be hanging around here for centuries
Trying to make sense of this, my dear
While the planets try to get organised
Way above the stratosphere
But they keep bringing out the dead, now
It's easy if we just walk away
They keep bringing out the dead, now
It's been a long, long day."
Nick Cave, Messiah Ward (from the album Abbatoir Blues)
5. What's the last movie you saw that inspired something ficcish in you?
Oy. I suppose that will have to be Return of the King.
6. Is there a character you'd like to write, but can't-- and why the hell can't you?
Hmmm. Morgoth, I guess. It's so very hard to write that kind of evil without going cliche and I don't think I'm quite there.
7. We all hate favourite questions, I know, but-- who's your favourite character (a) to read? (b) to write?
To read: Eowyn.
To write: Gimli.
8. Who's your least favourite character (a) to read? (b) to write?
To read: Legolas. I love him, but most fics slaughter him and thus when I see he's in a story, I wince.
To write: Aragorn. I can never get his voice right.
9. Is there a story you'd like to write, but can't-- and why can't you?
A fic as tribute to Babylon 5 and the love of Sheridan and Delenn, but I fear I could not do it justice, so I don't.
10. What's a title you've always wanted to use, but haven't had the opportunity yet?
Beneath Stars
11. What was the first story you ever completed, and what do you think of it now?
That was a hideous X-Files fic when I was... 15 or 16. Pure mush, I'm afraid. Large plot holes and OOCness about.
12. What was the last story you completed, and what do you think of it now?
That would be Winter Frost, I guess. It was just a little scene I had in my head and wanted to get out. It was all right enough, but nothing spectacular.
13. Where do you do most of your writing?
My bed.
14. Do you have any fic taboos?
Mpreg. No way in heck.
15. What made you start writing fic? Were you filled with creative juices, or was it a random act of plot correction?
It was a desire to write the things I wanted to happen in one particular Canon, really. Wish fulfillment, in a sense.
16. Who has influenced your style the most?
Hard to say. Lindgren as I was growing up, perhaps. Pratchett, Tolkien, Lewis, others.
17. What is the sexiest word?
Touch.
18. What is the least sexy word?
Pearl. I'm sorry, but the image just ruins any mood.
19. What's the word you use too much/often?
Fade.
20. You're a writer. By definition you are plagued and pursued by images. So what image is burned into your brain right now?
Legolas and Gimli walking into the morning, knowing their time together is limited, but refusing to hide in the dark. Love doesn't have to be eternal to deserve the light of day.
21. If you were going to write professionally under an assumed name, what would that name be?
Cammy Sandy, my nickname at school.
22. If you'd made out this survey, what question would you have asked that I didn't?
Which is the best paragraph you have ever written?
A fic challenge. Give me one - it can be anything. Though try to make it something I can actually write (if I don't know the fandom, for instance, I can't really write it. Ask if you're unsure if I know a fandom or not). I will pick one from the offered suggestions and write it. Be as specific or broad as you want. Feel free to post anon if you don't want me to know who is suggesting it.
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gehayi 1. You're a handsome devil. What’s your name?
Camilla, Cam or Miss Cam as I'm often known as.
2. Ever write under any other name?
No.
3. Look around you. How did you end up here?
I was born. I was raised. When I was 14, I read Lord of the Rings. When I was 18, I got the Internet and played around in several fandoms. When the movies came, I was lured here and have stayed. So far.
4. Favourite line from the song you're listening to right now, or last listened to?
"We can weigh all the tears in one hand
Against the laughter in the other
We could be hanging around here for centuries
Trying to make sense of this, my dear
While the planets try to get organised
Way above the stratosphere
But they keep bringing out the dead, now
It's easy if we just walk away
They keep bringing out the dead, now
It's been a long, long day."
Nick Cave, Messiah Ward (from the album Abbatoir Blues)
5. What's the last movie you saw that inspired something ficcish in you?
Oy. I suppose that will have to be Return of the King.
6. Is there a character you'd like to write, but can't-- and why the hell can't you?
Hmmm. Morgoth, I guess. It's so very hard to write that kind of evil without going cliche and I don't think I'm quite there.
7. We all hate favourite questions, I know, but-- who's your favourite character (a) to read? (b) to write?
To read: Eowyn.
To write: Gimli.
8. Who's your least favourite character (a) to read? (b) to write?
To read: Legolas. I love him, but most fics slaughter him and thus when I see he's in a story, I wince.
To write: Aragorn. I can never get his voice right.
9. Is there a story you'd like to write, but can't-- and why can't you?
A fic as tribute to Babylon 5 and the love of Sheridan and Delenn, but I fear I could not do it justice, so I don't.
10. What's a title you've always wanted to use, but haven't had the opportunity yet?
Beneath Stars
11. What was the first story you ever completed, and what do you think of it now?
That was a hideous X-Files fic when I was... 15 or 16. Pure mush, I'm afraid. Large plot holes and OOCness about.
12. What was the last story you completed, and what do you think of it now?
That would be Winter Frost, I guess. It was just a little scene I had in my head and wanted to get out. It was all right enough, but nothing spectacular.
13. Where do you do most of your writing?
My bed.
14. Do you have any fic taboos?
Mpreg. No way in heck.
15. What made you start writing fic? Were you filled with creative juices, or was it a random act of plot correction?
It was a desire to write the things I wanted to happen in one particular Canon, really. Wish fulfillment, in a sense.
16. Who has influenced your style the most?
Hard to say. Lindgren as I was growing up, perhaps. Pratchett, Tolkien, Lewis, others.
17. What is the sexiest word?
Touch.
18. What is the least sexy word?
Pearl. I'm sorry, but the image just ruins any mood.
19. What's the word you use too much/often?
Fade.
20. You're a writer. By definition you are plagued and pursued by images. So what image is burned into your brain right now?
Legolas and Gimli walking into the morning, knowing their time together is limited, but refusing to hide in the dark. Love doesn't have to be eternal to deserve the light of day.
21. If you were going to write professionally under an assumed name, what would that name be?
Cammy Sandy, my nickname at school.
22. If you'd made out this survey, what question would you have asked that I didn't?
Which is the best paragraph you have ever written?
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Date: 2004-10-30 06:58 pm (UTC)I'd vote for a Discworld/LOTR, too. I'd like to know whether Radagast the Brown is really related to Ridcully, also the Brown, and what would happen if Saruman teamed up with Lily Weatherwax... ^_^!