[RonsGirlFriday]

Thanks for stopping by! I try to update my stories frequently, so instead of keeping a running list of my fics here, I'll just provide you with the link to my writing fail author page: RonsGirlFriday [12+ to M]. You'll find humor, romance, fluff, drama, one-shots, short stories, novels...I mean, really, it's like opening up a box of cereal and not knowing what kind of toy you'll get. (Although, depending on the caliber of the toy, I can't really tell you whether the stuff on my page is better than what you find inside your box of Cheerios.)

I love answering questions, so fire away!

This post has been edited by VampireKisses: 14 July 2009 - 11:18 AM

[cedriclover]

hey there. here are a few random questions for you.

what is your favorite ship?

where do you get inspiration for your stories?

which of the seven (HP) books is your favorite?

who is your favorite author on the archives?

[RonsGirlFriday]

What is your favorite ship?

Absolute all-time favorite: Ron/Hermione. I just love them together, I think they complete each other in a lot of different ways, and (to the extent that you can have a crush on a fictional character) I have an enormous crush on Ron.

But I also adore Snape/Lily - it's a very heart-wrenching ship, and I love Snape because he's so multifaceted.


Where do you get inspiration for your stories?

Mainly from my interactions with other people, and my observations of how other people interact with each other. My favorite part of a book or story is character development.


Which of the seven (HP) books is your favorite?

I think my favorite ever still remains Prisoner of Azkaban, since that's when the Marauders were first introduced, and I love the Marauders. Deathly Hallows comes in a close second, maybe because it was so dynamic. Overall, I have in interesting trend in my HP preferences - I like all of the odd-numbered books slightly better than the even-numbered ones.


Who is your favorite author on the archives?

Hmm...probably Mistress and TheDirigiblePlum. I haven't had a chance to read many authors' works extensively yet, but on the whole I would say I enjoy everything of theirs that I've read.

[Annachie]

G'day.

Sorry for being so brief in the review, my net connection was playing up all day and I got sick of posts disapeering.

re: Walking hand in hand with a mudblood (If I remember the name correctly)
The dream sequence does jar a bit. I suppose being the only dream type scene in a short story makes it really stand out as different. Perhaps it should be made to stand out more, be a bit more surreal or something. Not sure. Beyond my current abilities to be honest. lol

Anyway, questions.
Roughly how long do you spend in a writing session?

Do you tend to wite until you stop, write a scene at a time, write a chapter at a time ... ?

What do you like to do at midnight? *whistles innocently*

Annachie

[RonsGirlFriday]

Well, thank you so much for reading my story! I appreciate your input and I understand what you mean. I love the challenges, because they're so inspiring, but I think that when you get into trying to combine challenges, the writing can get a little forced. Like I said, I'm starting to think the fic could have done well enough on its own without the dream sequence. But I guess it's a little bit of trial and error.

Roughly how long do you spend in a writing session?

A lot longer than I usually intend to! I try carving out little pieces of time when I can write, in between school stuff, but the writing usually takes over. I guess anywhere from an hour to several hours. But I don't write continuously...I do a lot of sitting and thinking in between the actual writing/typing. I self-edit as I go - I hear that's a bad idea, and you should just spew it all out and edit it later, but I've never worked that way.

For that same reason, I get extremely attached to my first drafts. I remember when I was in high school [tangent alert] and we had to do the whole writing process, starting with a first draft, and then revising, and peer editing and everything...when it got to the revision stage, which was mandatory, I would just figure out where I could switch one word for another or change some comma placement or add one sentence here or there, so it would appear that I had actually done something.

Do you tend to write until you stop, write a scene at a time, write a chapter at a time?

Usually, whatever I'm inspired to do. I hate stopping in the middle of a scene and picking it up again later (although sometimes it happens) - I've always liked working in big chunks of time, and I don't like doing things piece-by-piece. That applies to the rest of my life as well...for example, I'll wait until I have 5 straight hours to clean my apartment, because I completely hate stopping in the middle of something.

A lot of times, I'll sit down and write an entire one-shot (or the vast majority of it) all at once. With the longer stories, I jump around. Like right now, I'm working on a short-story, and there are 3 chapters where I currently have half of each one written...just depends on which scene I have ideas for at the time. In one chapter, I have the entire middle written, but no beginning or ending yet because they haven't hit me.

What do you like to do at midnight?

Lately? Waste away my time on the forums. It's so addictive. And tonight, at midnight, one will very likely find me perusing the forums instead of finishing the paper I'm supposed to turn in tomorrow at 5:00 PM. (It's actually a very interesting paper - it's on human trafficking - and it's the only thing separating me from finishing law school for good.)

I'm very much a night person (not at ALL a morning person), so at midnight, if there's nothing else to do and I don't feel like writing, I'm usually up watching reruns of TV shows I like or watching movies that I've seen hundreds of times already. Tonight it may just be Sleepless in Seattle. Or Sense and Sensibility.
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Thanks for the fun questions! And for favorite-ing me as well. I would definitely like to read your stories if you decide to post any!

[Annachie]

G'day.

Thanks for your replies. Even if one of them wasn't quite what I was expecting. Especially the writing habits as that's what I'm trying to figgure out for myself.

Short Story #1, all 501 words, went into validation 3 days ago. The first real ceative piece I've tried since high school.

[RonsGirlFriday]

Haha...which one wasn't what you were expecting? The writing habits and my aversion to the editing process?

What's your first story about, by the way?

[Annachie]

Haha...which one wasn't what you were expecting? The writing habits and my aversion to the editing process?

What's your first story about, by the way?

Well, it's a touch concept.
When I was a fair bit younger I used to listen to an old record that dad had, a protest type of thing. My favorite song was an anti-vietnam song about a young bloke, who's father had died in WW2, being sent to vietnam as a conscript. For a few years there, whenever I got depressed I'd play that and knock back a cask of really cheap white. lol
Anyway, I got the idea to aply that song in a way to the two Voldy wars with the young guy being a student who turns 17 on the day of the battle of Hogwarts.
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The concept bit is that I used 3 letters to tell it. The first from mother to son to set up, then from son to mother, the third, well you'll have to wait a week lol

Ah ha. Found an online snippet of the song on the artist website.

Twenty Summers snippet [pg12]

Annachie. (That little note might be longer than the story lol)

[RonsGirlFriday]

It sounds awesome - I don't think I've seen any like that yet. I'll have to listen to the clip when I get on a computer that has sound...for some reason, my sound card just stopped working one day, and it hasn't been important enough to me to spend the time or money to get it fixed.

[Mistress]

Just realized I'm on your favorite author list Made me a bit warm and fuzzy!!

So here are a couple questions,

1. do you have a particular writing ritual? Something you must have with you or must do?

2. if you could write anywhere, where would it be?

3. Who do you think is the best character you've written? What about the worst?

[Annachie]

You should have said that you had another new one in the pipeline

[RonsGirlFriday]

Mistress -- Thanks for visiting! I actually just finished reading the latest chapter of Breaking the Quidditch Code - excellent, as per usual! It never fails to inspire me. I'm hoping to get around to reading some of your other stories as well.

Do you have a particular writing ritual? Something you must have with you or must do?

I feel a little weird, because I imagine most writers have a "ritual," and I just can't think of any that I have! For one thing, though, I have a hard time writing or working in complete silence. I must have some kind of background distraction, which usually comes in the form of mindless movies that I've watched over and over already. (Currently watching: Casablanca) And I almost always have to have an Internet connection, so I can goof off when I hit a wall, look up information I need, or find things that inspire me. It also doesn't hurt to have my faithful cat around, so I can bounce ideas off of her. [as everyone looks at me like I'm a lunatic... ]

If you could write anywhere, where would it be?

I have always wanted to visit Ireland, and I imagine that if I ever get the chance, I will try to do a fair amount of writing there. Aside from that, I love places that are coastal and beachy and tropical. I would love to write in a place like that, even if it were just Hawaii - or any of the Pacific Islands, or somewhere similar. Somewhere comfortable with a great ocean view. And where I could get a darn good drink with an umbrella in it. Can't find much better inspiration than a tropical cocktail!

Who do you think is the best character you've written? What about the worst?

Best character...a few come to mind (I guess that's a good thing!) I wrote a one-shot once about Percy remembering Fred, and I got some great feedback about how I did Percy. Looking back, I think I did a good job, too. Having always been a driven, ambitious person my whole life, and very obsessed with academics, I could relate to Percy as far as that was concerned, and I'm also very family-oriented, so I was able to throw some of that in there to try to give him some newfound appreciation for his family. And I think it worked out pretty well. I liked taking on a character that is relatively neglected in the world of fanfiction (though lately I've started seeing more Percy stories popping up, which is cool).

And right now, I'm writing a Fred II story, which hasn't been posted yet because I have a few things ahead of it that I want validated first, but I think I'm doing a fairly good job with him. It's a lot of fun, because he's such a blank slate, and I'm trying to give him an interesting personality. Honestly, if I do half as well with him as you've done with James II in Breaking the Quidditch Code, I'll be extremely happy. But I'm experimenting with making him into a guy who's very funny, albeit in a different way than his father (more of a dry, nonphysical sense of humor); who loves reading and reveres his Aunt Hermione; who is slightly embarrassed by the aggregate fame of all his family members; and who has two cats whom he dearly loves (making him the twenty-something male equivalent of a crazy cat-lady).

Worst character...hmm...out of everything I've done, I'd probably say Lily Evans/Potter, because in everything in which I've written her (a few one-shots, basically) I haven't given her character much depth. She's either a device for showcasing Snape's angst or James' hilarity. I don't mind too much, because in the stories I've done about her, her depth of character is not totally integral to the fic as a whole, for various reasons. I think Lily is hard to do because she's been done zillions of times, and it's hard to find a refreshing take on her.

And right now, in the Fred II story I just mentioned, I'm writing an OC female character named Tabitha - you might think of her as the Avery to your James. She's a lot of fun - I'm just hoping she'll turn out well. I don't think she's becoming a Mary Sue, but I can definitely see her being labeled a cliche (best female friend of the leading guy, you know?) - so I'm trying to avoid that as much as possible.
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Annachie -- You mean my story that just posted today? Haha, sorry about that! I was so glad it just got validated, so I could finally put in my May Staff Challenge piece. I have a total backlog of stories and chapters waiting to be put in the queue...I did a ton of writing, so I'll hopefully be putting out a steady stream of updates!

This post has been edited by RonsGirlFriday: 13 May 2009 - 11:19 AM

[Annachie]

Actually I did. Stumbled across it by accident.
Should call you NinjaRonsGirlFriday lol
Ok, maybe not. Next in my reading cue after "The Present" Besides, too many of the kids jumping on me to have a hope of writing for the next few hours.

[RonsGirlFriday]

Well, there are quite a lot of Ravenclaw Ninjas lurking around these forums. I actually had ninjas in my signature up until recently, but then I decided that my love for Jane Austen and Hugh Laurie was more important.

I hope you like the new one-shot! I should be able to add a banner to it pretty soon, too!

You have kids? I'm impressed that you are able to have hobbies...I'm pretty sure my mom hasn't had any for the past 24 years.

[Mistress]

I actually thought about writing a Fred II story, but in the end I settled on James because something about him just struck a chord with me, something that I was sure my Fred II could never live up to. I'd LOVE to visit Ireland as well!

I think the main thing you could do to keep Tabitha from being cliche is to give her a unique personality. Don't just have her be a run-of-the-mill-best-girl-friend or whatever. Give her quirks and an attitude...or maybe she's ridiculously shy or something. Give her something different.

ps. I don't think it's weird to have your cat around. If I could have a cat in my residence hall I would. Luckily I have my best friend (siriuslyhockey) to bounce ideas off of! She was a big factor in coming up with plot points for BTQC.

more questions!

1. I answered your question about hockey in my own MTA thread, do you follow? If you do, who is your team?

2. What was your hands-down favorite moment in all 7 Potter books?

3. Which was your favorite book and WHY?

4. If you could take a character from the books and legally write a book about them and get it published, which character would you pick and why?

5. If you were James, what would you do to Emerson if he asked Avery on a date and she accepted?

ps. again. 6. Which is your favorite Jane Austen book and character?