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lisalemonjello
Mar. 30th, 2004 08:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sun_set_bravelylisalemonjello comes up with the best memes. It'll take me some time to finish all of these questions, so I'm posting them here for my reference. Thanks for the food for thought!1. Do you call yourself a Writer (capital W) and, if so, when and how did the transformation from being someone who writes to becoming a Writer occur?
2. Do you write in more than one form (i.e. short fiction, poetry, essay, novel) and, if so, how is the process different one to another?
3. What Writers have been the biggest influence on you?
4. Would you rather be commercially famous or admired by other writers?
5. What is your successful image of a Writer. If you become successful what will (or does) that look like to you?
6. Does it matter to you if people interpret your work in ways you never intended?
7. How honestly do you critique the writing of others?
8. Do you worry about plegarism when you write creativly on-line?
9. Can writing be taught? How important is a formal education to making the writer?
10. Writing Workshops: What is your opinion of them? Have you ever been to one?
11. Inspiration or perspiration?
12. What form(s) do you prefer - past, present, future, genre, time period, style?
13. When writing, do you outline first or just begin and see where it takes you?
14. How do you develop your characters? Settings? Plot?
15. How much do you take from real life and does a writer have the right to tell the stories of people they know?
16. What kind of research do you do for your writing?
17. Do you have a process for re-writing?
18. What is your writing schedule?
19. What are your writing weaknesses and strengths?
20. Who, if anyone, do you let edit your work?
21. Are there any writing taboos for you (for instance, swearing or graphic sex)?
22. How do you avoid stereotypes in your writing and do you feel you are able to capture the truth in characters who are of a different gender or ethnicity?
23. Are there stories that are so close to you or others near you that you won't write them? If so, why won't you?
24. How has your writing improved with time?
25. Do you feel that you have found your voice?
26. What is the most important advice you can give to other writers in 5 words or less?
27. Would you keep writing if you knew that no one else would ever read what you wrote?
28. Is there a question that wasn't asked that you'd like to be asked about your writing, writing in general, or writers?
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Date: 2004-03-30 06:37 am (UTC)Maybe it will become reality in May?
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Date: 2004-03-30 08:45 am (UTC)we were in houston, i was visiting you guys in the apartment that you will be moving into, although it wasn't an apartment in brooklyn, it was some kind of small house in alief, and you guys lived on the same street as d. pinson from high school. (i know this because he was out on his driveway when i went to visit you.) there was some kind of canoe involved also, though i don't know why. obviously, there are many parts to this dream that i can't remember, but that's kind of funny, n'est ce pas?
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Date: 2004-03-30 10:06 am (UTC)jesse and darryl were there. weird.
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Date: 2004-03-30 10:11 am (UTC)nice.
maybe a word like, surfer.?
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Date: 2004-03-30 12:42 pm (UTC)what do you say?
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