1. Favorite place to write. 2. Favorite part of writing. 3. Least favorite part of writing. 4. Do you have writing habits or rituals? 5. Books or authors that influenced your style the most. 6. Favorite character you ever created. 7. Favorite author. 8. Favorite trope to write. 9. Least favorite trope to write. 10. Pick a writer to co-write a book with and tell us what you’d write about. 11. Describe your writing process from scratch to finish. 12. How do you deal with self-doubts? 13. How do you deal with writers block? 14. What’s the most research you ever put into a book? 15. Where does your inspiration come from? 16. Where do you take your motivation from? 17. On avarage, how much writing do you get done in a day? 18. What’s your revision or rewriting process like? 19. First line of a WIP you’re working on. 20. Post a snippet of a WIP you’re working on. 21. Post the last sentence you wrote in one of your WIP’s. 22. How many drafts do you need until you’re satisfied and a project is ultimately done for you? 23. Single or multi POV, and why? 24. Poetry or prose, and why? 25. Linear or non-linear, and why? 26. Standalone or series, and why? 27. Do you share rough drafts or do you wait until it’s all polished? 28. And who do you share them with? 29. Who do you write for? 30. Favorite line you’ve ever written. 31. Hardest character to write. 32. Easiest character to write. 33. Do you listen to music when you’re writing? 34. Handwritten notes or typed notes? 35. Tell some backstory details about one of your characters in your story ________. 36. A spoiler for story _________. 37. Most inspirational quote you’ve ever read or heard that’s still important to you. 38. Have you shared your outline of your story ________ with someone? If so, what did they think of it? 39. Do you base your characters of real people or not? If so, tell us about one. 40. Original Fiction or Fanfiction, and why? 41. How many stories do you work on at one time? 42. How do you figure out your characters looks, personality, etc. 43. Are you an avid reader? 44. Best piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten. 45. Worst piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten. 46. What would your story _______ look like as a tv show or movie? 47. Do you start with characters or plot when working on a new story? 48. Favorite genre to write in. 49. What do you find the hardest to write in a story, the beginning, the middle or the end? 50. Weirdest story idea you’ve ever had. 51. Describe the aesthetic of your story _______ in 5 sentences or words. 52. How did writing change you? 53. What does writing mean to you? 54. Any writing advice you want to share?
Tell us about your current project(s) – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?
Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project
What is that one scene that you’ve always wanted to write but can’t be arsed to write all of the set-up and context it would need? (consider this permission to write it and/or share it anyway)
Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)
What character that you’re writing do you most identify with?
What character do you have the most fun writing?
What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?
Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?
Are you more of a drabble or a longfic kind of writer? Pantser or plotter? Do you wish you were the other?
How would you describe your writing process?
What do you envy in other writers?
Do you want your writing to be famous?
Do you share your writing online? (Drop a link!) Do you have projects you’ve kept just for yourself?
At what point in writing do you come up with a title?
Which is harder: titles or summaries (or tags)?
Tried anything new with your writing lately? (style, POV, genre, fandom?)
Do you think readers perceive your work - or you - differently to you? What do you think would surprise your readers about your writing or your motivations?
Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.
Is there something you always find yourself repeating in your writing? (favourite verb, something you describe ‘too often’, trope you can’t get enough of?)
Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)
What other medium do you think your story would work well as? (film, webcomic, animated series?)
Do you reread your old works? How do you feel about them?
What’s the story idea you’ve had in your head for the longest?
Hey friends, I am really having a rough time right now with physical health issues and am pretty much bed bound, so if you’ve got a minute maybe send me some asks? Links to different lists below!
Hey friends, I am really having a rough time right now with physical health issues and am pretty much bed bound, so if you’ve got a minute maybe send me some asks? Links to different lists below!
2. if you had to give up your keyboard and write your stories exclusively by hand, could you do it? if you already write everything by hand, a) are you a wizard and b) pen or pencil?
3. what is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?
4. what’s a word that makes you go absolutely feral?
5. do you have any writing superstitions? what are they and why are they 100% true?
6. what is your darkest fear about writing?
7. what is your deepest joy about writing?
8. if you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?
9. do you believe in ghosts? this isn’t about writing i just wanna know
10. has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? has your own writing haunted you? what does that mean to you?
11. do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” are you a ruthless darling assassin? what happens to the darlings you murder? do you have a darling graveyard? do you grieve?
12. if a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current wips into lorem ipsum, i don’t make the rules
13. what is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? what is easy?
14. do you lend your books to people? are people scared to borrow books from you? do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? will you ever get them back?
15. do you write in the margins of your books? dog-ear your pages? Read in the bath? why or why not? do you judge people who do these things? can we still be friends?
16. what’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?
17. talk to me about the minutiae of your current wip. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.
18. choose a passage from your writing. tell me about the backstory of this moment. how you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. spicy addition: questioner provides the passage.
19. tell me a story about your writing journey. when did you start? why did you start? were there bumps along the way? where are you now and where are you going?
20. if a witch offered you the choice between eternal happiness with your one true love and the ability to finally finish, perfect, and publish your dearest, darlingest, most precious wip in exactly the way you’ve always imagined it — which would you choose? you can’t have both sorry, life’s a bitch
21. could you ever quit writing? do you ever wish you could? why or why not?
22. how organized are you with your writing? describe to me your organization method, if it exists. what tools do you use? notebooks? binders? apps?
23. describe the physical environment in which you write. be as detailed as possible. tell me what’s around you as you work. paint me a picture.
24. how much prep work do you put into your stories? what does that look like for you? do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?
25. what is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?
26. how do you get into your character’s head? how do you get out? do you ever regret going in there in the first place?
27. who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? why?
28. who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? why?
29. where do you draw your inspiration? what do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?
30. talk to me about the role dreams play in your writing life. have you ever used material from your dreams in your writing? have you ever written in a dream? did you remember it when you woke up?
31. write a short love letter to your readers.
32. what is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? how did you find it? what does it mean to you?
33. do you practice any other art besides writing? does that art ever tie into your writing, or is it entirely separate?
34. thoughts on the oxford comma, go:
35. what’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?
36. they say to write what you know. setting aside, for a moment, the fact that this is terrible advice…what do you know?
37. if you were to be remembered only by the words you’ve put on the page, what would future historians think of you?
38. what is something about your writing process YOU think is really weird? if you are comfortable, please share. if you’re not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us?
39. what keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?
Reblog this and have your followers toss these into the ask box to force you to choose between two diabolik scenarios. Please be wary!! These are diabolikscenarios, some are very graphicanddark! Proceed with caution! Not for the faint of heart!
(Rose) - Pick one of them to drink your blood: Subaru or Kou. (Baby’s Breath) - Pick one of them to drink your blood: Reiji or Ruki. (Carnation) - Pick one of them to drink your blood: Shuu or Yuma. (Amaryllis) - Pick one of them to drink your blood: Ayato or Laito. (Dahlia) - Pick one of them to drink your blood: Kanato or Azusa.
(Allium) - Which date do you go on: Wandering through the cemetery with Kanato or studying microbiology with Reiji? (Amaranth) - Which date do you go on: Intense concert practice with Kou or shelving books with Ruki? (Anemones) - Which date do you go on: Being Shuu’s unmoving body pillow for eight hours or shoveling soil with Yuma? (Anthurium) - Which date do you go on: Totally unfair basketball practice with Ayato or dangerous game of darts with Laito?
(Astilbe)- Which boy’s bad side would you rather be on: Yuma or Reiji (Astrantia)- Which boy’s bad side would you rather be on: Ruki or Kanato (Calla Lilies) - Which boy’s bad side would you rather be on: Laito or Kou
(Chrysanthemum) - Which boy would you save from death: Shuu or Azusa (Clematis) - Which boy would you save from death: Subaru or Ayato (Craspedia) - Which boy would you save from death: Reiji or Ruki
(Daffodil) - If you got permission to clonk one on the head without negative consequences, who would you pick: Yuma or Shuu (Freesia)- If you got permission to clonk one on the head without negative consequences, who would you pick: Ayato or Kou (Hydrangea) - If you got permission to clonk one on the head without negative consequences, who would you pick: Laito or Ruki
(Iris) - You’re pregnant! Who’s the dad: Reiji or Kanato (Orchid) - You’re pregnant! Who’s the dad: Subaru or Ruki (Peony) - You’re pregnant! Who’s the dad: Yuma or Kou
(Veronica) - Who stole your virginity: Subaru or Azusa (Tulips) - Who stole your virginity: Shuu or Ayato (Aster) - Who stole your virginity: Reiji or Laito
(Iron) - Who gets to dominate you to his liking: Kou or Subaru (Steel) - Who gets to dominate you to his liking: Yuma or Ayato (Gunmetal) - Who gets to dominate you to his liking: Ruki or Kanato
(Silver)- Who gets to give you a haircut: Laito or Shuu (Gold) - Who gets to give you a haircut: Ruki or Kou (Rust) - Who gets to give you a haircut: Kanato or Azusa
(Copper) - Pick a bad deed: burned Ruki’s favorite book or threw a spider at Laito. (Bronze) - Pick a bad deed: stomped Yuma’s tomatoes or ruined Shuu’s MP3 player. (Brass)- Pick a bad deed: knocked over Reiji’s alchemy ingredient shelf or got stains on Teddy. (Nickel) - Pick a bad deed: threw away all of Azusa’s knives or hit Subaru with a Subaru and made a bad joke to his face.
(Zinc) - Whose heart did you break, u monster: Ruki or Kou (Titanium)- Whose heart did you break, u monster: Yuma or Reiji (Aluminum) - Whose heart did you break, u monster: Shuu or Ayato (Platinum) - Whose heart did you break, u monster: Kanato or Subaru
(Tin)- You’ve been a bad girl, who gets to punish you: Laito or Ayato (Lead) - You’ve been a bad girl, who gets to punish you: Azusa or Kanato (Bismuth)- You’ve been a bad girl, who gets to punish you: Subaru or Yuma
(Cobalt) - Who gets to rip out your heart and devour it: Shuu or Reiji (Palladium) - Who gets to rip out your heart and devour it: Ruki or Ayato (Rhodium) - Who gets to rip out your heart and devour it: Laito or Kou (Mercury)- Who gets to rip out your heart and devour it: Subaru or Kanato (Iridium) - Who gets to rip out your heart and devour it: Yuma or Azusa
(Thallium)- Pick the more preferable scenario: becoming one of Kanato’s dolls or being forever locked in the dungeon as Laito’s toy. (Seaborgium) - Pick the more preferable scenario: slowly eaten alive by Ayato or slowly stabbed to death by Azusa. (Vanadium) - Pick the more preferable scenario: drowning to death with Shuu or strangled to death by Yuma. (Chromium) - Pick the more preferable scenario: violently eaten alive by Subaru or Reiji’s toy until inevitable death.
(Sapphire)- Who would you rather cook dinner with: Kou or Subaru (Ruby)- Who would you rather cook dinner with: Reiji or Kanato (Garnet) - Who would you rather cook dinner with: Yuma or Ayato
(Pearl)- Pick one to be on your zombie apocalypse team: Shuu or Kanato (Amethyst) - Pick one to be on your zombie apocalypse team: Ruki or Azusa (Diamond) - Pick one to be on your zombie apocalypse team: Reiji or Laito
(Jade) - Pick the more preferable activity: building a pillow fort with Shuu or playing house with Kanato. (Jasper)- Pick the more preferable activity: helping Reiji with his alchemy or wandering the rose garden with Subaru. (Peridot) - Pick the more preferable activity: assisting Laito with his crossword puzzle or cooking with Ayato. (Opal) - Pick the more preferable activity: silently reading with Ruki or hardcore karaoke with Kou. (Sodalite) - Pick the more preferable activity: picking strawberries with Yuma or admiring scars with Azusa.
(Lapis Lazuli) - Last, but not least, if you got to live any of the endings from any game, which would it be?
