Igenlode Wordsmith

Meme: get to know you questions

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:12:54 GMT

Procrastinating (I'm not even sure what from any more, other than the overwhelming knowledge that I ought to be doing So Many Other Things) by filling out a set of meme question prompts from fred_mouse. ( Read more... )

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Fanfic Year in Review 2025

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 03:07:26 GMT

Apparently I missed doing this altogether in 2024, so I'm afraid "The Remorse of Others" will never get a mention...

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AO3 Meme

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:39:44 GMT

Memes are good for procrastination (and I'm pretty stuck on this fic, as in 'I'm not even trying to write it because I don't know where I'm going and am not used to not having an ending beckoning me on'...)

From thisbluespirit:
From your AO3 Works page, look at the tags and find the answers to these questions.

Current number of works on AO3: 53

( Under what rating do you write most? )
( What are your top 3 fandoms? )
( Which character do you write about most? )
( What are the 3 top pairings you've written? )
( What are the top 3 additional tags? )

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Alphabetical Fic Meme

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:21:46 GMT

(via pedanther)

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

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Score: 18/26, from about^† 62 works -- surprisingly low (I wasn't expecting X, Q and Z, but that still leaves me about five letters short!)
I did manage to get eighteen different fandoms, though, as the book and musical versions of "Phantom of the Opera" are very different :-)

† NB: my stories are currently split across AO3 and two different accounts on fanfiction.net, for assorted reasons, and therefore I'm not entirely sure how many unique works in total I have...

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Fandom trope ranking

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 01:16:53 GMT

I had a go at the fandom trope ranking, but it's tricky as I mainly judge fanfic based on what elements will put me off it, as opposed to actively seeking out stories according to whether they contain certain tropes. I will, in theory, read anything that is well-written, provided the summary sounds interesting and it doesn't annoy me, but those last two elements disqualify an awful lot of material; anything that appears to have been written in order to use the unfortunate canon characters as mouthpieces for the author's own social/political/personal-angst agenda, for example.
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Fanfic Year in Review 2023

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 23:06:58 GMT

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Fanfic Bingo

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 01:32:49 GMT

No bingo for me... (mainly due to the absence of fluff/smut/flailing and all the other teenage stuff)
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Fanfic Year in Review 2021

Sat, 22 Jan 2022 15:57:20 GMT

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At this point it's starting to get repetitive to say, yet again, that 'thanks to continuing work I haven't completed much this year' -- despite the fact that I *have* been writing pretty much constantly, six days a week at least, I have published very little. The only difference is that it isn't currently 'the Swedish story' holding matters up, though I have managed a certain amount of editing work on that.( Read more... )

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Five Series

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 23:46:24 GMT

(very old meme picked up at random from betweensunandmoon)

Pick five series and then answer the questions. Don't look at the questions before you choose!

Fionavar
Swallows and Amazons
Blake's 7
Frozen
Narnia

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Fanfic Year in Review 2020

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 16:00:44 GMT

Prompted as usual by pedanther

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Apparently I've only completed one story this year -- and not entirely due to "continuing work on the Swedish story" for once! (It did take me about four months to write this one, and I have written 28 pages, a considerable quantity of which was subsequently discarded, on "An Outsider and a Foreigner". But I don't have very much finished work to show. Perhaps I should have taken the Sunset Boulevard idea further.)( Read more... )

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Fanfic Year in Review 2019

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 02:49:11 GMT

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(over the last 12 months)

To quote from last year, "Thanks to continuing work on the Swedish story, I haven't completed much this year, and what I have done has been [almost] entirely one-shots"! An introduction I hope not to have to repeat for yet another year, or at least not for the same reason.( Read more... )

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Character-creation questions

Sat, 09 Feb 2019 16:44:15 GMT

I thought I had a pretty good handle on Raoul's personality, but running through this list of questions that are supposed to help you flesh out your character before you even start to write leaves me pretty much at a loss ;-p

(Which makes me more than ever sceptical about the 'character-sheet' approach to putting people in your stories, as opposed to my own instinctive technique of letting details 'emerge' about them as I go along, i.e. making up the backstory as I go!)

What does your character want more than anything else in the world right now, and why?

Right now? He wants to be on board the boat that's going to be putting out from the edge of the pack-ice -- because Erik is doing who-knows-what horrible things to Christine, or has already done them, and he, who made a big song and dance about wanting to protect her, is trapped hundrds of miles away.
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Fanfic Year in Review Meme

Sat, 05 Jan 2019 03:38:17 GMT

Prompted by pedanther, as usual.

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(over the last 12 months)
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Last Ten First Lines Meme

Sat, 04 Aug 2018 02:18:15 GMT

Meme from lost via pedanther: List the first sentence (or two if the first sentence is short) of each of the last ten fics you posted.( Read more... )

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Bedroom predictions

Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:43:44 GMT

Trying this meme again:

Open the nearest book at page 45 and read the first sentence, which will predict your sex life for the next year.

Well, the nearest book this year happens to be Terry Pratchett's "Going Postal", and the first sentence on page 45 is "Oddly enough, that's not in the Regulations"!

That sounds... quite plausible as a response :-p

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Writing Ask Meme

Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:36:28 GMT

From butterflydreaming:

( 1) How many works in progress do you have? )

( 2) Do you/would you write fanfiction? )

( 3) Do you prefer paperback or ebooks? )

( 4) When did you start writing? )

( 5) Do you have someone you trust that you share your work with? )

( 6) Where is your favorite place to write? )

( 7) Favorite book as a child? )

( 8) Writing for fun or for publication? )

( 9) Have you taken any writing classes? )

( 10) What inspired you to write? )

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What's My Pirate Name?

Mon, 15 May 2017 02:14:19 GMT

From betweensunandmoon:

My pirate name is:

Red William Cash

Passion is a big part of your life, which makes sense for a pirate. You're musical, and you've got a certain style if not flair. You'll do just fine. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
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Fanfic Year in Review Meme

Thu, 06 Apr 2017 02:40:05 GMT

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List of Completed Fics

(in the last year, rather than since the last time I did this in January 2015!) ( Read more... )

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