OOC - Fanfic Meme - Days 15, 16 & 17

[watchmakersylar]

This is taking too long, so I'm lumping together short answer days.

15 – Warnings – What do you feel it most important to warn for, and what's the strangest thing you've warned for in a fic?

I warn about gore, character death and if I think something might be a trigger, but I don’t use them often. Since I write from the villain’s POV in 90% of my fanfic, I don’t really feel the need to warn. It’s pretty much a given that bad stuff is going to happen when you click on that LJ-cut. If you're expecting fluffy bunnies and unicorns with rainbows coming out their asses, you're reading the wrong person's fic.

16 – Summaries – Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?

I don’t write summaries. I will occasionally add an author’s note to establish an AU situation, or to link to something I was inspired by. But I think summaries are a waste of time.

17 – Titles – Are they the bane of your existence, or the easiest part of the fic? Also, if you do chaptered fic, do you give each chapter a title, or not?

I actually like coming up with titles although usually what happens is I’ll title the fic, then I go to write something clever in the LJ-Cut and swap them out. I come up with a lot of titles for my RP threads too. Song titles always work if you’re having a brain fart.

I don’t give multipart fics their own titles anymore than I title the chapters in my novels.

Comments

[game-byrd.livejournal.com]

Thank you for warning for character death.

[sylar.livejournal.com]

I think if you're going to kill off a major character that you should warn. That way is someone see that you're writing Mohinder, they can be warned that he's going to die.

[game-byrd.livejournal.com]

I probably wouldn't mind watching Mohinder die. I'm not emotionally invested in him. But I get your point.

[sylar.livejournal.com]

You know what I was shocked by? How much I like Sendhil on Covert Affairs. It really is Mohinder that I dislike not the actor.