Quizzes and memes

[sistermagpie]

Never thought I'd do a political meme, but since I'm so clueless about the subject I went ahead and found out what political persuasion I was. There was a question I hesitated on, though, and depending on my answer I got two different answers so...

You Are a New School Democrat

You like partying and politics - and are likely to be young and affluent. You're less religious, traditional, and uptight than most Democrats. Smoking pot, homosexuality, and gambling are all okay in your book. You prefer that the government help people take care of themselves.

What political persuasion are you?

If I'm not that I'm:

You Are a "Don't Tread On Me" Libertarian

You distrust the government, are fiercely independent, and don't belong in either party. Religion and politics should never mix, in your opinion... and you feel oppressed by both. You don't want the government to cramp your self made style. Or anyone else's for that matter. You're proud to say that you're pro-choice on absolutely everything!

What political persuasion are you?

Also, gacked from go_back_chief because I said I would at the end, but for some reason feel weird about it:

1. When did you first "friend" me?
2. Why did you first "friend" me?
3. What posts of mine do you like to read the best?
4. What would you like me to write about that I don't?
5. Do you think we would be friends in real life?
6. How often do you read my journal?
7. What do we have in common?
8. Will you post this in your journal so I can answer?

I've had a really hard time answering that "Which HP character am I?" meme for anybody else, but I'll add it as a 9th question anyway.

9. If I were an HP character, who would I be?

Comments

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Heh--I just went through trying to remember who asked me to write more about my writing. Turns out it was you!

I feel so silly about that because I'm all paranoid about real life and lj colliding. So when it comes to stuff I'm writing or have written that's published I think, "Uh-oh, somebody could look me up!" Then when it comes to things I'm struggling with and want to publish it's either a) don't jinx it! or b) this really sucks and if you talk about it it will be very pretentious and people would expect it to actually be good. It would be very embarassing for them to see it wasn't.

Iow, I'm neurotic. So I post about writing in a roundabout way. But my flist actually just helped me writing-wise this weekend. First the_gentleman happened to mention how long his chapters were in comparison to PS/SS, and I realized that the thing I'm writing isn't as godawful long as I thought, I was just accidentally breaking down the chapters for younger kids. And then pauraque posted this link to critique of The DaVinci code that made me think, "Hey, that guy's being laughed at for doing something I just avoided because it was stupid. I rock!!"

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Heheh oh, I could tell why you didn't-- though if it's just people finding you, you could friends-lock it (gasp!), it's just that selfish curiousity thing and also I have an obsession with seeing people talk about their writing. >:D It's like, addictive for some reason-- no matter -what- people's relationship with it, I'm fascinated. Like, I think it tells a lot that Virginia Woolf didn't enjoy the company of other writers, though I'm not sure -what- the reason is :>

Plus, I meant more process and tangential things rather than specific 'this is what I'm doing & this is the issue I have' stuff, but then I forget you're much more concrete than I, after all >:D

(Also, it would be -painful- to read long chapters-- or just much more in general-- of Philosopher's Stone, so I'm thinking the editing would've had to knock some verbiage off if nothing else.)

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

In that case I can probably post more about it--sometimes when I do I almost feel like I'm talking around something, you know? Because I'm not used to talking about writing as "a process" it's more like the thing you do--well, you write about it that way too. I mean, you write about the process but it's also obviously concrete, it's not like those books where people make it into a spiritual process but it seems like they never write anything down. I love talking about the nuts and bolts stuff in general and figuring out just how to make something work--not with specifics of a particular thing but just examples like, "What do you do when you can't make a character talk?" or whatever. I probably get my best inspiration from lj that way.

Heh--right now my partner and I are doing a novelization so the process is like: Watch a few seconds. "What did he say? Rewind it." "Okay, type that. Then what happens?" "Cut this part cause it's not funny in writing. What did he say? How should I spell RAAAUURRRGGGH?" *type type type* Much easier that way.

My main memory of reading PS/SS was, "Okay, we KNOW the kid is special so just GIVE HIM THE DAMN LETTERS!" I swear I almost put it down during that drawn out part where Vernon kept taking them. It was like having a second opening chapter.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I'm not really sure what I meant by 'process', anyway-- like, I don't really have writing 'issues' & don't know what sort of thing I tend to write about myself (if indeed I write about it, as you seem to imply, ahahah). Like, yeah, it's just that thing I do :> :> Um, it certainly never feels like a spiritual process anymore than eating or some other bodily function :))

I'm not that picky as to what kind of talk it is, though. :> Like, I don't really know a lot of specifics myself, but I love seeing other people answe. As in your example-- I never actually force any character to do anything, so I don't have 'tricks', y'know? I work almost entirely on inspiration. And if I'm not inspired, I can just churn out dreck by rote, too. That always works :>

PS just... really annoyed me a lot. I mean, there's a reason I couldn't get past halfway chapter 1 on the first try. Oh man. You're made of sterner stuff than I :>