isana: (pink flowers)
and it travels from heart to limb to pen ([personal profile] isana) wrote in [community profile] rainbowlounge2012-07-18 08:02 pm
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Writers' Salon!

All right, guys, let's get this started.

This is a post for members to post their burning questions to each other. They can be simple, like "when is Character X's birthday," or not so simple "how would you define the relationship between Character X and Character Y?" If there's a story you want that author to talk about, throw in the title (and some points you'd like covered!) and if said author's willing, they can write their answer in a separate post, since I have no idea what the comment word limits are.

Here's how it'll work: an author who's up for answering questions/writing commentaries about stories will leave their name in a comment. Readers who want to ask questions or request stories reply to that comment, and hopefully we'll have some good conversations going!

If you guys request stories, it may be best if you limit them to [community profile] rainbowfic for the time being, unless the story you've got archived outside the comm is in a public entry.

EDIT: If it's not already obvious, you can ask authors more than one question in however many comments you like. The point is to have a discussion, and it wouldn't be very lively if it stopped at one question per author! Just give the author a chance to finish answering your previous questions, of course.
walkwithheroes: [Secret Dairy] (Only Just Begun)

[personal profile] walkwithheroes 2012-07-22 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Even though Wonderlife isn't for rainbowfic, I feel I can answer this and not confuse anyone who finds it. It just started randomly. That seems weird to say, considering how complex and generational the story has become. I just thought about an old con artist/gambler "adopting" a bunch of children. I wondered what would happen when they got older and were able to go out into the world. Would they stay with him? Go? Would they be angry that they were all basically kidnapped (expect for Ling'er, she was bought) and taught nothing but crime? I wanted to find out, and it rolled from there.

The characters just sort of popped up one by one and their relationships just sort of formed from the interactions. I always knew Ling'er would become ill and what would happen with that. I always knew what Jin would do and why he'd break away from the group. I knew Eddie/Aoi and Jiro/Taka were the two romances in the family. I knew about Mason and Yuri. I knew I wanted Ling'er to find someone before she went. I knew about Kaori and and Chan-wook and Takara. I just had to get it together.

A lot of it formed as I wrote, when I think is noticeable in the earlier stories. Now, I have a timeline and it's all together.
walkwithheroes: [Secret Dairy] (Only Just Begun)

[personal profile] walkwithheroes 2012-07-22 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
It's okay! I do have all the stories on their own journal here. So, it fits.