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25 – Music – Do you listen to music while you write? Do you make playlists to get into a certain "mood" to write your fic? Do you need noise in general? Or do you need it completely quiet?
Yes, indeed I do listen to music while I write; I kinda have to. I have a tendency to make playlists if I'm writing a longer multi-chapter fic. For Automated Utopia, I was listening to a lot of steampunk-related bands like Abney Park and Clockwork Quartet. For Paper Pusher, my playlist was almost entirely made up of Rasputina. For Acceptable Losses, I listen to a lot of Lemon Demon, Modest Mouse, and Blink 182 (their later stuff). For Versailles Undone, my playlist is pretty much the two CD set from Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette along with a lot of Mozart and Beethoven.
Here are YouTube links to some of my most-played songs from my iTunes fanfiction playlist:
* Rasputina's "In Old Yellowcake."
* Say Hi to Your Mom's "Angels and Darlas."
* The Smiths' "William, It Was Nothing."
* Lemon Demon's "Ben Bernanke."
* Lemon Demon's "Eighth Wonder."
* Panic! At the Disco's "The Ballad of Mona Lisa."
* Aphex Twins' "Jynweythek Ylow."
* Neko Case's "Margaret vs. Pauline."
* Abney Park's "Sleep Isabella."
* The Gaslight Anthem's "Great Expectations."
* Clockwork Quartet's "The Doctor's Wife."
* Ursula's "Tiffer."
26 – What is the oddest (or funnest) thing you've had to research for a fic?
I always seem to be researching odd things for my fanfictions. I've researched how to perform an autopsy, the differences between impulse turbines and reactionary turbines in steam drills, and how pantelegraph machines work. I think I've got quite the personal costume dictionary for various time periods, and I've probably gotten basic grasp of how the educational system in Victorian London operated as well as what a typical banquet would consist of at the Palace at Versailles during the reign of Louis XVI. Probably the weirdest was when I had to research the history of Personal Digital Assistants for Versailles Undone to make sure that PDAs could receive alphanumeric pager messages in 2000 when Season Four would take place because text messaging was not yet available on them. It was weird because something that sounds so simple turned out to be very difficult to research as I kept getting contradictory information about different brands of devices. It bothers me that I still might have gotten it wrong.
( Cut for the answer to Days 1-24 and the other 4 questions for the upcoming days... )
Yes, indeed I do listen to music while I write; I kinda have to. I have a tendency to make playlists if I'm writing a longer multi-chapter fic. For Automated Utopia, I was listening to a lot of steampunk-related bands like Abney Park and Clockwork Quartet. For Paper Pusher, my playlist was almost entirely made up of Rasputina. For Acceptable Losses, I listen to a lot of Lemon Demon, Modest Mouse, and Blink 182 (their later stuff). For Versailles Undone, my playlist is pretty much the two CD set from Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette along with a lot of Mozart and Beethoven.
Here are YouTube links to some of my most-played songs from my iTunes fanfiction playlist:
* Rasputina's "In Old Yellowcake."
* Say Hi to Your Mom's "Angels and Darlas."
* The Smiths' "William, It Was Nothing."
* Lemon Demon's "Ben Bernanke."
* Lemon Demon's "Eighth Wonder."
* Panic! At the Disco's "The Ballad of Mona Lisa."
* Aphex Twins' "Jynweythek Ylow."
* Neko Case's "Margaret vs. Pauline."
* Abney Park's "Sleep Isabella."
* The Gaslight Anthem's "Great Expectations."
* Clockwork Quartet's "The Doctor's Wife."
* Ursula's "Tiffer."
26 – What is the oddest (or funnest) thing you've had to research for a fic?
I always seem to be researching odd things for my fanfictions. I've researched how to perform an autopsy, the differences between impulse turbines and reactionary turbines in steam drills, and how pantelegraph machines work. I think I've got quite the personal costume dictionary for various time periods, and I've probably gotten basic grasp of how the educational system in Victorian London operated as well as what a typical banquet would consist of at the Palace at Versailles during the reign of Louis XVI. Probably the weirdest was when I had to research the history of Personal Digital Assistants for Versailles Undone to make sure that PDAs could receive alphanumeric pager messages in 2000 when Season Four would take place because text messaging was not yet available on them. It was weird because something that sounds so simple turned out to be very difficult to research as I kept getting contradictory information about different brands of devices. It bothers me that I still might have gotten it wrong.
( Cut for the answer to Days 1-24 and the other 4 questions for the upcoming days... )
