TTD: Last two

[wallwalker]

squeemu: Writing original fiction vs. fanfiction.

Heh... I haven't done as much of either this year. Mostly it's been math. Still, I tend to have the same approach, start with a handful of ideas and a few plans and flesh it out as I go.
The main difference is worldbuilding. With original fiction - at least with NaNoWriMo, which is where most of it has come from for me - I'm basically doing everything on the fly. So the worldbuilding doesn't really start coming together until the third or fourth draft, if ever I get that far. Sometimes that might not matter, but most of the time it does. That's why I can write and post fanfiction so quickly, but original fiction comes slowly to me.

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thebaconfat: Favorite book or movie of the year.

I'm going with movies, because all of the books I had time to read were textbooks. And all of the movies I saw in theaters were Marvel, if memory serves, because I went with my partner. (I'm not big on movie theaters. I prefer to wait until they get released on DVD and watch them with captions.)

So out of those films I probably most preferred Captain America: The Winter Soldier, because Steve (in his own movies, not so much in The Avengers) is so much fun. He's a bit out of his element but he's dealing with it, he's making lists of things people tell him he needs to see, he constantly cracks jokes, and yet he's still a respectful guy who doesn't treat others like crud in the name of humor, which is why he ended up surrounded by such awesome people and made so many allies. I liked Guardians of the Galaxy, but it did some things that really ticked me off ("I'm sorry, I forgot you were there!"? Wat.) And the X-Men films have always been hit-or-miss for me.

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[thebaconfat]

I still haven't watched The Winter Soldier, but I mean to! It sounds like fun.

Did you have a favourite class this year?

[wallwalker]

Macroeconomics was probably the best one, even though it was not all that relevant to what I want to do. It was mostly because the professor used a lot of interesting materials to cover things - we even ended up watching a couple of rap battles about different theories of economics.

[thebaconfat]

Awesome!