I see y’all reblogging these “ask me a number” things, and I’m not saying they’re not interesting (okay, some of them aren’t), but none of them are tailored to the “writing community”. You call yourselves a writing community? Act like it! I’ll start. Here ya go.

Note: you can ask me these questions if you wish, but reblog them so others can ask you, and get asked, and we can all get to know one another as writers. That’s how you build community.

1. Who is your favorite tumblr poet — the one you always, without fail, must read — and why?
2. Who is your favorite tumblr prose writer — the one you always, without fail, must read — and why?
3. Who would you say is your greatest writing influence, in terms of your own writing style, and why?
4. Paper or plastic?
5. List three books you’ve read more than three times.
6. Do you find alcohol or other drugs enhance your creativity/writing ability, or detract from it? Why or why not?
7. Where is your favorite place to write, and why?
8. What other artistic pursuits (if any) do you indulge in apart from creative writing?
9. When do you find is the best time of day for you to write, and describe why this is so?
10. You get a brilliant thought/phrase/idea at an inappropriate moment (in the shower, while driving, while drifting off to sleep). What do you do?
11. Cake or death?
12. What are some of your favorite words, and why?
13. If you lost all ability to read and write for a day, what would you do?
14. Do you desire to be published or to make writing your profession? Why or why not?
15. Tyler Durden and Holden Caulfield in a no-holds-barred fight club grudge match. Tell me the story. Who wins?
16. If your writing process were or could be analogized to a movie, what movie would that be?
17. What is your favorite style or form of poetry to read, and why?
18. What is a style or form of poetry that you cannot stand, and why?
19. Who would you save the last dance for, and why?
20. What one thing would tell you that you’d “made it” as a writer?
21. Why would anyone ask this question?
22. Lyrics or music, and why?
23. Do you prefer to handwrite first, or compose on keyboard? Follow-up: if you do both, do you find your writing differs if you write it on the keyboard versus writing out by hand?
24. This, or that?
25. If you were a merperson, what song would you sing, and why?
26. What subject(s) do you find you cannot write about, and why?
27. What is the end?