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frith_in_thorns) wrote2020-04-24 10:27 pm
frith_in_thorns) wrote2020-04-24 10:27 pm
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Fic and a fic meme
I posted chapter 3 of All the Boundaries Between the other day! If you were wondering at what point this fic would start devolving into h/c, it is at this point.
Currently I am procrastinating on editing chapter 4 (which goes up tomorrow), so here's a meme I saw fromnaye.
1. Why did you start writing fanfic?
2. Why do you write fanfic?
3. How do you choose fandoms and why do you choose them?
4. Do you have themes or plot devices you return to?
5. Do you have any pet peeves?
6. Which story/stories are you the most proud of and why?
1. I can't remember a time I wasn't telling myself fandom stories in my head, from when I was very very little. Usually with myself as a self-insert character. I definitely remember writing Swallows and Amazons fic at school when I was in year 2, so when I was about 6 or 7. Oddly, though, I managed not to encounter it on the internet (unless you count writing stories for The Neopian Times -- I got printed enough to get the avatar!) until I was 16 and having a really shit time at sixth form college. I was very into all CSIs at that time and I discovered fanvids on youtube through a discussion board and then someone had a fanvid that in the notes was described as a fic trailer, with a fanfic.net link... That is how I discovered fanfic. I read my way through the archive and then inevitably started writing it.
2. I write fanfic because I fall in extremely deep love with particular characters and can't let them go. My brain constantly churns up "what if" scenarios.
3. As mentioned, it's mostly about the characters for me, and how many extra stories I can spin around them. Procedural canons where the status quo is generally maintained and adventures can slot in anywhere (or in magical post-canon land where we completely ignore the ending *coughGuardiancough*) are my favourites -- I don't really like disrupting canon as a general rule. My main fandoms have been CSI:NY, SGA, White Collar, Wolf 359, and now Guardian. Wolf 359 was really the outlier in terms of being such an excellent complete story with fewer places for me to slot my own stories in, and it's probably not a coincidence that I didn't stay in the fandom terribly long after the canon wrapped up. I did my own epic post-canon fic and that was it. (I was really worried the same thing would happen after I wrote my first long fixit for Guardian, but fortunately it hasn't!)
4. Themes. Um. Well, I write hurt/comfort pretty much constantly, in literally every fandom I have ever been in. This includes the stories I made up in my head while I was a child. I like characters overcoming adversity and building emotional connections and getting their eventual happy endings. Through the medium of hurt/comfort. IDEK, it's like my id decided not to spread out any stat points over things like romance and sex and just put them all there instead.
5. My pet peeve in my own writing is that I often feel I do one at a time out of emotion or description or plot and that I lurch quite clunkily from one to the other. In stuff I read, this is silly but I can't read fics where there are big spaces between each paragraph. It's like my brain can't process it smoothly and I always end up back-buttoning within a few hundred words. Also I do find my own inability to read sexual content very annoying.
6. This keeps changing because I am usually the most proud of the stories I have finished most recently. I think (hope) I keep improving as I write more and more. I am pretty proud of all my multi-chapter fics too, I only used to write short things so I still keep being surprised by their existence!
Currently I am procrastinating on editing chapter 4 (which goes up tomorrow), so here's a meme I saw from
naye.1. Why did you start writing fanfic?
2. Why do you write fanfic?
3. How do you choose fandoms and why do you choose them?
4. Do you have themes or plot devices you return to?
5. Do you have any pet peeves?
6. Which story/stories are you the most proud of and why?
1. I can't remember a time I wasn't telling myself fandom stories in my head, from when I was very very little. Usually with myself as a self-insert character. I definitely remember writing Swallows and Amazons fic at school when I was in year 2, so when I was about 6 or 7. Oddly, though, I managed not to encounter it on the internet (unless you count writing stories for The Neopian Times -- I got printed enough to get the avatar!) until I was 16 and having a really shit time at sixth form college. I was very into all CSIs at that time and I discovered fanvids on youtube through a discussion board and then someone had a fanvid that in the notes was described as a fic trailer, with a fanfic.net link... That is how I discovered fanfic. I read my way through the archive and then inevitably started writing it.
2. I write fanfic because I fall in extremely deep love with particular characters and can't let them go. My brain constantly churns up "what if" scenarios.
3. As mentioned, it's mostly about the characters for me, and how many extra stories I can spin around them. Procedural canons where the status quo is generally maintained and adventures can slot in anywhere (or in magical post-canon land where we completely ignore the ending *coughGuardiancough*) are my favourites -- I don't really like disrupting canon as a general rule. My main fandoms have been CSI:NY, SGA, White Collar, Wolf 359, and now Guardian. Wolf 359 was really the outlier in terms of being such an excellent complete story with fewer places for me to slot my own stories in, and it's probably not a coincidence that I didn't stay in the fandom terribly long after the canon wrapped up. I did my own epic post-canon fic and that was it. (I was really worried the same thing would happen after I wrote my first long fixit for Guardian, but fortunately it hasn't!)
4. Themes. Um. Well, I write hurt/comfort pretty much constantly, in literally every fandom I have ever been in. This includes the stories I made up in my head while I was a child. I like characters overcoming adversity and building emotional connections and getting their eventual happy endings. Through the medium of hurt/comfort. IDEK, it's like my id decided not to spread out any stat points over things like romance and sex and just put them all there instead.
5. My pet peeve in my own writing is that I often feel I do one at a time out of emotion or description or plot and that I lurch quite clunkily from one to the other. In stuff I read, this is silly but I can't read fics where there are big spaces between each paragraph. It's like my brain can't process it smoothly and I always end up back-buttoning within a few hundred words. Also I do find my own inability to read sexual content very annoying.
6. This keeps changing because I am usually the most proud of the stories I have finished most recently. I think (hope) I keep improving as I write more and more. I am pretty proud of all my multi-chapter fics too, I only used to write short things so I still keep being surprised by their existence!