Slowdown Sunday

[thehallway]

Because I apparently have nothing else to do since I've faffed off all day and spent my day shoe shopping online:

Ask me up to three questions.

1. What made you start writing fanfic?
2. Which of your own fanfics have you reread the most?
3. Describe the differences between your first fanfic and your most recent fanfic.
4. Do you think your style has changed over time? How so?
5. You've posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you'd written it?
6. Name three stories you found easy to write.
7. Name three stories you found difficult to write.
8. What's your ratio of hits to kudos?
9. What do your fic bookmarks say about you?
10. What's a theme that keeps coming up in your writing?
11. What kind of relationships are you most interested in writing?
12. For E-rated fic, what are some things your characters keep doing? I don't write E-rated fic.
13. Name three favorite characters to write.
14. You're applying for the fanfic writer of the year award. What five fanfics do you put in your portfolio?
15. Question of your choice!

Comments

fic meme

[oldtoadwoman]

5, 6, 14
(I'm curious how much 6 and 14 will overlap)

Re: fic meme

[thehallway]

Here they are!

5. You've posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you'd written it?

My betas? Immediately. My followers? Some of them pretty quickly, depending on how dark the fic was. On the other hand, nobody could ever believe or recognize that I wrote comedy sometimes too.

6. Name three stories you found easy to write.

Fly Me To The Moons
Ships in the Night
An Improbable Fiction

14. You're applying for the fanfic writer of the year award. What five fanfics do you put in your portfolio?

These span the breadth of my writing from short to novel length. And I’ve taken the liberty of adding an extra sixth one here for you based on your Rygel icon and your love for the little Dominar. 😊

Winter in Shade
A Little Lost Along The Way
One Red Thread
Baby Hit Me One More Time
And So You Go
Sleight of Hand

Sleight of Hand

[oldtoadwoman]

I like how you worked in his floating throne sled as part of his body language.

It's been too long since I've seen the show. I'd entirely forgotten that storyline. (If I only I had time for a re-watch.)

Re: Sleight of Hand

[thehallway]

I hear you. It was weird revisiting my fic from that time. It's been 20 years since the show.

Re: Sleight of Hand

[oldtoadwoman]

Wow, that feels impossible, but I know it's true. (I was living in a different state at the time.)

I swear my memory sorts everything into "when I was a kid", "about ten years ago", "a year or two ago", and "the other day" and those categories are very inadequate.

Re: Sleight of Hand

[thehallway]

My sorting pattern is like that too, except I just skip 'when I was a kid' cuz that was eons ago and go straight to sorting things sort of by decade. I still get caught up in the idea that my 40s was when everything happened though. :)

memories

[oldtoadwoman]

I think my brain just refuses to acknowledge that I'm an adult. Because it feels like "when I was a kid" and "sometime in the last ten years" should cover everything. Any information that refutes this (i.e. any aspect of reality) sort of gets ignored.

[jesse_the_k]

These are juicy question---as a reader, I am interested in 2, 4, and 9.

[thehallway]

Thanks for asking. :)

2. Which of your own fanfics have you reread the most?

That’s a really difficult question to answer since I haven’t read any of my fics in years prior to this. I think tends to be dependent on my own head space and where I’m at mentally to make a choice. I tend toward dark themes and angst over fluffy romance, though I do actually like them when the mood hits me. Of my own fics, I think I would have to say the novel length 'A Little Lost Along The Way'. It allowed me to explore all kinds of themes I was interested in exploring.

4. Do you think your style has changed over time? How so?

Oh, god, yes. I started out like most writers thinking that the more words, adjectives and adverbs I used the better the writing. Then I realized I didn’t work like that, so my mission became to pare down my verbiage, make every word justify its presence in the narrative. The words had to paint a picture. I’m also a fiend about dialogue. I love it. I think I wrote an entire fic just using dialogue once.

9. What do your fic bookmarks say about you?

That I love, love, love the dark. And that I don’t need a happy ending. Sometimes its enough to just see a glimmer of hope in an open ending.

[johnlockismyreligion]

6, 10 and 11.

[thehallway]

Thanks for asking. :)

6. Name three stories you found easy to write.

Fly Me To The Moons
Ships in the Night
An Improbable Fiction

Links for these are in a reply up thread.

10. What's a theme that keeps coming up in your writing?

Dark themes, mostly. Smaller individual stories played out against war or genocide or death and plague. How people react, grow, change, what they are willing to do and to give up, especially in service of something they consider to be a greater good.

11. What kind of relationships are you most interested in writing?

I’m usually drawn to canon ships like John and Aeryn from Farscape and John and Sherlock. But I deviated from Daniel and Vala in SG-1 to Cam and Vala while I also shipped Sam and Jack. I find exploring the dynamic of strong, intelligent, capable female characters paired with quietly capable men who are not threatened by them fascinating. I've just shipped John and Sherlock since I originally read Conan Doyle when I was about ten. Same dynamic, just with two males. :)