Firstly, I'm really trying not to be sent spirally over this, but I do find it odd to get fic-crit which says something was a bit OOC if it was part of the request of the prompt I'm responding to. Except, obviously if I was a better writer, it wouldn't seem OOC even so. I do get that. Still. Probably not as bad as the ones complaining about ( Read more... )

13) Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?I prefer to base things on canon, certainly. And I don't generally wilfully ignore it unless it's done something to especially piss me off, so much that I have to ignore that part in order to ( Read more... )

11) Genre - do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?In a het-slash-femslash-gen kind of way, I prefer slash, although I also like ensemble gen, or ensemble gen around a slash pairing. In the more standard literary genre sense, I don't really know. Most of the things I enjoy are sci-fi/fantasy, or ( Read more... )

10) Pairings - Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?:( I wrote Ponder/Ridcully for Discworld, which I wanted very much after Unseen Academicals, and no one else would write it for me. But it didn't work as well as I would have ( Read more... )

AV Club has an interview with Clark Gregg - Agent Coulson in the Marvel movieverse. Now a) I had not put together the fact that he was also Agent Casper in The West Wing AND Quo Vadimus guy in Sports Night AND was apparently in A Few Good Men in the original Broadway run. So he's clearly a Sorkin guy, and his interview is adorably pleased about The ( Read more... )

7) Have you ever had a fic change your opinion of a character?
Writing Other Things to Do After Buying a Cat, where I started looking for the strength in Molly that the show (Sherlock) was reluctant to give us. I'm not sure that it changed my opinion, exactly - I knew there had to be more to her than unrequitedly longing for Sherlock and ( spoilers for end of S1 )

4) Do you have a "muse" character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the fic isn't about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse?Not really, or else 'yes, lots'. There's normally a character in a fandom that I find easier to write, or whose POV I tend to default to. But ( Read more... )

3) For each of the fandoms from day two, what were your favourite characters to write?
The West Wing: Sam by a whisker, though I do love writing Toby too. There are things about Sam that it's easier to capture through Toby's POV. And vice-versa, obviously.
The Social Network: Mark all the way. For some reason, Eduardo is often much more difficult.
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2) Name the fandoms you've written in, and how much you've written in that fandom, and if you still write in it.
... this is not a question I can sensibly answer. I'll give the highlights.
The West Wing: approx 100 fics, inc drabbles and crossovers. About 50 full length standalones. And it's not one I still write in regularly, but I wouldn't rule ( Read more... )

I have decided I would like more conversation here. Probably it would help if I said hello to more people/didn't ignore people saying hello to me, but what are you, new? (If so, I have just made a new intro sticky post hereSo, while this will not prevent me dying alone in my flat and being found a week later by my landlady, possibly someone will ( Read more... )