The Friday Five: Fandom!

[dawn_felagund]

This is the first Friday Five that's been interesting in a while, at least in my humble and hard-to-please opinion. Alas, it is not Friday, but since Friday found me without communication of any kind at work and an evening full of activities at home, then we shall consider it the Belated Friday Five.

The questions:
1.) What fandom do you center on

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[dawn_felagund]

Funny enough, sometimes I think that's what it must look like for outsiders. ;-P

Well, I just did a little experiment to test your point. Granted, it's a single-subject design, but the subject (my husband) is outside but certainly familiar with our fandom. So I asked him, "Do you think my fandom is sometimes just an aggregate of pervy old women?" and he didn't hesitate to answer, "Yes." :^P

Though, hell, I still keep wishing I could be as productive as you!

My secret is that I have a guv'ment job that literally allows me five times more time to do my work than I need because it's guv'ment and they actually factor incompetence into the equation when figuring job descriptions and the amount of time to allow for certain tasks.

I also type very fast, which makes things easier and allows my thoughts to be put on paper the moment they appear in my head.

Also, I am admittedly a sick person. Yesterday, I started on a short story at 12:30. By 3:30, it was finished. All 4500 words of it. Granted, it was "written" in my head before beginning...but I'm still a sick person for managing 1500 words per hour, I think.

[atanwende]

My secret is that I have a guv'ment job that literally allows me five times more time to do my work than I need because it's guv'ment and they actually factor incompetence into the equation when figuring job descriptions and the amount of time to allow for certain tasks.

Well, I'm a lazy student, so - theoretically - I should have a lot time for writing as well. Unfortunately I tend to get really, really worked up on the stuff I have to do for my classes. So why I actually would have time to finally complete my modern-day Silm story or write that fic about the Haladin in Brethil (all stuff that's been ghosting around in my head for months now), my mind still thinks along the lines of "Destruction of art in 16th century anabaptism and the motivations thereof". And when I'm finished with my papers, exams, etc. I'm usually so burned out that I cannot bear any remotely intellectual thinking and am usually pretty useless for at least a weak. Meh. :-/

And a definite LOL at your husband's answer. I guess he's not the only one who'd react just like that. :-D

[dawn_felagund]

I barely wrote at all when I was in university, so I feel your pain in that. After slogging through essays and constantly reading--and never what I wanted to be reading--I simply didn't possess the energy.

In uni, aside from what I did for creative writing assignments, I finished a novel that I'd started in high school, one short story, and started something that thought it might want to be a novel but ended around 30 pages. That was it. So while you might think that your own progress in terms of wordcount is inferior, you've far outdone what I managed in all four years of uni!

(And, considering high school as well, I did two short stories and started the novel that was finished in uni. Nowadays, I can do that in three months...and this was eight years! :^P)