Fanfic Meme
Nabbed from, well, most people.
1. Do you read or write fanfiction?
Yes, both. I read more than I write and in truth, I never thought I would want to write fanfic. Oh how wrong I was.
2. When did you first start reading/writing fanfiction?
The short answer: Reading, last September, writing, this March.
And here's the long answer.
OK, this is what happened. I first became aware of Harry Potter just before PoA came out, the children's supplement of our Saturday newspaper did a big build-up to the release, concluding by printing an extract (the opening) on the day itself. I had no idea what the fuss was about and so out of curiosity I read this excerpt. I'm ashamed to admit that I really didn't like it, in fact I barely got beyond the first few paragraphs. *shakes head in disbelief at self*
So anyway, years passed, the hype grew, and I was resolutely scornful about it all. Then my Mum, at the request of one of her pupils, read PS to her class, and really liked it, so now I felt a bit more open minded about it. Later that year the first film came out, and I thought I'd give it a chance. I really enjoyed it, so I thought I might like to read the books. Someone in my family bought the set of all four paperbacks. Mum started to read CoS, and my Dad PS, so I had to start with PoA and consequently read them in a very strange order: 3, 4, 2, 1. Anyway, I loved them. Couldn't put them down (I remember reading in the back of the car with a torch coming home from Christmas shopping). I re-read them all a few times over the following months, and then OotP came out. I was pretty excited, went to buy it the day it came out and read it a few times over the summer.
And then... I just drifted into reading other things and didn't give much thought to it. Two years later, HBP came out and I read it (though not 'til three days after the release) and I enjoyed it. But it was so long since I'd read OotP that I couldn't remember much of what happened and so I didn't enjoy it as much as perhaps I could have. I don't think I re-read it.
So I forgot about it fall or a year or so, 'til last September I thought, 'haven't read those for a while, lets read them all again'. I read all six in a week, and fell in love with them all over again. I'd never been on any Potter fan sites before, but I went on a few, discovered fan fiction, and I was hooked!
I started writing fan fic the evening that I realised I'd been writing fanfic in my head for years, that I did have ideas, I'd just never committed them to paper.
3. What was your first fandom?
Harry Potter.
4. First ship?
Remus/Tonks
5. What website to you use most?
LiveJournal
6. What do you think of Fanfiction.net?
I like it. It's convenient and most people are on it. It's not snazzy to look at, but in a way that's better. It can be a pain to navigate sometimes though and the ads get on my nerves. I only really look at stuff that's been rec'd or is by people I already know of because I can't be arsed to sort through it all.
I discovered Meta, livejournal and all you lot by going to Jess Pallas' (who I'd discovered through her award on mugglenet fanfiction) profile and working my way down her favourite author list. (Following the logic that if she can write that well, then she can spot a good fic when she see's it!)
7. What fandoms have you written in?
Harry Potter
8. Pairings?
Remus/Tonks
9. Any fandoms would you like to write in?
I could see myself getting into Austen, but at the moment R/T is more than enough.
10. Do reviews affect how you write in any way?
Other than encouraging me to continue writing, not yet
11. Do you use a beta?
Mostly. I did for my first fic, and I will for the one I'm writing at the moment. I didn't for my Showdown drabble, a) because RL was giving my beta a seriously hard time, b) because I wanted to have a go without and c) because it didn't seem worth it for such a short piece.
12. What ratings do you read/write?
I'm pretty liberal so I'll read all ratings. I've not yet written anything over a PG.
13. What warnings have you used on your fiction/read?
Abuse of kitchenware. lol
14. Do you have any squicks?
I don't get slash. While I have nothing against homosexuality, I don't want to know the details. (And I really can't see it realistically happening in Potterverse.)
Student/Teacher relationships also gross me out a bit.
15. Do you role-play online? If so, what?
No. I don't even really know anything about it.
16. Have you ever stolen something from another person's work?
Not really. I wrote a sentence in A Fainting Fancy that skimmed dangerously close to something
mrstater had written in a fic. When I first wrote it I had an inkling that the idea had come from something I'd read, but didn't know where, and it worked so well that I was reluctant to get rid of it, especially as it was a variation on "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus", and so not a total rip off. Anyway, I owned up in the author's note, and hopefully she didn't mind too much...
17. Favorite fandom to write/read?
Harry Potter.
18. Favorite pairing?
Remus/Tonks
19. Favorite writer/writers?
All the people on my f-list plus numerous others. I intend to get round to adding authors to my favourites list on ff.net at some point.
20. How long should a chapter be?
Dunno. As long as it needs to be?
21. Do you write/read drabbles?
I really like reading them, and I tried writing my first the other week. It was fun and I'm pretty happy with it so I shall definitely try it again in the near future.
22. Any fandoms you avoid?
I have no particular interest in most of the fandoms out there, but I wouldn't go as far as to say, "avoid".
23. Pairings you avoid?
Slash and counter-canon. I don't get them.
24. Warnings you avoid?
I'd think twice about extreme violence or violent sex. I tend to avoid slash because it doesn't interest me, though I have read the odd slash fic out of curiosity.
25. Do the number of reviews tell how good a story is?
Not necessarily.
26. What do you think of Mary Sues?
They're a weird phenomenon, but I can see how people would want to write them. Just don't ask me to read it.
27. Have you ever flamed someone?
What would be the point?
28. Have you ever been flamed?
Not yet.
On the subject of fanfic, I accidentally admitted to my Mum the other day that I wrote fan fic. How embarrassing...
1. Do you read or write fanfiction?
Yes, both. I read more than I write and in truth, I never thought I would want to write fanfic. Oh how wrong I was.
2. When did you first start reading/writing fanfiction?
The short answer: Reading, last September, writing, this March.
And here's the long answer.
OK, this is what happened. I first became aware of Harry Potter just before PoA came out, the children's supplement of our Saturday newspaper did a big build-up to the release, concluding by printing an extract (the opening) on the day itself. I had no idea what the fuss was about and so out of curiosity I read this excerpt. I'm ashamed to admit that I really didn't like it, in fact I barely got beyond the first few paragraphs. *shakes head in disbelief at self*
So anyway, years passed, the hype grew, and I was resolutely scornful about it all. Then my Mum, at the request of one of her pupils, read PS to her class, and really liked it, so now I felt a bit more open minded about it. Later that year the first film came out, and I thought I'd give it a chance. I really enjoyed it, so I thought I might like to read the books. Someone in my family bought the set of all four paperbacks. Mum started to read CoS, and my Dad PS, so I had to start with PoA and consequently read them in a very strange order: 3, 4, 2, 1. Anyway, I loved them. Couldn't put them down (I remember reading in the back of the car with a torch coming home from Christmas shopping). I re-read them all a few times over the following months, and then OotP came out. I was pretty excited, went to buy it the day it came out and read it a few times over the summer.
And then... I just drifted into reading other things and didn't give much thought to it. Two years later, HBP came out and I read it (though not 'til three days after the release) and I enjoyed it. But it was so long since I'd read OotP that I couldn't remember much of what happened and so I didn't enjoy it as much as perhaps I could have. I don't think I re-read it.
So I forgot about it fall or a year or so, 'til last September I thought, 'haven't read those for a while, lets read them all again'. I read all six in a week, and fell in love with them all over again. I'd never been on any Potter fan sites before, but I went on a few, discovered fan fiction, and I was hooked!
I started writing fan fic the evening that I realised I'd been writing fanfic in my head for years, that I did have ideas, I'd just never committed them to paper.
3. What was your first fandom?
Harry Potter.
4. First ship?
Remus/Tonks
5. What website to you use most?
LiveJournal
6. What do you think of Fanfiction.net?
I like it. It's convenient and most people are on it. It's not snazzy to look at, but in a way that's better. It can be a pain to navigate sometimes though and the ads get on my nerves. I only really look at stuff that's been rec'd or is by people I already know of because I can't be arsed to sort through it all.
I discovered Meta, livejournal and all you lot by going to Jess Pallas' (who I'd discovered through her award on mugglenet fanfiction) profile and working my way down her favourite author list. (Following the logic that if she can write that well, then she can spot a good fic when she see's it!)
7. What fandoms have you written in?
Harry Potter
8. Pairings?
Remus/Tonks
9. Any fandoms would you like to write in?
I could see myself getting into Austen, but at the moment R/T is more than enough.
10. Do reviews affect how you write in any way?
Other than encouraging me to continue writing, not yet
11. Do you use a beta?
Mostly. I did for my first fic, and I will for the one I'm writing at the moment. I didn't for my Showdown drabble, a) because RL was giving my beta a seriously hard time, b) because I wanted to have a go without and c) because it didn't seem worth it for such a short piece.
12. What ratings do you read/write?
I'm pretty liberal so I'll read all ratings. I've not yet written anything over a PG.
13. What warnings have you used on your fiction/read?
Abuse of kitchenware. lol
14. Do you have any squicks?
I don't get slash. While I have nothing against homosexuality, I don't want to know the details. (And I really can't see it realistically happening in Potterverse.)
Student/Teacher relationships also gross me out a bit.
15. Do you role-play online? If so, what?
No. I don't even really know anything about it.
16. Have you ever stolen something from another person's work?
Not really. I wrote a sentence in A Fainting Fancy that skimmed dangerously close to something
mrstater had written in a fic. When I first wrote it I had an inkling that the idea had come from something I'd read, but didn't know where, and it worked so well that I was reluctant to get rid of it, especially as it was a variation on "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus", and so not a total rip off. Anyway, I owned up in the author's note, and hopefully she didn't mind too much...
17. Favorite fandom to write/read?
Harry Potter.
18. Favorite pairing?
Remus/Tonks
19. Favorite writer/writers?
All the people on my f-list plus numerous others. I intend to get round to adding authors to my favourites list on ff.net at some point.
20. How long should a chapter be?
Dunno. As long as it needs to be?
21. Do you write/read drabbles?
I really like reading them, and I tried writing my first the other week. It was fun and I'm pretty happy with it so I shall definitely try it again in the near future.
22. Any fandoms you avoid?
I have no particular interest in most of the fandoms out there, but I wouldn't go as far as to say, "avoid".
23. Pairings you avoid?
Slash and counter-canon. I don't get them.
24. Warnings you avoid?
I'd think twice about extreme violence or violent sex. I tend to avoid slash because it doesn't interest me, though I have read the odd slash fic out of curiosity.
25. Do the number of reviews tell how good a story is?
Not necessarily.
26. What do you think of Mary Sues?
They're a weird phenomenon, but I can see how people would want to write them. Just don't ask me to read it.
27. Have you ever flamed someone?
What would be the point?
28. Have you ever been flamed?
Not yet.
On the subject of fanfic, I accidentally admitted to my Mum the other day that I wrote fan fic. How embarrassing...