The Fanfic Writer's Meme
1. How many words of fanfic have you submitted?
45,290
2. How many people have you on alerts?
93
3. How many people have faved you?
92
4. Which fandoms do you write for?
Inuyasha, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Bleach (and one Inuyasha/Narnia crossover drabble, if that counts)
5. How many stories have you written?
Ten stories published (but two are collections of drabbles and one-shots; In the Winter Light contains a few one-shots that are longer than other stories that I've published individually.)
6. Which story of yours would you recommend for people to read?
I am so disenchanted with my old work; I wince at the thought of recommending any of it. Not that I hate it or think that it is without value... just rereading it at the moment is akin to reading an old diary. The majority of my fanfic is unedited. For Inuyasha I would say The Calm That Follows; for Avatar I guess the Zutara prompts for Comfort or Two of a Kind; and for Bleach (because it's the only thing I've posted for that fandom, at the moment) Eleven Truths About Rangiku & Gin.
7. Which story are you most proud of?
Leaving the Past---my first fanfic, going on five years old. I knocked out 20,000 words in three months (that alone makes me proud). It isn't my best. The writing is weak, but I nailed the emotions and character growth I wanted. As immature as the writing is, the story has heart (in my apparently not-very-humble opinion...).
8. Which one was your biggest challenge?
Switchpoint. Romantic Mai/Zuko had all the appeal of uncooked room temperature flounder to me.
9. Which one had the most reviews?
Leaving the Past (I still get several reviews a year on it, which makes me quite happy. None of my other older fics still get reviews like that. I like that LtP has long legs.)
10. Which had the least?
My Bleach drabble. But it is a drabble, and since it's part of a new collection the number of reviews will go up. For years, my least reviewed story was my poor (literally) red-headed stepchild Russet and Rust. It's one of my favorite works and it won me a Shikon Award (thank you, fandom!) but since it's ship-free it doesn't surprise me that readership is low.
11. Which story do you feel deserved the most reviews?
A Road Well Traveled (But double *wince* at some of the pretentious, muddled syntax I insisted on.)
12. Which story was your longest?
"Leaving the Past"
13. Which story was your shortest?
I've written several drabbles that hover at 100 words or less. The 400 Year Old Virgin is one.
14. Which story was a surprise hit?
"Switchpoint" :P
15. What story are you most known for?
"Leaving the Past" ?
16. What fandom are you most known for?
As a writer, probably Inuyasha. I've been active in Avatar fandom but I'm not particularly known for my fanfic.
17. What pairings are you most known for?
Rin/Sess and Katara/Zuko
18. What is something you will never put into your story?
My fanfic is usually written in a Young Adult style and rarely above a PG-13 level. That may change if I keep writing for Bleach. (To this day, the only publically viewable ManonLeChat smut is a vignette posted anonymously on the Zuko/Katara Kink Meme.) I'm a big fan of other people's above PG-13 level stuff!
19. What do you think your trademark is?
Short fic that leans on concentrated visual images. Fluffy, stupid humor and (when I hit it right) quiet, bittersweet, but hope-filled drama. Romance. Simple dialogue and overly neat endings (working on that).
20. Give us a hint of future stories!
I need to finish my book and fanfic is on the back burner. But I've messing around with Bleach this month (distraction from the anxiety of writing my own stuff) and I wrote a fluffy, half-serious UlquiHime drabble and three angsty Gin/Ran drabbles that will be cleaned and posted soon. My hard drive is a virtual graveyard of 90% finished Inuyasha and Avatar one-shots. (There is a 2,000 word Rin/Inuyasha story that I wrote as flashfic two years ago and it's criminal I never finished. It really only needs about one night's editing.) I can't quite accept that I've abandoned "Toward the Future" either: I had mapped out most of the plot four years ago and I loved the original characters I was developing, had good plans for Rin's growth (I never saw her as a static character just because she'd closed the deal with Sesshoumaru), Jaken was going to turn Useful and Kick-Ass, there was self-sacrifice coming up, and this golden and understated scene between Sesshoumaru and his son that was one of the first things I wrote. Someday I may upload the outline and mostly written final chapter.
You can also ask me any question about anything I've written.