Meme from MyAibou
How about a brief introduction for yourself?
Scribbler's the name and writing fanfic's the game. As are whinging/blogging/reading/viewing/eating/sleeping/whining/moaning/complaining and all the other staples of my life.
Fabulous! And what got you into fanfiction to begin with?
I think I've told this story before. Like a lot of people I've seen do this meme, I was writing fanfic by and before I knew what it was and envisioning little movies in my head for my earliest 'fandoms' (I'm a child of the eighties, wherein cartoons were rife but only lasted for one season and left so many plotholes you could lose an entire colony of gophers in just one of them). As far as 'officially' writing fic goes, that's going back to 2000 when I discovered GenSau's Tenchi Muyo Fanfiction Archive and became inspired to write my own. I say 'inspired' in the loosest sensee, as it was all by hand and featured a Mary-Sue of Biblical proportions, while also crossing the Tenchi Muyo universe with that of Gundam Win, the other fandom that welcomed me into the online family with its sheer awesomeness (and also the fandom that first introduced me to the idea of 'slash' as more than a keystroke). I never posted anything for either of those fandoms, but instead offered up my first purple-prose sacrifice on the altar of Digimon. Again, horrible doesn't even begin to describe it, but I went on from there and have never really looked back.
I see, so what kind of fanfiction do you like to write?
Anything that pops into my head at a time when I can actually get my mitts on a keyboard. I wander from fandom to fandom and have a cursedly short attention span, so I dabble all over the bloody place with genres, POVs, tenses, canons and whatnot. I like to experiment, though this doesn't always produce auspicious results. I do like words, though. Words are fun to play with. And I don't like to use cliches unless I either a) haven't realised it's a cliche because I haven't been in the fandom long enough or am being especially thick, or b) am doing it intentionally for shits and giggles.
Do you find writing easy? Hard? What are the most difficult aspects of writing you struggle with?
I'm blushing right now about what
myaibouwrote about me in her answer to this queston. It depends. Bizarrely, I find it easier to write at night, especially during the wee hours of the morning when my eyes are going blurry but my fingers are dancing like my hands are Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago. Unlike
myaibou, however, I struggle with believable dialogue and live in fear that all my characters sound the same or fall into stock stereotypes when they open their mouths. Either that or one of them will suddenly break the fourth wall during an especially speech-heavy portion of fic and say, "We are moving the plot along now. There is a lot of exposition and important things we're explaining so please pay attention." I'm a perfectionist, too (though with some of the stupid fecking typos I miss you wouldn't know it), so it takes me a long time to produce soemthing I'm happy with and that can sometimes supercede my attention span. I have a lot of half-formed fics in storage because of that.
Write a few sentences or so of your favorite pairing or character.
I'm not a shipper, though I have pairings I do enjoy more than others, but not to the exclusion of all others. I tend to like neglected, bashed, ignored or chronically mis-characterised characters, too, which is pretty much shooting myself in the foot so far as finding god fic about them goes. Off the top of my head, at the moment ... Anzu Mazaki, Aerith Gainsborough, Yuffie Kisaragi, Bumblebee, Speedy and Terra.
Are there any fanfiction clichés or trends you’re sick of or just can’t stand?
Bashing. I hate, loathe and abhor character bashing.
Are you guilty of any fanfiction clichés you hate? Or any other ones?
I bloody hope not.
What was the first fandom you wrote for, and do you still like/participate in it?
I think I already answered this one.
Name your OTPs or most frequently written pairings/characters and explain what it is about them that you love to write.
I previously mentioned I'm not a shipper, but I'll admit I'm partial to a little Speedy/Bumblbee for Toon Titans and Zack/Aerith for FF7 (and KH, come to think of it). I write for characters whose narrative voices I feel I've got a handle on, which is why you'll probably never see a proper Malik fic from me unless he moves his ass into my brain and lets me see what makes him tick beyond the superficial. And that last line sounded so much better in my head.
What would you call your writing “style”?
Verbose? Purple? Littered with similes? Too concerned with the mundane? Rite moar bitch?
Do you read other people’s fanfic? If so, what do you find yourself reading the most?
I've started reading a lot more lately, which is actually rather stupid as I have RL responsibilities and they don't mesh well with sitting on my hiney reading stories about someone else's copyighted characters. I tend to go via other people's recs (and
ff_pressrecently, because there's a surprisingly good ratio of goodfic over badfic posted there) or I'll find an author I like and blow through all their stuff. I don't browse for fic anymore. I have too many bookmarked in my Must Read At Somr Point folder for that.
Name one thing you’d LOVE to write, but have been too afraid or shy to do.
I've written smut before, but that was a long, looooooong time ago and I wasn't very good at it. At all. So I'd like the skill to write a good, non-cliched smut scene, but also the confidence and wherewithal to actually post it after writing it. Otherwise I'm sticking to vague rustlings in dark rooms and single sentence implications. Where do I live? In Nuendo, of course.
Do you have trouble taking criticism? Or worse yet, do you have the dreaded bloated ego?
Not if it's warranted, but I draw the line at personal attacks or if someone has genuinely missed the point of a fic and flames me out of their own ignorance.
When you write, is there anything that helps? Music? Quiet room?
Depends. I've written fics to music and fics in silence, and a couple of times I've written fics while watching telly, though that one doesn't work so well as I start typing out the dialogue fo what I'm watching. There's nothing more distracting in fanfic than finding a sudden Gil Grissom one-liner about a decomposing penis in the middle of a sappy fluff fic.
What inspires you?
Anything and everything, I find inspiration in the weirdest of places. For example, I walked past a window to a room where a pupil was having a tantrum and throwing chairs about. The words 'Fucking psycho' entered my cranium, promptly dispelled by the following thought, 'Whoops, I've got to stop swearing so much' (alongside 'Ah shit, I'm the only adult around which means I'm honour-bound to do soemthing about this and I like my head in one piece'), and hot on those heels came the replacement 'freaking psycho', which led to an entire piece of Toon Titans fanfic that doesn't feature even one thrown chair or smashed window. Go figure.
Lastly, how would you sum up your fanfiction experiences and yourself as a writer?
Hopefully I've improved a lot since I started, but even if I haven't I've made a lot of friends whom I value even more than the people I know in RL, because I know the people online don't judge my whims and eccentricities (yes, I read some textbooks for fun, oh Head of my Department, it is because I wish to be able to stretch my mind enough to tie it under my chin someday).
Tag six friends because they’ll hate you for it.
Okay then, hens and roosters.
lediz
shadow_diva
edmondia
karanguni
the_sweet
todd_fan
Scribbler's the name and writing fanfic's the game. As are whinging/blogging/reading/viewing/eating/sleeping/whining/moaning/complaining and all the other staples of my life.
Fabulous! And what got you into fanfiction to begin with?
I think I've told this story before. Like a lot of people I've seen do this meme, I was writing fanfic by and before I knew what it was and envisioning little movies in my head for my earliest 'fandoms' (I'm a child of the eighties, wherein cartoons were rife but only lasted for one season and left so many plotholes you could lose an entire colony of gophers in just one of them). As far as 'officially' writing fic goes, that's going back to 2000 when I discovered GenSau's Tenchi Muyo Fanfiction Archive and became inspired to write my own. I say 'inspired' in the loosest sensee, as it was all by hand and featured a Mary-Sue of Biblical proportions, while also crossing the Tenchi Muyo universe with that of Gundam Win, the other fandom that welcomed me into the online family with its sheer awesomeness (and also the fandom that first introduced me to the idea of 'slash' as more than a keystroke). I never posted anything for either of those fandoms, but instead offered up my first purple-prose sacrifice on the altar of Digimon. Again, horrible doesn't even begin to describe it, but I went on from there and have never really looked back.
I see, so what kind of fanfiction do you like to write?
Anything that pops into my head at a time when I can actually get my mitts on a keyboard. I wander from fandom to fandom and have a cursedly short attention span, so I dabble all over the bloody place with genres, POVs, tenses, canons and whatnot. I like to experiment, though this doesn't always produce auspicious results. I do like words, though. Words are fun to play with. And I don't like to use cliches unless I either a) haven't realised it's a cliche because I haven't been in the fandom long enough or am being especially thick, or b) am doing it intentionally for shits and giggles.
Do you find writing easy? Hard? What are the most difficult aspects of writing you struggle with?
I'm blushing right now about what
myaibouwrote about me in her answer to this queston. It depends. Bizarrely, I find it easier to write at night, especially during the wee hours of the morning when my eyes are going blurry but my fingers are dancing like my hands are Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago. Unlike
myaibou, however, I struggle with believable dialogue and live in fear that all my characters sound the same or fall into stock stereotypes when they open their mouths. Either that or one of them will suddenly break the fourth wall during an especially speech-heavy portion of fic and say, "We are moving the plot along now. There is a lot of exposition and important things we're explaining so please pay attention." I'm a perfectionist, too (though with some of the stupid fecking typos I miss you wouldn't know it), so it takes me a long time to produce soemthing I'm happy with and that can sometimes supercede my attention span. I have a lot of half-formed fics in storage because of that.
Write a few sentences or so of your favorite pairing or character.
I'm not a shipper, though I have pairings I do enjoy more than others, but not to the exclusion of all others. I tend to like neglected, bashed, ignored or chronically mis-characterised characters, too, which is pretty much shooting myself in the foot so far as finding god fic about them goes. Off the top of my head, at the moment ... Anzu Mazaki, Aerith Gainsborough, Yuffie Kisaragi, Bumblebee, Speedy and Terra.
Are there any fanfiction clichés or trends you’re sick of or just can’t stand?
Bashing. I hate, loathe and abhor character bashing.
Are you guilty of any fanfiction clichés you hate? Or any other ones?
I bloody hope not.
What was the first fandom you wrote for, and do you still like/participate in it?
I think I already answered this one.
Name your OTPs or most frequently written pairings/characters and explain what it is about them that you love to write.
I previously mentioned I'm not a shipper, but I'll admit I'm partial to a little Speedy/Bumblbee for Toon Titans and Zack/Aerith for FF7 (and KH, come to think of it). I write for characters whose narrative voices I feel I've got a handle on, which is why you'll probably never see a proper Malik fic from me unless he moves his ass into my brain and lets me see what makes him tick beyond the superficial. And that last line sounded so much better in my head.
What would you call your writing “style”?
Verbose? Purple? Littered with similes? Too concerned with the mundane? Rite moar bitch?
Do you read other people’s fanfic? If so, what do you find yourself reading the most?
I've started reading a lot more lately, which is actually rather stupid as I have RL responsibilities and they don't mesh well with sitting on my hiney reading stories about someone else's copyighted characters. I tend to go via other people's recs (and
ff_pressrecently, because there's a surprisingly good ratio of goodfic over badfic posted there) or I'll find an author I like and blow through all their stuff. I don't browse for fic anymore. I have too many bookmarked in my Must Read At Somr Point folder for that.
Name one thing you’d LOVE to write, but have been too afraid or shy to do.
I've written smut before, but that was a long, looooooong time ago and I wasn't very good at it. At all. So I'd like the skill to write a good, non-cliched smut scene, but also the confidence and wherewithal to actually post it after writing it. Otherwise I'm sticking to vague rustlings in dark rooms and single sentence implications. Where do I live? In Nuendo, of course.
Do you have trouble taking criticism? Or worse yet, do you have the dreaded bloated ego?
Not if it's warranted, but I draw the line at personal attacks or if someone has genuinely missed the point of a fic and flames me out of their own ignorance.
When you write, is there anything that helps? Music? Quiet room?
Depends. I've written fics to music and fics in silence, and a couple of times I've written fics while watching telly, though that one doesn't work so well as I start typing out the dialogue fo what I'm watching. There's nothing more distracting in fanfic than finding a sudden Gil Grissom one-liner about a decomposing penis in the middle of a sappy fluff fic.
What inspires you?
Anything and everything, I find inspiration in the weirdest of places. For example, I walked past a window to a room where a pupil was having a tantrum and throwing chairs about. The words 'Fucking psycho' entered my cranium, promptly dispelled by the following thought, 'Whoops, I've got to stop swearing so much' (alongside 'Ah shit, I'm the only adult around which means I'm honour-bound to do soemthing about this and I like my head in one piece'), and hot on those heels came the replacement 'freaking psycho', which led to an entire piece of Toon Titans fanfic that doesn't feature even one thrown chair or smashed window. Go figure.
Lastly, how would you sum up your fanfiction experiences and yourself as a writer?
Hopefully I've improved a lot since I started, but even if I haven't I've made a lot of friends whom I value even more than the people I know in RL, because I know the people online don't judge my whims and eccentricities (yes, I read some textbooks for fun, oh Head of my Department, it is because I wish to be able to stretch my mind enough to tie it under my chin someday).
Tag six friends because they’ll hate you for it.
Okay then, hens and roosters.
lediz
shadow_diva
edmondia
karanguni
the_sweet
todd_fan