Poll for Shared Wisdom

[jans_intentions]

Our line up of speakers in November is quite exciting. We have someone doing a different approach on writing the drabble and after that an ebook and fan fic writer talks about the differences of writing the two.

Also, if you missed it, speaker anahcrow talked about writing her ebook Uneven and ebook publishingI thought it would be interesting to learn a

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[dreamflower02]

My fandom is LotR/The Hobbit, basically book-verse, though I do include some movie-verse elements from time to time. I read in other fandoms, but except for a foray into another fandom for the Yuletide Exchange, LotR is the only one I write in.

I did once have some published non-fiction, and would not mind doing that again.

Although I was interested in my teen years in writing original published fic, I have completely lost interest in that now, and am enjoying myself immensely with just fanfic. I find it very gratifying and creatively fulfilling in a way that I did not find original fic to be.

[jans_intentions]

You know, I remembered LOTR about five seconds after I posted the poll, but I'm sure that I didn't get all the fandoms by a long shot.

I like that, that you find it gratifying doing what you are doing. Really, that is what matters.

[dreamflower02]

Well, LotR is not as "hot" a fandom as it was when the movies were still coming out.

I find fanfic to be very satisfying creatively, in a way that my other hobbies (also creative) are not. I am playing in the pool with other like-minded people--most creative hobbies are solitary: needlework, calligraphy, etc. I can share my finished product. But only with fanfic can I share the process, both in what others have to give me and in what I have to give to others. And we speak the same "language".

It *is* very gratifying!

[jans_intentions]

I love the interaction that you can get with fandom. I don't think that it exists quite like it in any other kind of writing. Even with writing original, I have a small critique group to take a look at what I've produced, chapter by chapter. It really helps me not drag my ass.

[thephoenixboy]

My fandoms are HP and various anime fandoms - Prince of Tennis, Hikaru no Go, Hunter x Hunter - and I both write and read.

[jans_intentions]

Oh, yes. There are so many anime fandoms!

[pinkfriction]

Although I do write some original fiction, I am honest enough to say I'm not briliant at it and never will be. I write fanfic because I already have characters there that I love and I enjoy 'playing' with them.

I didn't click 'multifandom' because I'm not really, although I have read and enjoyed stories in other fandoms I don't actively participate. I have also written stories in another fandom (BBM) but my heart wasn't in it as much as QaF and I can't imagine now writing in any other fandom. Of course that could change!

[jans_intentions]

I think that if you know yourself, your niche, that can be a comfortable platform to do what you want. I find it actually quite difficult (at the moment) to shift gears.

[seal_girl]

I'm mostly involved with small fandoms, like Ironside, Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon and Agatha Christie's Poirot. But I occasionally write Doctor Who and Star War, just for a change.

[jans_intentions]

Small fandoms are great. Our next speaker also dabbles in one as well as one of the biggies.

[firefly124]

The fandoms I write besides Harry Potter and BtVS/AtS are Temeraire, Vorkosigan, Chalion, and Black Jewels. Once I get caught up to canon, I foresee writing Doctor Who as well.

Someday, I'd like to write original fiction. Right now, with school, though, I'm lucky to find time to write at all. :-)

[jans_intentions]

I hear you. :)