some more questions.
Yeah, so on that consistency thing? Clearly no danger.
11 - Genre - do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?
Um. No? I guess? I kind of have two settings, maybe three. Humour, reality-serious, and curtainfic. (Curtainfic is usually humour.) I don't really write hurt-comfort, though one or two of my stories have been described that way to me. I don't think I write what I would call romance, per se, but there's certainly the romantic thread in there. I just--well, this will sound pretentious, but I just write whatever comes out. I don't intentionally write to genre.
12 - Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?
No. I really am not keen on that model at all. What I do like to write, and what I think is fundamentally different from adaptations, is fusion. "secretly a reef rat" was not an alternate universe--it was answering the question, what would Arthur be like if he were a McGarrett? At most, I like taking a text, especially a limited scope of canon, and smushing it with another show to see what it says about the characters I'm writing about. For example, I like making Peter Burke a Mountie and seeing how that makes his relationship with El or with Neal different. But that's not the same as writing "Ocean's Eleven" as a White Collar story.
13 - Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?
CANON. Canon canon canon. Fanon has its place, but once a fandom starts writing catboy versions of a character based on someone else's fanfic, I kind of start to separate my reading from my writing within that fandom. CANON.
14 - Ratings - how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?
I've written stuff that basically lives up to its label as "porn." See also, yesterday. But I write all along the spectrum. Rating is something I slap on later, depending on how explicit it became in the writing process. I'm never surprised. It is what it is.
15 - Warnings - What do you feel it most important to warn for, and what's the strangest thing you've warned for in a fic?
Non-con, dub-con and rape. That's it. I don't do that "warning for Blair's haircut" bullshit, but I'm not going to give away the story before I write it. And I don't really write those three things I would otherwise warn for, so.
16 - Summaries - Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?
Eh. I just pick an evocative line from the story and use that as cut text, or as a summary. They're a necessary irritation, but I've made it work.
17 - Titles - Are they the bane of your existence, or the easiest part of the fic? Also, if you do chaptered fic, do you give each chapter a title, or not?
DO NOT GET ME STARTED. If I don't have a title before I start writing--and about half the time I do--the hardest fucking thing in the world is to find a satisfying title for my story. Luckily, I have people that will tell me if my title is stupid. But a lot of the time I nick them from quotes, or song lyrics. It's mostly about the feeling, rather than the specific words.
However, when I have a title before I write the story, everything is beautiful.
18 - Where do you get the most inspiration for your fics (aka "bunnies") from?
Um, I don't know how to answer this question effectively. Everywhere? My brain? Seriously, I don't know how to answer this question.
19 - When you have bunnies, do you sit down and start writing right away, or do you write down the idea for further use?
Both. Depends on the time factor. I come up with a lot of things when I'm just trying to fall asleep, so I scribble things down for later. But when I have the time, and the right setting, bam. I can bang it out like a screen door. Actually, the hardest part is trying to find the time to write the stories I come up with as I'm falling asleep.
20 -Do you ever get bunnied from other people's stories or art in the same fandom?
Once, art. But a lot of the time, stories I get in response to other people's stories is in the opposite sense. "Well, what if character did X instead of Y?" "What if character was here, instead of there?" I want to write a counter-story, not in a bitchy way, but just in a inspiration sort of way.
My god, Rizzoli and Isles is amazing. Seriously, if these characters were dudes, this fandom would be Inception. It is SO GAY, people. SO GAY in the classical slash sense. <3
11 - Genre - do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?
Um. No? I guess? I kind of have two settings, maybe three. Humour, reality-serious, and curtainfic. (Curtainfic is usually humour.) I don't really write hurt-comfort, though one or two of my stories have been described that way to me. I don't think I write what I would call romance, per se, but there's certainly the romantic thread in there. I just--well, this will sound pretentious, but I just write whatever comes out. I don't intentionally write to genre.
12 - Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?
No. I really am not keen on that model at all. What I do like to write, and what I think is fundamentally different from adaptations, is fusion. "secretly a reef rat" was not an alternate universe--it was answering the question, what would Arthur be like if he were a McGarrett? At most, I like taking a text, especially a limited scope of canon, and smushing it with another show to see what it says about the characters I'm writing about. For example, I like making Peter Burke a Mountie and seeing how that makes his relationship with El or with Neal different. But that's not the same as writing "Ocean's Eleven" as a White Collar story.
13 - Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?
CANON. Canon canon canon. Fanon has its place, but once a fandom starts writing catboy versions of a character based on someone else's fanfic, I kind of start to separate my reading from my writing within that fandom. CANON.
14 - Ratings - how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?
I've written stuff that basically lives up to its label as "porn." See also, yesterday. But I write all along the spectrum. Rating is something I slap on later, depending on how explicit it became in the writing process. I'm never surprised. It is what it is.
15 - Warnings - What do you feel it most important to warn for, and what's the strangest thing you've warned for in a fic?
Non-con, dub-con and rape. That's it. I don't do that "warning for Blair's haircut" bullshit, but I'm not going to give away the story before I write it. And I don't really write those three things I would otherwise warn for, so.
16 - Summaries - Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?
Eh. I just pick an evocative line from the story and use that as cut text, or as a summary. They're a necessary irritation, but I've made it work.
17 - Titles - Are they the bane of your existence, or the easiest part of the fic? Also, if you do chaptered fic, do you give each chapter a title, or not?
DO NOT GET ME STARTED. If I don't have a title before I start writing--and about half the time I do--the hardest fucking thing in the world is to find a satisfying title for my story. Luckily, I have people that will tell me if my title is stupid. But a lot of the time I nick them from quotes, or song lyrics. It's mostly about the feeling, rather than the specific words.
However, when I have a title before I write the story, everything is beautiful.
18 - Where do you get the most inspiration for your fics (aka "bunnies") from?
Um, I don't know how to answer this question effectively. Everywhere? My brain? Seriously, I don't know how to answer this question.
19 - When you have bunnies, do you sit down and start writing right away, or do you write down the idea for further use?
Both. Depends on the time factor. I come up with a lot of things when I'm just trying to fall asleep, so I scribble things down for later. But when I have the time, and the right setting, bam. I can bang it out like a screen door. Actually, the hardest part is trying to find the time to write the stories I come up with as I'm falling asleep.
20 -Do you ever get bunnied from other people's stories or art in the same fandom?
Once, art. But a lot of the time, stories I get in response to other people's stories is in the opposite sense. "Well, what if character did X instead of Y?" "What if character was here, instead of there?" I want to write a counter-story, not in a bitchy way, but just in a inspiration sort of way.
My god, Rizzoli and Isles is amazing. Seriously, if these characters were dudes, this fandom would be Inception. It is SO GAY, people. SO GAY in the classical slash sense. <3