Week 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. I usually write down as much as I can as soon as I can, before the muse packs up and leaves. I can generally get a fairly detailed outline done within a day or two, and then I'll start whatever research I need to do. ( Read more... )

Week 18: Where do you get the most inspiration for your fics (aka "bunnies") from?It varies a lot. Some are from canon source, some from real life, some from other fics/art (I'll talk about that more in Week 20). In most cases my right brain comes up with an image or a scene outline (the hook scene) and I have to write that down. Whether it goes ( Read more... )

Week 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?Some easy, some hard. Mostly hard ( Read more... )

Week 16: Summaries: Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?They are a good way to screen fics, and I am very bad at them. There is so much fic out there now, especially in the blockbuster fandoms, that no one can read it all. A good summary is not just a summary but an advertisement -- you have approximately ( Read more... )

Week 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?I generally warn for the same things that TV would warn about-violence, rape/non-con, swearing, drug use, sex (if it's not covered in the rating), explicit medical procedures-plus some character deaths. I don't write ( Read more... )

Week 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?More than half my fics are NC-17 / Explicit. I have been known to apologise for writing G-rated fics. *g* Having said that, I find it ( Read more... )

Week 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?

I try to stick to canon as the starting point, but sometimes I choose to use fanon. For example, in Stargate: Atlantis it was fanon that Sheppard's father was a senior military officer ( Read more... )

Week 12 : Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?Not yet. I've seen too many really, really bad adaptations to try it unless I am confident I can do a good job. It's a tricky task because you have to match the right characters with the right book/film or it falls flat (unless the ( Read more... )

Week 11: Genre: Do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?Most of my fics fall either into the "journey of self-discovery" genre (Bildungsroman) or the "learning how to be married" genre (I'm not sure there is a single word for that in any language but if there is, please tell me). It's probably ( Read more... )

Week 10: Pairings: Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?

OMG yes. I tried writing a crossover het fic for a friend-Andy Yablonski (Alex O'Loughlin) from Three Rivers with Kaylee Frye (Jewel Staite) from Firefly. I tried and ( Read more... )