Hello all!

What's your fandom / are your fandoms? Star Trek: Voyager, Firefly and Earth 2. I've dabbled a little in Early Edition and Andromeda as well.

Give a short synopsis of the fandom (genre/story). Generally I go for science fiction shows. I also seem to have an affinity for shows involving the adventures of a tight-knit group of people ( Read more... )

A book that's been made in to a movie, or tv series, books based on Tv or a movie. Sometimes the differences are very sutble, other times, they're huge. Which do you prefer to write from? Does grabbing bits from both work? Do they count as two, or more, different fandoms ( Read more... )

( Stretch your creative minds out in roleplay )

Since I write a lot of fan fiction, I got curious about the rest of you. Anyone into one or more of the fandoms below? (Read, write or just watch the series/movie ( Read more... )

Some very interesting replies to my post - thanks everyone. Just to clarify a little what I was getting at was whether we react to characters fleshed out for us on our screens any differently to characters we encounter in the pages of a book.  I also wonder whether part of the motivation for writing tv fanfic is to recreate or hold on to that ( Read more... )

 I'm interested in why people write fanfiction based on tv shows or films, as opposed to prose fiction i.e. novels/short stories. Is the process of writing about someone who is embodied for us on screen any different from writing about a character who we have to imagine/visualise for ourselves? Is anything lost in translation when we try to ( Read more... )

What's your fandom / are your fandoms?
Chronologically: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, X-Men (movie- and comic-verse), Star Wars, Marvel comics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel, Superman (movie- and comic-verse), Prison Break, with a smattering of others in there (Batman, Heroes, Bones, et cetera)
Favourite character(s).
Wow, this has changed so much ( Read more... )

Questions to pose to those who write fan fiction:

Why do you write fan fiction?
Sometimes I write fics because of something that has happened in my favourite tv show that I didn't want to happen, or just because I like writing, I love getting ideas at random times of the day when I'm doing something and I love to put those ideas down onto paper so to ( Read more... )

 Modpost:

I recieved this in my inbox. Maybe of interest to the members.

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* What's your fandom / are your fandoms.

Almost ninety different fandoms - tv series and movies.

* Give a short synopsis of the fandom (genre/story).

Sci fi, cop series, historic, drama, comedy

* How long have you been a fan.

I've been writing fan fiction for eight or nine years

* When did you first feel the urge to write fan fiction.

I can hardly ( Read more... )