An Essay on Gender Switch in Fanfiction

Should've posted the main essay here, but I forgot. Thoughts are appreciated.

I just posted the Doumeki/Watanuki manifesto at ship_manifesto. Thoughts are welcome, please enjoy.

It's Hitsuzen, Like it Or Not... A Doumeki/Watanuki manifesto.

assyrian deserves a response to her question... what do I mean by benchmarch ( Read more... )

assyrian has got me started on thinking about one of the standards of fanfic - I think of it as the familiarity phenomenon ( Read more... )

issen4 recently recced two fics ( King and Champions) That returned me to the old thought on schools ( Read more... )

Random Hikago thought ( Read more... )

I'm of two minds about the existence of challenge comms.

I find they do provide inspiration, but they're also a distraction. I often find myself setting aside my "projects" to perform in a challenge comm. If I needed the inspiration, it'd be one thing, but I don't. Instead, it riles my competitive side (and I AM one competitive bitch when things ( Read more... )

First up, my most recent manifesto:

Touya and Yuki from CCS and Tsubasa

Next, thoughts on writing.

I'm tremondously jealous of sailormac because she has the willpower to sit down and take a couple of months and just finish a fic before releasing it. I feel so flighty in exchange. So, I'm going to try to change my style a bit. I'm working on several long ( Read more... )

I'm a fan of Nora Roberts, when she writes as JD Robb. I found This Articles rather interesting, since she said:

"If I don't write, they don't pay me," Roberts says. "Inspiration always seems like such a poufy word to me - to sit here and wait for the muse to land on my shoulder. It's my job. I think it's the best job in the world. As for ideas, ( Read more... )

I recently wrote a fic which covered the topic of sex ed, and I've had something I've long considered fact confirned.

There's kids who are getting their sex-ed through fanfic. I find this disturbing, although I will admit I definately learned quite a bit about sex through fanfic (though not as much as I did when I was 11 and found my dad's XXX ( Read more... )