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kristenk2 and maidenjedi, anyway) I've been doing the fanfic survey. And boy, is it long!
I. History
1.First fanfic you ever read?
Some very old Star Wars story--this would have been back in 1987 or 88. It was probably in Flip of a Coin.
2.When?
Like I said, 87 or 88. But I dropped right out of fandom around 92.
3.Last fic you read before doing this survey?
Forbidden Mourning, by MeridyM
4.When?
Just now.
5.First fanfic you've ever written?
A really frighteningly self-indulgent Luke/Mary Sue Star Wars story. But you know, I was only seventeen. Unless we count the Crossover Prison Planet, in which case I was, like, 12. Sadly, not all copies have been destroyed.
6.When?
We'll call it '87. Because I want to maintain plausible deniability on the Prison Planet.
7.Last fic you've finished?
Ghosts and women, a One-Son postep. For a Harem challenge.
8.When?
Well, I had to rewrite it this morning. Because I'm an idiot.
9.How many fandoms have you been involved in?
At the moment, only X-Files. In my earlier life... Star Wars. The Lost Boys (and we are *so* not going there!). I guess I could count Highlander, since I've written an XF/HL crossover and may produce more.
II. Here and Now
1.How many stories are you currently writing?
Well, it depends what you mean by "writing." Actively, four or five.
2.In how many different fandoms?
Just X-Files.
3.Will you finish them all?
Maybe three of them? Maybe all of them? One for certain--I'll be stalked for it.
4.Do you jump from story to story, or pick one and stick to it until it's written?
I jump around, writing a page here and a page there, until I get my teeth into a story. Then I just write that one until it's finished.
5.How many fandoms do you consider yourself interested in at the moment?
Two: X-Files and I've been reading a lot of Harry Potter.
6.How many of them would you say you're actually obsessed about?
Neither.
III. Favorites & Preferences
1.Favorite fandom?
X-Files, I suppose.
2.Least favorite fandom?
Hmm. Well, there are fandoms I don't pay any attention to, like Stargate SG-1, because I don't watch the show, but I'm not really involved enough to have any opinion at all about it. There are fandoms I've dropped out of, like West Wing, but I was never invested enough to write in them.
3.Number of authors who've made you cry with their stories?
Damned if I know. You're looking at a woman who got all teary-eyes at the end of Armageddon.
4.Most memorable line/paragraph you've ever read in a fic?
If I could only remember... Oh, wait, let me go find it. This is from What You Leave Behind by Ann Ripley. The "she" is an OFC:
Scully flashed her a skeptical look. "Did you know that taking sleeping pills with a recent head injury could lead to headaches, anxiety, memory loss, or even brain damage?"
"So can Alex Krycek," she replied shortly and stood up on wobbly legs.
5.Favorite line/paragraph you've ever written?
Too hard to remember. Actually, I'm quite self-centered and like most of my writing. OK, but here's a quote from Traders in Snow, which isn't even one of my favorite stories. It's Marita's point of view:
Alex, she thought, was the personification of Newton's first law. Awake, he was always in motion: fidgeting, pacing, whatever. Even when still he was full of the promise of motion. If he stopped, it was only to wait for the appropriate moment to spring forward. And asleep he was perfectly relaxed, breathing evenly, his rest unthinkable to disturb. As if that other man, the man in motion, didn't exist and had never existed. She remembered a facetious description of the laws of thermodynamics, something she'd heard in college: you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game. That was Alex too. That was her and Alex in a nutshell.
OK, and I also like the bit at the end of Joy, Watchfulness, Wishing, where Jeffrey is stuck in the tree.
6.Are you an OTP person, or do you just mix'n'match?
I don't really write pairings at all. Sometimes relationships happen in my stories, sometimes they don't. I'm much more interested in character than in pairing.
7.Do the stories you read/write & your involvement in fandom change the perceptions of the show/the people in question?
Sure.
8.If yes, how so?
Well, I got interested in writing Marita because she started up in a lot of good stories. Although my Marita is fairly distinct from, say, Deslea's or Rachel Anton's. Oddly, though, I think that in general the amount of X-Files fanfic I've read has made me less tolerant of the way the show developed--I see all the missed opportunities and am much more sensitive to the bad writing.
Now, in Harry Potter, I read the fanfic before the books. So it's the other way around--after reading the books, I went back and re-read some of the Snapefic I had read before and couldn't really recognize the character any more. I think that in that fandom there is a lot of fanon pressure on the characterizations.
Addendum: Writing Rituals
1.Best time
After lunch--or really, during my lunch hour.
2.Got a specific playlist?
I don't usually listen to music when I write.
3.Prose easier than dialogue?
No way. Dialogue all the way. I've looked at most of my recent stories and all the best stuff is in the dialogue. Although two-speaker is a lot easier for me than three-or-more.
4.Enjoy writing sex scenes?
Don't write 'em. So I guess the answer is no.
5.Most troublesome words
I overuse "really" in my casual prose, and have to be careful of it in fiction.
6.Do you use stickmen?
What are stickmen? (OK, I copied this answer from Kristen. But seriously, what are stickmen?)
7.Favorite character POV right now
Probably Marita, because her mind is so smooth.
Actually, that was kind of fun. Now, though, it's my bedtime.
kristenk2 and maidenjedi, anyway) I've been doing the fanfic survey. And boy, is it long!I. History
1.First fanfic you ever read?
Some very old Star Wars story--this would have been back in 1987 or 88. It was probably in Flip of a Coin.
2.When?
Like I said, 87 or 88. But I dropped right out of fandom around 92.
3.Last fic you read before doing this survey?
Forbidden Mourning, by MeridyM
4.When?
Just now.
5.First fanfic you've ever written?
A really frighteningly self-indulgent Luke/Mary Sue Star Wars story. But you know, I was only seventeen. Unless we count the Crossover Prison Planet, in which case I was, like, 12. Sadly, not all copies have been destroyed.
6.When?
We'll call it '87. Because I want to maintain plausible deniability on the Prison Planet.
7.Last fic you've finished?
Ghosts and women, a One-Son postep. For a Harem challenge.
8.When?
Well, I had to rewrite it this morning. Because I'm an idiot.
9.How many fandoms have you been involved in?
At the moment, only X-Files. In my earlier life... Star Wars. The Lost Boys (and we are *so* not going there!). I guess I could count Highlander, since I've written an XF/HL crossover and may produce more.
II. Here and Now
1.How many stories are you currently writing?
Well, it depends what you mean by "writing." Actively, four or five.
2.In how many different fandoms?
Just X-Files.
3.Will you finish them all?
Maybe three of them? Maybe all of them? One for certain--I'll be stalked for it.
4.Do you jump from story to story, or pick one and stick to it until it's written?
I jump around, writing a page here and a page there, until I get my teeth into a story. Then I just write that one until it's finished.
5.How many fandoms do you consider yourself interested in at the moment?
Two: X-Files and I've been reading a lot of Harry Potter.
6.How many of them would you say you're actually obsessed about?
Neither.
III. Favorites & Preferences
1.Favorite fandom?
X-Files, I suppose.
2.Least favorite fandom?
Hmm. Well, there are fandoms I don't pay any attention to, like Stargate SG-1, because I don't watch the show, but I'm not really involved enough to have any opinion at all about it. There are fandoms I've dropped out of, like West Wing, but I was never invested enough to write in them.
3.Number of authors who've made you cry with their stories?
Damned if I know. You're looking at a woman who got all teary-eyes at the end of Armageddon.
4.Most memorable line/paragraph you've ever read in a fic?
If I could only remember... Oh, wait, let me go find it. This is from What You Leave Behind by Ann Ripley. The "she" is an OFC:
Scully flashed her a skeptical look. "Did you know that taking sleeping pills with a recent head injury could lead to headaches, anxiety, memory loss, or even brain damage?"
"So can Alex Krycek," she replied shortly and stood up on wobbly legs.
5.Favorite line/paragraph you've ever written?
Too hard to remember. Actually, I'm quite self-centered and like most of my writing. OK, but here's a quote from Traders in Snow, which isn't even one of my favorite stories. It's Marita's point of view:
Alex, she thought, was the personification of Newton's first law. Awake, he was always in motion: fidgeting, pacing, whatever. Even when still he was full of the promise of motion. If he stopped, it was only to wait for the appropriate moment to spring forward. And asleep he was perfectly relaxed, breathing evenly, his rest unthinkable to disturb. As if that other man, the man in motion, didn't exist and had never existed. She remembered a facetious description of the laws of thermodynamics, something she'd heard in college: you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game. That was Alex too. That was her and Alex in a nutshell.
OK, and I also like the bit at the end of Joy, Watchfulness, Wishing, where Jeffrey is stuck in the tree.
6.Are you an OTP person, or do you just mix'n'match?
I don't really write pairings at all. Sometimes relationships happen in my stories, sometimes they don't. I'm much more interested in character than in pairing.
7.Do the stories you read/write & your involvement in fandom change the perceptions of the show/the people in question?
Sure.
8.If yes, how so?
Well, I got interested in writing Marita because she started up in a lot of good stories. Although my Marita is fairly distinct from, say, Deslea's or Rachel Anton's. Oddly, though, I think that in general the amount of X-Files fanfic I've read has made me less tolerant of the way the show developed--I see all the missed opportunities and am much more sensitive to the bad writing.
Now, in Harry Potter, I read the fanfic before the books. So it's the other way around--after reading the books, I went back and re-read some of the Snapefic I had read before and couldn't really recognize the character any more. I think that in that fandom there is a lot of fanon pressure on the characterizations.
Addendum: Writing Rituals
1.Best time
After lunch--or really, during my lunch hour.
2.Got a specific playlist?
I don't usually listen to music when I write.
3.Prose easier than dialogue?
No way. Dialogue all the way. I've looked at most of my recent stories and all the best stuff is in the dialogue. Although two-speaker is a lot easier for me than three-or-more.
4.Enjoy writing sex scenes?
Don't write 'em. So I guess the answer is no.
5.Most troublesome words
I overuse "really" in my casual prose, and have to be careful of it in fiction.
6.Do you use stickmen?
What are stickmen? (OK, I copied this answer from Kristen. But seriously, what are stickmen?)
7.Favorite character POV right now
Probably Marita, because her mind is so smooth.
Actually, that was kind of fun. Now, though, it's my bedtime.
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Date: 2002-07-22 04:02 pm (UTC)Also, what ARE stickmen? Enquiring minds want to know!
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Date: 2002-07-23 01:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-07-22 06:43 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's something I've noticed, too. Snape is especially susceptible to fanon characterization. He's also one of the most popular fanfic characters, and that might be why. Mulder and Scully are often the same way in XF, depending on where you look and what your tolerance is for highly sugarcoated MSR.