30 Days of Fanfic Day 2
Jun. 24th, 2011 09:16 amAfter talking it over I've decided to drop out of BBB wave two. While I do have ideas none of them are jumping out at me, and while it's only 10k, that's still about 8k more than anything I've got at the moment. So I've decided to concentrate on finishing my wips and the h/c bingo ficlets.
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sassbandit has posted a very interesting Q&A about studio recording. I like learning stuff like that, those details can be very welcome when writing anything canon based.So go check it out if you're interested too.
We're heading off to see the 11 o clock showing of Bridesmaids, so I really need to get going, and you know, actually get dressed. But first, more 30 days of fanfic meme.
Day 2 - Name the fandoms you've written in, and how much you've written in that fandom, and if you still write in it.
Like I said yesterday I started out in The Sentinel fandom. I was a member of angst mailing lists where you had to write dues in order to stay in the groups. As a result I have some very dubious quality TS ficlets floating around out there. But I also have stories that I still like. Not that they're anything special because I was very much a newbie writer, but the ideas were sound. I remember plotting these detailed universes, with complex plots and things happening, just I didn't actually have the experience or ability to write what I wanted. But I tried, and people were very kind to me.
I wrote a lot for Mutant X, and those are even more dubious quality, especially as a lot were posted without being beta read. Enough said.
I've written one Fastlane ficlet which is on a Fastlane challenge community somewhere, and then I moved into rpf.
My first two rps stories were BSB. I posted them on my journal and they got about two comments each. Which I was thrilled about, then I found Nsync and the rest is history. I wrote so much popslash, I was in the fandom for a really long time and in that time had a lot of fun. I was still convinced I was unable to write anything long, so most of the stories tended to be shorter and most written for challenges. I grew up as a writer in popslash. I found friends who were also amazing betas, and they started to teach me how to actually write well. But it was also a fandom where anything went, people turning into pieces of furniture or animals, bring it on. Sex swaps, the more the better, a lava lamp ( Lamp! ) becoming an OC to many people, why not? And of course there was the more serious stuff too. Stories that touched your heart, or the ones that were hot as all hell. Popslash was always accepting to me, and it gave me the confidence to try new things.
Of course some of those new things weren't that good, and I try to forget them, but mostly I like what I wrote and I have some stories I really love and will always stand out to me. I don't write popslash now, but I'll never stop loving the fandom.
And then I finally gave into bandom, which I'm obviously still active in. I've written a lot in this fandom, and have stories I'm ridiculously proud of. I'm not even sure why but something just clicked that yeah, I could write plot, I could write long, and I didn't have to rush a story out. Not that I don't do that still, sometimes I'm in the mood for writing something quick and ficlet length, so I do that. Some work, some don't so much, but that's okay.
I'm still learning, and I still have stories in my head that want to be told. So I'm not planning on going anywhere for a while. Bandom is where it's at for me.
So yeah, four main fandoms and one ficlet elsewhere. I'm always in awe of the people who write in multiple fandoms at once, because I can't do that. Read in multiple ones, sure, but writing not so much.
( The rest of the days )
sassbandit has posted a very interesting Q&A about studio recording. I like learning stuff like that, those details can be very welcome when writing anything canon based.So go check it out if you're interested too.We're heading off to see the 11 o clock showing of Bridesmaids, so I really need to get going, and you know, actually get dressed. But first, more 30 days of fanfic meme.
Day 2 - Name the fandoms you've written in, and how much you've written in that fandom, and if you still write in it.
Like I said yesterday I started out in The Sentinel fandom. I was a member of angst mailing lists where you had to write dues in order to stay in the groups. As a result I have some very dubious quality TS ficlets floating around out there. But I also have stories that I still like. Not that they're anything special because I was very much a newbie writer, but the ideas were sound. I remember plotting these detailed universes, with complex plots and things happening, just I didn't actually have the experience or ability to write what I wanted. But I tried, and people were very kind to me.
I wrote a lot for Mutant X, and those are even more dubious quality, especially as a lot were posted without being beta read. Enough said.
I've written one Fastlane ficlet which is on a Fastlane challenge community somewhere, and then I moved into rpf.
My first two rps stories were BSB. I posted them on my journal and they got about two comments each. Which I was thrilled about, then I found Nsync and the rest is history. I wrote so much popslash, I was in the fandom for a really long time and in that time had a lot of fun. I was still convinced I was unable to write anything long, so most of the stories tended to be shorter and most written for challenges. I grew up as a writer in popslash. I found friends who were also amazing betas, and they started to teach me how to actually write well. But it was also a fandom where anything went, people turning into pieces of furniture or animals, bring it on. Sex swaps, the more the better, a lava lamp ( Lamp! ) becoming an OC to many people, why not? And of course there was the more serious stuff too. Stories that touched your heart, or the ones that were hot as all hell. Popslash was always accepting to me, and it gave me the confidence to try new things.
Of course some of those new things weren't that good, and I try to forget them, but mostly I like what I wrote and I have some stories I really love and will always stand out to me. I don't write popslash now, but I'll never stop loving the fandom.
And then I finally gave into bandom, which I'm obviously still active in. I've written a lot in this fandom, and have stories I'm ridiculously proud of. I'm not even sure why but something just clicked that yeah, I could write plot, I could write long, and I didn't have to rush a story out. Not that I don't do that still, sometimes I'm in the mood for writing something quick and ficlet length, so I do that. Some work, some don't so much, but that's okay.
I'm still learning, and I still have stories in my head that want to be told. So I'm not planning on going anywhere for a while. Bandom is where it's at for me.
So yeah, four main fandoms and one ficlet elsewhere. I'm always in awe of the people who write in multiple fandoms at once, because I can't do that. Read in multiple ones, sure, but writing not so much.
( The rest of the days )
