Fanfiction asks

[extrapenguin]

Via naye! Drop a comment and I'll give you an answer in reply. Striking stuff off as it's answered!

1. What made you start writing fanfic?
2. Which of your own fanfics have you reread the most?
3. Describe the differences between your first fanfic and your most recent fanfic.
4. Do you think your style has changed over time? How so?
5. You’ve posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you’d written it?
6. Name three stories you found easy to write.
7. Name three stories you found difficult to write.
8. What’s your ratio of hits to kudos?
9. What do your fic bookmarks say about you?
10. What’s a theme that keeps coming up in your writing?
11. What kind of relationships are you most interested in writing?
12. For E-rated fic, what are some things your characters keep doing?
13. Name three favorite characters to write.
14. You’re applying for the fanfic writer of the year award. What five fanfics do you put in your portfolio?
15. Question of your choice!

Comments

[naye]

1. What made you start writing fanfic?

[extrapenguin]

Oh gosh, this is actually really hard, because I think the first technically-fanfic thing I wrote was Walking with Dinosaurs fic at the age of 6. It was four paragraphs long, about a triceratops, and I spelled "female" as "femail".

More broadly, I grew up in a house that loved reading, and exposed to a broad collection of science fiction books. I just grew with the knowledge that I'd be a storyteller of some sort, like most kids grow up with the expectation that they'll breathe oxygen. My bedtime stories were stories made up on the spot by my dad. (Actually, I think they technically count as Moomin IF. Oh gods.)

As for what made me take my stories, type them up, and publish them on the internet – I realized I had an audience! There were people who wanted to read the "amateur fiction" I wrote, and I could read theirs. And I get comments that are on occasion super duper excellent, and all the challenges are for something. People think I'm good! People like what I write! It's an ego boost and also a success. Given these premises, I think it'd have been weirder if little Penguin hadn't gone into fanfiction, lol.