Fanfic writers poll

[mhalachai]

Howdy to all the fanfic writers in the crowd. How are you doing? Good to hear!

Let's talk fanfic writing. I was curious about how *you* write your fanfic. Please feel free to fill out the poll below, and pimp to anyone you think might like to chime in.



[Poll #696703]

If you have anything to say, add, or explain, please do so in comments!

Comments

[uforeah.livejournal.com]

I had to post a comment mainly because I don't think I have ever been the first person to comment on one of your posts before.

And ummm...what is the diff between post and pre canon?

And why no box for Merry?

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Hi there!

Pre-canon happens before the series starts, so before Harry was left on the Durselys' doorstep. Post-canon is after the last published item of canon, or if there's a set time frame, like HP, then after book 7

No box for Merry as I sort of ran out of space and/or forgot :( But I ticked off the "Other Book" category for that :)

[uforeah.livejournal.com]

Ah ok that makes sense. I wasn't sure. Then I think I clicked the wrong box...heh.

Yeah, that's why I clicked other book.

By the by, the stories have been awesome and I am really loving the lotsa updates. Thanks so very much for that!!!

[bleedtoblue.livejournal.com]

I also write fanfiction for manga.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Pardon my extreme ignorance -- anime is, well, animated, while manga is in comic book form?

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're enjoying the chapters. I'm having a ball writing these days :)

[bleedtoblue.livejournal.com]

Manga is much like graphic novels but similar to comics. Anime usually follows successful manga but not always. I discovered it in backwards fashion, I read fanfiction, and then found the anime and manga.

[beachmouse.livejournal.com]

Style- I really don't have any easiest or hardest type to write in terms of timeline. It's more of a case that the story concept just kind of bubbles up from somewhere and then fits in wherever it fits in.

[emeraldswan.livejournal.com]

Very few people, I notice, find it easy to write crossovers. Me, I love them.

How're you?

[eavling.livejournal.com]

*snobby-boorish air* It is, to be more precise, termed 'sequential art.'

>>This I have been informed of by a childhood friend who is in the process of becoming a sequential artist.<<

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I personally love the crossovers. Percentage-wise, I write them more than any other thing. Unless you include drabbles, which I'm not for the purposes of my point.

As for life, I'm all like whoa.

No, seriously, I'm good. I've got a writing plan -- finish one scene and write another (both short) for my next Inevitable chapter tonight, then tomorrow write the next/last long LOOOONG scene for the chapter. It's all action and woe and I need to do it in one setting. I think tomorrow AM at Starbucks will do nicely.

Other than that, things are meh. Applied for another job today. Maybe I'll win the lottery tomorrow night and I'll never have to work again. Yeah, right.

[eavling.livejournal.com]

I've written fanfiction, just never posted it nor never had any sort of style or point to it. They were just daydreams that quickly petered out. My writing ability is not so great as to sustain the current of my imagination.

Some of the most fantastic stories I've ever written are dreams that I immediately wrote down; they read like sci-fi movie scripts. Do you ever get inspiration from your dreams? Like, 'all of a sudden my left hand was a foot, and I was walking on the wall' translates into 'werewolves rebounding off of walls in fights?'

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Gottcha. Some people find a certain style, so I'm glad you commented. Thanks :)

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

Here via daily_snitch. Just FYI, I answered all the questions up to "what are your fandoms" specifically for the Harry Potter fandom - but some of my answers would be different for the other two fandoms I write, Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean.

[emeraldswan.livejournal.com]

Ohh. Action and woe? That sounds fantastic. :)

Good luck on the job front . . . I hate applying for jobs. Nerve wracking.

Re: crossovers, I love them. I fell in love with crossover fic as soon as I read one, and that's the genre I started writing first. I'll always have a soft spot for them, no matter how many fandoms I dabble in.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I don't often get inspirtation from dreams, per say. Although I had an odd dream last night where my righ hand was cut off, twice. I think that means I'm writing too much (I'm right-handed).

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Makes sense. I slapped this all together thinking multi-fandom, as I tend to write crossovers so often I don't consider myself having "one" fandom. I forget sometimes that there are more people who are't me, in the world, than are ;)

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Fantaistic and terrifying and leading in a certain direction. I don't expect anyone to see where I'm going with this, which is fine. But I decided to get through the action all in one swoop, and end on the beginning of the consequences. I'm done to death with my cliffhanger in the middle of the action squences. I think I'd be burned in effigy.

Although that plan to write tonight has circled down the drain. I'm going to play popcap games and go to bed early. Blarg.

Oh, crossovers. I make crossovers in my head all the time. Today was Anita Blake/Stargate-SG1/The Mummy. The other day it was Pretender/Buffy. I'm so special some days.

And I forgot to ask: How are you ? Got your computer back yet? How's the 3-year-old and all that jazz?

[bleedtoblue.livejournal.com]

LOL, I love that term...sequential art....I love re-naming, I think that's a term coined by Eisner?


Manga is the Japanese word for comics (but originally taken from Chinese?)meaning random or whimsical pictures; but it's more sophisticated than that, at least in some cases...it is a fascinating art form.

[emeraldswan.livejournal.com]

*grin*

I do that too. Lately it's been me crossing Buffy with Batman Begins. I've been all about that movie for the last couple of weeks. That one and the XMen movies. I think it's because I'm seriously wanting it to be June already for X3.

I'm good. Computer is not home, but hopefully tomorrow. Gavin's doing good, too. He's been busy today. Busy = Hyper.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be totally useless when X3 comes out, because I'll have melted into a puddle of OMG. I *think* I know what's going to happen, and I'm going to cry if I'm right. But I can't wait! Plus, Hugh Jackman.

Also, it comes out May 26, not June. Although I'm not sure about your neck of the woods. You've seen the trailer, right?

So you're telling me Gavin's a happy, healthy three-year-old whose life goal is to drive you into an early grave? Sounds like my brother ;)

Batman Begins is the best movie EVER.

[mary-re.livejournal.com]

I haven't written much more than drabbles in a while, woefully, but in drabbles, I've written just about every character you could think of from HP at one time or another!

I've only written for two fandoms, I think because I just am not certain enough with the canon of fandoms other than HP (because I've been involved in the HP fandom for so long), and I worry about writing characters utterly ooc, because I hate when other people write characters badly. I'm more than willing to read new fandoms, however, even including fandoms whose shows I've never seen (SGA, for example, because omg teh hawt). I've read fic in just about every fandom you listed at one time or another, and other fandoms besides them. I truely have too much free time.

Lessee...In response to getting-to-know-you question #1: I'm just about coming up on my 2-year fic-writing anniversary. God, I feel like an utter geek, especially considering I've been reading fic since probably 1999. *adjusts 'I am a HP-geek' badge uncomfortably*

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Your icon has captivated me. That's art, baby.

When did GoF come out? Five months after that is when I first pickd up a HP book. I feel like a late-comer to the fandom. Same with AB -- I only started reading after NiC came out. That's okay, thought. Book fandoms are cheaper to catch up on than TV fandoms :P

[watcher457.livejournal.com]

i've only written in three fandoms, and that's anita blake and harry potter. the third is an original series by a friend of mine. i have written almost all of those styles and i tend to be rather comfortable. i've never tried to do a crossover, except to dabble in the world you created, which is the ultimate crossover and amazing.

[christycorr]

[Hi there! Here via daily_snitch.]

Um. Yeah, I've written fanfiction for manga too.

Interesting poll! I have to agree with beachmouse, though: it's the story concept that makes it hard for me, not the timeline. I checked "post-canon", though, because the idea of writing Triofic, especially post-War, makes me want to chortle something and/or throw myself out the window.

Oh, and... seven males, look at that. *laughs* Definitely not something easy to find in the HP fandom.