No, I want to answer them all! These are excellent questions and I should totally strong arm you into playing more often!
If you could be a male character in any work of fiction (TV/movie/book), who would you be?
Male character? Interesting. Hmmm... Charlie Young was the first one that popped into my head, probably because I identify with him, at least professionally. And Atticus Finch, from To Kill A Mockingbird because I want to be like him. There are plenty of other characters I love to death, but none I think I'd actually want to be.
When you write fic, do you ever look at it after it's done and go, "OMG, that totally came from my life."
Well, yes and no. There have been plenty of times where real life will wind up in my fic, but so far it's always been deliberate. Once in a while, I will write a whole fic that is directly based on my own life, but usually it's just a line or observation or two that works well with what I'v written. It's probably because I'm such a slow writer. The words don't come easy for me, so I tend to think about the fic I'm writing a lot before I can get it down on the page.
What quirk or meme of fan fiction drives you most batty?
Well, there's the usual: Mary Sues, songfic where the actual story is shorter than the song lyrics, people demanding more reviews, OOC characterization, etc etc... But if you want something where I feel like I'm in the minority, it's not just that I prefer writing one-shots, I recently realized I rather read them too. I don't really care for epic multi-chapter fics. In fact, I can name on one hand the number of multi-chapter fics that I love... and they were all deliberately written as AUs!
It seems to be taken for granted that different fandoms have different demographics? Do you agree? What do you think about that?
You mean how the same show/movie/whatever can have different "cults" (ships, for example), that tend to have different demographics? Somewhat. Don't think you can start making assumptions about people based on what fandom they are a part of. We all have multiple motivations that lead us to like what we like. That said, I think it's impossible to not let your surroundings and upbringing (or demographic, if you prefer) influence you. Take for example, Doctor Who. I think it's not that surprising that I like Martha the best out of all of Ten's companions, because she's the one I identify with the most. Does that make sense?
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Date: 2011-01-25 04:47 am (UTC)If you could be a male character in any work of fiction (TV/movie/book), who would you be?
Male character? Interesting. Hmmm... Charlie Young was the first one that popped into my head, probably because I identify with him, at least professionally. And Atticus Finch, from To Kill A Mockingbird because I want to be like him. There are plenty of other characters I love to death, but none I think I'd actually want to be.
When you write fic, do you ever look at it after it's done and go, "OMG, that totally came from my life."
Well, yes and no. There have been plenty of times where real life will wind up in my fic, but so far it's always been deliberate. Once in a while, I will write a whole fic that is directly based on my own life, but usually it's just a line or observation or two that works well with what I'v written. It's probably because I'm such a slow writer. The words don't come easy for me, so I tend to think about the fic I'm writing a lot before I can get it down on the page.
What quirk or meme of fan fiction drives you most batty?
Well, there's the usual: Mary Sues, songfic where the actual story is shorter than the song lyrics, people demanding more reviews, OOC characterization, etc etc... But if you want something where I feel like I'm in the minority, it's not just that I prefer writing one-shots, I recently realized I rather read them too. I don't really care for epic multi-chapter fics. In fact, I can name on one hand the number of multi-chapter fics that I love... and they were all deliberately written as AUs!
It seems to be taken for granted that different fandoms have different demographics? Do you agree? What do you think about that?
You mean how the same show/movie/whatever can have different "cults" (ships, for example), that tend to have different demographics? Somewhat. Don't think you can start making assumptions about people based on what fandom they are a part of. We all have multiple motivations that lead us to like what we like. That said, I think it's impossible to not let your surroundings and upbringing (or demographic, if you prefer) influence you. Take for example, Doctor Who. I think it's not that surprising that I like Martha the best out of all of Ten's companions, because she's the one I identify with the most. Does that make sense?