30 Days Fic Meme

Nicked from sharelle.

1 – How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote for? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?

I started writing fanfic back in 2004, soon after falling into the world of fandom for the first time at the already advanced age of 24. I'd bought Husband a Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon DVD, which I really got in to and had a lot of fan involvement - including a DVD Commentary by my pal fayzalmoonbeam - and a link to Helix Town Square, the D&DC online fan forum. From there I found Darkhaven - the online D&DC fanfic compendium - and started lapping up the brilliant fanfic there. Soon after that, I started writing D&DC fan scripts and short stories myself. Dungeons & Dragons was great because it was easy to get hold of the whole canon (just 2 & a half series), the canon was left unfinished so there was ample opportunity to add your own stories, it was a small, very friendly community, the brilliant character interaction and crazy situations of the canon were great jumping off points and there are characters like Eric, Sheila & Presto who are just joyful to write.

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30 Days Fic Meme - 2

HEY I JUST SAW MY F-LIST & ALL THE COOL KIDS ARE DOING DAY 2 TODAY AS WELL AND SO SO SHALL I.


2 – Name the fandoms you've written in, and how much you've written in that fandom, and if you still write in it.

- My first love: Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon. Started off with The New Adventures - a whole series of stories set 7 years after the never aired final episode (this remains, sadly, unfinished, as I completely ran out of steam while trying to write the final story). have also written several 20K-ish standalone stories and quite a few shorter ones. It's been a few years since I've written in this fandom. It got a bit of a bad atmosphere for a while, as will happen when one person in a small fandom decides the fact that her stuff never gets reviews means she gets to bitch about everybody else's work instead of, you know, slinging a few jokes in to her own dusty tomes so that people can manage to read them without propping their eyes open with matchsticks (oh hey, look at me and my epic grudge-holding!) and more to the point, I'm just out of ideas for it. Maybe some day I'll finish Endgame. Maybe not, though.

- The Small But Perfectly Formed: Press Gang. Written a few 10K Teen Angst Adventures for it, as well as a couple of shorter, sillier stories and Remain The Same - the Epic Fic for that fandom, set a few months after There Are Crocodiles & weighing in with 100K words. Remain The Same, like The New Adventures before it and Rollercoaster after, was actually a series of shorter stories that took place in the same story arc. Again, I feel I'm out of ideas for Press Gang fic, but I'll never say never.

- The Nervous Dip Into Big Fandom: Star Trek TNG. Started off with a couple of short stories, then wrote the longer freaky-deaky mystery 'Nothing But Blue Sky', then a short story set in an AU where Tasha was still alive for First Contact, during which I thought up so much backstory that I decided to use it as the springboard for my next Epic Fic. Rollercoaster - again, an interlinked series of short stories, is my longest fanfic yet at 210K words - 240K if you count Orpheus as well. As with the other two, I'm out of ideas for that fandom. For now.

- Accidentally In Love: Sherlock/Cumberholmes. I wouldn't have started writing Sherlock fanfic had I not started RPing, and I did that by accident. I've lost count of the little 'filling in the scenes' Cumberholmes stories I've written, because I don't put them on FF.net, I just sling them up here. Most of my Cumberholmes or Sherlock stories are shorter. I think It's Complicated is my longest Sherlock story & that's 19K words. I still get ideas for Sherlock fic & Cumberholmes fic, although these might slow down a bit due to me finding...

- My Latest Love: Cabin Pressure. Just done a few fics for this so far, but the characters are an absolute delight to write, and I really want to write more Molly/Martin as they're my new OTP. I also really like being back to a smaller fandom after the mostly-awesome-but-sometimes-scary-and-occasionally-plain-obnoxious bigger fandoms of TNG & Sherlock.

I've also written fic for Ghostbusters of East Finchley, Red Dwarf, Hitchhiker's Guide & Lost, but I don't think those really count.

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