Thirty Days - Day Sixteen

Day 16 – Summaries – Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?

I love summaries when it comes to finding and reading fic. Unless it's by an author I already know and like, I won't waste my time reading stories that don't have promising-sounding summaries, because my time for reading is limited and I don't want to waste it. I skip over fics that have no summary, or "My summary sucks but read anyway," or are summarized by, "This is my first fic."

When it comes to writing summaries, it's more of a love-hate relationship. I believe a good summary is necessary if you want to attract readers, but because that's your primary way of advertising your story, the pressure is on to make sure the summary is good. I wouldn't say I enjoy writing summaries, but I do it and try to do my best at it, because I want people to read my stuff.

As for how I come up with them? Well, at the risk of sounding like Captain Obvious, I try to summarize what the story is about. If it's a long or multi-arc story, I try to make the summary like a teaser and focus on the primary theme, or what's going on at the beginning, so that the reader knows what they're getting into, and will hopefully get hooked from there once they start reading.

Thirty Days - Day Fifteen

Day 15 – Warnings – What do you feel it most important to warn for, and what’s the strangest thing you’ve warned for in a story?

As far as warnings go, I think it's a good idea to warn for triggery content in general. One of my own personal gripes is when people don't warn for rape, or misrepresent rape as romantic in stories. It icks me out and it ruins a story for me to see it labeled as romance, only to read it and discover it's actually a rape scene. (Such as the typical "he forced her into it, but she really wanted it deep down despite screaming for him to stop" trope.) While I know that's a kink for some people, it's courteous to warn for stuff like that because not everyone finds it sexy, and some people really find it traumatizing to read about.

On a personal level, I prefer warnings for major character death, because I hate being unpleasantly surprised by seeing a favorite character die. I mean, if a fic is labeled as dark or violent, it's probably a given that character death will happen, so that's fine, but I hate it when a fic summary or description or genre gives no indication that something like that will happen, and it catches me by surprise. Killing off a favorite character of mine, most of the time, is an instant back-button out of a fic for me.

I had to pause and think about what the weirdest thing I've warned for was. I suppose it would be the warning I put on Mutants on the Prowl: "Adult, M/M/F threesome including both het and slash and utilization of their mutant powers in the fun. Completely, totally, and absolutely not work safe." Mutant-power sex kinks of an anthro plant-duck, water dog, and a shape-changing chameleon duck all getting it on is pretty weird. (And as far as I know, only five or so people have admitted to actually reading this fic.)

Thirty Day - Day Fourteen

Day 14 – Ratings – how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you’re comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you’re writing is G-rated instead?

If you're familiar with my stories in any given fandom, you know that NC-17 is no biggie for me. I've written a number of them in each of the fandoms I've participated in.

Writing G-rated isn't that big a deal for me, though. Well, maybe G is a bit of a challenge, because it's rare that I can write a story that doesn't have at least one colorful word or a part alluding to an adult or violent situation. PG is probably more like it, in that case. A lot of my stories end up being T-rated because of language or alluding to a sexual situation or concept, and I err on the side of rating higher so I don't upset readers.

Thirty Days - Day Thirteen

Day 13 – Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?

I prefer canon, unless it's my own personal fanon. Yes, that's as arrogant as it sounds, but I'm being honest. I base my fanon on how I interpret things in canon. I prefer not to use fanon concepts that others have come up with. Sometimes it turns out that what I think is in line with what other fans think because it's a common interpretation of the source material, but that's coincidence.

The main exception to that I can think of was when I wrote Weird Stories in the Thundercats fandom back in the day. They were kind of like a shared universe where authors used each others' ideas with abandon. But I haven't done that in well over a decade, so I don't count that anymore. The majority of those stories were removed from my archive years ago anyway.

To answer the second question, no, I don't think writing fanfic has changed how I view a given canon as a whole. Writing certain characters has made appreciate them more, but that's the extent of it. I write for a fandom because I want to do more in it. It doesn't change how I feel about the original stuff.

Thirty Days - Day Twelve

Day 12 – Have you ever attempted an “adaptation” story of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?

Not exactly. The closest I ever did to something like this was back when Coldwin (who was then known in the Thundercats fandom as Kith) and I wrote Oh My Gods!, which was a humor storyline in which the Thundercats cast were thrust into the roles of prominent Greek mythology figures. The villains were mostly in the god roles, while the Thundercats were put in or planned for the hero/human type roles. The story never got that far, but we did get to start the Hercules myth, where WilyKat was Hercules. (Silly casting was also a running gag in this, where the characters complained about it.)

Thirty Days - Day Eleven

Day 11 – Genre – do you prefer certain genres of fic when you’re writing? What kind do you tend to write most?

I'm not sure what one would classify my style as. Dramatic with a healthy swirl of romance and comedy is the best way I would describe it. Even my most serious stories have some humor in them. It's also unusual for me to write pure gen with no romantic overtones whatsoever, unless it's a short story. On the other hand, I don't think romance dominates my stories, unless they're short pairing-specific ones, like the series of Bushroot/Liquidator fics that I wrote. The longer arc stories, though, have a bit of everything. This is pretty consistent across all of the fandoms I've written in.

Thirty Days - Day Ten

Day 10 – Pairings – Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn’t write, or a pairing you didn’t like, and found you could?

One day late, because I took Christmas off. A belated Merry Christmas to my readers!

I like a wide variety of pairings, so my comfort zone is pretty big when it comes to that. There are pairings that I like that I haven't been able to write, however. Two that immediately spring to mind are Alluro/Cheetara (Thundercats) and Bushroot/Darkwing (Darkwing Duck). The attempts I made at these, to see if I could do it and make it work, just didn't work. It's been a long time since I even thought about trying to write Alluro/Cheetara, but I could never get past the clash of the egos combined with the morality clash of villain and hero. It's a crack pairing anyhow, so I doubt I ever will see it done by another author, but I can always hope.

Bushroot/Darkwing is a tad more common in the Darkwing Duck fandom, although it's still a rare pairing. Mostly I've seen it in art. The concept intrigues me, but I personally can not make this work. Even with an AU where there's no Morgana (I don't care for fics that break up Darkwing/Morgana just to make a new pairing, especially since there's a tendency to bash the odd one out), it's still hard for me to make these two mesh romantically. The one time I tried to write this, what I got was an angsty gen fic leaning more toward friendship than anything else. So while I'd like to see a good Bushroot/Darkwing fic, it's not something I can do myself.

Thirty Days - Day Nine

Day 9 – Pairings – For each of the fandoms from day two, what are your three favorite pairings to write?

In the Thundercats fandom, my favorite pairing has always been Alluro/Chilla. It's not exactly a romantic and fluffy relationship, being between two of the Lunatacs, but I like the dynamic, and it's fun. Second would be Bengali/Pumyra. They just seem like a natural fit to me and a good balance to each other's personalities. Third, I'd have to say is a pairing that involves an OC: Panthro/Snoelle. I think Panthro doesn't get enough love in the fandom in general, and I enjoy exploring that other side to him. I pair him with an OC because I don't really see any chemistry with him and any of the other canon characters.

For Voltron, I write a lot of Lotor/Allura. I like that pairing and the dynamic of it. I have a thing for bad guy/good girl pairings, but not with the usual cliche of happily ever after where the bad guy reforms and becomes a romantic hero. No, I enjoy exploring how those two would actually work after the initial get-together and manage to stay together despite their massively differing outlooks on life. (And the drama it causes as it happens.) Another favorite pairing of mine involves an OC and Yurak, but I can't really talk about it because it hasn't appeared in the storyline yet as far as what's been posted. For the third slot, I think it would be Lotor/Cossack. It's cracky, but it's a guilty pleasure. You can thank my These Boots are Made for Knockin' fic for that.

For Darkwing Duck, two out of the three are easy. Bushroot/Liquidator and Bushroot/Rhoda. In case it's not evident, yes, I'm a multi-shipper. I can't think of a third pairing that I like writing anywhere near as much as I do Bushroot/Liquidator or Bushroot/Rhoda. While I've enjoyed writing other pairings, none stand out like those two.

Thirty Days - Day Eight

Day 8 – Do you write OCs? And if so, what do you do to make certain they’re not Mary Sues, and if not, explain your thoughts on OCs.

Yes. I have OCs in almost all of the longer storylines in the fandoms I've written in. I also can't stand Mary Sues, so I try very hard to avoid that kind of cliched and annoying writing.

The best way I've found to avoid the Mary Sue trap is to make sure your character really belongs in the story you're trying to tell, and doesn't make the other characters in it act out of character. OOC writing is my number one peeve in fanfiction, and it's the reason I dislike Mary Sues as much as I do. I don't mind OCs with Sue-like traits as long as the story itself doesn't warp itself into something that seems to exist just to glorify the Sue, or insult the canon characters by making them take second place or act unlike themselves.

I strive very hard to keep the characters I write in character, and to keep the general feel of the universe intact. Even if it's more mature, it should still feel like the same canon at heart, and the characters should sound like themselves, even if they're in situations they might not have been in canon. I also think it's important for an OC's personality to add something new to the story and for their role to bring something to it other than the author just wanting to be part of the universe in some way.

This is not to say I've never written a Mary Sue. Oh, I have. Before I was aware of the concept, I knew I did not like certain types of stories or characters, even though that didn't really stop me from doing it myself. Naively and arrogantly, I thought my characters were just cooler than those annoying ones I didn't like. When I learned what a Mary Sue was, I was embarrassed.

The first incarnations of my Thundercats fanfiction (the versions of Revival and Path Into the Darkness that I posted back in 1999) had some pretty awful examples of Mary Sue/Gary Stu in them. In subsequent rewrites, I've refined and toned it down a lot, and now I'm happy with Selene, Psiarik, and Snoelle as they are. They still have some core traits that make them borderline, but I no longer over-emphasize their importance and I've balanced their personalities and given them some flaws that weren't as evident in the narration back then.

By the time I started writing Voltron and Darkwing Duck, I'd been aware of the pitfalls of Mary Sue writing for years, so it's been easier to avoid that trap.

Thirty Days - Day Seven

Day 7 – Have you ever had a story change your opinion of a character?

I can't say I've had that happen with a story. I have had it happen with roleplaying, though, which is an ongoing form of storytelling. For a long time, when I was in the Thundercats fandom, I disliked the character of Snarfer. He was too over-the-top cutesy to the point of being annoying, and since I was also a fan of the villains on that show, it really annoyed me whenever Snarf or Snarfer would defeat the bad guy.

Then, when I was modding a Thundercats play-by-email RPG, we had trouble finding someone to fill Snarfer's role. We needed him for some stories that were ongoing, so I took him over. To my surprise, the more I played him, the more he grew on me. I became fond of the little fuzzball. I still wouldn't say he's one of my favorite characters, but I do like him now.

As far as reading stories goes, there have been times that I looked at a character in a new light after reading a good fanfiction about them. The best example of this I can think of is in Purrsia's Vehicle Voltron fanfiction. While I prefer Lion Voltron to Vehicle Voltron, the Drule culture in VV does intrigue me. When I read how she wove it into her universe, I began to really like some of the Drule characters. Twila, Nerok, and Throk, especially.

Thirty Days - Day Six

Day 6 – When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?

Short answer: I don't have a preference. I've been writing long enough that it's not difficult for me to slip into the mind of a character of either gender to write them.

Longer answer: In the past, I tended towards roleplaying male characters, despite being female myself. In my stories, genders have always been pretty well balanced. Sometimes it feels more challenging to keep a female character from veering toward Mary Sue cliches, though, and I think in the past, when I was less confident about myself, I drifted toward the male characters so no one would think I was projecting myself or playing out a fantasy. This was especially the case back when I was active in Thundercats fandom about ten years ago, and ran into too-many-for-my-comfort-zone people who assumed that fiction/roleplay = real life, and my willingness to RP or write explicit sex meant that I was writing my sex life or fantasies on the internet.

As time passed, I got over that, and now I'm just as comfortable writing from either point of view. (It also helps that I don't give creepy people the opportunity to talk to me and squick me out anymore. I only chat in real time with people I've gotten to know in online communities I frequent.)

At first glance, it seems that males dominate the top slots of favorite characters of mine, but it's not really a gender thing. I like a lot of female characters as well. Cheetara, Merla, Haggar, Romelle, and Larmina are all canon female characters I enjoy writing. In the DWD fandom, I roleplayed Sarah Bellum and Loopy McQuack for some time and had a blast, and I also enjoy writing Rhoda Dendron as well. Sometimes I worry that people may think I project through Rhoda or Sarah, being that they're both scientists and I worked as one for many years, but then I tell my paranoia to shut up and say I just find them easier to identify with, much like I do Bushroot, because of that common background.

When it comes to OCs I've put a lot of time and energy into, I've got a good balance of both male and female, so I don't think there's a bias there, either.

Thirty Days - Day Five

Day 5 – If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a story, whether your “muse” or not, what did you do about it?

Oh, yes. That just happened recently, when I was writing my NaNoWriMo 2011 Voltron story. Most of the action on this story took place on Arus, so the Doomites didn't get as much screen time as usual. The voice of Cossack in my mind was quite put off by this. He only quieted down when he got a scene later in the story. It worked for the plot of the story arc as a whole, so it's all good, but boy, was he annoying and insistent before that.

There have been times in all the fandoms I've written in when it seemed like certain characters really wanted a role in a given story. However, as a rule I try not to cave into writing it unless it makes sense to do so.

Thirty Days - Day Four

Day 4 – Do you have a “muse” character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the story isn’t about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse?

Not really. This is one thing common among fanfiction writers that I've never experienced, at least not in the way I think most people mean. There are characters that inspire me more than others, but none who really tell me what to write.

That said, certain characters have a very strong voice in my mind (no, it's really not as crazy as it sounds!) and won't be shy about "voicing" their opinions to me as I'm writing. When I write Voltron, Cossack sounds off like a mini MST-er in my head about stuff. With DWD, Bushroot is there, but he's quieter. Mostly I find myself thinking things like, "Sorry, Bushy, I know you're not going to like this!" or "Oh, he's going to love this!" when I write things I know the character would feel strongly about.

Also, while I wouldn't call any character my muse, certain characters do inspire me a lot more than others. Those would be my favorites: Bushroot, Cossack, Yurak, the Lunatacs, etc. It may seem odd that for someone who has a number of OCs in her fanfiction that I haven't mentioned them. Occasionally an OC will speak up or try to grab some spotlight, but not as often as the aforementioned characters. Of these, Eddie Flood is the worst offender, and my royal Lunatacs from my Thundercats storyline, and Cassri and Tadran from my Voltron stories have also done it a time or two.

As for why those characters influence me, it's because I like them so much. I give them a lot of mental energy, so they give it back... whether I like it or not.

Thirty Days - Day Three

Day 3 – For each of the fandoms from day two, what were your favorite characters to write?

For Thundercats, it's the Lunatacs. They're my favorite characters on the show, and I enjoy writing all of them, and the interplay between them. If I had to pick an absolute favorite, it would be Alluro, but Chilla and Luna would make close seconds.

For Voltron, Cossack and Yurak are my favorite characters to write. Zarkon and Haggar are up there, too, because their wit lends them to a lot of fun dialogue. I have the most fun with Cossack, though, and Yurak interacting with Cossack. They never interacted in the show (Yurak was killed off before Cossack was introduced), but in my head canon, they have, and I love making them play off of each other.

When it comes to the Darkwing Duck fandom, Bushroot is my favorite character to write. That's no surprise if you've read my stories, or noticed who my default choice for roleplaying in that fandom is. I find it easy to slip into his head, so to speak, and feel like I understand him pretty well, flaws and all.

Of the crossover fandoms I mentioned, the only one I think is worthy of an answer here is Forever Knight, since the other fics that I did crossovers for are old, short, and in the case of the Ghostbusters and Jem ones, never got very far. Strangers in the Knight and its sequel The Cure (which really needs a rewrite like Strangers in the Knight got a few years back!) had a much richer storyline than the others. My favorite FK character to write of the three that were in the crossover was LaCroix. He's got the whole distinguished sarcasm thing going on that Zarkon does, and I loved writing the sniping between LaCroix and Mumm-Ra.

Thirty Days - Day Two

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.

Not counting crossovers, I've written in three fandoms: Thundercats, Voltron, and Darkwing Duck. Counting crossovers, you can add in Forever Knight, Jem, Ghostbusters, and X-Files. All of those were crossovers I wrote in my days in the Thundercats fandom. Of those, though, the only one I'd say was comprehensive was Forever Knight, as my Strangers in the Knight story was pretty long.

Of the three main fandoms I've written in, I've got a lot of fic for all three. I can't give you a word count off of the top of my head, but it's several novels' worth in each. With Thundercats, my largest unfinished story, Path Into the Darkness is close to 200k words, and I wrote a number of stories leading up to that, as well as stand-alone stories in different continuities.

As for whether I still write in it, I hate saying I've abandoned any storyline I put that much of myself into, so I say it's on hiatus. I'll get back to it someday when the inspiration is there. Right now, my inspiration is elsewhere.

I'd guess I've written just as much for Voltron. My Chronicles of a Dark Planet series is pretty long. I also did a lot of one-shots and side stories for this fandom, like the side series of Doom Fleet: The Boot Camp Years, my not-so-serious stories of Cossack's misadventures in boot camp, and the various naughty humor fics like These Boots are Made for Knockin', Doggy Style, and The Masked Marauder of Castle Doom.

I can say that I still write for Voltron because I just finished the first draft of another story for it in NaNoWriMo 2011. Before that, I hadn't posted anything for the fandom since early 2009.

The most recent fandom I've been an active author in is Darkwing Duck. Because I only joined that fandom in 2009, I don't have the same number of stories in it compared to the others, where I spent more years writing stories, but I have a good chunk of prose for DWD, too. The largest finished story I have is Tension Convention, but I have a number of shorter stories centered around Bushroot/Liquidator, and I also have a Bushroot/Rhoda storyline going in Forget Me Not. There are also the Citrus Taste fics, which were for a challenge to write sexy fic. It sounds pretty hilarious to have "sexy fic" and "Darkwing Duck" in the same concept, but my version of sexy fic is usually with a twist of humor anyway, and Darkwing Duck's universe lends itself to that quite well.

I haven't posted any stories for this fandom since early this year, but I have tinkered with some. I have a good chunk of Going Loopy, my sequel to Tension Convention, written, and other things that are works in progress that I just haven't posted. I hope to post new stuff for it sooner rather than later, though.

Thirty Days - Day One

Day 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?

Technically, I was into writing fanfic before I even knew what fanfic was. Back when I was in seventh grade, a couple of friends and I claimed characters from various shows and wrote stories back and forth with them. The primary fandoms were Real Ghostbusters, DuckTales, and Thundercats. This was long before mainstream internet (1988 or so) and it was loads of fun. We kept this up throughout high school, although we never admitted this to anyone else, because back then, this would have been considered super geeky. It was awkward enough to be in your teens and admit to watching something like DuckTales or Ghostbusters, much less write stories about them.

However, as far as real "fic" goes, that didn't come for me until the late '90s, after college. My stories in the '80s were laughable. Not only were they out of character, but because it was just for fun, I didn't bother with punctuation or prose or anything important to make it readable. Rather than deal with dialogue tags, I just assigned each character his or her own pen or marker color, and what was written in that was what they said. Necessary narrative or action description was done in pencil, in parentheses. Talk about bad fic writing! Oh, I'm so glad the internet did not exist back then.

The first fandom I wrote and posted stories online for was Thundercats. When I discovered online fandom in 1997, I searched a number of my favorite shows, new and old. Ghostbusters, Darkwing Duck, Thundercats, Voltron, Jem, Forever Knight, and X-Files. Thundercats was what stuck with me, though, because the websites and fandom at the time were so much fun. The Ghostbusters fandom came off as too pretentious and serious, X-Files and Forever Knight were too big and intimidating, and while I dabbled in Jem, there were individuals that took things as way too serious business, and it turned me off to writing or participating. I lurked on some Darkwing Duck and Voltron websites for a while, but eventually, the fun of Thundercats pulled me in to that full time.

The Thundercats fandom of the late '90s was awesome. People posted funny stuff, there were tons of creative and awesome websites. Yeah, they were ugly HTML with no features by today's standards, but nobody was snobby about it back then, aside from a few, who were pretty much laughed off by the majority of the fandom as being too high on themselves. I don't know how many of you reading this still remember things like WileyKitt's Funkyass Homepage, JackalMann's Castle Plundarr, BlindLynxo's Page, Cassio2X's page, Lefty's Thundercat House, and various AOL and Geocities homepages people put up, but they were awesomesauce. I joined in the fun with my own site, and now it and Mumm-Ra's Pyramid are pretty much the only remaining pages of that type still on the internet from back in that day.

Most of you reading this probably don't know that I wrote a series of Thundercats fanfics before I braved submitting any to archives. That's because I never posted those, and I'm very glad of that. They had a Sue in them that burned. (A child of Alluro and Cheetara born from a one night stand where he hypnotized her for kicks. This character had all sorts of powers, and the OOC in general in them just was... bad, to put it mildly. Trust me.) The first fic I was proud of enough to post was Running Amok, my Thundercats/X-Files humor crossover in which an experimental device created a dimensional gap that brought the Lunatacs into the real world to cause mayhem, the Thundercats came out to stop them, and Mulder and Scully had to deal with the total WTF-ery of a cartoon coming alive. I had a blast writing it, and it was well-received. I first posted that story on Lady Silver's long-gone archive in the fall of 1997, and in 2000 I revised it to fix and expand some scenes. That's the version online today.

Not long after that I posted some "Weird Stories," a genre of anything-goes, OOC just-for-the-lulz type stories that was quite popular in the fandom at the time, and the first few fics of what became my main continuity for the Thundercats fandom. And the rest, as the saying goes, is history.

Thirty Days - The Beginning of a Post Series

Since it seems I need a good kick in the pants to update this with any sort of regularity, I thought I'd start with a post series that my friend JayLee did and posted during the month of November.

I didn't pick a specific month to start. I just decided to start now. These are the questions I'm going to tackle a day at a time for the next thirty days. As I complete them, I'll link them up to the corresponding entry.

Day 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?

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.

Day 3 – For each of the fandoms from day two, what were your favorite characters to write?

Day 4 – Do you have a “muse” character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the story isn’t about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse?

Day 5 – If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a story, whether your “muse” or not, what did you do about it?

Day 6 – When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?

Day 7 – Have you ever had a story change your opinion of a character?

Day 8 – Do you write OCs? And if so, what do you do to make certain they’re not Mary Sues, and if not, explain your thoughts on OCs.

Day 9 – Pairings – For each of the fandoms from day two, what are your three favorite pairings to write?

Day 10 – Pairings – Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn’t write, or a pairing you didn’t like, and found you could?

Day 11 – Genre – do you prefer certain genres of fic when you’re writing? What kind do you tend to write most?

Day 12 – Have you ever attempted an “adaptation” story of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?

Day 13 – Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?

Day 14 – Ratings – how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you’re comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you’re writing is G-rated instead?

Day 15 – Warnings – What do you feel it most important to warn for, and what’s the strangest thing you’ve warned for in a story?

Day 16 – Summaries – Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?

Day 17 – Titles – Are they the bane of your existence, or the easiest part of the story? Also, if you do chaptered story, do you give each chapter a title, or not?

Day 18 – Where do you get the most inspiration for your stories (aka “bunnies”) from?

Day 19 – When you have bunnies ideas, do you sit down and start writing right away, or do you write down the idea for further use?

Day 20 – Do you ever get bunnied inspired from other people’s stories or art in the same fandom?

Day 21 – Sequels – Have you ever written a sequel to a story you wrote, and if so, why, and if not, how do you feel about sequels?

Day 22 – Have you ever participated in a fest or a Big Bang? If so, write about your favorite experience in relation to one. If not, are there any you’ve thought about doing? And if not, why not?

Day 23 – When you post, where do you post to? Just your journal? Just an archive? Your own personal site?

Day 24 – Betaing – How many betas do you like to use to make sure there aren’t any major flaws in your story? Do you have a Beta horror story or dream story?

Day 25 – Music – Do you listen to music while you write? Do you make playlists to get into a certain “mood” to write your story? Do you need noise in general? Or do you need it completely quiet?

Day 26 – What is the oddest (or funnest) thing you’ve had to research for a story?

Day 27 – Where is your favorite place to write, and do you write by hand or on the computer?

Day 28 – Have you ever collaborated with anyone else, whether writing together, or having an artist work on a piece about your story?

Day 29 – What is your current project or projects?

Day 30 – Do you have a favorite story you’ve written? What makes it your favorite?