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( previous days )
11 – Genre – do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?
I tend to write comedic romances. I have written two mysteries, one on purpose and one completely by accident (I needed my beta to say, "this is a mystery") but both of them were also very much romances.
I like to write people finding their way out of trouble, rather than sinking down into it, so I don't think of my stories as darkfic or angst. I definitely deal with real issues and the characters have struggles, but they succeed in the end, at least in getting to a better place in their lives. I like to write about people finding love, rather than losing it. I guess, I want to take someone who's at a pretty low point and figure out how to get them out of it in a realistic way. That means that my fics are pretty light, because they're always moving in a positive direction.
12 – Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?
Yes and I'm not sure it worked. I think Takes One to Know One is a cute little story, and has some very good ideas, but the execution--in the end the Cary Grant character and Simon Cowell are too similar in my head and I couldn't make that person clearly Simon. I think I followed the story of the film too rigidly, even though I changed the setting to 1920s rather than 1950s. I needed to be a lot looser and honestly that story just needed a lot more thought. That said, a lot of people liked it and to them I'm intensely grateful, because like I said, it did have some stuff in it that was really fun to write. But it also probably suffered from having a lot of things going on in it that no one really understood, being in the fandom. It just had a lot of strikes against it in terms of being anything that your average 16-year-old fangirl would want to read.
(That said, I probably also still feel badly about the story because the only comment I got on it on the actual reel_idol comm other than a sweet one from my beta was someone correcting me on a fact of Cary Grant's life that I'd intentionally changed for the purposes of the story. Once American Idol fandom became Adam Lambert fandom it was no longer a fun or welcoming place.)
It also is why I didn't end up writing that AI9 story. I was going to do an AI9 femslash in the 70s, a whole "ladies of the canyon" sort of thing. But in writing it I realized that there would be a ton of jokes and references in it to 70s variety show television that about five people would even understand—much like what Merv Griffin was doing in Takes One to Know One, or the references to Eva Gabor.
( previous days )
11 – Genre – do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?
I tend to write comedic romances. I have written two mysteries, one on purpose and one completely by accident (I needed my beta to say, "this is a mystery") but both of them were also very much romances.
I like to write people finding their way out of trouble, rather than sinking down into it, so I don't think of my stories as darkfic or angst. I definitely deal with real issues and the characters have struggles, but they succeed in the end, at least in getting to a better place in their lives. I like to write about people finding love, rather than losing it. I guess, I want to take someone who's at a pretty low point and figure out how to get them out of it in a realistic way. That means that my fics are pretty light, because they're always moving in a positive direction.
12 – Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?
Yes and I'm not sure it worked. I think Takes One to Know One is a cute little story, and has some very good ideas, but the execution--in the end the Cary Grant character and Simon Cowell are too similar in my head and I couldn't make that person clearly Simon. I think I followed the story of the film too rigidly, even though I changed the setting to 1920s rather than 1950s. I needed to be a lot looser and honestly that story just needed a lot more thought. That said, a lot of people liked it and to them I'm intensely grateful, because like I said, it did have some stuff in it that was really fun to write. But it also probably suffered from having a lot of things going on in it that no one really understood, being in the fandom. It just had a lot of strikes against it in terms of being anything that your average 16-year-old fangirl would want to read.
(That said, I probably also still feel badly about the story because the only comment I got on it on the actual reel_idol comm other than a sweet one from my beta was someone correcting me on a fact of Cary Grant's life that I'd intentionally changed for the purposes of the story. Once American Idol fandom became Adam Lambert fandom it was no longer a fun or welcoming place.)
It also is why I didn't end up writing that AI9 story. I was going to do an AI9 femslash in the 70s, a whole "ladies of the canyon" sort of thing. But in writing it I realized that there would be a ton of jokes and references in it to 70s variety show television that about five people would even understand—much like what Merv Griffin was doing in Takes One to Know One, or the references to Eva Gabor.
