thirty days of fanfic, day two
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jlh(list of questions can be found at day one)
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2 – Name the fandoms you've written in, and how much you've written in that fandom, and if you still write in it.
Nearly all of these word counts are from AO3. The HP word count includes some things that haven't been posted yet or haven't finished posting; the ST word count includes the STBB that is really only a draft right now.
Harry Potter: 46 stories and almost 225,000 words, including TITKB. I am finishing up my writing in this fandom—that is, there is an end date, and I won't be writing anything further than what's already planned in my head.
American Idol: 46 stories, 315,530 words. I don't actively write in this fandom but the door isn't entirely closed.
Star Trek: 25 stories, almost 150,000 words, including the upcoming STBB. I also have one co-written story. I am still actively writing in this fandom.
John Hughes: 5 stories, 7902 words. No reason why I wouldn't write about Duckie and Cameron again, though I have no plans to and nothing in mind.
Star Trek Actor RPF: 2 stories, 1056 words. No reason why I wouldn't write about Karl and Chris again, though I have no plans to and nothing in mind. And both of these stories were written in a fit of pique, so there's that.
Fandoms I'm not really in but have written for: 17 stories, 34,081 words. This includes
No real plans to write in any of these fandoms again, though I have definite plans to continue participating in Yuletide.
This weekendsangueuk asked me about being multi-fannish and I didn't really have a chance to answer her fully so this is all for you, baby!
Like many people who come into fandom, I thought I'd be a one-fandom person. What could engross me the way Harry Potter did? What even was this process of feeling fannish about other stories? Now, part of this was that Harry Potter was so different than other fandoms (or so I was often told) and part was that the expansion on what kinds of canons a person can be fannish about hadn't yet occurred. If there were fandoms for sitcoms and mainstream dramas they were hard to find in 2003. Which leads to another thing--we weren't all on LJ, busy being multifannish, in 2003. We were siloed.
Nowadays, you friend someone who's in a fanoom with you, and they're also into something else, so you get exposed to that via their journal. Or you just watch something and get that feeling, that you want more about these characters for whatever reason, but now you know where to find the fic and other like-minded folks. Balancing fandoms can be tricky--inspiration and time to write and read takes you where it takes you--but I find that if I spend some time writing for one fandom I can come to the other one with a fresher eye. I avoid getting into narrative ruts, writing the same story over and over. If I have a lot of balls in the air, I don't get bored, and I don't write anything boring.
Not to mention, I get to meet lots of different awesome people that way! Sometimes I can get claustrophobic when I'm with the same group all the time, but as more people become more multifannish it really doesn't happen; we all have other outlets, we all bring other things to the party, so we don't get that hothouse atmosphere. Besides, it's fun to watch people get excited about new fandoms, even if I don't follow them.
My favorite multifannish thing to do is Yuletide, but there's a question about fests and challenges later so I'll talk about that then.
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2 – Name the fandoms you've written in, and how much you've written in that fandom, and if you still write in it.
Nearly all of these word counts are from AO3. The HP word count includes some things that haven't been posted yet or haven't finished posting; the ST word count includes the STBB that is really only a draft right now.
Harry Potter: 46 stories and almost 225,000 words, including TITKB. I am finishing up my writing in this fandom—that is, there is an end date, and I won't be writing anything further than what's already planned in my head.
American Idol: 46 stories, 315,530 words. I don't actively write in this fandom but the door isn't entirely closed.
Star Trek: 25 stories, almost 150,000 words, including the upcoming STBB. I also have one co-written story. I am still actively writing in this fandom.
John Hughes: 5 stories, 7902 words. No reason why I wouldn't write about Duckie and Cameron again, though I have no plans to and nothing in mind.
Star Trek Actor RPF: 2 stories, 1056 words. No reason why I wouldn't write about Karl and Chris again, though I have no plans to and nothing in mind. And both of these stories were written in a fit of pique, so there's that.
Fandoms I'm not really in but have written for: 17 stories, 34,081 words. This includes
- Avatar: the Last Airbender: 2 stories, both for exchanges
- How I Met Your Mother: 2 stories, one for Yuletide and one a request
- Reality rpf: The Voice, Top Chef, Top Design, Project Runway
- Yuletide: Broken Hearts Club, The Philadelphia Story, Community (and HIMYM)
- One-offs: White Collar, Rent, Castle
- Requests: Beatles RPF, Fruits Basket, Hawaii Five-0 (and HIMYM)
No real plans to write in any of these fandoms again, though I have definite plans to continue participating in Yuletide.
This weekend
sangueuk asked me about being multi-fannish and I didn't really have a chance to answer her fully so this is all for you, baby!Like many people who come into fandom, I thought I'd be a one-fandom person. What could engross me the way Harry Potter did? What even was this process of feeling fannish about other stories? Now, part of this was that Harry Potter was so different than other fandoms (or so I was often told) and part was that the expansion on what kinds of canons a person can be fannish about hadn't yet occurred. If there were fandoms for sitcoms and mainstream dramas they were hard to find in 2003. Which leads to another thing--we weren't all on LJ, busy being multifannish, in 2003. We were siloed.
Nowadays, you friend someone who's in a fanoom with you, and they're also into something else, so you get exposed to that via their journal. Or you just watch something and get that feeling, that you want more about these characters for whatever reason, but now you know where to find the fic and other like-minded folks. Balancing fandoms can be tricky--inspiration and time to write and read takes you where it takes you--but I find that if I spend some time writing for one fandom I can come to the other one with a fresher eye. I avoid getting into narrative ruts, writing the same story over and over. If I have a lot of balls in the air, I don't get bored, and I don't write anything boring.
Not to mention, I get to meet lots of different awesome people that way! Sometimes I can get claustrophobic when I'm with the same group all the time, but as more people become more multifannish it really doesn't happen; we all have other outlets, we all bring other things to the party, so we don't get that hothouse atmosphere. Besides, it's fun to watch people get excited about new fandoms, even if I don't follow them.
My favorite multifannish thing to do is Yuletide, but there's a question about fests and challenges later so I'll talk about that then.
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