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I want to start posting here more often again! So a meme on writing - feel free to steal it if you want to do it too!
🍓 How did you get into writing fanfiction?
I was one of those kids who had a feral childhood back in the nineties. My mother would work evenings and I'd be left alone to watch TV and put myself to bed, so I remember watching The X-Files from the time that I was like, 8? So once we got our first computer I looked it up, found fanfiction, and read it vicariously. After that came Lord of the Rings, which was the first fandom I wrote in.
🍇How many fandoms have you written in?
Many! Maybe fifteen?
🍈How many years have you been writing fanfiction?
*whispers* - Twenty-two years (dear lord how is that true). To be fair, those first fics were absolutely horrible. I wrote them in English which isn't even my first language (or my second) so they went something like 'Sam give kiss to Frodo, it was niiiiice.'
🍎Do you read or write more fanfiction?
It really depends. For a long time I wrote more, I was very active in fandom all through my twenties. Then the thirties hit and an intense job and a partner and kids and I found it very hard to combine that fandom identity with all the demands from the real world. So I drifted away from fandom and interacting, but kept on reading fic to get me through the hard times. Now I'm making a conscious effort to put myself out there again, to write and share and engage, because I DO love that it's part of who I am.
🍌What is one way you've improved as a writer?
I've always had betas, so that's always my first advice. Other than that, marrying my Britpicker was a stroke of genius lol. (Yes, we met through fandom, living in different countries. We were best friends and fandom writers for years, then confessed our love, came out, had kids, got same-sex married because hell yes. Now we're raising little bilingual kids and living our best lives).
🍑Do you have any bad habits as a writer?
I write best when I write what I myself want to read. As soon as I start considering what the fandom might want or what will get me the most comments I feel like it becomes less interesting.
🍍 What's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?
Rigor mortis and post-mortem erections. Yes, that fic is out there somewhere on my AO3.
🍉What's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?
The long ones! The ones quoting their favourite bits! The ones from friends! The ones from entirely new readers! The ones where they just shout at me in excitement! The ones that are analysing the characters! ...all of them, basically. I LOVE COMMENTS OKAY
🍐What's the most fringe trope/topic you write about?
I'm a poly shipper. I actually have an 'OT3' tattoo, I got it years and years ago as a little joke to myself thinking that I could get it covered up some day when I grew up and became serious about life. I still have it and love it!
🥭What is the hardest type of story for you to write?
The hardest ones can be the most rewarding ones. Writing 'A Warm Gun' (about trans Martin) was very difficult and triggering at times for me, especially the first sex scene. But I did it anyway, and it's one of the most healing fics that I ever wrote. I really want to write a sequel, actually, nine years later. But it will bring up a lot.
🍏What is the easiest type?
I enjoy character-driven angst, and some interesting sex is always fun ;)
🍑Where do you do your writing? What platform? When?
At home behind my desktop at night when everyone is asleep. During the day in a cafe with my laptop after the school drop-off.
🍋What is something you've been too nervous/intimidated to write, but would love to write one day?
I tend to love a challenge! Oh, wait, I know - Harry Potter. I have loved Severus Snape for a very long time and I always thought that I'd write him some day. But now with what the books have become associated with... Yeah.
🍇 what made you choose your username?
Indy from Indiana Jones, because it's a pretty name that I thought was fairly gender neutral. And Baggins because I was a pervy hobbit fancier at the time lol.
🍓 How did you get into writing fanfiction?
I was one of those kids who had a feral childhood back in the nineties. My mother would work evenings and I'd be left alone to watch TV and put myself to bed, so I remember watching The X-Files from the time that I was like, 8? So once we got our first computer I looked it up, found fanfiction, and read it vicariously. After that came Lord of the Rings, which was the first fandom I wrote in.
🍇How many fandoms have you written in?
Many! Maybe fifteen?
🍈How many years have you been writing fanfiction?
*whispers* - Twenty-two years (dear lord how is that true). To be fair, those first fics were absolutely horrible. I wrote them in English which isn't even my first language (or my second) so they went something like 'Sam give kiss to Frodo, it was niiiiice.'
🍎Do you read or write more fanfiction?
It really depends. For a long time I wrote more, I was very active in fandom all through my twenties. Then the thirties hit and an intense job and a partner and kids and I found it very hard to combine that fandom identity with all the demands from the real world. So I drifted away from fandom and interacting, but kept on reading fic to get me through the hard times. Now I'm making a conscious effort to put myself out there again, to write and share and engage, because I DO love that it's part of who I am.
🍌What is one way you've improved as a writer?
I've always had betas, so that's always my first advice. Other than that, marrying my Britpicker was a stroke of genius lol. (Yes, we met through fandom, living in different countries. We were best friends and fandom writers for years, then confessed our love, came out, had kids, got same-sex married because hell yes. Now we're raising little bilingual kids and living our best lives).
🍑Do you have any bad habits as a writer?
I write best when I write what I myself want to read. As soon as I start considering what the fandom might want or what will get me the most comments I feel like it becomes less interesting.
🍍 What's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?
Rigor mortis and post-mortem erections. Yes, that fic is out there somewhere on my AO3.
🍉What's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?
The long ones! The ones quoting their favourite bits! The ones from friends! The ones from entirely new readers! The ones where they just shout at me in excitement! The ones that are analysing the characters! ...all of them, basically. I LOVE COMMENTS OKAY
🍐What's the most fringe trope/topic you write about?
I'm a poly shipper. I actually have an 'OT3' tattoo, I got it years and years ago as a little joke to myself thinking that I could get it covered up some day when I grew up and became serious about life. I still have it and love it!
🥭What is the hardest type of story for you to write?
The hardest ones can be the most rewarding ones. Writing 'A Warm Gun' (about trans Martin) was very difficult and triggering at times for me, especially the first sex scene. But I did it anyway, and it's one of the most healing fics that I ever wrote. I really want to write a sequel, actually, nine years later. But it will bring up a lot.
🍏What is the easiest type?
I enjoy character-driven angst, and some interesting sex is always fun ;)
🍑Where do you do your writing? What platform? When?
At home behind my desktop at night when everyone is asleep. During the day in a cafe with my laptop after the school drop-off.
🍋What is something you've been too nervous/intimidated to write, but would love to write one day?
I tend to love a challenge! Oh, wait, I know - Harry Potter. I have loved Severus Snape for a very long time and I always thought that I'd write him some day. But now with what the books have become associated with... Yeah.
🍇 what made you choose your username?
Indy from Indiana Jones, because it's a pretty name that I thought was fairly gender neutral. And Baggins because I was a pervy hobbit fancier at the time lol.
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