Thirty Days of Fanfiction: Day Eleven

Washing and ironing 16 days of laundry is a bitch. In other news:

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

I usually start out in any given fandom with little character portraits. I.e. nothing much happens, usually the character in question is having an inner monologue, or is portrait via brief conversations with other characters. During this stage, I also tend to write "missing scenes" kind of stories. When I get to the point where I think I'm comfortable in this new universe, I sometimes come up with genuine plots and lengthy tales, but conversations within these stories still tend to make up the majority of my output.

I enjoy crossovers - which is why I take part in the multiverse ficathon each year - not least because they provide a writerly challenge (at their best, they should make sense to readers of either fandom even if they are familiar with only one of them, and still use the crossover opportunity for character exploration). And the "Fiive things that never..." format produced some of the stories I'm proudest of.


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