Thirty Days of Fanfiction: Day Twenty-Two
Jul. 22nd, 2011 12:30 pm22 – 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?
The first one I participated in was a Babylon 5 one called![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
babficathon, and since then, I've been taking part in Multiverse (every year since the beginning), Yuletide (the last two years - I felt too intimidated before and also, it helped that they allowed my two shiny space stations as rare fandoms in), Remix (since four years now, I think), Matrithon, and a few other B5 related ficathons (anything for the Third Age of Mankind). I enjoyed and am continuing to enjoy the experience enormously, starting with the fact that a few of the prompts gave me ideas I otherwise wouldn't have had or made me deal with characters I had previously neglected or just not been very interested in. (As I mentioned before, in B5 fandom that would be all the human characters; if you, like myself, come from the Centauri and Narn part of the fandom, these are naturally the characters you first write about.) And they proved very much fun to write.
Of course, sometimes there is considerable fannish angst as well. Poorkathyh had to soothe my nerves about Nowhere Man (and of course she was right and astrogirl2 was fabulous about it), and then there was the time I remixed my regular remix and did a pinch hit and neither of the two original writers provided feedback, which was due to the fact that one had dropped out of the ficathon and the other had been travelling with rare opportunities to get online, but it was an unfortunate coincidence of the type that makes you fret. But like a corny Hollywood movie, there always was an happy ending. :)
My favourite ficathon experience: being told byandraste a few years after the ficathon started that the reason she invented the Multiverse was because she wanted to to make me write Londo/Chiana... and then never dared to ask. So naturally I wrote it for her anyway. Flattery will get you very far.*g* Just in case you're planning to start a ficathon for the purpose of making me write your prompt.) (Also it's one of the nicest compliments I've been paid as an author.)
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The first one I participated in was a Babylon 5 one called
babficathon, and since then, I've been taking part in Multiverse (every year since the beginning), Yuletide (the last two years - I felt too intimidated before and also, it helped that they allowed my two shiny space stations as rare fandoms in), Remix (since four years now, I think), Matrithon, and a few other B5 related ficathons (anything for the Third Age of Mankind). I enjoyed and am continuing to enjoy the experience enormously, starting with the fact that a few of the prompts gave me ideas I otherwise wouldn't have had or made me deal with characters I had previously neglected or just not been very interested in. (As I mentioned before, in B5 fandom that would be all the human characters; if you, like myself, come from the Centauri and Narn part of the fandom, these are naturally the characters you first write about.) And they proved very much fun to write. Of course, sometimes there is considerable fannish angst as well. Poor
kathyh had to soothe my nerves about Nowhere Man (and of course she was right and astrogirl2 was fabulous about it), and then there was the time I remixed my regular remix and did a pinch hit and neither of the two original writers provided feedback, which was due to the fact that one had dropped out of the ficathon and the other had been travelling with rare opportunities to get online, but it was an unfortunate coincidence of the type that makes you fret. But like a corny Hollywood movie, there always was an happy ending. :) My favourite ficathon experience: being told by
andraste a few years after the ficathon started that the reason she invented the Multiverse was because she wanted to to make me write Londo/Chiana... and then never dared to ask. So naturally I wrote it for her anyway. Flattery will get you very far.*g* Just in case you're planning to start a ficathon for the purpose of making me write your prompt.) (Also it's one of the nicest compliments I've been paid as an author.) ( The rest of the questions )
