Thirty Days of Fanfic - Days Nine - Twelve

[elrhiarhodan]

Playing catchup, my lovelies. Gad, do I HATE summer colds.

9 – Pairings – For each of the fandoms from day two, what are your three favorite pairings to write?

White Collar: This is easy:

Neal/Peter
Peter/Neal
Peter/Neal/Elizabeth

No - you didn’t misread. I don’t know if it’s a typical thing in a slash pairing to write the dominant partner first (as in D/s), but that’s the way I tend to roll, so Peter/Neal is different from Neal/Peter. And by Neal/Peter, I don’t mean that Peter is submissive to Neal - it’s just that the relationship has a different dynamic than Peter/Neal. I think I tend to reserve Neal/Peter for A/Us like Wings of Desire and a few others.

If I were to write, say XMFC - Erik/Charles, Farscape - John/Crais, John/Aeryn, Chiana/Zhaan, The West Wing - Josh/Sam.

10 – Pairings – Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?

I do try to stretch myself. I enjoy odd pairings - Clinton/Mozzie, June/Bancroft, Sara/Peter. The Clinton/Mozzie pairing has an interesting painplay dynamic that I want to explore further.

I think the pairing that I’ve tried the hardest to write has been anything with Alex - I’ve warmed to the character, and I’ve written her solo several times, but I can’t put her in a room or in a bed with anyone. Dunno why.

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

I think I like romance as a genre the most - both to write and to read. Almost all of my stories build around a romantic connection - whether they are porn or casefic or something entirely different.

I’ve also had a lot of fun in the fantasy genre (and we pause for a commercial interruption - if anyone is writing for Promptfest VI, know that I can be twisted into writing Vampire World with the right Peter/Neal prompt). The 61k epic I recently finished is perhaps the oddest thing I’ve even written, including Wings of Desire, but it’s not at all cracky (okay - other than for a few odd moments it’s not).

The genre I write the least is gen - not because I always want to write about sex - far from it. It’s just that, well, I don’t enjoy it. Maybe had I started writing fan fiction when I was much less mature, less worldly, I would have found that satisfying.

ETA (because, in addition to my waning headcold, I have a case of foot and mouth disease: I probably should have said that I came into fandom through slash, explored because of slash, and started writing because I wanted more slash. Gen and Slash has nothing to do with anyone's age or maturity level - it has to do with their personal preferences, full stop.

I’m not the type of writer who needs to be constrained by canon, hell - I wouldn’t be writing epic fantasies and fairytales if I was! I like my imagination, and I like to explore the whole sequence of “what if’s”.

12 – Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?

Hmmm - I think the closest think I’ve written that comes to that is the displacement of White Collar’s Pilot into a vampire fantasy.

And I’ve borrowed very heavily from certain classics for my Urban Fantasy epic. But that’s not a deliberate rewrite or adaption.

Comments

[sahiya.livejournal.com]

Uh . . . why? I'm not sure how you got that from what I said, but all I meant was that the comment I made regarding actors' off-screen actions (since frankly I could care less about most actors) doesn't have much to do with my original remark about your definition of gen.

But thank you for changing your entry.