cardinalgirl75

Oops!  I forgot to post yesterday.  *smacks hand*  Bad Dee!  So two questions to answer today.

3. For each of the fandoms from day 2, what were your favorite characters to write?

P&P:  Well, obviously Darcy and Elizabeth.  But in the Story That Ate My Imagination (to be known hereafter as STAMI), I created a Charlotte Lucas that I adored, and an OC I paired with her named Jack Middleton.  (I've always had a problem pairing Charlotte with Mr. Collins in modern adaptations.)

LuRe: Well, after one story, I don't know if I'm really qualified to answer this.  Again, the obvious two are Luke and Reid, but in the story I'm writing now, I'm having some fun with...well, I don't want to give the story away.  Maybe I could come back and answer this question after I'm done with the story and it's posted?

4. Do you have a "muse" character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the fic isn't about them?  Who are they, and why did that character become your muse?

Interesting question.  To answer the first part of the question, my muse is usually the person (or persons) at the heart of the story.  Right now, my "muse" is Reid.  When I first thought about the story I'm writing, I thought I'd be including Luke's point of view, but it quickly became clear to me that the story had to be told from Reid's perspective alone.

To answer the second part of the question, I've never been one to plot things out.  If a character suddenly appeared while I was writing, I was happy to include him or her into the story.  For instance, my very first JA fan fic was a retelling of P&P from Caroline Bingley's point of view.  Part of the way through the story, I introduced an original character that wound up being her love interest.  So maybe I should say that yes, I have had that happen to me in the past.

On a totally unrelated note:  I need a mood icon for "procrastinating," because that's totally what I'm doing right now.  Chapter 11 is not going to write itself.

I saw this on sleeper6's journal and I kind of liked the idea of going through my fanfic writing history, so even though I really don't have a great deal of time--I should be writing chapter 10 of my Big Bang story now--I'm going to do it.  If nothing else, so that I can take a breather from the story.

Question 1: How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote for?  What do you think it was about the fandom that pulled you in?

In December 1995, I signed up for a class on 20th-century continuations of 19-century novels by female authors.  The first book on the reading list was Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.  I fell in love with the story, the characters, the pacing...everything.  I read the rest of Austen's works over my winter break.  This coincided with an Austen renaissance of sorts--the 1995 version of P&P was aired on A&E, Emma Thompson's version of S&S appeared, as well as two versions of Emma and one of Persuasion.  In the fall semester of my junior year, I found a little group who adored the 1995 version of P&P so much they got bounced out of the more serious-minded JA appreciation societies.  By the time I graduated from college in 1997 and reconnected with them, they had an entire site of their own, including a fanfiction section.  Once I found that, I was hooked on reading it--and writing it, until I burned out in 2004.