(Tagged by SN on tumblr)
There are so many more productive ways I could have used this time. ;)
get to know the author?
Tagged by @aritzen (Loved your answers btw! :D )
1. How did you come up with your username and what does it mean?
Dagart = dag + art
Dag comes from Dagron = Dragon + Dagger. Also Dag = “dork” nickname my kiwi Nan gave me as a tot.
DagronRat for when Dagron is taken. XD
2. Which fanfic of yours has the most feedback? (bookmarks/subscriptions/hits/kudos).
bookmarks: .Like A Gun (164) on ffnet, Wintry Storm (8) on AO3… You can tell I only started using AO3 a couple of years ago. XD
subscriptions: Like A Gun (129) on ffnet, Wintry Storm (11) on AO3.
kudos: .Wintry Storm (37) on AO3… Ffnet doesn’t do likes or kudos. :P
hits: Like A Gun (67, 930) on ffnet & Upon that Night (524) on AO3.
Lets throw in comments: Like A Gun (152) on ffnet & Wintry Storm (4 threads) on AO3.
Overall no big surprises. :P
3. What is your AO3 profile icon, and why did you choose it?
https://s3.amazonaws.com/otw-ao3-icons/icons/408490/standard.jpg A picture of Elsa because I started posting mostly my Frozen fics on AO3, it was my tumblr icon for ages.
https://ffcdn2012t-fictionpressllc.netdna-ssl.com/image/4972965/150/ on ffnet, is a self-portrait inspired by the crop of Ai drinking from a mug illustration ( https://dagronrat.deviantart.com/art/Christmas-wishes-08-107113034 ) I had there as my icon for ages. Love the colours.
4. Do you have any regular/favourite commenters?
Claude. :D My sister (sarky critic that she is.) Rae, FS… QueenChamomile(Conversant feedback on my Brave-Frozen crossovers!). In French fandom: Le Docteur Watson, Eyto, Fouinar… AO3 readers need to stop being so shy. :P
5. Is there a fanfic that you keep going back to read again and again?
I’ve read Match( http://archiveofourown.org/works/5169368/chapters/11908457 ) by CaptainParakeet like 3 times at least. And Ultranos’s Ghost on the Wire ( http://archiveofourown.org/works/1976805/chapters/4278504 ) is a gripping reread every darn time. I also reread my one shots sometimes (to remind myself of stories I’ve covered. XD I forget easily.)
6. How many stories are you subscribed to? How many do you have bookmarked?
On ffnet 171 stories in my favs, 57 that I follow (I also follow 37 writers). On AO3 I think I’m subscribed to 1 story and 2 authors, but have 17 stories bookmarked.
… darn I’ve been on ffnet a long time.
7. Which AU do you find yourself writing the most?
For Disney fandom, modern AU, because all those frozen fanfics got me hooked. I don’t think of myself as writing a lot of AU in DCMK fandom, but quite a few of my stories tend to deviate in some way from canon I think…
8. How many people are subscribed and bookmarked to you in total? (you can view this on the stats page)
User Subscriptions: 0 on AO3, on ffnet 118 people have me on author alerts.
Subscriptions: on AO3 20, on ffnet… I’m not doing that maths! Easily over 200 (quite a few for… oneshots?)
Bookmarks: 15 on AO3, on ffnet 97 peeps have me as a favourite Author.
9. Is there something you’d like to write about but are afraid of people judging you for it? (Feeling brave? If so, share it!)
… I usually end up writing whatever it is, sitting on it squirrelled away on my hard drive before I get over myself and post it anyway or decide the writing is below par anyway. Anything even barely NSFW that has the prude in me raising her hackles. :P Much to Claude’s dismay.
10. Is there anything you would like to be better at? Writing certain scenes or genres, replying to comments, updating better, etc.
Humour, action, romance? What does that leave?
Being a more regular/dedicated writer/updater would be nice, but I’m so beyond hope on that front that I don’t really mind. I’d like my French to stop getting rustier.
11. Do you write rarepairs or popular ships more often?
Rarepairs I guess? Gen also counts as a rarepair right? (Shot.)
I do write popular ships too, but I like to mess around with different characters. :)
In Frozen/Disney stuff I’m more predictable.
12. How many stories have you posted on AO3 to this day (finished and unfinished)?
13 on AO3 (7 finished), on ffnet about 83 (some translations of stories there, some one-shot collections, so counting is vague) 68(!! That many?!) of which are marked complete.
13. How many stories do you have saved in/with your writing program?
…. 16 files in my original fiction folder, 36 in WiP, 56 finished (?), … that doesn’t add up right… My files are a mess.
14. Do you write down story ideas, or just keep them in your head?
I probably have several docs with the start of a paragraph, a short idea synopsis, or even a picture sketched out in a note book. I easily forget story ideas otherwise. Every now and then I’ll stumble across one of these and either go “ouh yes, I remember this” or “what was it I had in mind? I can’t remember but what if…” and then I write a little more.
15. Have you ever co-authored a story?
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2748475/1/April-Fools with Koyumi. Was a bit of a round-robin/patchwork where we each wrote a paragraph based on the others previous. A bit messy, but it was fun.
16. How did you discover AO3?
It was making waves on livejournal when people were dissatisfied with ffnet as a fan led alternative… but I only started using it quite a few years later.
17. Do you consider yourself to be a popular or famous author in your fandom(s) on AO3?
HAHAHA. Not particularly on AO3? (Though I guess in the Merida-Elsa tag there’s few enough of us that I probably stand out.)
On ffnet Like A Gun’s continued success years after it was completed is probably a sign that amongst Conan-Ai fans I deserve a mention. I know I’m a popular author among French DCMK fans (though they seem to go through spells thinking I don’t hang out anymore?)
18. Do you have a nickname or fandom name for your readers?
Call me Dag. :D I don’t tend to speak to my readers as a whole with one term?
19. Was there an author who inspired or encouraged you to write?
Hurm. I can’t remember exactly who inspired me to write fanfic, was probably either an English scanlation group for DCMK or French fan Julie’s fanfic contest on her website back in the 90s. I’d been writing up my own stories for fun for years before thanks to school assignments and being a bit of a preteen bookworm. (Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, all that.)
20. What writing advice would you give to a beginning author?
Don’t worry about getting the words right first go, just let it flow out and then check it out afterwards. So long as you’re putting words down, you’re working on it. :)
21. Do you plot out your stories, or do you just figure it out as you go?
I tend to write with a scene idea in mind that I want to reach, or a feeling I want to replicate. Mostly I figure it out as I go.
22. Have you ever gotten a bad comment on a story? If so, what did you do?
Most of the time I’ll roll my eyes and move on, every now and then one will rackle me and I’ll either rant about it or mock it on LJ or tumblr/messenger. If its from my sister I’ll just stick my tongue out at her and respect her differing tastes. :P
23. Is there a certain type of scene that you have a hard time writing? (action, smut, etc..)
Anything smut, definitely. I go beetroot unless I’m in a specific frame of mind. And then I go beetroot when I come back to edit it. Dammit.
24. What story(s) are you working on now?
SO so many. Just updated Wintry Storm. Still working on my translation of aritzen’s Red & Black, a French Mitsuhiko-Ai story (Ramasser les Cendres), an Archery themed Elsa-Merida story, Snowgirl and Iceman… and if I’m in the mood for none of these I’ll probably start something new (maybe original, gasp) or dig out an older WiP to chip away at.
Of course that relies on me finding the time to work on them. :P
25. Do you plan your next project(s) before you finish your current ongoing story(s)?
Hahahaha, what do you think? Master multi-tasker/story-hopper, I am.
26. Do you have a daily writing goal set for yourself?
:( I tend to write in either 600 or 2,000-word chunks when I do sit down to it.
27. Do you think you’ve improved as a writer since you first started?
Definitely. Absolutely.
28. What is your favorite story that you’ve written?
… Upon that Night. I was out of my comfort zone writing that one, drawing inspiration from things that I felt were pretty close to me, like the city I was living in, my observations at a work place, trying to capture a fascination that was hard to name. I sent a printed copy of it to my nan, that’s how strongly I felt about it.
Also maybe Feeding the Flames (inspired by seeing ballet) and Red Snowflake (walking in Blizzards is surreal).
29. What is your least favorite story that you’ve written?
Lion’s Ruby (2004) is very painful to reread, but Captive (2007) always stuns me with how many views it keeps getting every month. I can’t get over that some fans would label the Gin-Shinichi pairing as sweet or… I dunno. I don’t dislike my writing of this fic, but its popularity just confuses me. … and then there’s that other one shot I wrote after a very disturbing nightmare. Brr.
30. Where do you see yourself (as a writer) in 5 years?
Maybe I’ll be more confident at writing original stuff again? That would be nice.
31. What is the easiest thing about writing?
Word salad. Stream of consciousness.
32. What is the hardest thing about writing?
Making the words make sense. Painting a scene that’s not confusing. Having a story that doesn’t bore.
33. Why do you write?
Why wouldn’t I? I love it.
Tagging: @insectoid5 @hathor-frozen and totally cross posting to LJ to tag randomaicoholic.
