The naming of cats characters is a difficult matter...

Sometimes I wonder if the real reason I write fanfiction (and part of why most of my original stories tend to die early on) has nothing to do with pre-existing worlds, characters or ideas. Maybe it's names.

Because every time I try to come up with a name for something or someone, I end up ( Read more... )

Okay. I'm excited.

I found a trailer for Legend of Korra. And it looks awesome.
( Short picspam and analysis behind the cut. Beware spoilers. )

Summaries - Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?

I despise them. I'm never sure what to put in them, and my descriptions of what's happening always sound terrible.

Titles - Are they the bane of your existence, or the easiest part of the fic? Also, if you do chaptered fic, do you give each chapter a title, or ( Read more... )

Warnings - What do you feel it most important to warn for, and what's the strangest thing you've warned for in a fic?

It's important to warn for things that might trigger someone's bad memories; so rape, self-harm, lots of violence etc. In addition, I feel it's important to warn for porn, because (and I know from experience) reading a story that ( Read more... )

My head hurts. I'm tired. And my sister's toy piano keeps mysteriously turning on its high-tempo drumbeats or something, which is somehow terrifying. (It sounds like a bomb or rapidly beating heart.) Also, my dad needs to stop asking me complicated questions late at night when I'm tired.

And by trying to turn it (the piano) off I have drawn my ( Read more... )

( Day 14 )

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

No.

Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?

Canon, definitely. Even though the YJ fandom was calling Superboy "Conner" months before it ( Read more... )

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

( Day 11 )

( Day 10 )

I may have mentioned I'm writing fics for Spitfire Week. This is my fic for day 5. Of all the ones I've written so far, I'm really happy with this one, so I'm posting it here too.

The prompt was "Cold."

( An exclusive OR gate will only return true if one input is true and the other is false. Thus, it only returns completely true when the inputs are completely opposite of each other. )