5 Questions Meme
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1. If money and time were no object, where would you most like to visit?
I'd go and visit people on my flist! It would be so cool to go on a long road trip and stop for a few days everywhere I have a friend! I've met some, but there are others I would just love to meet in person, and several I'd love to see again.
Or if money were truly no object, I'd set up a moot on a cruise ship or at a nice resort, and pay for everyone to come. (Publisher's Clearing House, come through for me! )
2. What is the story you have written that you are most proud of?
Hmm…I'd have to say I'm pleased with many of them. But I think of my longer stories "A New Reckoning" still makes me feel that I accomplished something-- it kind of set the stage for nearly every fic I wrote afterwards. Of my more recent stories, I'd have to say "Trotter"-- I felt like I was exploring a place in canon that I had never been, and I love that I completed it in such a short time.
Of my short pieces, I think my poem "The Smallest Hands". It said what I needed it to say, and what I feel and believe about LotR, and I was very pleased with how the rhyme and scansion came out.
3. You are reading a fic, and come across something in it that causes you to back out of it so fast you leave skidmarks. What is that something most likely to be?
Pointless and unexpected character death-- especially if it seems like it was included just for shock value. I am still upset with a formerly favorite author for doing that. It spoiled all her other stories for me, and I will never finish the story she did it in.
Too much explicit sex. Now, you know stories come with ratings and warnings, but sometimes I will start a story I know contains NC-17 material if it looks like an otherwise good story, and I think I can get away with skipping the sex scenes. But if it turns into something where I'm *constantly* having to scroll past the naked bodies, I will just give it up as too much effort. I can't think why any story should need more than one sex scene anyhow. (Actually, I don't really see why it would *need* even one, LOL! YMMV! )
4. What about a show/book/movie makes you want to write fanfic for it?
Hobbits? *grin*
I'm pretty much a one-fandom person. However, since I've participated in Yuletide, that's not *strictly* true. And I've been tempted by a few other fandoms-- books, mainly, and it really is for the same reason: not enough canon. I would love to see some fic, for example, set in Randall Garrett's Lord D'arcy universe. He wrote only three books about that world (two short story collections and one novel) and his literary heir wrote only two. I'd love to have more, and someday I might write some, if I can't get anyone to write it for me.
Another thing would be engaging characters. Last year I wrote a Yuletide fic set in Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers series. The books are as saccharine as you can imagine for a nineteenth century children's series to be, and the main character, Polly, is a real Mary Sue-- everyone loves Polly! Yet there is something very endearing about Polly and her siblings that made revisiting that world and writing fic in it satisfying.
Gaps. Without gaps there's no place for fic to go.
Though I love reading movie or TV fic for movies/shows I like, I've never really been tempted to write in those fandoms. Crossovers with LOTR though, tempt me. (the Doctor could easily crossover with Middle-earth, and I've read some good ones) I've actually written LotR/Hidalgo and LotR/Lassie! Just fluff, but fun.
5. What is your favorite activity that doesn't involve a computer?
Crafting and cooking. I love calligraphy, sewing, knitting, painting, polymer clay, and various and sundry crafts-- mostly right now I'm on a knitting jag. And I love to cook and to make up new recipes-- and it's even better than writing fic for getting instant feedback!
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sue_denimme1. If money and time were no object, where would you most like to visit?
I'd go and visit people on my flist! It would be so cool to go on a long road trip and stop for a few days everywhere I have a friend! I've met some, but there are others I would just love to meet in person, and several I'd love to see again.
Or if money were truly no object, I'd set up a moot on a cruise ship or at a nice resort, and pay for everyone to come. (Publisher's Clearing House, come through for me! )
2. What is the story you have written that you are most proud of?
Hmm…I'd have to say I'm pleased with many of them. But I think of my longer stories "A New Reckoning" still makes me feel that I accomplished something-- it kind of set the stage for nearly every fic I wrote afterwards. Of my more recent stories, I'd have to say "Trotter"-- I felt like I was exploring a place in canon that I had never been, and I love that I completed it in such a short time.
Of my short pieces, I think my poem "The Smallest Hands". It said what I needed it to say, and what I feel and believe about LotR, and I was very pleased with how the rhyme and scansion came out.
3. You are reading a fic, and come across something in it that causes you to back out of it so fast you leave skidmarks. What is that something most likely to be?
Pointless and unexpected character death-- especially if it seems like it was included just for shock value. I am still upset with a formerly favorite author for doing that. It spoiled all her other stories for me, and I will never finish the story she did it in.
Too much explicit sex. Now, you know stories come with ratings and warnings, but sometimes I will start a story I know contains NC-17 material if it looks like an otherwise good story, and I think I can get away with skipping the sex scenes. But if it turns into something where I'm *constantly* having to scroll past the naked bodies, I will just give it up as too much effort. I can't think why any story should need more than one sex scene anyhow. (Actually, I don't really see why it would *need* even one, LOL! YMMV! )
4. What about a show/book/movie makes you want to write fanfic for it?
Hobbits? *grin*
I'm pretty much a one-fandom person. However, since I've participated in Yuletide, that's not *strictly* true. And I've been tempted by a few other fandoms-- books, mainly, and it really is for the same reason: not enough canon. I would love to see some fic, for example, set in Randall Garrett's Lord D'arcy universe. He wrote only three books about that world (two short story collections and one novel) and his literary heir wrote only two. I'd love to have more, and someday I might write some, if I can't get anyone to write it for me.
Another thing would be engaging characters. Last year I wrote a Yuletide fic set in Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers series. The books are as saccharine as you can imagine for a nineteenth century children's series to be, and the main character, Polly, is a real Mary Sue-- everyone loves Polly! Yet there is something very endearing about Polly and her siblings that made revisiting that world and writing fic in it satisfying.
Gaps. Without gaps there's no place for fic to go.
Though I love reading movie or TV fic for movies/shows I like, I've never really been tempted to write in those fandoms. Crossovers with LOTR though, tempt me. (the Doctor could easily crossover with Middle-earth, and I've read some good ones) I've actually written LotR/Hidalgo and LotR/Lassie! Just fluff, but fun.
5. What is your favorite activity that doesn't involve a computer?
Crafting and cooking. I love calligraphy, sewing, knitting, painting, polymer clay, and various and sundry crafts-- mostly right now I'm on a knitting jag. And I love to cook and to make up new recipes-- and it's even better than writing fic for getting instant feedback!
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Date: 2009-11-01 12:57 pm (UTC)I probably should have asked for five from Sue, since I read hers during the week, but I was so busy that I passed. Go ahead and send me five and I'll see if I can get around to answering.:)
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Date: 2009-11-02 04:07 am (UTC)2. What is the earliest book you can remember reading?
3. If you could meet Pippin in person, what would be the first question you would ask him?
4. If you had a day in which you had to do something to please only yourself, what would you do?
5. What do you know now that you wish you had known in the past?
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Date: 2009-11-02 10:53 am (UTC)I'll get on them as soon as I can.
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Date: 2009-11-01 01:52 pm (UTC)(p.s I totally agree about un-needed sex scenes! they do spoil things - esp in LotR fic!!)
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Date: 2009-11-02 04:11 am (UTC)2. What is your favorite time of the year, and why?
3. If you could meet anyone in the world, past or present, who would it be?
4. The first time you read LOTR, was there a point where you thought something would happen in the story-- and it happened completely differently than you expected? If so what was it?
5. What are your three fovorite foods?
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Date: 2009-11-01 02:43 pm (UTC)Your answers are much the same as mine would be. :D
(No questions, please... I can barely keep up with the typing I need to do.)
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Date: 2009-11-02 04:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-01 03:39 pm (UTC)I have gotten to where I don't mind sex in fics *too* much, even when it's a character I personally can't picture having sex (at least not with the character they're depicted having sex with). Like, say, the Doctor and Donna. But those fics are very unlikely to be saved to my hard drive and savored over and over. And if they are, it's because there's something special enough about that fic to overcome the sex scenes.
It's when said characters are shown getting married, having a baby, or both, that I roll my eyes and hit "back".
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Date: 2009-11-02 04:17 am (UTC)As to pairings, I'm not a 'shipper. But some characters just don't seem meant for passionate steamy sex.
I am a little more tolerant of it when reading in other fandoms than LOTR, but still, I think some people go a little overboard...
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Date: 2009-11-02 02:33 pm (UTC)Also, who wants to write friendship-oriented gen when smut and slash gets so much more attention?
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Date: 2009-11-02 03:19 pm (UTC)*raises hand* Me. And I'd rather *read* friendship gen. There are more who feel that way, I think, than get credit for it. It's one reason we started the LOTR GenFic Community-- and we have quite a few members.
And I know of at least three people on my flist who are well-known for 'shipping a certain slash pairing-- and yet they often request plain friendship fic.
The problem is that some people, especially newcomers to fanfic, seem to believe that fanfic is *only* slash or smut, and if they don't put it in, they are falling down on the job.
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Date: 2009-11-02 04:51 pm (UTC)The problem is that some people, especially newcomers to fanfic, seem to believe that fanfic is *only* slash or smut, and if they don't put it in, they are falling down on the job.
Exactly. Because the slash/smut gets the attention, therefore it's more prevalent (because authors like attention), so new authors coming in think "all I see is slash or smut, so to conform and look cool, I must write slash and smut too", and everybody eggs each other on and on, and it's a vicious circle.
(And ironically, the glut of sexfic just makes reading sex butt-awful BORING after a while, which is the opposite effect to what is intended, at least to me.)
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Date: 2009-11-01 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-02 04:24 am (UTC)2. Do you construct Celtic knots, or do you just like looking at them? (I love drawing them myself--it's an interest we have in common.)
3. Who is your favorite Celtic performer, and why?
4. Tell me about the first time you read LOTR.
5. What is your earliest memory?
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Date: 2009-11-02 03:09 am (UTC)I love reading these answers! *hugs* (no questions for me, though, I am so far behind with comments, etc. lol!)
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Date: 2009-11-02 04:28 am (UTC)No questions is fine. You didn't say the tag line after all, LOL!
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Date: 2009-11-14 05:58 am (UTC)Oh, I hear you on that! I can't read major-character death stories, unless we're talking about canon death.
I'm curious as to what story you're referring to, btw. I wonder if I've read it.
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Date: 2009-11-14 01:49 pm (UTC)