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The Fanfiction Writer’s Questionnaire
♥ List all the fandoms you have written in:
Brokeback Mountain, Supernatural, House, CSI, CSI:NY, Alias, Buffy, Deadwood, NCIS:LA, Prison Break, Highway, Firefly, Star Trek, Dark Angel, Desperate Housewives, Dr. Who, Garden State, Ginger Snaps Back, Glee, Grey's Anatomy, Heathers, Hell Cats, Jeeves and Wooster, A Knight's Tale, Live Free or Die Hard, Merlin, NCIS, Ocean's Franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean, Roswell, The State Within, Sucker Punch, Thelma and Louise, Torchwood, Tigertrapped/Spooks(MI5), White Collar, X-Men (movieverse), CWRPS, Adam Lambert, Pundit RPS, Glee RPS, Bandom, Actor RPS. But my big three have been SPN/CWRPS, Adam Lambert, and Bandom, with House and Tiger Trapped close behind.

♥ How many published fics have you written?
significantly more than three hundred, I'm pretty sure, ranging from true drabbles to 70k words.

♥ In terms of wordcount, in which fandom have you written the most?
there is no easy way to determine that because I still haven't gotten all my SPN fic onto ao3 yet. I have written by far the most stories in SPN, but my word count with those averaged about 2.5k words. Adam and Bandom I'm closer to 10-15k average.

♥ At the moment, which one of your fics is your favorite/you are the most proud of? (you can include unpublished fics)
That is a split between You Only Live Forever and Let the Darkness Lead You Home, both of which are big bangs, and both of which I worked on for more than nine months.

♥ Which writer (fanfiction or not) inspires your own work?
I am inspired everywhere. I have such a phenomenal community of writers around me, and some of them compose sentences like dreams, some kick you in the heart with emotions, some write smoking hot sex, some have such great things to say about process, some poke me to work harder... on and on and on. Fandom is like the best grad school--one where no one looks at you funny for writing gay porn.

♥ What was your first fanfic about?
My first fanfic was about Lureen's dad having hired a hitman to kill Jack in Brokeback Mountain. I ended up re-working it later that year and finally posting it as a Yuletide stocking stuffer.

♥ Out of all the characters whose POV you have written, which one do you feel you identify the most with?
All of my POV characters are me and I am all of them. Though I feel most connected to my teenagers, I think. Arrested development and all that. And definitely the ones I've written the most. Sam, Dean, Adam, Tommy, Frank, and Gerard. And Julian, though that was more an RP situation, and is weird and different for me.

♥ What do you feel is your biggest challenge when writing?
Depends on the day. Sometimes it's hearing the voices, sometimes it's getting past my need for every word to be the perfect word right out of the gate, sometimes it's finding time when I'm not exhausted, often lately it's tumblr.

♥ Do you generally outline your fics or do you prefer to write spontaneously and then revise?
never never never. On my really long ones I'll do notecards in Scrivener once I've written the bulk of it, but I almost never know what is going to happen in a story before I start, and very rarely before I'm half-way done. Generally I hear a sentence in my head, and then I write it down and hear another one, and then another, and it builds from there. I rely on my characters to know what to do.

♥ Which one of your fanfics has the most hits? the most comments? the most kudos? (if applicable)
The fic with the most hits is a false high, because one of the people in the story found it and tweeted a link. But the one that has the most naturally generated hits is You Only Live Forever. The most comments are on my Sam/Dean time travel stories, I'm pretty sure. The most Kudos are on my Danny/Jackson teenwolf story. Teen Wolf is a crazy big fandom.

♥ What proportion, if any, of your fics are rated M or above (# of M-plus fics/ total # of fics)?
lololol. I don't know the percentage exactly, but I'd be surprised if more than 10% of my fic is below M and if more than 20% is below NC17.

♥ Finally, tease us with the title of one of your upcoming fics:
Since I usually choose a title as I am posting it, I cannot tell you an upcoming title, but the file name of the fic I'm most likely to finish next is Because Stiles.