|| INTERACTIVE: 30 DAYS OF FAN FIC || DAY TWENTY-TWO

[slytherincesss.livejournal.com]

DAY ONE - How did you get into fan fic?
DAY TWO - What fandoms have you written in?
DAY THREE - Favorite characters?
DAY FOUR - "Muse" character?
DAY FIVE - Pushy characters?
DAY SIX - Male or female characters?
DAY SEVEN - Fic affecting your view of a character?
DAY EIGHT - OCs
DAY NINE - Favorite Pairings
DAY TEN - Pairings and your comfort zone
DAY ELEVEN - Favorite Genres
DAY TWELVE - Adaptations
DAY THIRTEEN - Canon or Fanon
DAY FOURTEEN - Ratings
DAY FIFTEEN - Warnings
DAY SIXTEEN - Summaries
DAY SEVENTEEN - Titles
DAY EIGHTEEN - Bunnies
DAY NINETEEN - Herding Bunnies
DAY TWENTY - Baby Bunnies
DAY TWENTY-ONE - Sequels

22 – Have you ever participated in a fest or a Big Bang? If so, write about your favorite experience in relation to one. If not, are there any you've thought about doing? And if not, why not?

We welcome your participation! There is no minimum or maximum requirements for your answers -- they can be as long or as short as you'd like. I will include my answer as a comment.

Comments

[tigersilver.livejournal.com]

I'm a binge sort of person, so I flung myself into every Fest I could manage the last two years. It's been incredibly helpful in that I really focussed on writing to a deadline and usually to a quite specific prompt. Good discipline. I also had the utter pleasure of knowing better a multitude of Mods (awesome people, every one!) and often it was they that I wrote to, in the end. I hate starting things I cannot finish; I hate not following through. It's a simple matter of maintaining my ability to look myself in the mirror in the dreary morning and knowing there were Mods out there, waiting on me, and prompters who would disappointed was a huge motivator. I wanted closure and I was in charge of at least that one thing: whether I wrote or did not.
On the opposing hand, the large-fic fests can be gruelling. Holding a mood of a piece may tenuous and one ends up juggling. I struggled with my last one and am exhausted now...but I've the pleasure of knowing it was completed, ultimately. With a great deal of help from every one I could lean on! Betas are also awesome!
Fests stretch a writer, I think. Like a shark prod or a carrot-onna-stick, depending. And it's wonderful to be part of a concerted group, creating to a theme. I particularly like charity-oriented comms, tho.