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sgatazmy...
1. Does your immediate family know you write fanfiction? (i.e. kids, spouse -- or parents if you still live at home)
No. Well, at least I don't think so. It's possible that my husband is a lot sharper than I give him credit for; there's obviously no way to ask him without, well, giving away the game. ;) But generally, it's something that I'm quite embarrassed to admit to him, leading to really silly things like actively trying to hide it ... minimizing the text file when he's in the room, for example -- and it's SOO frustrating to be right in the middle of a scene and then have him walk in and stand there talking to me, and in my head I'm all, "Yes, that's nice, now go away so I can finish writing this paragraph!"
2. Does your extended family know you write fanfiction?
My sister definitely does. She's into many of the same fandoms as I am, and we discuss it and recommend fics to each other. The rest of my family ... no. I think my mom might actually enjoy fanfic if she encountered it, but I can't imagine how to explain it to her.
3. Do you have people in RL that help you with your stories?
My sister, sometimes. She helps me brainstorm on plot points or suggests things when I'm stuck -- like helping me come up with a few different ideas of low-tech traps for Sheppard to use on the Wraith in "Running on Empty". I also have RL friends that I brainstorm original fic with (but they don't know I write fanfic).
4. Do you write for more than one fandom or stick to one?
I don't seem to write for more than one at a time, generally, but I've written in a number of different ones over the years.
5. Do you write "original" fiction as well? (i.e. non-fanfiction)
Yes.
sgatazmy...1. Does your immediate family know you write fanfiction? (i.e. kids, spouse -- or parents if you still live at home)
No. Well, at least I don't think so. It's possible that my husband is a lot sharper than I give him credit for; there's obviously no way to ask him without, well, giving away the game. ;) But generally, it's something that I'm quite embarrassed to admit to him, leading to really silly things like actively trying to hide it ... minimizing the text file when he's in the room, for example -- and it's SOO frustrating to be right in the middle of a scene and then have him walk in and stand there talking to me, and in my head I'm all, "Yes, that's nice, now go away so I can finish writing this paragraph!"
2. Does your extended family know you write fanfiction?
My sister definitely does. She's into many of the same fandoms as I am, and we discuss it and recommend fics to each other. The rest of my family ... no. I think my mom might actually enjoy fanfic if she encountered it, but I can't imagine how to explain it to her.
3. Do you have people in RL that help you with your stories?
My sister, sometimes. She helps me brainstorm on plot points or suggests things when I'm stuck -- like helping me come up with a few different ideas of low-tech traps for Sheppard to use on the Wraith in "Running on Empty". I also have RL friends that I brainstorm original fic with (but they don't know I write fanfic).
4. Do you write for more than one fandom or stick to one?
I don't seem to write for more than one at a time, generally, but I've written in a number of different ones over the years.
5. Do you write "original" fiction as well? (i.e. non-fanfiction)
Yes.
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Intersting that you can hide it from your husband with as much writing as you do! LOL.
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LOL! Well, he does know that I write ... although by now, he's probably wondering why I've been writing more or less nonstop since April and don't seem to have a single novel finished. *grin* Maybe he thinks I goof off on the 'net a lot ... which is also true.
I don't know why it is so hard for me to admit. I certainly know other people who are interested in the same shows -- a couple of my co-workers are big SF and Stargate geeks. I think part of it is probably that my early experiences with talking to other people about fanfic were the opposite of yours. I have several friends who are writers and are very "down" on fanfic for being (in their eyes) lazy and immoral and illegal and wrong. *grin* So I got in the habit of hiding it from them, and it just kind of spread to encompass my whole online existence. That's partly why I have a separate "fan" LJ, because I would occasionally post about fan-type stuff on my other journal and get a negative kind of response from people I knew. Although the main reason is just that I *do* want to write professionally and many editors, at least in the past -- I think it's changing a little bit -- look at fanfic writing as a strike against one, rather than a qualification. So I do my original writing under my own name and use this pseudonym for fanfic.
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That said, thank God for your sister! You have someone who understands and who you can talk to.
Thank God that you write at all, because your stuff is such a rockin' trip!
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It'd probably be different if my husband wasn't a giant geek as well. Generally, when we're not at work, he's on his computer playing games or working, and I'm on mine doing ... whatever. Just both of us banging away on our respective projects.