Writing meme about me. My favorite topic.
I wasn't tagged officially, but @KISAHAWKLIN SENT ME.*g*
1. How did you get into writing fanfiction? I started by being a voracious reader of fanfic in 2000 on the due Slash archive, which morphed into writing on Livejournal in Popslash fandom in 2006 because I had ideas that were becoming a bit more than vague imaginings.
2. How many fandoms have you written in? I have 58 fandoms listed in AO3, but a bunch are Yuletide fandoms and one-offs for holiday prompts, so probably only about 1/2 I would call true fandoms.
3. How many years have you been writing fanfiction? 18 years. I started writing and posting in 2006.
4. Do you read or write more fanfiction? Read definitely, although I am over 900,000 written words which is mind boggling! But, particularly during my depressive episodes, of which I have had waaaay too many, I read voraciously, usually in a new-to-me fandom, so I can glut myself on the stories. Sometimes I would huddle on my couch for a week (no exaggeration) reading nearly every damn story in a fandom. Looking at you Losers
5. What is one way you’ve improved as a writer? Tenses!!!! Particularly in the start of my writing career, I could not keep to a given tense to save my life. I could follow a POV fine, but I switched from present to past tense without rhyme nor reason. I think I am better at it now, but it is still hard for me to notice it. It slips under my radar unless I am paying attention.
6. What’s the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project? I don't think I have researched anything of note. I mostly do house-hunting and college information, since I've been in Glee for the last decade or so.
7. What’s your favorite type of comment to receive on your work? Here's another revelation about me. I actually LOVE the one sentence comments that point out a thing the reader loved. It isn't overwhelming like answering a long comment, is more than a kudos, and gives me something to connect with the reader on. I know it isn't politically correct to have a preference, and it isn't like I poo-poo on other types of comments- I try to answer all eventually, but some are easier with respect to that.
8. What’s the most fringe trope/topic you write about? Partner Betrayal. It is one of my favorite tropes because of a host of life experiences and emotions that I refuse to delve into even in therapy (but I am aware of, yes, I know). But it is like catnip to me. This works particularly well in a lot of my fandoms and pairings, since the Powers that Be will often do nonsensical things for year-end cliffhangers on TV shows, which includes a lot of my fandoms. For example, I now can't stand Klaine in Glee fandom, while I had been a huge fan for their first year or so. But then they ramped up the angst and trashed their characters and it left a bad taste in my mouth, so I moved to Seblaine with Klaine partner betrayal.
9. What is the hardest type of story for you to write? PLOTTY. I'm working on it! Also, I love reading gen stories with worldbuilding and overarching themes, but I am pants at them too.
10. What is the easiest type? PWPs. Even though I am quite demure in person and settled on demisexual/asexual for my orientation, I can write sex scenes like no ones business. I don't know what this says about me either. Ahaha.
11. Where do you do your writing? What platform? When? I write in Word and post to AO3. I tried Scrivener, but it turned out to be too complicated. Since I write linearly and don't really need all the bells and whistles, it just ended up being confusing and not a good layout for me.
12. What is something you’ve been too nervous/intimidated to write, but would love to write one day? Plotting beyond hooking characters up. I have 2 works in progress that have some variation of plotting circumstances outside of the relationships, so I am trying, even if I haven't been super successful yet.
13. What made you choose your username? That is a story, but to condense, I said my username while tripping on LSD while trying to describe the tracers as spiderwebs. It came out as sperrywink. I had an exploratory college experience. Ahaha.
I'm tagging: any of my Glee Seblaine fandom followers. I seem to only follow those authors except for a couple of folks who I stole the meme from, ahaha. But I won't call you out officially. Just like kisahawkins said, TELL THEM SPERRYWINK SENT YOU.































