Author Spotlight: Darriness
How did you get into Glee and Glee fandom?
I watched the original airing of the pilot episode of Glee after the Super Bowl and
that was it for me - I was hooked. As for fandom, I didn't REALLY get into it until middle season 2. A friend of mine recommended I get a Tumblr so I tried (figuring out how to work a new social media site was daunting! lol) but now it's been over nine years! Craziness.
In general, what drew you into writing (and/or creating)?
I've just always been into the creative arts (dancing, singing, acting, writing, drawing) and as I've gotten older I've slowly discovered that writing is the one I think I do the best :)
What was it about Glee that made you decide to write fanfic for it?
A boy named Kurt and a boy named Blaine lol. I had written for other fandoms (never about canon couples believe it or not) before coming to Glee so it just felt natural as I got more into the show, and then Klaine became a canon couple, to write about them. Being a canon couple made them both easier and harder for me to write.
Have you been a part of other fandoms before? Have you written fanfiction pre-glee?
As my previous answer alluded too, I have been in other fandoms and have written fanfiction for those fandoms. No fandom I was in before was as extensive as the Glee fandom has been but I enjoyed them. I was part of the Heroes fandom and wrote a small amount of fanfiction for it and I was also part of the CSI fandom and wrote quite a bit of Greg/Nick fanfiction. My first fanfiction writing experience, however, came from being a Backstreet Boys fan when I was in my teens...that was some scary bad fanfiction let me tell you that (luckily none of it has survived until today) and it was also the only fanfiction I've ever let my mother read lmao (I was young and just wanted praise!)
Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?
I wouldn't say there was a trope I REALLY want to try writing but one of my favourite tropes to read is D/s (especially when D/s behaviour is a 'norm' in the world of the fic) but I don't think I'd ever be able to do it justice as a writer (hence why I've had a fic idea in my head for years upon years that I've been trying to shop to different authors because it's D/s and I will never be able to write it the way I feel it deserves).
Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?
I don't think so? I mean I guess D/s because I don't think I'd ever be able to do it justice but that doesn't mean I wouldn't want to ever try.
How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?
There is the one idea I alluded to a couple of questions ago but I'd rather not share it publicly (I've only ever shared it to writers I felt like could do it justice). Otherwise I'm currently entrenched in Fic A Day but that's less nurturing ideas and more quick writes and writing the third instalment of the Like You Wanna Be Loved verse. In the third instalment, it's four years later, Kurt and Blaine's relationship has hit a new level and Blaine and Bethany's past comes back to try and put a wrench in everything.
Check out Darriness’s Fics:
A Life in a Year - I wrote 365 fics (one a day) based on a word that was randomly generated every day.
A Life in a Year - Series Page
Hot August Nights - A series of short fics based around the themes of nighttime, sexy times, and/or drunk times.
The Princess...and the Pea - Kurt and Blaine's child and Rachel and Jesse's child cannot stand each other. It's ... awkward
