Writing

[lady_karelia]

To all who write, I'm curious. Why do you write? I'm genuinely curious, and I don't want anyone to draw ideas from others' comments, so I'm screening comments for a day or two. I just want a really honest opinion. And if you don't want your comment to be seen, say so, and I won't unscreen it. I'm just really curious.

Comments

[dhark-charlotte.livejournal.com]

I had never thought about writing anything before 2006. I started out in the BtVS fandom, reading tons of fic, wincing at atrocious grammar... And then I volunteered to beta for someone. I know I should have probably researched a little on how one actually betas, but I didn't, ended up practically rewriting this girl's fic for her (many, many stories) and then we moved. I was able to extricate myself from her and suddenly found - crossovers. HP was my first crossover and goodness me... I fell in LOVE and had ideas and then wrote these little bits of dialog that wouldn't leave me alone.

Ended up with a 23 chapter fic that took me 22 months to write. I'd love to have the time to go back and smooth it out.

Severus and Drusilla were my muses back then.

So I guess I caught the writing bug from editing others' work and now I document all of my ideas whether big or small. I've even started growing characters for an original fiction... *scary huh?

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Not scary! :D I think we all, or most of us at least, reach the stage where we outgrow a fandom and devote more time to original works. And that's quite a natural progress, I think, because playing in another's universe does have its limitations.