Rejoining again please! I've been a fanficcer technically since about fourth grade, but didn't know what it was called until very late highschool, and generally only consider my fanfic 'career' as starting in 2005. Pokemon is my main fandom, but not, by any means, my only fandom. I'm also an editor and creative writer by education.
I generally write short stories and novellas if only because I have self-discipline issues and take forever to finish chaptered stories, even though my mind tends toward making things big and epic and complicated, so I tend to need lots of deadlines enforced by someone not me in order to get things done.
(Speaking of, Bob, I'd like to apply for a deadline: Tabula Rasa Chapter 10 by November 30. Thanks!)
Most of my fics are set in a specific world which is, essentially, Pokemon turned live-action. It's AU because of certain aspects which have changed which characters handle what; primarily, the adults handle the evil teams in the early generations, even though canonically it's a pre-teen trainer. That said, most of that isn't immediately noticable because I tend to focus on specific characters in-between canon times rather than the canon journey. My current fic, Tabula Rasa, is about Dragon Master Lance having been captured and brainwashed by Team Rocket just prior to the Johto canon events. It's meant to be an exploration of Dragon Master Lance's personality switch between generations one and two (in the original generation two games, he was portrayed as very flippant and dry, as opposed to his serious and stern persona of the generation one games).
What genre(s) as a general rule do you like/prefer to do?
Drama, apparently. Or action. Or adventure. Or fantasy. Mostly, I don't think about it; I just write the story and then see what kinds of genres it fits into afterward. I tend to focus on inner character development and emotions, however, so Drama would be the best description. Often there's an element of tragedy or angst, but I generally like stories that end on a note of hope, so they're not the main genre.
Are you doing NaNoWriMo this year?
Yes. I originally intended to do my current fic, Tabula Rasa, for NaNo so I could keep ahead, but my brain decided otherwise and I wound up doing a fic for ABC's new show Once Upon A Time. Which isn't bad, because it's fun and I'm never so far behind as to make myself flail, but it does mean I've been writing less of Tabula Rasa than I'd like or, really, need in order to keep ahead of it.
