reading and writing fanfic

[tielan]

Is there anyone on the f-list who both reads a lot of fanfic and writes a lot of fanfic?

I tend to find that reading fanfic can throw me out of writing it - ideas that conflict with my own, new plotbunnies popping up all over the meadow, or a character depiction throwing me out of the writing mood. There are times when even the act of reading the f-list can be bad for my muse. Which is why I'm not very comment-y.

I find that people tend to be either writers or readers and was wondering if there are people who straddle both. And how do they find it?

Comments

[meghatron.livejournal.com]

I rarely read fanfic, even when it's recommended to me. Then again, I barely write fanfic more than once a year (the Draco/Ginny Ficmas on DGFF). So I probably shouldn't count.

Although I should say I would read a lot more fanfic if it were better written and paid attention to things like characterization and canon. But clearly that's just me, given the enormous audience that a lot of really crappy fanfics have.

[tielan]

There are people whose fics I'm wary of clicking upon because I know that their representation of the characters isn't going to gel in my mind. Although, I suspect that there are people who feel the same way about reading anything I write.

And yeah, I'd probable read a lot more fanfic if I could be sure that I wasn't going to find so many lemons. I still remember the *shudder*-worthy days of Heliopolis and reading almost every single fic from A to Z.