Hello.
Welcome to our third entrant to our blog series - Yoru (aka The One with a Fish Memory)
1. How did you get started in fan-fiction?
I got started in it kind of by accident because I was an extremely anxious kind of fan. I would watch my favourite shows and after the end of each episode I'd spend hours trying to figure out what was going to happen on the next one (more often than not I was way out of mark but it was a fun activity, anyway). Then I started writing it just for myself and at some point I found out this amazing place where a lot more people did the same thing I did, just they shared it with each other.
2. What are your fandom(s) and why do you like/love/hate them?
My first fandom was Card Captor Sakura. I loved it. It was an empowering universe with charismatic characters where the lead female didn't need to be anything other than kind. Sakura wasn't a badass tough girl. She was soft and happy-go-lucky and extremely powerful anyway. It was also such a visual delight and so culturally rich that I couldn't help but fall in love with it.
I started diversifying what I watched/read - Shaman King, Fruits Basket, Vagabond, Code Lyoko, Skip Beat, One Piece, Justice League, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The X-Men, Spiderman, Sandman - but never felt compelled to write about anything else. And even if I would still get myself imagining what happened next at times, I didn't really feel the need to go after fanfics of those works either.
That is, until I was caught in the Mass Effect Trilogy. Gosh! It was a splurge. I just dove head first on the game and started reading fanfics of that universe and felt a pull as if from a 'Singularity' that got me into writing again. Then I started reading somethings from the Dragon Age universe and tried my hand on that as well. And more recently I've become interested in some fan works on Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir (the canon has a lot of potential, but it's not very well explored what makes fan works far more interesting because they get to explore the characters' deepness). It's not much but I even tried my hand in some drabble-like stories for it.
3. What is the most easiest/hardest part about writing?
The easiest part is to get an idea to work with. The hardest thing is to develop it into a coherent piece worth the readers' time. It's also hard to get the characters' voice right so that they don't end up looking too OoC. I also really enjoy making the research that goes into writing. I got a lot more exigent with what I post over time so it makes the whole process harder and harder.
4. Who are your inspirations?
Are we talking about published authors only? I really look up for Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Jane Austen, Charlotte BrontĂ«, Tolkien, Stan Lee, Machado de Assis, Clarice Linspector, CecĂlia Meireles, Clamp, Eichiro Oda, J. K. Rowling, Rick Riordan. I fall in love with the characters more often than the stories per se. I need the characters to be more than just a shell, you know. They need to have layers and a complex personality - be tridimensional.
If I can mention some ficwriters, I'd like to mention Tarysande, servantofclio, fourthage, Cherry-Hi, theherocomplex, keita52, Nastrandir, TheNovelArtist, quicksilversquared and Miraculous Mumma.
5. Ever fantasized about your work being made in a movie? If so, who are the actors that would be in the film?
I have sometimes tried to imagine it, but the most I can come up with is some characters for supporting roles. Like Miranda Otto and David Wenham playing a colonist Shepard's parents, Maybe Rodrigo Santoro playing Kaidan? Joker needs to be Seth Green. That's a no brainer!
6. Your favourite line you have written?
Does it need to a line? uhm...
And yet, things were different. For one: the ground squad lacked some of the familiar faces – Ash's being the one he felt more deeply (whoever said that survivor's guilt goes away with time, didn't know what they were talking about).
(from the Undone Soldier)
or maybe, “Shepard’s ineptitude to drive ground vehicles proved excellent team building exercise.” Mordin interjected still flicking with his omni-tool. “Personally suggested application on new STG recruits. Impressive results.” Shepard gaped at the salarian with an ‘Et tu, Brutus’look in her eyes. (from Head-butting)
7. Any advice for aspiring writers?
It's something I need to put into practice myself, but just write. put your thoughts to paper (or to the screen) and keep writing. It takes a lot of work and time spent over the same text to have it perfected. It's not a "first shot" kind of thing. You'll never get things exactly the way you want the first time. So just keep at it.
8. Where can we find you on social media? Where can we find your work?
You can find me on https://www.fanfiction.net/u/382445/
https://www.fictionpress.com/u/641533/
https://archiveofourown.org/users/GalaxyWanderer
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/yoruhiiragizawa
9. Tell us about yourself?
What to say? I'm the oldest of three children. i'm a Capricorn. I'm graduated in Language Arts and work as an English teacher. I love learning new languages, I'm an enthusiast reader, I believe my writing nowadays falls into the category of "hobby", I'm a geek and a bit nerdy. I'm also a gamer and a cat person.
10. If you could nominate someone else to take this survey, who would it be?
I think Miraculous Mumma would have a lot of interesting things to say.
Let me rethink question 4 for a moment.
11. Your favorite authors?
I really look up for Neil Gaiman, the fact that his first literary award was obtained through what he himself considers to be a fan fiction is nothing short of astounding.
I also feel inspired by Lisa M. Hawkins. She's such a strong woman, who faces life with an upbeat spirit, no matter what life throws at her. And she quickly became one of my favourite people in the world.
I feel inspired by real people who has to fight their way to the top and when they get there they don't forget about their origins. I'm often awed by risk-takers and ground-breakers. They're nothing short of amazing.
12 - This question was asked by Ska - their question to you was What are your fic-writing tells? What are the top three trademarks that might let someone else know that you wrote a certain fic? -
their answers can be seen here - https://citadelroundtable.blogspot.com/2019/07/log-1-skazka-9000.html
I think I use a lot of adjectives and adverbs in my writing. Because of Portuguese being my first language, i also tend to use a lot of inverted sentence structure (whenever I can get away with it, actually) I don't really know if I have any other tells, to be honest. And I'm not really sure if those things are so telling as allowing people to identify something as written by me.
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Author links -
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/382445/
https://www.fictionpress.com/u/641533/
https://archiveofourown.org/users/GalaxyWanderer
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/yoruhiiragizawa
Welcome to our third entrant to our blog series - Yoru (aka The One with a Fish Memory)
1. How did you get started in fan-fiction?
I got started in it kind of by accident because I was an extremely anxious kind of fan. I would watch my favourite shows and after the end of each episode I'd spend hours trying to figure out what was going to happen on the next one (more often than not I was way out of mark but it was a fun activity, anyway). Then I started writing it just for myself and at some point I found out this amazing place where a lot more people did the same thing I did, just they shared it with each other.
2. What are your fandom(s) and why do you like/love/hate them?
My first fandom was Card Captor Sakura. I loved it. It was an empowering universe with charismatic characters where the lead female didn't need to be anything other than kind. Sakura wasn't a badass tough girl. She was soft and happy-go-lucky and extremely powerful anyway. It was also such a visual delight and so culturally rich that I couldn't help but fall in love with it.
I started diversifying what I watched/read - Shaman King, Fruits Basket, Vagabond, Code Lyoko, Skip Beat, One Piece, Justice League, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The X-Men, Spiderman, Sandman - but never felt compelled to write about anything else. And even if I would still get myself imagining what happened next at times, I didn't really feel the need to go after fanfics of those works either.
That is, until I was caught in the Mass Effect Trilogy. Gosh! It was a splurge. I just dove head first on the game and started reading fanfics of that universe and felt a pull as if from a 'Singularity' that got me into writing again. Then I started reading somethings from the Dragon Age universe and tried my hand on that as well. And more recently I've become interested in some fan works on Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir (the canon has a lot of potential, but it's not very well explored what makes fan works far more interesting because they get to explore the characters' deepness). It's not much but I even tried my hand in some drabble-like stories for it.
3. What is the most easiest/hardest part about writing?
The easiest part is to get an idea to work with. The hardest thing is to develop it into a coherent piece worth the readers' time. It's also hard to get the characters' voice right so that they don't end up looking too OoC. I also really enjoy making the research that goes into writing. I got a lot more exigent with what I post over time so it makes the whole process harder and harder.
4. Who are your inspirations?
Are we talking about published authors only? I really look up for Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Jane Austen, Charlotte BrontĂ«, Tolkien, Stan Lee, Machado de Assis, Clarice Linspector, CecĂlia Meireles, Clamp, Eichiro Oda, J. K. Rowling, Rick Riordan. I fall in love with the characters more often than the stories per se. I need the characters to be more than just a shell, you know. They need to have layers and a complex personality - be tridimensional.
If I can mention some ficwriters, I'd like to mention Tarysande, servantofclio, fourthage, Cherry-Hi, theherocomplex, keita52, Nastrandir, TheNovelArtist, quicksilversquared and Miraculous Mumma.
5. Ever fantasized about your work being made in a movie? If so, who are the actors that would be in the film?
I have sometimes tried to imagine it, but the most I can come up with is some characters for supporting roles. Like Miranda Otto and David Wenham playing a colonist Shepard's parents, Maybe Rodrigo Santoro playing Kaidan? Joker needs to be Seth Green. That's a no brainer!
6. Your favourite line you have written?
Does it need to a line? uhm...
And yet, things were different. For one: the ground squad lacked some of the familiar faces – Ash's being the one he felt more deeply (whoever said that survivor's guilt goes away with time, didn't know what they were talking about).
(from the Undone Soldier)
or maybe, “Shepard’s ineptitude to drive ground vehicles proved excellent team building exercise.” Mordin interjected still flicking with his omni-tool. “Personally suggested application on new STG recruits. Impressive results.” Shepard gaped at the salarian with an ‘Et tu, Brutus’look in her eyes. (from Head-butting)
7. Any advice for aspiring writers?
It's something I need to put into practice myself, but just write. put your thoughts to paper (or to the screen) and keep writing. It takes a lot of work and time spent over the same text to have it perfected. It's not a "first shot" kind of thing. You'll never get things exactly the way you want the first time. So just keep at it.
8. Where can we find you on social media? Where can we find your work?
You can find me on https://www.fanfiction.net/u/382445/
https://www.fictionpress.com/u/641533/
https://archiveofourown.org/users/GalaxyWanderer
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/yoruhiiragizawa
9. Tell us about yourself?
What to say? I'm the oldest of three children. i'm a Capricorn. I'm graduated in Language Arts and work as an English teacher. I love learning new languages, I'm an enthusiast reader, I believe my writing nowadays falls into the category of "hobby", I'm a geek and a bit nerdy. I'm also a gamer and a cat person.
10. If you could nominate someone else to take this survey, who would it be?
I think Miraculous Mumma would have a lot of interesting things to say.
Let me rethink question 4 for a moment.
11. Your favorite authors?
I really look up for Neil Gaiman, the fact that his first literary award was obtained through what he himself considers to be a fan fiction is nothing short of astounding.
I also feel inspired by Lisa M. Hawkins. She's such a strong woman, who faces life with an upbeat spirit, no matter what life throws at her. And she quickly became one of my favourite people in the world.
I feel inspired by real people who has to fight their way to the top and when they get there they don't forget about their origins. I'm often awed by risk-takers and ground-breakers. They're nothing short of amazing.
12 - This question was asked by Ska - their question to you was What are your fic-writing tells? What are the top three trademarks that might let someone else know that you wrote a certain fic? -
their answers can be seen here - https://citadelroundtable.blogspot.com/2019/07/log-1-skazka-9000.html
I think I use a lot of adjectives and adverbs in my writing. Because of Portuguese being my first language, i also tend to use a lot of inverted sentence structure (whenever I can get away with it, actually) I don't really know if I have any other tells, to be honest. And I'm not really sure if those things are so telling as allowing people to identify something as written by me.
___________________________________________________________
Author links -
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/382445/
https://www.fictionpress.com/u/641533/
https://archiveofourown.org/users/GalaxyWanderer
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/yoruhiiragizawa
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