How about a brief introduction for yourself?Umm...well...I'm 16.5 years old, and JE = love..., and i'm a religious person, but i adore cracky fanfiction if it's not that
bad. Ueda Tatsuya and Senga Kento are the two most precious creatures alive <33 I'm also a bit of a school obsessed fiend xD
Fabulous! And what got you into fanfiction to begin with?Harry Potter, and it's a lot easier to write about fictional characters than real people...*flails*
I see, so what kind of fanfiction do you like to write?Humorous stuff, I've been called a 'queen of crack' before...so I dunno. It's whatever flows across the keys. I don't write pairings past friendship unless they're het (and all in all romance stuff is quite reserved, coming from me). I try to keep things realistic to some extent <3 Not too much OOC from me.
Do you find writing easy? Hard? What are the most difficult aspects of writing you struggle with?The writing part is definitely simpler than coming up with what to write. It's coming up with a story that's the difficult part.
Write a few sentences or so of your favorite pairing or character.I think I'll take a leaf out of the amazing
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peroxidepest17's book and post something I started way back when, and just kind of dropped...I wish I could revise and finish it:
-------------5 TIMES JIN TRIED TO GET UEDA TO TEACH HIM TO BE A COWBOY------------
Akanishi Jin was distraught. Yukan Club was officially over so he couldn't pretend to be a super cool spy anymore. The list of possible special jobs for the boy was dwindling. Already, sword fighter was out of the question. (Though after quite a bit of persuading, Yamapi promised that once Kurosagi was over they could have a huge scripted fight like what Ryo and Ueda had but rather than ending it with letters they would end it with a duel. The prospect of this excitement lying ahead of him convinced Jin to hold off on the sword fighter job.) After that horrible incident with Tegoshi, Jin was quite sure being a super hero or villain was out of the question. Just like that, all of the cool jobs were thrusted away from him.
What would he do now?
First Jin tried to invade management headquarters (using his ultra super cool spy techniques from his terminated drama) but he was caught by Johnny's secretary. "Hisho~san" [1] He cried, wishing right about now he hadn't tried to be a super hero/villain yet so he could get Tegoshi's help in convincing the higher-ups to land him a new exciting role...or at least give him a fun idea...
So, sulking the whole time, Jin wandered back to KAT-TUN's lounge room. Everyone was sprawled about doing their own thing. Junno was playing video games and Maru was watching. Koki and Ueda were both at the table writing, probably working on lyrics. Kame was seated on the floor watching something on the television. Jin figured it was boxing or something and wasn't going to bother when suddenly from the speakers he heard his own voice.
He turned around and promptly found Kame rewatching their pre-debut kaizokuban concert.
Jin loved watching their old concerts and so he joined Kame on the floor.
"Yo~"
Kame got a very serious look on his face, staring at the screen. He was absorbed in it. It was their big fight scene with the juniors...ahh that had been fun.
But Kame being focused was boring. Instead he started looking around the room, and deeply considered joining Koki and Ueda in lyric writing, but something caught his eye.
Something blue.
Something on top of the skull-ized version of KAT-TUN's U's head.
"UEDA!~" Jin flailed, jumping up and disturbing everyone else in the group in the process. He dashed over to the table where two bewildered members of KAT-TUN sat. Well, Ueda was only bewildered for half a micro second (he regained composure quickly).
"Yes, Akanishi-kun?" If Jin was going this nuts over something, there was potential amusement on his own part. Ueda responded with a sincere smile, setting down his pencil and turning.
In the meantime Jin was regaining his breath and moving his hands with great emphasis (Ueda figured this must be him putting his thoughts into words. Bless the baka, it took so long.)
"Why didn't you tell me you're a cowboy?"
"I'm...what?" The potential amusement was fading into cleverly masked confusion on the princess's part.
Everyone else looked skeptically at Jin who rushed back to his seat on the floor, grabbed the Kaizokuban Concert DVD booklet and pointed to a graphic of skulls representing each member of KAT-TUN. Sure enough, on the one representing Ueda's head there was a large blue cowboy hat.
Ueda took a moment to calculate out why they'd used that graphic for him. (It had been a couple of years since that concert after all.) It didn't take very much time before he had it all puzzled out.
"That's because of my Love in Snow solo...the hat I wore..."
He would have kept talking, but Jin's mind had retreated into deep involved calculations capable of collapsing the universe.
The others returned to their activities, as there was no physical movement by Jin other than the occasional eyebrow twitch for a solid sixteen minutes. Then silently, he knelt down, and looked up at Ueda (who had returned to lyric writing), poked Ueda's shoulder until the princess was willing to give him some attention, and then looked up at him with the most pleading puppy dog eyes reminiscent of Puss In Boots. "Will you teach me how to be a cowboy?"
"Nope."
"Why not!"
Ueda thought about it, glanced over at the rest of the members, and then said: "Oh, you're not up for the challenge of it."
"Am too!" Jin knew he could do anything, because after all, he is the brilliant Bakanishi!
"Do you really think you can be a cowboy?"
Jin nodded vigorously.
"Okay. I'll teach you how to be a cowboy."
"YIPPEE!" Jin shouted, startling all the rest of the members again, but before anyone could question what was going on Jin was already zipping out of the room and running down the halls trying to find his best friend to tell him the amazing news.
Ueda meanwhile was smirking down at his notebook, laughing inside at just how much fun this could possibly become.
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"Okay...your first lesson..." Jin had unexpectedly shown up at the Ueda family house bright and early the next morning (actually it wasn't bright; the sun wasn't even up yet). Ueda had just sat down for breakfast when the doorbell rang, and somehow in the mix of the following events he was dragged out the door by happily waving Jin (how could his own sister plot against him by helping that boy?)
After a hectic and dangerous car ride they were at the Johnny's Entertainment Company Headquarters. Jin happily started chattering away about cowboys based on what he read the night before on the internet.
"Your first lesson...is to learn how to speak like a cowboy."
Jin nodded maybe twenty times and then adopted a completely blank expression.
"It's quite simple." Ueda sighed, recalling the last time he'd tried to help Jin speak English...carshrimp...oh how would he mess up this time?
"Repeat after me." Jin nodded again. "Howdy."
"Howdy." Jin repeated, sounding more like an injured cow than anything else.
"Very good~" Ueda smirked. "Now, go stand in the lobby, and whenever someone arrives at work, greet them like a cowboy would."
Not thinking anything of it Jin promptly dashed away.
Ueda took the back entrance and infiltrated the security system. From his stake-out point he could see all of Jin's antics in greeting people.
Meanwhile, Jin was testing out his newly learned word on the receptionist. She smiled at first but eventually muttered something about having somewhere to be and dashed away.
"Howdy~" Jin greeted some incredibly young juniors. They panicked and glanced at one another before looking up at Jin, bowing, and muttering the standard "Ohayogozaimasu" greeting before running away at lightning speed.
"Howdy~" Tegomassu had appeared, and they smiled back and waved before wandering over to the elevators. Massu was too busy eating to really care, and Tegoshi had a scary glint in his eye, so Jin didn’t press further.
Several more people came through all responding hurriedly without really acknowledging Jin's attempt at cowboyism. He was almost getting bored with it, when Yamapi showed up.
"YAMAPI!" Jin flailed and ran up to the door, nearly tackling his best friend. "You know how I told you I was gonna learn how to be a cowboy!"
The other boy nodded.
"Well, Ueda taught me my first lesson this morning. Wanna hear?"
"Sure."
"Howdy~!" Jin practically yelled it.
"Howdy." Pi repeated.
They sang it back and forth at each other, almost making a rather nice melody, while Ryo strode in. "Baka." he rolled his eyes and walked past them before Jin could greet him too.
Ueda had been amused for the first bit of Jin's antics, but he was starting to get bored. He turned the security camera system back over to the people who were really in charge of it and walked through the building towards the front.
Pi had left and Jin was now staring into space practicing mouthing the new word.
"Nice Job."
"Oh!" Jin looked up in surprise as his teacher approached. "I did it! I said howdy to everyone who came in."
"Nope."
"WHAT!~"
"While you were talking to Yamashita-san, Nishikido-san slipped past your Howdy Detector."
Jin looked down, dejected.
"I can't teach you any more until you have said howdy to Nishikido-san."
With that an incredibly serious look came to Jin's face. "I'll be right back."
Jin dashed away in hopes of finding Ryo, and Ueda flicked open his cell phone, stabbing the numbers to let Kame, Maru, Koki, and Junno know it was safe to enter the building now.
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Are there any fanfiction clichés or trends you're sick of or just can't stand?People...two male people...are able to be friends without being GAY. Some of the ways people write characters into relationships are just nonsensical, and so I click the backspace button & stop reading (and then again, if a relationship starts up with too much to it, i quit reading anyway...)
Are you guilty of any fanfiction clichés you hate? Or any other ones?Umm, maybe? I usually steer away from OC characters in other people's writing, but I love writing them myself~ lol
Name your OTPs or most frequently written pairings/characters and explain what it is about them that you love to write.Any JE Boy / OC female - cuz i like to picture them straight...so I'd have a chance with 'em one day xDDD (and my OC's are usually based off me xDDDDDD)
Friendship wise i like these people hanging out: Shige&Koyama, Jin&Nakamaru, Ueda&Jin, Ueda&Nakamaru, Nakamaru&Massu, Ueda&Senga, NEWS Member-ai, KAT-TUN Member-ai (which really does pwn~ i should extend my old fic on it)
What would you call your writing “style”?I supposedly make things sound sarcastic, which likely comes back to the fact that my favorite literature is satiric literature...and the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy...and doctor who (which is television but who cares~) And I try to be realistic.
Do you read other people’s fanfic? If so, what do you find yourself reading the most?I stalk
peroxide_fic almost daily <3 xDDD and there's this one fic of Arashi on the Oregon Trail that I have printed out and keep by my bed. It's hilarious.
Name one thing you’d LOVE to write, but have been too afraid or shy to do.I'd just like to write more. I want a chapter story of some kind. A big long epic of some sort~ It'd be AWESOME!! (any ideas??? *hopes*)
Do you have trouble taking criticism? Or worse yet, do you have the dreaded bloated ego?I'm pretty good with criticism, though I don't get much. I just like getting comments
it makes me feel loved which is kind of sad xDD
When you write, is there anything that helps? Music? Quiet room?Any free moment when I have a good story going. Music is nice sometimes. Music i've never heard before.
What inspires you?JE~ and music. My first ever fic was a song fic.
Tag some friends because they’ll hate you for it.If anyone wants to do this feel free~
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And I'm off! Got a competition over the next few days~ Graphic Design and Bible Knowledge.
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