Name: Kassie
Age: 18
Location: US, Michigan/New York
Favorite Pairings: Oh, my… there’s a pretty long list. Snape/Barty Crouch, Jr., Sirius/Remus, Remus/Tonks, Albus Severus/Scorpius, Dumbledore/Grindelwald, Hermione/Luna, Luna/Ginny, Neville/Luna, Tonks/Kingsley, Slughorn/Tom Riddle, Slughorn/Sirius, Percy/Oliver, Percy/Penelope, Percy/Scrimgeour, Bellatrix/Walden Macnair, Bellatrix/Voldemort, Draco/Tonks, Harry/Cedric, Cedric/Zacharias Smith, Zach/Blaise, Theodore/Hermione, Blaise/Theodore, Terry Boot/Anthony Goldstein, and Terry Boot/Michael Corner.
How long have you been writing?: Well. I can’t honestly remember a time when I wasn’t writing, so I’ll estimate about 13 years; I’ve been writing fanfic for almost two-and-a-half years.
Any other communities you post at: It usually depends on what I’ve written, so where I post jumps around a lot, but, in the past, I’ve posted to:
remusxsirius,
hp_odd_pairings,
hp_oneshot,
[Bad username: hp_slash_fanfic?,], the similarly defunct
slytherinfics,
not_the_trio,
hprarepairs,
one_true_pair,
1000ways_claw,
claw_and_tales,
luna_hermione,
crouchjr,
the_ass_ship,
scorpialbus,
hpfic,
hp_shipless,
rarepair_shorts,
7spells, and
_sulgclub. And it isn’t a community, but I post all my fic at
duanya_lesfics.
What got you into fanfiction?: A few months after HBP, I had a plotbunny for a Sirius/Remus, Luna/Hermione fic that I had to indulge; I’d written a bit of fanfic beforehand, but writing and working on that fic really captured me and got me into writing fanfic.
Example of your writing (300 words or less, please): ( Warnings for language and implied slash of the SB/RL variety.Collapse )Do you want your sample to be critiqued?: Sure thing; go ahead.
Any challenge ideas?: Maybe, “write the opposite of your OTP?” (e.g.: if R/Hr is your OTP, write H/Hr; if SB/RL is your OTP, write RL/NT, SS/RL, SB/SS, or JP/SB). They had the art equivalent of this challenge as a weekly theme at the now defunct
smut_wednesday, and the results were great. Character-based challenges could be fun too, especially for minor characters or characters who aren’t written about a lot; my top two recommendations for this would be Slughorn and Crouch Jr., but they’re two of my top five favorite characters, so my opinion is pretty biased.