Ask the Author: lazy daze

Interviews by Fans
Title:	Ask the Author: lazy daze
Interviewer:
Interviewee:	lazy daze
Date(s):	April 13, 2011
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Supernatural
External Links:	interview and comments are here, Archived version
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lazy daze was interviewed for Supernatural Roundtable.

Some Excerpts

My largest two categories are RPS (Jared/Jensen) and Sam/Dean, though I've dabbled in some other pairings in both SPN and RPF, and the occasional SPN gen piece. I don't think I could choose between J2 and Sam/Dean in what I prefer writing! They're very different and both awesome.

One of my strengths and one of my favourite things to write has always been porn. Hell, kinky watersports fics was my very first Sam/Dean fic I posted in this fandom! Unlike some writers, I think, I enjoy writing it, and I think porn can showcase a lot about a relationship and a character by how you write it. However, I also think that porn can be just that - porn that exists solely to be titillating is just as valuable and valid - and fun!

However, of course, I enjoy writing G-R level stuff too and playing with humour/schmoop/character studies/etc. At this point, I've written a fair amount of most genres at some time or another! Some are scary to write (like humour; what if I'm just not at all as funny as I think I am???) but ultimately satisfying (hearing you made people laugh feels AWESOME :D), some are not my thing so I rarely do (extreme angst and darkfic - I don't enjoy them and would suck at writing them!), some I wish I could do more of (FEMMESLASH!)

I know sometimes I fret over how well something will be received, and worry about whether it's been too long since I wrote, say, a Sam/Dean fic and I should make sure I write one so people don't forget about me omg! But at the same time I think that if I want to write something, I'll write it whether it's likely to garner more comments or not. The longest fic I've written in the past six months was another rarepair femmeslash fic, 46000 words and a handful of comments, and I was really pleased with the whole experience and wrote the fic because I wanted to write it not because I expected any kind of response from it. But at the same time of course we write to get comments; I haven't consciously decided that X and Y tropes get more comments so I write them, but it would make sense I'd be more likely to write something that gets more positive reinforcement i.e. comments! TL;DR: I haven't noticed doing so, I like to think I generally write what I'm inspired to and enjoy, but I can't say it hasn't affected me; I don't know how different it would be if I wasn't getting any response to my fics :D