Now that I'm writing, I read far less than I used to -- I've been a voracious reader all my life (well, since I learned to read), but my usual time for reading was the last hour or two before bed. That's now my writing time. Only 24 hours to the day, after all, and I do have to work and sleep and eat. And the research for my stories takes time also. I do read other people's fanfic, but I still give more of my diminished reading time to published books.
These days, I tend to read the fanfic of specific writers most of the time -- Lothi, wabbit, Kirsty, Sid and a few others. Much of the fic I read is by writers for whom I edit or beta. I occasionally wander around at random looking for Good New Stuff, but there's a lot of rubbish out there, as we all know. (Of course, that applies to published books also!) I sometimes hop to the profiles of people who read my work, and then look at their own lists of Favourites; I've found some real gems that way.
As far as Stargate goes: I don't think I'll even contemplate writing in that fandom until I finally finish watching the whole series (I just finished Season 8 on DVD). Then I'd have to have a good idea, something compelling enough to make me willing to set Mac aside for long enough to write Jack. And I'm not at all comfortable with writing in a military setting. It might be interesting to try a crossover someday -- there are a lot of "MacGate" stories already out there, but most of them get Mac wrong.
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These days, I tend to read the fanfic of specific writers most of the time -- Lothi, wabbit, Kirsty, Sid and a few others. Much of the fic I read is by writers for whom I edit or beta. I occasionally wander around at random looking for Good New Stuff, but there's a lot of rubbish out there, as we all know. (Of course, that applies to published books also!) I sometimes hop to the profiles of people who read my work, and then look at their own lists of Favourites; I've found some real gems that way.
As far as Stargate goes: I don't think I'll even contemplate writing in that fandom until I finally finish watching the whole series (I just finished Season 8 on DVD). Then I'd have to have a good idea, something compelling enough to make me willing to set Mac aside for long enough to write Jack. And I'm not at all comfortable with writing in a military setting. It might be interesting to try a crossover someday -- there are a lot of "MacGate" stories already out there, but most of them get Mac wrong.