Perhaps the answer is more social. (I see all the reasons laid out above as factually accurate summation of what's wrong / interesting in the source text, but as a starting point for writing het)
What determines what you write is more probably related to who you met when you first joined fandom, the first good fic you were exposed to, and the people who supported your initial writing. If fandom is a gift economy, then exchages between you and others could cement your interests in particular areas.
When I joined, I wrote het almost exclusively, though there was a slash subpairing in my first fic. I've written het for three years, and now, as I've got more slashers on my flist, I've written bits and pieces to please them, until now I am writing my first long slash piece (with het in the background, because I'm not going to erase my female characters).
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on 2008-01-17 08:46 am (UTC)Perhaps the answer is more social. (I see all the reasons laid out above as factually accurate summation of what's wrong / interesting in the source text, but as a starting point for writing het)
What determines what you write is more probably related to who you met when you first joined fandom, the first good fic you were exposed to, and the people who supported your initial writing. If fandom is a gift economy, then exchages between you and others could cement your interests in particular areas.
When I joined, I wrote het almost exclusively, though there was a slash subpairing in my first fic. I've written het for three years, and now, as I've got more slashers on my flist, I've written bits and pieces to please them, until now I am writing my first long slash piece (with het in the background, because I'm not going to erase my female characters).