So I have recently got REALLY into a TV series and have some ideas for fanfiction rattling round in my head. I've been reading loads of other people's fictions and would love to try writing my own.
If you write it, how long do you normally spend writing, and how often? Do you just type away at a laptop or do you use dictation software or similar?
I feel like I can write chapters and chapters in my head while I'm sitting in traffic or out running but then when I sit down to write it, it's slower and more frustrating.... I think my "head" writing skims over the awkward parts of the sentence construction and makes it sound much better than it does when I have to write it for real.
How much do you edit? Do you tend to cut loads out?
And finally, any advice on where I might go to find the rest of the fandom? It relates to a show which finished about 10 years ago. People are still posting fics on An Archive of Our Own, but they aren't getting many comments. I've spotted someone on Twitter who wrote a couple of AMAZING fics years ago about these characters, I am hoping she might follow me back so I can DM her. But where do fanfic writers tend to hang out and swap ideas now?
I would really love to find someone to proofread what I've written, especially as its set in 1990s USA and I am sure it is full of awful clangers and unamerican figures of speech.