There's a huge difference between quoting something and dumping it in wholesale. If it doesn't feel like you're in high school English class, I'd say you're fine.

Cause I was gonna say, Kay Howard's version of Macbeth is in there.(She sort of misses the point, though.)

Michael stopped the fusing, placing a caring hand on the buttons of her shirt as the other still dried the stream of tears

...fusing?

It's a good thing Michael's so concerned about her buttons. Poor buttons. They were afraid that he might not get the quotation, what with all the electrical work he was doing.

It's a fine line, but there's some quoting that feels like it belongs, and other quoting that reads like "Ooh, look, I have this book, look how erudite I am! Now back to the fic."

And I'm not sure where it is. I think I've crossed it several times.

As of last night, the transformation is complete.

I am now a DCverse writer. I am pulling PWPs out of my ass. My brain is still going "whoa".

Those of you who are mainly monofandom, when you switch fandoms, do you ever revisit your old one? Are there tricks to it? I'm slightly disconcerted by the switch.

And I'm not sure where it is. I think I've crossed it several times.

I don't think I've ever seen you cross it.

I am now a DCverse writer

Yes. Yes you are. MMmmmm.

Those of you who are mainly monofandom, when you switch fandoms, do you ever revisit your old one?

As someone who's changed a couple times now (and never voluntarily, it just happens!)... yeah, occasionally, but it's just not the same. Like, I still keep up with a lot of due South stuff, but it doesn't inspire me so much. And Smallville I tend to forget about -- which is funny, because the good stuff is just as good as it was back then. And then there's X-Men Movieverse, which is sort of like the junior high boyfriends -- I didn't have any idea what I was doing, fandomwise, but I have some fond memories.

That's not helpful, is it?

Those of you who are mainly monofandom, when you switch fandoms, do you ever revisit your old one? Are there tricks to it? I'm slightly disconcerted by the switch.

Um. I never realized I was giving up on fandoms, so ... I don't think I write enough to answer this question, actually. Instead, I'll say:

Write Dick/Babs for me, pretty please? Or post-#93 anything you damn well please? Or Babs anything, although this will work a lot better if I actually recognize the other characters.

when you switch fandoms, do you ever revisit your old one

I want to. There's a long series of stories I was doing in The Equalizer universe, and I got derailed just before finishing the linchpin story. Probably the toughest thing I've ever written, and I don't want to just abandon it. But there's only so much time in a day.

I do have to consciously switch train-of-thought when writing for an anime fandom vs. one of my Western (culture, not genre) fandoms, and a lot of that has to do with the fact that with anime, I'm dealing with source material that comes out of a--literally--foreign way of thinking about the world.

If I'm writing in a fandom I haven't visited for a while, I usually find that watching an episode (or even reading a transcript of an episode) usually helps knock me back into the right frame of mind. The important thing for me is being able to hear the characters' voices again. When the characters start sounding too much like me, I know that the material has gotten stale.