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.

I'm bitextual, but that doesn't mean I'll write *anything*. That's an ugly stereotype.ETA: Plei, have you finished the Barbara Gordon/Canary cripsex yet? Cause if so, I'd like to read it.

Like Anne, I find I have to get back the characters' voices: their details are mostly still there, but the ways they move and speak sort of trickle away. It's much faster to get back into a fandom than to acquire it the first time, but it does take time: for Buffy-Angel fandom, for example, or equally Harry Potter-- places there's lots of new fic, but I can't really keep up with it all as it comes out-- I'll store up links to bits of fic that have been recced for a month or so, and then read them all over a couple of days while the characters are in my head again, write something then if I've got a plot bunny, and then let it go for another few weeks.

There's no switch for me. I kind of just jump in headfirst.

I hop around my fandoms all the time, and if I think about it, I guess I'd call it something like a fandom KVM switch in my head, and... that probably won't make any sense unless you're a techie.

I think of it sort of like pushing buttons to switch radio stations in the car. Only there's like seventy buttons.

Only there's like seventy buttons.

And they all point to porn!

I think of it sort of like pushing buttons to switch radio stations in the car. Only there's like seventy buttons.

For me, it is like tuning a radio, but I'm on an old-fashioned dial instead of buttons. Sometimes I try to retune but there's static instead; sometimes I hit it just right; sometimes I have to turn it back again, slowly, until I get the spot.