To be perfectly honest, I write stories about characters that interest me, which can be major or minor. Then I finish and say 'hey, it's gen, no one reads gen' and throw in a few lines of gayness.

Works nearly every time.


Also, the most feedback I ever got was for a gennish story focusing on a rarepair (Goyle/Snape, of all things). So, yanno, blow me, I dunno what the fuck's up with that. Maybe if it's wacky enough people will read it just out of curiousity. Like, how on earth would one write Neville/Dudley? I'd read that fic just to find out.