I just always have a ton of characters and ideas floating around in my head (hence my habit of keeping lists and scene snippets all over the damn place - if I don't record these ideas, I'm apt to lose them for months or years at a time).
LOL - I totally understand *stares at writing notebook* I just have a problem of, if I don't use it, I'll lose it. I wish I could stockpile ideas, but I think that part of my brain is missing :P
My first real fandom (Cats) literally has dozens upon dozens of canons
Holy Christ. How the hell do you keep that all straight?! o.O Just...wow. Consider me bowing in your general direction for even understanding all the nuances and differences, much less enough to write fic for it.
By contrast, playing in a single fandom feels very, very, very limited to me.
I think I understand what you mean. When I broke out of the mold a little and starting posting Stacy in Bloom, it felt...freeing. Like, hey, I can write for anything, not just IY! Suddenly the world opened up a little bit. I wouldn't say the possibilities are endless - especially since I can't hope to know everything about every series I'm interested enough in to write fic for - but it did feel open.
I still keep most of it in my head or in private files that I email to the interested parties.
Really, as long as you're satisfied with it, I think that's all that matters. We share to get feedback, yes, but we don't always need that to complete our fannish experience :)
This is why I have a bevy of fandoms I'll probably never write for, despite loving them to death.
There are several series out there I would love to play with, but I feel I could never do justice to the characters I enjoy, because they are very quirky in a way I am not :P I will I say I don't feel pressure to produce fanwork for the series I enjoy - and sometimes its nice to just be a silent watching/reading fan, you know?
Yup. Sometimes I'll have four or five fics open at once, spread across a bunch of different fandoms, and I'll poke at them all in turn and see what clicks.
*shakes head* Wow. I just...my experience is the complete opposite (which is probably why this is so fascinating to me!). I feel I have to turn one of them off to work on another, though sometimes a muse wakes up and just demands to be heard, no matter what I'm working on.
Pretty much. Sometimes it's just a moment that captures my imagination and makes me want to expand on it. -shrug-
Well let me ask you this - when you have these moments, do you usually write a one-off, or do you write something big and multichaptery? How much does it take for you to feel like you could write something 'epic', or do you even want to?
I started in each of my fandoms writing to "change the ending," so to speak. Maybe that's why I don't appreciate the speculative side of fanficcing so much - because when I start, its to make a (usually huge) change to the canon, to divert the plot into something I find far more interesting :P It seems from the responses I've received so far that others start the exact opposite way - with character sketches or short pieces based on bits of the canon material, and then you work your way up. Hmm...
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LOL - I totally understand *stares at writing notebook* I just have a problem of, if I don't use it, I'll lose it. I wish I could stockpile ideas, but I think that part of my brain is missing :P
My first real fandom (Cats) literally has dozens upon dozens of canons
Holy Christ. How the hell do you keep that all straight?! o.O Just...wow. Consider me bowing in your general direction for even understanding all the nuances and differences, much less enough to write fic for it.
By contrast, playing in a single fandom feels very, very, very limited to me.
I think I understand what you mean. When I broke out of the mold a little and starting posting Stacy in Bloom, it felt...freeing. Like, hey, I can write for anything, not just IY! Suddenly the world opened up a little bit. I wouldn't say the possibilities are endless - especially since I can't hope to know everything about every series I'm interested enough in to write fic for - but it did feel open.
I still keep most of it in my head or in private files that I email to the interested parties.
Really, as long as you're satisfied with it, I think that's all that matters. We share to get feedback, yes, but we don't always need that to complete our fannish experience :)
This is why I have a bevy of fandoms I'll probably never write for, despite loving them to death.
There are several series out there I would love to play with, but I feel I could never do justice to the characters I enjoy, because they are very quirky in a way I am not :P I will I say I don't feel pressure to produce fanwork for the series I enjoy - and sometimes its nice to just be a silent watching/reading fan, you know?
Yup. Sometimes I'll have four or five fics open at once, spread across a bunch of different fandoms, and I'll poke at them all in turn and see what clicks.
*shakes head* Wow. I just...my experience is the complete opposite (which is probably why this is so fascinating to me!). I feel I have to turn one of them off to work on another, though sometimes a muse wakes up and just demands to be heard, no matter what I'm working on.
Pretty much. Sometimes it's just a moment that captures my imagination and makes me want to expand on it. -shrug-
Well let me ask you this - when you have these moments, do you usually write a one-off, or do you write something big and multichaptery? How much does it take for you to feel like you could write something 'epic', or do you even want to?
I started in each of my fandoms writing to "change the ending," so to speak. Maybe that's why I don't appreciate the speculative side of fanficcing so much - because when I start, its to make a (usually huge) change to the canon, to divert the plot into something I find far more interesting :P It seems from the responses I've received so far that others start the exact opposite way - with character sketches or short pieces based on bits of the canon material, and then you work your way up. Hmm...