This'll be short for now since the man-critter will be arriving to pick me up from work, but for the most part, I'm drawn to various fandoms due to the absolute unrestrainability of story ideas in my head. Some are huge (CID, Bitter, as-of-yet-unnamed-MMPR-steampunk-fic) and some are drabbles (a couple Castle things, etc.)
If you write for one than one fandom, what is it like for you?
It's freeing. No matter what my mood, I have a place to play and characters to play with.
Can you easily switch between the universes/characters/whatever, or does it feel like you're giving one up while you work in the other?
I usually have no problem hopping from one world/character/story to another, even mid-writing, because it seems like my brain is usually multi-tasking stories. I'll be working on dialogue for one and a character completely unrelated to the fandom will pipe up to be heard, and I'll like it so I have to take that and run with it in a different story and completely jump into something else and rinse, lather, repeat.
Do you feel like you have to know your canon inside and out, or can you just take something interesting and run with it?
I'm... fairly well versed in most of my fandoms. A couple of them have various "canons" (Zelda in a loose ongoing canon, Final Fantasy are all different with various connecting details, Power Rangers is technically one long canon except the newest season like, retconned everything because Disney sucks so a lot of people while enjoying the season ignore its impact on the series as a whole) but for the most part, I like screwing with canon anyway ;) Provided I have a jumping off point, I'll take an idea and run with it.
What does it take, an episode? Even less?
Many of my loves die an early death *sadface* Firefly, Dollhouse... there's not much to them, even though the ideas and worlds are huge (hell, Firefly has its own RPG guides). But yeah, for me, it can be little as one episode (I began drabbling in Dollhouse after the second, even if I never posted anything).
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If you write for one than one fandom, what is it like for you?
It's freeing. No matter what my mood, I have a place to play and characters to play with.
Can you easily switch between the universes/characters/whatever, or does it feel like you're giving one up while you work in the other?
I usually have no problem hopping from one world/character/story to another, even mid-writing, because it seems like my brain is usually multi-tasking stories. I'll be working on dialogue for one and a character completely unrelated to the fandom will pipe up to be heard, and I'll like it so I have to take that and run with it in a different story and completely jump into something else and rinse, lather, repeat.
Do you feel like you have to know your canon inside and out, or can you just take something interesting and run with it?
I'm... fairly well versed in most of my fandoms. A couple of them have various "canons" (Zelda in a loose ongoing canon, Final Fantasy are all different with various connecting details, Power Rangers is technically one long canon except the newest season like, retconned everything because Disney sucks so a lot of people while enjoying the season ignore its impact on the series as a whole) but for the most part, I like screwing with canon anyway ;) Provided I have a jumping off point, I'll take an idea and run with it.
What does it take, an episode? Even less?
Many of my loves die an early death *sadface* Firefly, Dollhouse... there's not much to them, even though the ideas and worlds are huge (hell, Firefly has its own RPG guides). But yeah, for me, it can be little as one episode (I began drabbling in Dollhouse after the second, even if I never posted anything).