I'm now writing stuff in IY (and yes, I consider my stuff a serial...I know where in the timeline every event takes place, and how all the arcs fit together to tell a story. I'm just irritatingly onery about writing it in sequence,) my Greek myth stuff which can be considered fanfic if you like (and a longer story is going to happen in the near future), some Arthurian stuff bouncing off of Mallory, mostly. This may stay drabbles, not sure yet, and two original things, one which will almost certainly stay drabbles, and the other I have plans for long fic on, and the short pieces I'm playing with are all exploratory.
It's been kind of fun, and the interesting thing is how different the writing is, in say, my Greek pieces, and the Arthurian and the IY. I've been enjoying the heck out of the freedom to move from one universe to the other...but to be honest, my background in both the Greek myths and Arthuriana is deep and extensive, probably moreso than my InuYasha background, so it's an easy thing to do. Requires minimum research, just a few fact checks once in awhile, and I'm off to the races.
But I had started writing IY fanfic about two months into my fandom trip...I did obsess, read everything I could, watched the anime over and over, and the early tentative writing of mine gave me the exploration of the characterization I wanted. (I tend to see writing as exploration and learning about a character as much as presenting a finished product. I have learned recently this is the absolute best way for me to plow into the story universe I want to do, start writing drabbles and oneshots about the characters, and the decisions I need to make I make much better than if I try to do it in writer's notes. A case of whatever works, I suspect. But this for sure is what led me into my characterizations I use for my IY stories. I guess I have to make friends with them this way, so I can "own" my characterizations!)
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It's been kind of fun, and the interesting thing is how different the writing is, in say, my Greek pieces, and the Arthurian and the IY. I've been enjoying the heck out of the freedom to move from one universe to the other...but to be honest, my background in both the Greek myths and Arthuriana is deep and extensive, probably moreso than my InuYasha background, so it's an easy thing to do. Requires minimum research, just a few fact checks once in awhile, and I'm off to the races.
But I had started writing IY fanfic about two months into my fandom trip...I did obsess, read everything I could, watched the anime over and over, and the early tentative writing of mine gave me the exploration of the characterization I wanted. (I tend to see writing as exploration and learning about a character as much as presenting a finished product. I have learned recently this is the absolute best way for me to plow into the story universe I want to do, start writing drabbles and oneshots about the characters, and the decisions I need to make I make much better than if I try to do it in writer's notes. A case of whatever works, I suspect. But this for sure is what led me into my characterizations I use for my IY stories. I guess I have to make friends with them this way, so I can "own" my characterizations!)