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jecca_mehlota) wrote2014-12-12 10:17 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2014-12-12 10:17 pm
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DAY ELEVEN: a clever title
I've officially been put on the schedule for Tuesday, but I won't know what time until Monday. @_@; I am going to be such a mess by then, hahaha...ha?
ANYWAY YEAH NOT DOING WELL WITH THE TIMELY POSTING I started both this one and day 12's and I was talking to my FFXIV friends over voice chat and Iiiiiiiii fell asleep. That happens way more than I care to admit. Apparently I find my ONION fellows very soothing?
SO. CAN I PUT UP THREE ENTRIES IN ONE DAY??
I'm gonna try!
THURSDAY'S PROMPT WAS: Fan fiction vs original fiction:
NOT REALLY A CONFESSION: I LUFF THEM BOTH.
Fan fiction is awesome because it allows you/people to explore stuff that canon never goes over (or at least will probably never explore), and it's always fun to come back to characters and places you love. Well done fanfiction has changed my opinions on characters before!
'Course, you know, when you're writing it, it's kind of double-edged: sure, the characters already exist, already (hopefully) have personality and developments and such. So you don't need to do a lot of that! But also you need to be able to write them as they already are! Tricky! And the world is the same way - you don't need to do a lot of world building, because it's already been done. So you don't necessarily have a lot of flexibility there.
Meanwhile, in original fiction, you're (probably. HOPEFULLY?) going to hear a lot less about how your characters are acting out of character, because, what the hey! You've created them! But also that can be its own kind of difficult. How WOULD s/he act in this situation? How can I not know this?! aaaaaaaaugh
And you can't have fan fiction without something to base it off of in the first place! But that doesn't necessarily make original works "better" or more valid, in my opinion.
and of course then there's fan fiction that's actually official fiction but that's just getting too complicated. (Fun fact:: I've all but stopped reading Transformers fan fiction because canon is finally scratching my itch for awesome TF stories. And James Roberts was writing stories about robots how long before becoming an official one? So, I mean. And he's hardly the first, but MTMTE is gd amazing and we're taking Transformers, so he's who I mention.)
I don't think one is better or harder to do than the other, especially not since self-publishing is such a thing these days. It's a lot easier to get your original fiction out to an audience, or at least it seems like it would be? Not like I have experience there, so I can't say for sure. And, unfortunately, there's plenty of terrible stuff in both categories.
At this point in my life, I'm reading more original fiction than fan, but that's definitely been the opposite in the past. I go back and forth. Right now there's just not a lot of stuff I'm feeling the urge to read fic for but, for example, every year for the past few, starting in about mid-August, I suddenly start craving Supernatural content and end up cautiously skirting the edges of the fandom looking for things to read because ignoring it has never worked. And I'm pretty much always open to recommendations. I'm just not actively seeking it much these days.
Can we call that an entry? I'm gonna call that an entry.
ANYWAY YEAH NOT DOING WELL WITH THE TIMELY POSTING I started both this one and day 12's and I was talking to my FFXIV friends over voice chat and Iiiiiiiii fell asleep. That happens way more than I care to admit. Apparently I find my ONION fellows very soothing?
SO. CAN I PUT UP THREE ENTRIES IN ONE DAY??
I'm gonna try!
THURSDAY'S PROMPT WAS: Fan fiction vs original fiction:
NOT REALLY A CONFESSION: I LUFF THEM BOTH.
Fan fiction is awesome because it allows you/people to explore stuff that canon never goes over (or at least will probably never explore), and it's always fun to come back to characters and places you love. Well done fanfiction has changed my opinions on characters before!
'Course, you know, when you're writing it, it's kind of double-edged: sure, the characters already exist, already (hopefully) have personality and developments and such. So you don't need to do a lot of that! But also you need to be able to write them as they already are! Tricky! And the world is the same way - you don't need to do a lot of world building, because it's already been done. So you don't necessarily have a lot of flexibility there.
Meanwhile, in original fiction, you're (probably. HOPEFULLY?) going to hear a lot less about how your characters are acting out of character, because, what the hey! You've created them! But also that can be its own kind of difficult. How WOULD s/he act in this situation? How can I not know this?! aaaaaaaaugh
And you can't have fan fiction without something to base it off of in the first place! But that doesn't necessarily make original works "better" or more valid, in my opinion.
and of course then there's fan fiction that's actually official fiction but that's just getting too complicated. (Fun fact:: I've all but stopped reading Transformers fan fiction because canon is finally scratching my itch for awesome TF stories. And James Roberts was writing stories about robots how long before becoming an official one? So, I mean. And he's hardly the first, but MTMTE is gd amazing and we're taking Transformers, so he's who I mention.)
I don't think one is better or harder to do than the other, especially not since self-publishing is such a thing these days. It's a lot easier to get your original fiction out to an audience, or at least it seems like it would be? Not like I have experience there, so I can't say for sure. And, unfortunately, there's plenty of terrible stuff in both categories.
At this point in my life, I'm reading more original fiction than fan, but that's definitely been the opposite in the past. I go back and forth. Right now there's just not a lot of stuff I'm feeling the urge to read fic for but, for example, every year for the past few, starting in about mid-August, I suddenly start craving Supernatural content and end up cautiously skirting the edges of the fandom looking for things to read because ignoring it has never worked. And I'm pretty much always open to recommendations. I'm just not actively seeking it much these days.
Can we call that an entry? I'm gonna call that an entry.