30 Day fanfiction writing Meme hehhe
Ok so it has been rather more than 30 days since i posted last but such is life. I am on new medication now which makes me hyper manic in the morning and then i crash at about 4pm and just sleep for hours. It makes a change from crushing depression so I'm just going with it for now. While I'm still in the land of the living I'll try to do some actual writing!
13 - Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?
Mainly canon. Most of my fics are a way of 'improving' what was already there so they go AU anyway. I tend to read lots of fic before i write any for a fandom so the things that are fanon do sometimes slip into my stories without me realizing it. I was trying to think of any fanon details that inexorably fall into my fics, Snape as Draco's godfather is one that is so well entrenched that I still can't believe that it isn't canon!
But most fanon is just someone else's idea and I have enough of my own.
For reading though I prefer fanon- there is a reason I'm reading it after all.
I now have higher expectations when reading source material because there are some awesome fics out there.
Writing and indeed reading fanfiction is a wonderful way of broadening your mind. Everyone has a different viewpoint and different things snatch their minds and catch their attention. Everyone has a different frame of reference and that only adds to your enjoyment and appreciation of the original.
I love the hidden scenes types of fic where they add in a scene to make the canon make sense. So many original stories have plot holes and bits that jar so when someone writes in what could have happened it changes your perception of that scene. Some are so well written that you automatically then believe it to be canon.
For example there are a myriad of hidden scenes that confront the rather abrupt about face that the Doctor did in GITF, there are those that explain Dumbledore's manipulation and make sense of his hidden agenda. There are some that add to River and Mal's sudden father/daughter relationship.
As for writing it, I do then look for the pieces that jar and the pieces that don't quite fit and work out what was going on behind the scenes.
I've mentioned before (in my first ever LJ post) about the painting that was held in the Leicester museum, it was of a sea scene with the moon and cliffs and a ship sailing out of the harbour, but if you tilt your head just slightly there is an eye dancing in the heart of the moon and a smile alongside the ship. There was a painting, a portrait on the canvas before the ship scene was done because canvas's were expensive and they had to reuse them if the painting wasn't selling- its that that I adore in anything, the not quite obvious masquerading as a story.
That is my favourite part of writing, that in depth reinterpretation that makes the books that much better- it's like that look between two characters in a movie and that slight smile at a sentence. It's what's hidden that makes it all the more enticing.
13 - Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?
Mainly canon. Most of my fics are a way of 'improving' what was already there so they go AU anyway. I tend to read lots of fic before i write any for a fandom so the things that are fanon do sometimes slip into my stories without me realizing it. I was trying to think of any fanon details that inexorably fall into my fics, Snape as Draco's godfather is one that is so well entrenched that I still can't believe that it isn't canon!
But most fanon is just someone else's idea and I have enough of my own.
For reading though I prefer fanon- there is a reason I'm reading it after all.
I now have higher expectations when reading source material because there are some awesome fics out there.
Writing and indeed reading fanfiction is a wonderful way of broadening your mind. Everyone has a different viewpoint and different things snatch their minds and catch their attention. Everyone has a different frame of reference and that only adds to your enjoyment and appreciation of the original.
I love the hidden scenes types of fic where they add in a scene to make the canon make sense. So many original stories have plot holes and bits that jar so when someone writes in what could have happened it changes your perception of that scene. Some are so well written that you automatically then believe it to be canon.
For example there are a myriad of hidden scenes that confront the rather abrupt about face that the Doctor did in GITF, there are those that explain Dumbledore's manipulation and make sense of his hidden agenda. There are some that add to River and Mal's sudden father/daughter relationship.
As for writing it, I do then look for the pieces that jar and the pieces that don't quite fit and work out what was going on behind the scenes.
I've mentioned before (in my first ever LJ post) about the painting that was held in the Leicester museum, it was of a sea scene with the moon and cliffs and a ship sailing out of the harbour, but if you tilt your head just slightly there is an eye dancing in the heart of the moon and a smile alongside the ship. There was a painting, a portrait on the canvas before the ship scene was done because canvas's were expensive and they had to reuse them if the painting wasn't selling- its that that I adore in anything, the not quite obvious masquerading as a story.
That is my favourite part of writing, that in depth reinterpretation that makes the books that much better- it's like that look between two characters in a movie and that slight smile at a sentence. It's what's hidden that makes it all the more enticing.