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[genarti]

Dipping my toe into the waters of actually using this journal again, as I keep intending to do, and how better than with a meme?

Comment with the title of one of my fics and a number (or more than one of either) and I'll witter egomanically about

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[genarti]

Hmm, good question! And not one I'd thought about, so this is me thinking aloud.

A big part of it was that at the time I wrote those, I was mostly writing drabbles anyway, because I was easing back into writing stories and still sort of figuring out how to plot and how to conceptualize stories at a manageable size. And another part is that I was hanging out internettishly with a couple of friends who had very strong Narnia opinions, which meant that Narnia was on my mind (especially since the movies were new then too) but also meant that I didn't feel a strong drive to write major Narnia Manifesto kinds of fics.

What usually motivates me to write a fic is either a) contrariness against fandom trends I disagree with, or b) figuring out my take on some canonical issue that took a lot of pondering, and doing my meta on it in fic form, or c) writing it as a present to someone. Narnia fandom is big enough, and I was peripheral enough to it, that it felt to me like there were plenty of voices already writing lots of approaches to things. My one long Narnia fic, "Between," was both a present for a fic exchange and my Susan Pevensie Manifesto. Narnia's a canon I'd always happily return to, if I had a request, but I don't currently have any nagging unanswered questions or things I keep noticing people Doing Wrong (IMO, YMMV, etc.)