Roundtable #3: The Non-Traditional H/C Case!Fic (& microfiction workshop)
Our third themed roundtable discussion! :) As part of our on-going themed challenge this month, which highlights case!works, let's talk shop. It's time to take the plunge and get our hands dirty. Are you ready to workshop? :D
Here we go:
We all know what H/C is. We all know what a case!fic is. But is there more than one way to put the two together? What are the fringes of these categories, and that if your H/C case!fic took up its noble duties there? That is, how ~weird can your case!fic get? XP
I think sometimes we balk (at least, I do!) at the idea of case!fic because it seems to entail this extensive, long, extremely plot-driven story that involves like, planning and research and writing a lot. And often, they do! Often, case!fic tends to be Big Bang long, and does involve a little more writerly rigor than banging out an (also awesome) 300k fic about Dean with a fever. But if the long case!fic odyssey isn't your jam, that totally doesn't preclude you from the fun and games! With the right amount of focus and a dash of heavy implication, you could probably write an H/C fic in a single sentence.
Think about Ernest Hemingway's now famous six-word story: "For sale: Baby shoes, never worn." If I were going to tag this story on an H/C comm dedicated to Random Hemingway Babies instead of Dean, just those six words could potentially be tagged with grief, death, ptsd, emotional damage…
Hell, if I add a few more words ("Serious buyers only; won't ship outside quarantine.") then we could probably argue that this little fic is also [genre» other: croatoan ‘verse] or [genre» other: dark/horror], exposure, infection, transformation, and heaven knows what else!
...This poor baby! It didn't even have shoes on! Now it's possibly a zombie and wreaking horror at Camp Chitaqua! But I couldn't help myself; it was so easy. And also evil. Easy evil. :P
Since we're now headed into Case!Works month proper, with 25 days left on the clock, I thought it'd be nice to get those creative juices flowing in earnest. Let's freestyle today and make this post a space for a little bit of everything:
Make this post your playground! Low pressure, rough draft status, 'I wrote/drew this in 30 seconds okay' stuff totally 100% welcomed and adored.
(And for every piece you share, you might even get something short and sweet in return~ :3)
➽ This post was compiled by kalliel and is posted under this account for organizational purposes.
Here we go:
We all know what H/C is. We all know what a case!fic is. But is there more than one way to put the two together? What are the fringes of these categories, and that if your H/C case!fic took up its noble duties there? That is, how ~weird can your case!fic get? XP
I think sometimes we balk (at least, I do!) at the idea of case!fic because it seems to entail this extensive, long, extremely plot-driven story that involves like, planning and research and writing a lot. And often, they do! Often, case!fic tends to be Big Bang long, and does involve a little more writerly rigor than banging out an (also awesome) 300k fic about Dean with a fever. But if the long case!fic odyssey isn't your jam, that totally doesn't preclude you from the fun and games! With the right amount of focus and a dash of heavy implication, you could probably write an H/C fic in a single sentence.
Think about Ernest Hemingway's now famous six-word story: "For sale: Baby shoes, never worn." If I were going to tag this story on an H/C comm dedicated to Random Hemingway Babies instead of Dean, just those six words could potentially be tagged with grief, death, ptsd, emotional damage…
Hell, if I add a few more words ("Serious buyers only; won't ship outside quarantine.") then we could probably argue that this little fic is also [genre» other: croatoan ‘verse] or [genre» other: dark/horror], exposure, infection, transformation, and heaven knows what else!
...This poor baby! It didn't even have shoes on! Now it's possibly a zombie and wreaking horror at Camp Chitaqua! But I couldn't help myself; it was so easy. And also evil. Easy evil. :P
Since we're now headed into Case!Works month proper, with 25 days left on the clock, I thought it'd be nice to get those creative juices flowing in earnest. Let's freestyle today and make this post a space for a little bit of everything:
- Can you think of any 'non-traditional' case!works you've read, seen, or created? Something that was very much a case, and very much H/C, but doesn't really follow the usual episodic format we typically associate with case!fics?
- Favorite short H/C case!fics? 1500 words? 500 words? 100 words?
- Or, alternately, case!art scribbles? 30 second vids? Something else entirely?
- Or maybe there aren't examples out there yet. Definitely feel free to discuss the vast world of hypothetical H/C.
- Orrrrrr… are you ready to write/draw some right now? :P Wanna write a case!fic in a drabble, or draw one in a doodle?
Make this post your playground! Low pressure, rough draft status, 'I wrote/drew this in 30 seconds okay' stuff totally 100% welcomed and adored.
(And for every piece you share, you might even get something short and sweet in return~ :3)
➽ This post was compiled by kalliel and is posted under this account for organizational purposes.