I don't write 'cuz didascalia ate me
Wakisashi-girl once wrote something that made me think. :-) It was just a small off-topic reply in a post centered on a completely different issue, but it got to me.
She said that although she adores the HP universe, she doubts she'd ever write anything for that fandom. The same goes for me - I love HP world, but probably will never write anything for it. This universe is overwhelmingly big, and I'm afraid I'd never give it the justice it deserves.
When I try to think up something Potterish I end tangled in technical issues. Seems that every time I try to follow the plot, figure up characters' motivations, make them interact - the technical minutiae pop up and demand to be solved right now, detracting me from the matter at hand.
Example? I've had (and still do) an idea how to make Sirius' comeback canonically correct without wiping off the majority of books no 6 and 7. Noble quest, that, isn't it? Incidentally (my foot...) this idea also included my favourite HP pairing, i.e. Snack.
Everything should have started with Albus requesting Snape to construct a magical portrait of Sirius, in hope of obtaining some information about the locket and horcruxes.
A normal author would skip over the preparations, give the readers two or three paragraphs of pseudo-technobabble and then focus on characters' interactions.
I, on the other hand, kept on hammering the details of these preparations - that there's some truth in the belief in photos stealing a bit of man's soul, that with a careful extraction and compilation said copies and impressions taken from many photos can work as a patchwork, which in turn can be applied to the canvas in order to create a faithful living portrait... and so on and on.
I caught myself checking up the Wikipedia, to confirm the differences between Antarctic and Greenlandish blue ice and then checking up my university textbooks for memory storage theories - and please, don't even ask me why I needed this. I'll start and won't stop. The same goes for every HP plotbunny I happen upon - transfiguration (Are magical substances transfigurable? Do their inherent magical properties change? How? Is it possible to create potions/wands using transfigurated ingredients?), love magic (won't even start on that), Deathly Hallows, horcruxes, metamorphmagic etc. etc.
I've just wanted some hot Snack action, dammit! With a healthy dose of danger and angst and whatnot. But nooo. It would require an actual writing and it's easier to delve into technicalities. Seems that technicalities are in fact more my turn-on than a slashy hotness.
Isn't it disturbing?
Must be the laziness, I guess. As long as I keep on molesting all those details I don't have to, y'know, actually WRITE anything.
Sigh. Makes sense.
She said that although she adores the HP universe, she doubts she'd ever write anything for that fandom. The same goes for me - I love HP world, but probably will never write anything for it. This universe is overwhelmingly big, and I'm afraid I'd never give it the justice it deserves.
When I try to think up something Potterish I end tangled in technical issues. Seems that every time I try to follow the plot, figure up characters' motivations, make them interact - the technical minutiae pop up and demand to be solved right now, detracting me from the matter at hand.
Example? I've had (and still do) an idea how to make Sirius' comeback canonically correct without wiping off the majority of books no 6 and 7. Noble quest, that, isn't it? Incidentally (my foot...) this idea also included my favourite HP pairing, i.e. Snack.
Everything should have started with Albus requesting Snape to construct a magical portrait of Sirius, in hope of obtaining some information about the locket and horcruxes.
A normal author would skip over the preparations, give the readers two or three paragraphs of pseudo-technobabble and then focus on characters' interactions.
I, on the other hand, kept on hammering the details of these preparations - that there's some truth in the belief in photos stealing a bit of man's soul, that with a careful extraction and compilation said copies and impressions taken from many photos can work as a patchwork, which in turn can be applied to the canvas in order to create a faithful living portrait... and so on and on.
I caught myself checking up the Wikipedia, to confirm the differences between Antarctic and Greenlandish blue ice and then checking up my university textbooks for memory storage theories - and please, don't even ask me why I needed this. I'll start and won't stop. The same goes for every HP plotbunny I happen upon - transfiguration (Are magical substances transfigurable? Do their inherent magical properties change? How? Is it possible to create potions/wands using transfigurated ingredients?), love magic (won't even start on that), Deathly Hallows, horcruxes, metamorphmagic etc. etc.
I've just wanted some hot Snack action, dammit! With a healthy dose of danger and angst and whatnot. But nooo. It would require an actual writing and it's easier to delve into technicalities. Seems that technicalities are in fact more my turn-on than a slashy hotness.
Isn't it disturbing?
Must be the laziness, I guess. As long as I keep on molesting all those details I don't have to, y'know, actually WRITE anything.
Sigh. Makes sense.