thirty days of fanfic, days thirteen and fourteen
(list of questions can be found at day one)
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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?
I don't really understand this question. We all start from canon in a way, and of course being in a fandom we pull from the ideas of the people around us, and there are often little asides and in jokes. So I guess I pull from both.
I don't really like being one of the first people writing about a pairing. It's happened on very rare occasions, HIMYM Robin/Barney being the most obvious example. But that was in the relatively safe and supported environment of Yuletide, where everyone is just happy to have a story, rather than having very rigid canon ideas of how something should go.
(Canon whores terrify me, basically. If I listen to them too much I will never write anything because I get worried that I will never be able to meet their canon standards. Though that's probably true for me about most other people's standards. Rigidity always makes me anxious.)
14 - Ratings - how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?
Obviously I'm comfortable writing NC-17, and some of it is relatively kinky. (Especially the het, because I think het writers don't write a lot of kink, which I think is really too bad.) Sometimes I'm surprised that I only need to go up to a hard R to get the effect I want.
I was surprised this year to write my first truly gen fics, that didn't even reference a background or off-screen ship. But again, I don't really discover that much of the story as I'm writing it, because I roll it around in my head so much before I get started. By the time I'm writing I'm not going to do that much that will surprise me.
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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?
I don't really understand this question. We all start from canon in a way, and of course being in a fandom we pull from the ideas of the people around us, and there are often little asides and in jokes. So I guess I pull from both.
I don't really like being one of the first people writing about a pairing. It's happened on very rare occasions, HIMYM Robin/Barney being the most obvious example. But that was in the relatively safe and supported environment of Yuletide, where everyone is just happy to have a story, rather than having very rigid canon ideas of how something should go.
(Canon whores terrify me, basically. If I listen to them too much I will never write anything because I get worried that I will never be able to meet their canon standards. Though that's probably true for me about most other people's standards. Rigidity always makes me anxious.)
14 - Ratings - how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?
Obviously I'm comfortable writing NC-17, and some of it is relatively kinky. (Especially the het, because I think het writers don't write a lot of kink, which I think is really too bad.) Sometimes I'm surprised that I only need to go up to a hard R to get the effect I want.
I was surprised this year to write my first truly gen fics, that didn't even reference a background or off-screen ship. But again, I don't really discover that much of the story as I'm writing it, because I roll it around in my head so much before I get started. By the time I'm writing I'm not going to do that much that will surprise me.
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