Snip, snap, write.
Here is what made me write this short entry.
My NaNo story gives me sweet chills. I get a lot of ideas and scenes that I write down immediately, so I can fit them in later. I gather bits and pieces from the story, so I can put them all together later in the "real" writing process.
I wish I could work the same way when I write fanfiction. There's no difference, right? There shouldn't be one. Fanfiction or my own fiction, it's the same -- both are stories. Yet the notes I take for my stories are something that almost never work for my fanfictions. I don't know why. Sometimes a idea pops into my mind (for a fanfic, I mean) and I will write it down ... but it doesn't work for longer notes. Like, for example, I wrote a short piece from a scene of Waldläufer today, and that was easy and made me feel happy and writerly. If I did the same ... well, if there would be such things at all when I'm thinking about fanfictions! Or maybe I haven't even tried? Maybe it would work that way if I tried to make it work. Think about scenes and dialogue I'd like to write, to read, and write them down. As notes, for a real story. The only other answer is that I'm not a fanfiction writer. Or, well, not a writer who's best at fanfiction because I wouldn't say all my fanfics are bad. They just often felt odd, not like a part of me, not true. Like I wrote down something, but it isn't real. It's not true, it's not what I meant! And it wouldn't surprise me now if that's the reason I don't like most of my fanfiction. They're stories I told, yes. But I admit, I didn't tell the truth.
My NaNo story gives me sweet chills. I get a lot of ideas and scenes that I write down immediately, so I can fit them in later. I gather bits and pieces from the story, so I can put them all together later in the "real" writing process.
I wish I could work the same way when I write fanfiction. There's no difference, right? There shouldn't be one. Fanfiction or my own fiction, it's the same -- both are stories. Yet the notes I take for my stories are something that almost never work for my fanfictions. I don't know why. Sometimes a idea pops into my mind (for a fanfic, I mean) and I will write it down ... but it doesn't work for longer notes. Like, for example, I wrote a short piece from a scene of Waldläufer today, and that was easy and made me feel happy and writerly. If I did the same ... well, if there would be such things at all when I'm thinking about fanfictions! Or maybe I haven't even tried? Maybe it would work that way if I tried to make it work. Think about scenes and dialogue I'd like to write, to read, and write them down. As notes, for a real story. The only other answer is that I'm not a fanfiction writer. Or, well, not a writer who's best at fanfiction because I wouldn't say all my fanfics are bad. They just often felt odd, not like a part of me, not true. Like I wrote down something, but it isn't real. It's not true, it's not what I meant! And it wouldn't surprise me now if that's the reason I don't like most of my fanfiction. They're stories I told, yes. But I admit, I didn't tell the truth.