Offshoot fandoms
Want to know one of the things I like most about writing in new fandoms?1 It's easy to keep track of canon.2 Four episodes into a tv show, there are no huge arcs and mind-boggling timeline and endless lists of secondary characters to keep a track of. When you're writing multiple fandoms, and you have a memory as slippery as mine, that's a huge
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I write in both, and I'm not sure which I prefer. Obviously, if the canon is open, and you're writing something episode related, you're running the risk of having to write really quickly and posting before it gets jossed! Which can be a bit much at times. But I rather like playing with the unknown, and it'd be so much fun if anything I wrote ever happened on the show! It's yet to happen, but I live in hope. *g*
If the background of a previous show has shaped a character, I need to see how, so I need to know it.
If it's impacted on the character, yes. And I suppose even understanding things like the origin of a military programme, or being familiar with the scientists who've worked on the stargate does have some sort of impact at least on McKay and Sheppard and the rest of the earth contingency on Atlantis. I guess it's hard to draw a line and say that everything on this side of the line has had character impact, and everything on the other side hasn't - no two people are going to position the line in exactly the same place. But I prefer to veer on the safe side - I don't like to be flout canon, and I enjoy using little details I've gleaned from canon, possibly because I love spotting them in other people's writing.
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