Discussion Post: Writing!

[scorpiod1]

So my Creative Writing homework (the one I should be doing right now *facepalm*) is to write a personal essay on something we are passionate about. I feel this may be somewhat redundant, but I'm going to do it on writing, why I write and when I started writing and such (because I feel an essay on fandom with just garner confusion *g

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O.O SORRY I ESSAY-ED AGAIN

[yourkidney]

This roleplaying stuff was how me and my friends bonded and communicated. Some of it was REALLY lame stuff that only amused us, because we basically were writing giant roleplay fic with our own OCs… There were a couple original ones, but mostly fic… (Oh man. Fullmetal Alchemist, Shaman King, Harry Potter, X-Men, Saiyuki, Fruits Basket… Name basically anything and we roleplayed it… Then we had the one about pirates and then me and my bff have the one about the incestuous brothers (and this was BEFORE SPN was part of our lives) who are part of this weird gang that we actually still play in <3 Basically my group of friends in hs was like a fandom community but in rl…) <- OH MAN sorry I was totally TL;DRing all over your face…

NO SUCH THING as thinking too big for stories. They become more and more fun to play in the more intricate they get. ALL our stories were way too big. We each had our EPIC character sets and universes, and sometimes they overlapped with each other and… (OUR STORIES that we told each other make me wonder about Harry Potter. With the whole "Dumbledore is gay" thing that came out a while ago, well, it made me really think about all the side stories and character tidbits jkr must have had plotted out in her head and shared with her friends and laughed about. B/c when you think about it, only the bare essentials are actually put into a published work… I would have loved to be in her inner circle of friends during her HP years.)

WHAT IS YOUR ORIGINAL STORYYY? (haha I really like hearing about other people's universes and headspaces and characters. <3)

I feel like the difference between us groups of people is our commitment…? I know I get REALLY attached to sets of characters and plot lines, whether mine or someone else's. I've had brief conversations about this with a roommate of mine, and while she's really into a couple of shows, it's nowhere near the level of devotion that many of us feel. So fandom is created by necessity by people who have strong fixations on certain 'verses and need an outlet for it, for the stories they create and to have people to talk to that love these stories just as much as they do, because I think this laser-focused intensity is rare in society so we have to go online to find others like us.

I should discuss this with my sister, because she's really into SPN, but not really into fandom in general. She's dabbled for different series etc. but not as much as me…