Fanfiction: On Writing Styles and Professional Influence, With Apologes to the Teal Deer

[lassarina]

...In this case, by "professional" I mean "Three years of college wankery that I didn't have to try at to get A's." But it's so much shorter the other way about.

So mithrigil has this really fascinating post about how she writes fanfic like the coloratura soprano that she is. I read it, and read a response to it on IJ (link for that one is right here,

Comments

[first_seventhe]

#1 -- I've seen it in my own writing, too - the way I'm more interested in worldbuilding, magical "meta" - how does the magic work? what rules bind it? are there rules? what forces can make this and that work? could I do this? how would that work? how would I justify it? because, yes, I'm an engineer (in more than occupation). I like to fit things together and to take them apart at the same time. I like to figure out what drives the things that happen in the story - Rinoa's magic, Espers, Land of Summons, whatever it is - what's behind it? What's the magic and how does it shape the world, really? What actually happened when Cecil became a Paladin?

It also, I thinks, explains why most "romantic", pairing-centric fics can sometimes leave me empty even if well-written and interesting... I'm in fantasy for the fantastic aspect of it, mostly, and while fandom is all about the porn and I am all for that I also like dealing with the more fantastic, supernatural aspects of these worlds because they are unusualAlso, regarding your history

[lassarina]

*licks you*

Man, Lost Odyssey is like FF8. It's giving me all kinds of brain-crack as to metaing about magic and immortality and how it works and what it means and oh my God I am never going to STOP obsessing.