Comments | lettered: Let's talk about defining fics you've written.

lettered

Let's talk about defining fics you've written.

Dec 13, 2006 13:14

DAY TWO OF RANDOM METAPALOOZA.

Do you ever feel like you need to write a fic before you can write a fic? ( I've heard a lot of people say as much and I'm curious about the phenomenon. )

questions: fic, discussion: fic

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rahirah December 13 2006, 19:56:52 UTC

OK, but? I almost always write in one single fic-verse. (I say almost always because I do have a few standalone non-Barbverse drabbles and short stories in BtVS fic, and back when I was writing EQ fic, I had two or three different clubs I wrote for, and all of them were set in the same background universe, due to the nature of EQ fandom, each club had completely different sets of characters and tribal histories ( ... )

lettered December 13 2006, 20:52:49 UTC

Well, yeah. I did mean to get across that an initial story you do, in which 'verse most of the other fics you do take place, is a different thing entirely than one you write that feels as though you're now allowed to write other fics that deal with that ship or that setting. I mean, it seems to me the whole reason you would have a 'verse in which to write fic is that it's far enough from canon that you feel in needs to exist inside an altered space.

redbrickrose December 13 2006, 21:44:56 UTC

I don't know that I have a justification fic per se. I tend to write different takes on post-NFA and these, by nature, tend to not only not be in the same fic-verse, but to be in mutually exclusive fic-verses. Not all of my fics are post-NFA, but the others are, in my head, equally unconnected to each other ( ... )

redbrickrose December 13 2006, 21:46:27 UTC

Sorry about all the typos in that comment. It's been a long day.

kita0610 December 13 2006, 23:09:31 UTC

Your posts are always so interesting.

I don't think I write this way, though. I have an internal canon, definitely, but it's based on what I've extrapolated from actual canon (not to say mine is the One True Definition, just that it's, well, MY OTD). So, I don't write to put characters in a place where I want them, I try to write characters in a place where, I believe, based on canon, they could actually be.

In any of my stories, the background truths usually include Spike and Angel have had/are having a sexual relationship of any sort, usually very fucked up, Angel will always love Buffy, and Angel is Not a Nice Man. I didn't write fic to get there, I wrote fic because I believed the show was already there, they just couldn't show me the money around it, for many reasons.

There are exceptions in the stuff I've written, I'm sure. My older stuff might not adhere to the same internal canon (or any real rules of grammar, either). And RPS is a whole nother kettle of fish. But in general, I think this is true for me.

lostakasha December 13 2006, 23:34:19 UTC

I didn't write fic to get there, I wrote fic because I believed the show was already there, they just couldn't show me the money around it, for many reasons.

Thank you for sparing me the task of writing that in 5,000 words.

Joy: What she said.

lynnenne December 14 2006, 03:20:09 UTC

I have an internal canon, definitely, but it's based on what I've extrapolated from actual canon (not to say mine is the One True Definition, just that it's, well, MY OTD). So, I don't write to put characters in a place where I want them, I try to write characters in a place where, I believe, based on canon, they could actually be.

I do this, too. I think in my Insect!Verse, I've carried the characters pretty far downstream from where they were at the end of "Not Fade Away." But in my head, everything that happened in both those stories *could* have happened, using NFA as a jumping off point. Except maybe for the Angel/Connor sex. But even that, I sometimes wonder. *g*

kita0610 December 14 2006, 05:23:28 UTC

Angel/Connor OTP 4eva eleventy!

Uh. I mean. Bad. Very very bad.

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my_daroga December 14 2006, 00:06:23 UTC

I am still struggling with all of this, as I feel I don't have a "universe" for my POTO fic. They are just scattered vignettes. So now, as I am trying to write some Persian/Christine (impossible) for a Christmas present, I am wondering: which characters am I writing? Do I start from "the beginning"? Or do I take what I've written and develop those characters in a new situation? I don't have the answers you seek, because I don't think I've gotten that far yet.