I loved writing in Supernatural, and I think that's the fandom that really made me be a better writer. But I don't have ideas for it anymore, and now that I'm happily ensconced in a new fandom, I can say that there's really nothing like it - that perfect time when what you want to write and what you can write keep overlapping and poking you in interesting ways. Too bad it's like chemistry, and can't be faked or manufactured.
I don't think it's a problem to be monogamous to a fandom, but I did that pretty much with Supernatural and I am very close to it with Sherlock - so I use other people's birthdays/requests/prompts as a way to write things in fandoms where I don't have a stake in things but still find the characters interesting (White Collar, Castle, etc.) Maybe try that and just dash off some tiny little ficlets, while you wait for your next One True Fandom?
I loved writing in it too! I was just reminded of how amazing season 2 was for episode codas. I think I wrote a coda for, like, half the episodes! In addition to working on casefiles and stuff.
that perfect time when what you want to write and what you can write keep overlapping and poking you in interesting ways. Too bad it's like chemistry, and can't be faked or manufactured.
Exactly!
I've been enjoying what I've been writing lately, but it doesn't have that same electric quality, where it feels like it's just all spilling out and will never stop.
Maybe try that and just dash off some tiny little ficlets, while you wait for your next One True Fandom?That was the plan for halfamoon! But it didn't happen. Everything is difficult and complicated! Writing is hard! In ways it didn't used to be, or, at least, I don't remember it being for this long a period of time
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I don't think it's a problem to be monogamous to a fandom, but I did that pretty much with Supernatural and I am very close to it with Sherlock - so I use other people's birthdays/requests/prompts as a way to write things in fandoms where I don't have a stake in things but still find the characters interesting (White Collar, Castle, etc.) Maybe try that and just dash off some tiny little ficlets, while you wait for your next One True Fandom?
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that perfect time when what you want to write and what you can write keep overlapping and poking you in interesting ways. Too bad it's like chemistry, and can't be faked or manufactured.
Exactly!
I've been enjoying what I've been writing lately, but it doesn't have that same electric quality, where it feels like it's just all spilling out and will never stop.
Maybe try that and just dash off some tiny little ficlets, while you wait for your next One True Fandom?That was the plan for halfamoon! But it didn't happen. Everything is difficult and complicated! Writing is hard! In ways it didn't used to be, or, at least, I don't remember it being for this long a period of time ( ... )
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