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lonemagpieBeen thinking a lot about fic recently. Partly it stems from having done a panel or two at Redemption, and I got to thinking about how I actually could feel like doing a DW fic just to have written something DWish in the 50th anniversary year - since I'm not doing anything official in it.
Then I'd been reading and talking about Snowgrouse's fic through the spring.
Then we've been watching Grimm, and that show so needs Nick/Monroe slash that even I can't stop thinking about it.
Then at Nine Worlds I went to a bunch of panels cos Lesley's getting into doing some, and was really thinking all the way home, "I need to fic something, but I dunno what."
I mean, it's not like I have tons of time for free writing, you know, but... There's that urge. As Neil Gaiman put it, it's training. Which brings me to Lesley doing some- she's trying some original fic and finds that she can't quite get the characters to be sort of separate entities from her head, and that made me think about fic of existing franchises again, and that "training" element. I'd definitely advise her to try writing fic about pre-existing characters, to learn how to get the voices of these different people.
I still have the urge to do a bit myself, but I'm still not sure what. Like a lot of writers I did write fanfic as a teenager, you know, and of course for the occasional charity anthology, and the urge never quite goes away... But what will sate the urge Something for which there's no licensed fiction (e.g. Grimm, or old shows long gone)? Something for which the official tie-ins are crap (I'm looking at you, Assassins Creed)? Hm...
Then I'd been reading and talking about Snowgrouse's fic through the spring.
Then we've been watching Grimm, and that show so needs Nick/Monroe slash that even I can't stop thinking about it.
Then at Nine Worlds I went to a bunch of panels cos Lesley's getting into doing some, and was really thinking all the way home, "I need to fic something, but I dunno what."
I mean, it's not like I have tons of time for free writing, you know, but... There's that urge. As Neil Gaiman put it, it's training. Which brings me to Lesley doing some- she's trying some original fic and finds that she can't quite get the characters to be sort of separate entities from her head, and that made me think about fic of existing franchises again, and that "training" element. I'd definitely advise her to try writing fic about pre-existing characters, to learn how to get the voices of these different people.
I still have the urge to do a bit myself, but I'm still not sure what. Like a lot of writers I did write fanfic as a teenager, you know, and of course for the occasional charity anthology, and the urge never quite goes away... But what will sate the urge Something for which there's no licensed fiction (e.g. Grimm, or old shows long gone)? Something for which the official tie-ins are crap (I'm looking at you, Assassins Creed)? Hm...