well, the flow is sort of ambiguous, and wanting to be paid to write isn't selling out. It's how I make my living after all. :)
The inbuilt emotional context and character history are great elements to use in fanfic. I'm having so much fun using established contexts to explore relationships and ideas, and sometimes concepts I haven't done before. I loved writing the Mary, Not Contrary literal genderswap story, because I wanted to see if I could write John convincingly as a woman, and I was pretty happy with the result. Writing the music fics I'm playing with is an opportunity to try to write in a way that reflects musicality and relationships. Not entirely sure how well I'm achieving that, but it's a great writing exercise anyway.
It's fun creating your own characters and worlds too, of course, but it takes 250 pages (or sometimes three books) before you can achieve the effect you got in those last two sentences.
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Date: 2012-06-10 02:48 pm (UTC)The inbuilt emotional context and character history are great elements to use in fanfic. I'm having so much fun using established contexts to explore relationships and ideas, and sometimes concepts I haven't done before. I loved writing the Mary, Not Contrary literal genderswap story, because I wanted to see if I could write John convincingly as a woman, and I was pretty happy with the result. Writing the music fics I'm playing with is an opportunity to try to write in a way that reflects musicality and relationships. Not entirely sure how well I'm achieving that, but it's a great writing exercise anyway.
It's fun creating your own characters and worlds too, of course, but it takes 250 pages (or sometimes three books) before you can achieve the effect you got in those last two sentences.