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edenfalling10 – Pairings: have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and tried writing a pairing you liked but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like but found you could?
I am okay with reading Harry/Snape, mostly because that is one of the few ways I can find stories where they actually sit down and talk about their parallels and issues, but I cannot write it. I am not really happy writing NaruSasu without Sakura, but I did write over 20,000 words of that for a remix. And I still don't know why my subconscious latched onto the idea of Rupert Giles and Indiana Jones having sex, because seriously random pairing is seriously random, but you know, I think Locked Room Problems worked out fairly well in the end. :-D
The mini-ficlets in the crossover meme of DOOM were also rather interesting, to say the least, but that is half the fun of such things. *evil grin*
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11 – Genre: do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?
I tend to write character studies, explanations for canon plot holes, or fic that answers a "what if?" question. Sometimes the question is about romance; more often it's not, though sex and/or romance may appear as a supporting plot.
Also, I occasionally get completely ridiculous ideas that I then try to write in as realistic a fashion as possible so as to convince people they are plausible when really, on the face of it, they are anything but. That accounts for most of my crossovers. I don't think that counts as a genre, though. *wry*
I definitely prefer canons that have a fantastical element to them -- something more than everyday life in the real world -- and I carry that over to my fanfiction even though my actual stories are often very grounded in as much realism and everyday detail as I can manage. It's like... what I really want to do is write literary fiction (only please god not with the pretentiousness and the horribly boring, whiny, self-centered people and the weird obsession with style instead of storytelling) but set in a world where magic is always peeking around the edges. Maybe historical fiction with an edge of the fantastic would be a better description? Even if the historical period is "nominally here and now."
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12 – Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie, but set in a different fandom?
In the sense of, "Let's have the characters from Canon X act out the plot of Canon Y?"
Yes, once, sort of. It's a story called Sir Ron and the Green Knight, and while I did make HP characters act out a loose adaptation of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," the conceit is that Hermione is recording an oral version of the fusion story, nominally to help one of Ginny's friends with a homework assignment. (Princess no Go may arguably also count, since Cimorene and Mendanbar are clearly playing out some variation of Shindou and Touya's story, but since they are also playing out a variation of their own story -- note Mendanbar's crush and the mention of Therandil -- I am not sure it's quite the same thing. Also, 350 words is not long enough to recapitulate an entire manga. *grin*)
In the sense of, "Let's fuse these two worlds together, so that characters from Canon X now live in the world of Canon Y, with corresponding adjustments to backstory, abilities, and so on, and have them act out some variation of their original Canon X plot within the rules and setting of Canon Y?"
Yes, twice. The first one, The War of Secret Flames, is an Avatar: The Last Airbender/Enchanted Forest Chronicles fusion where the Avatar characters live around the Mountains of Morning. It exists only as a few snippets and an outline that I am determinedly not writing. The second, Weregild, is an Inception/Anita Blake fusion, where Inception characters live in the Anitaverse. It is a WIP novel.
As you can tell, all of those ideas belong to the "let's write completely ridiculous things as if they are actually plausible and realistic" genre that I fall into over and over again. *wry*
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And now I am off to read today's NFE fic!
I am okay with reading Harry/Snape, mostly because that is one of the few ways I can find stories where they actually sit down and talk about their parallels and issues, but I cannot write it. I am not really happy writing NaruSasu without Sakura, but I did write over 20,000 words of that for a remix. And I still don't know why my subconscious latched onto the idea of Rupert Giles and Indiana Jones having sex, because seriously random pairing is seriously random, but you know, I think Locked Room Problems worked out fairly well in the end. :-D
The mini-ficlets in the crossover meme of DOOM were also rather interesting, to say the least, but that is half the fun of such things. *evil grin*
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11 – Genre: do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?
I tend to write character studies, explanations for canon plot holes, or fic that answers a "what if?" question. Sometimes the question is about romance; more often it's not, though sex and/or romance may appear as a supporting plot.
Also, I occasionally get completely ridiculous ideas that I then try to write in as realistic a fashion as possible so as to convince people they are plausible when really, on the face of it, they are anything but. That accounts for most of my crossovers. I don't think that counts as a genre, though. *wry*
I definitely prefer canons that have a fantastical element to them -- something more than everyday life in the real world -- and I carry that over to my fanfiction even though my actual stories are often very grounded in as much realism and everyday detail as I can manage. It's like... what I really want to do is write literary fiction (only please god not with the pretentiousness and the horribly boring, whiny, self-centered people and the weird obsession with style instead of storytelling) but set in a world where magic is always peeking around the edges. Maybe historical fiction with an edge of the fantastic would be a better description? Even if the historical period is "nominally here and now."
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12 – Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie, but set in a different fandom?
In the sense of, "Let's have the characters from Canon X act out the plot of Canon Y?"
Yes, once, sort of. It's a story called Sir Ron and the Green Knight, and while I did make HP characters act out a loose adaptation of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," the conceit is that Hermione is recording an oral version of the fusion story, nominally to help one of Ginny's friends with a homework assignment. (Princess no Go may arguably also count, since Cimorene and Mendanbar are clearly playing out some variation of Shindou and Touya's story, but since they are also playing out a variation of their own story -- note Mendanbar's crush and the mention of Therandil -- I am not sure it's quite the same thing. Also, 350 words is not long enough to recapitulate an entire manga. *grin*)
In the sense of, "Let's fuse these two worlds together, so that characters from Canon X now live in the world of Canon Y, with corresponding adjustments to backstory, abilities, and so on, and have them act out some variation of their original Canon X plot within the rules and setting of Canon Y?"
Yes, twice. The first one, The War of Secret Flames, is an Avatar: The Last Airbender/Enchanted Forest Chronicles fusion where the Avatar characters live around the Mountains of Morning. It exists only as a few snippets and an outline that I am determinedly not writing. The second, Weregild, is an Inception/Anita Blake fusion, where Inception characters live in the Anitaverse. It is a WIP novel.
As you can tell, all of those ideas belong to the "let's write completely ridiculous things as if they are actually plausible and realistic" genre that I fall into over and over again. *wry*
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And now I am off to read today's NFE fic!
