Fic Writing Whinge
Feb. 11th, 2016 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightHaven't done one of these writing whinges posts for a while. Haven't posted anything, in fact. I don't know why it's so much harder these days. Anyone else finding that?
Anyway, brief stuff about fic writing behind cut.
I always think I've run out of ideas for fanfic, but then something else comes along - or in this case, comes back again. I've spent the last couple of weeks writing a story that I'd written the first couple of pages of years ago but never got any further with. Not sure why I started it in the first place, to be honest, and even less sure why I suddenly felt inspired to write it.
It's a Darla fic, and that's another thing I'm never sure of - why I like this ghastly woman so much. Because she is, isn't she? Ghastly, I mean. Manipulative, greedy, cruel, etc, etc.
But I just like her. I ju-ust do. I come back to her over and over. So here I am writing her again, and what's more the story is rather dark, which I have written a lot before, of course, but also femslash, which I haven't, and which I'm quite nervous about. Probably done it all wrong. Probably shouldn't post it at all. In fact, should I?
That's far more of a vexed question these days than it used to be (or so it seems to me, I could well be wrong, my fandom experience is pretty much limited to Livejournal, Dreamwidth and a couple of Buffy fan forums these days, and Fandom, as we know, has moved on from those places).
Thoughts, anyone?
Mind you, the question is moot no matter what if I can't make the story fit to post in the first place.
Anyway, brief stuff about fic writing behind cut.
I always think I've run out of ideas for fanfic, but then something else comes along - or in this case, comes back again. I've spent the last couple of weeks writing a story that I'd written the first couple of pages of years ago but never got any further with. Not sure why I started it in the first place, to be honest, and even less sure why I suddenly felt inspired to write it.
It's a Darla fic, and that's another thing I'm never sure of - why I like this ghastly woman so much. Because she is, isn't she? Ghastly, I mean. Manipulative, greedy, cruel, etc, etc.
But I just like her. I ju-ust do. I come back to her over and over. So here I am writing her again, and what's more the story is rather dark, which I have written a lot before, of course, but also femslash, which I haven't, and which I'm quite nervous about. Probably done it all wrong. Probably shouldn't post it at all. In fact, should I?
That's far more of a vexed question these days than it used to be (or so it seems to me, I could well be wrong, my fandom experience is pretty much limited to Livejournal, Dreamwidth and a couple of Buffy fan forums these days, and Fandom, as we know, has moved on from those places).
Thoughts, anyone?
Mind you, the question is moot no matter what if I can't make the story fit to post in the first place.
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Date: 2016-02-11 06:29 pm (UTC)I don't see how that's any different to the vast swathes of fandom that adore Angelus, (soulless) Spike, Killgrave (from Jessica Jones), Hannibal Lecter, and all manner of villainous male characters. You can explore things that another character mightn't allow you to, and no harm done.
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Date: 2016-02-11 07:19 pm (UTC)