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 07:24 pm (UTC)I find that I'm writing AUs full of original characters, or original fiction fullstop. I think it's the lack of new show material.
Hmm, I think I was probably not very clear when I first made this post. I didn't mean so much that I'm finding it hard to post fanfic, more that I'm finding it hard to post at all. ;)
The lack of new show material doesn't really bother me where BtVS is concerned. I didn't start writing fanfic until AtS was over anyway. In fact for me, closed canon is far better.
One of my favourite characters to write for is Illyria, hands down. And the Master/Missy. I find them a delight to write, which should probably worry me...
It doesn't really worry me, just puzzles me a bit. I'm sure if I met anyone like Darla in RL (well, not a centuries old vampire, but manipulative, greedy, cruel etc) I'd loathe her. But writing her is just fun.