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: 2016-02-19 05:13 am (UTC)Best of luck!
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Date: 2016-02-19 08:52 am (UTC)