WIP check in - Thursday 26th January

[lullabymoon]

How is everyone feeling today? 

Poll #9247 Thurdsy check in

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Today I

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wrote
8 (61.5%)

edited
1 (7.7%)

posted
2 (15.4%)

researched
1 (7.7%)

did something else
3 (23.1%)

Today's discussion again come from fanfic flamingo:

[READ ALTERNATE INTERPRETATION OF EPISODE YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED YET (Fanfic Flamningo) WATCH EPISODE: THIS DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE!]

Not just the odd episode, but do you ever find that you get confused if you've not read/watched/listened to canon for a while after reading a lot of fic?

Comments

[psyco_chick32]

I'm including editing and posting because I'm supposed to put up a chapter of a fic I'm co-writing today.
Supposed to, because we had a massive blow-up over the chapter (well, a scene in the chapter that changed how I see the ending of the fic)...
If we were near each other physically, I'd stab him lots.
/violent

As for Mr. Flamingo,
REPLACE EPISODE WITH SEASON, PLZ.
How can I LOVE a character in a majority of fic, and then hate him in canon?

[snowynight]

Oh. This kind of blow-up is bad. Offers tea

[psyco_chick32]

I'm learning that maybe co-writing was a bad idea. I guess it's my fault for roping him into it, but he ended up adding this whooole subplot that was pretty good... until he decided that "Now it's over, and it'll be like nothing ever happened! :D :D Consequences? Effects? What's that?"

*headwall*

Mmmmmm, thank you *sips*

[snowynight]

I try not be influenced by fic when reading canon, but it's hard.

My fic reaches 5.3K nicely, and of course I' inspired to completely rewrite a large part of the fic. I'm still pondering.

I'm also thinking about a paranormal cop AU sequel set after my fic in progress. Is anyone interested in helping brainstorming this with me? Fandom knowledge is unnecessary. I'll be grateful to anyone who ay offer.

[crowdog66]

Wrote and posted today -- a very short piece (147 words) called "Hangover", but hey, it's something!

Re: today's Fanfic Flamingo... I don't find this much of a problem, actually. For some reason I have no problem keeping fanon and canon separate and taking in canon on its own terms, even if I've been away from it for a while.

[linaewen]

I have been painstakingly translating a non-English subbed OVA that has a lot to do with one of my WIPs, and I have learned a few things that I didn't know previously. Now I have to decide if I'm going to change what I already wrote based on what I have learned, or will I leave well enough alone? I guess that counts as research!

I remember once following someone's fic without being familiar with the canon behind it -- and when I finally saw the canon episodes, I realized I much preferred the fic writer's portrayal of one of the characters as opposed to canon!

I sometimes find myself forgetting that my own favorite character who features in many of my WIPs and other fic is actually dead in canon, so it is a cold dash of reality when I get back into canon. ;-)

[annotated_em]

I came to my first major canon fic-first and was very surprised when there were no safe-houses in the actual Gundam Wing canon, or missions where all five pilots were working together, and that Relena wasn't a crazed evil psycho wench. Talk about cognitive dissonance.

On the other hand, there are clearly times when the flamingo is right: the fic makes far more sense than the canon.

[juliet316]

This has happened to me a few times. (especially during Torchwood: Children of Earth and Doctor Who S5) It's especially annoying when people don't mark for spoilers anywhere near the story header/summary and you find out while reading the fic. It's why I tend to avoid most fic when an ongoing canon is going on and I haven't seen it yet.

ETA (because I'm still a touch sleep deprived): Meant to write last night, but was sore and exhausted after martial arts. Will try to write something today.

[insignia]

I've written a few hundred words on my two main fics, as well as an original novel I'm trying to gently pummel into shape. I also pasted in and edited some passages from older drafts, so I'm vaguely productive today.

[lacygrey]

The week has been well nigh disatrous so far for both fic and work-related writing.

I havn't had the experience in the discussion, though sometimes I'm tempted to read fic on fandoms I know nothing about, so I guess it might happen soon.

Ive found a new toy. Its a very simple 'bot plot generator for songwriters. I can see how the idea could work for ficlets too though.

The Plot Spline

[insignia]

Thanks for the link! That might be useful.

[ty_writes]

Started an outline and OC List for a possible big bang story.

As for the flamingo, that has happened to me a few times, especially in animanga fandoms. Anime goes one way, manga goes another and there I am confused at how Greed=Ling and Roy doesn't have an eyepatch or why Shion isn't as sociopathic as he should be given that someone has hurt his Nezumi.

I admit that fic does influence me. I have a tendency to go long periods of time not watching a program then go on a binge (ex. me and my kids for that past 2 weeks watched 120 episodes of One Piece, to get caught up, before that we watched 2 seasons of Merlin) but I continue to dabble in fandom, and read new stories that pop up. And then when I do watch the show, I'm like, it was better when Merlin was the son of some elvin king as oppose to a hemit living in a cave.

[pinstripefedora]

I totally dropped off the face of the Earth there for a few weeks. Sorry about that. I had a family emergency, among other things. But now things have calmed down to a degree where I feel like I can finally get some writing done again, and I'm slowly working my way back into the swing of things. I got about 150 words down today, which is a good start considering it was for a part of my fic that has been blocking me for the better part of the month.

As far as the flamingo goes, I don't usually have a problem with that. My brain seems to compartmentalize everything so that the various interpretations of canon are all in neatly labelled little boxes; i.e., "canon," "fanon," "personal headcanon," "fresh new take," "what is this I don't even." Although I do like to regularly refresh myself on whichever canon I happen to be writing for at the moment because I'm paranoid about getting something egregiously wrong. (My current fandom actually drove me to create an honorific chart so that I wouldn't have to constantly flip through every volume of the manga to look for the one scene where character #35 interacted with character #62 and whether they used "-san" or "-kun." It was time consuming, but totally worth it for a series with a cast that big.)