WIP check in: day 8

[lullabymoon]

Poll #11378

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How did your writing go today?

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great
0 (0.0%)

all right
3 (33.3%)

average
2 (22.2%)

meh
4 (44.4%)

don't want to talk about it
0 (0.0%)

Today I...

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wrote
7 (77.8%)

edited
1 (11.1%)

researched
1 (11.1%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

will explain in comments
2 (22.2%)

Today's discussion topic: How do you feel about AU's?

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[gramarye1971]

I'm taking a slight break from writing, having just finished a fic for parallelsfic, and looking over my WIPs to see if anything's inspiring me. So far, nothing yet. ;_; Perhaps next week.

On the subject of AUs...I'm not a big fan of the complete AU, where everyone's a barista or whatever. They just don't interest me at all -- divorced from their canon existence, the characters are much harder for me to like or care about. I'm a little less thumbs-down about canon-based AUs, whether of a Mirror Mirror-verse (evil goatees for everyone!) or genderswapped-verse, because if they're well written they provide an interesting commentary on the original canon. But I prefer AUs where the effects of one or two small changes are played out, again for the same reason as the general canon-based AUs but also because I like the characters to be more recognisably themselves.

[insignia]

I want you to know that I briefly read "barista" as "ballista", and imagined a very strange fanfic indeed.

[ladygriddlebone]

I wrote a tiny bit today. I'm hoping to write enough to at least meet my goal for the day, even if I can't catch up for missing the past few days.

As for AUs... for me it depends on the story and the fandom, and whether or not I'm the person writing it. I'm a lot more forgiving of things I didn't write myself! I tend to like side characters, so I'm more inclined to read completely AU stories if they actually focus on those characters. When it comes to writing AUs, I have some fandoms where I'll only deviate slightly from canon and others where I'll do whatever I want, no matter how cracky or removed from the canon.

[snowynight]

I wrote 2000 words to day.

As a writer, my current main fandom is Marvel comics, which the canon has been explored a lot in fic, I like the characters a lot and the canon is full of crack anyway, so I feel free to write cracky AU. (I'm known to write werewolf/mermaid space AU) But for my tiny fandoms, I prefer to write canon-based fic because nothing are written for them.
As a reader, I don't like the everyone-is-a-barista AU, because I read superhero for the super. I'll be only interested when either they capture the cracky spirit, or explore the what-if.

[barbayat]

Haven't actually written anything, I am currently still busy analysing the canon character I write. So I guess that would fall unter researching :D

I've rarely read an AU story that I liked. I think if you change the universe (like scifi-character to highschool teenies) they can't be really the same characters and thus I don't care about it that much.

What I do love however are ARs. It is the most wonderful way to go if you don't like a turn a fandom took (like your favourite character died or something really stupid happened). Or of course just if you wonder what if the charact did get a certain piece of information or did not overhear a conversation - what would have happened then.

[insignia]

Lately I keep going to bed before the check-in posts are up! But I'm doing reasonably well. I signed up for cottoncandy_bingo, and my prompts make me happy X-D

As for AUs, I love them (if the author makes an effort to keep the characters recognisable). I think it's a lot of fun to put established characters in a different setting/situation and see how to make it work, and how many canon references can be fit in despite all the differences. In fact, most of my main WIPs are AUs of various kinds :D A carefully made AU fills me with glee. If it's just an excuse to ignore canon personalities... well, that just makes it badly done; it's not the AU's fault.

A lot of people seem to hate AUs, but I'll defend them fervently forever.

[glitteryv]

Wrote a little, edited a lot. Or, you know, typical day was typical. /o\!

As far as I'm concerned, AUs are WIN and love. Canon fics are great. However, I tend to get very starry-eyed when I find fics where everyone's a college professor or where characters get switched around (example: the good cop being the criminal.) A lot of my ♥ for AUs comes from the idea of exploring the "what if" scenario, seeing how characters I feel I know behave in a strange/quirky situation. OTOH, I also think AUs are really fun as well as a good introduction to a fandom where, if the story's a well-written one, someone unfamiliar with the canon can enjoy a great fic too.

Most of what I write is AU. :)

[the_rck]

I like fork in the road AUs and AUs in which some detail of canon backstory is different. I don't generally enjoy transplant AUs, the sort where everybody's a rock star or in high school or otherwise in an entirely different setting.