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theresa_ramseyerGood morning All :)
Cleaning out my DW inbox, and reread the entry 4 weeks ago about fixing a favorite characters death in canon through fanfic. That hasn't happened in any of my usual fandoms canon.
But, unless you're writing completely in one AU where the character doesn't die, how do you keep track of which is which?
For example, my most written fandom is a show called the Equalizer from the mid-late 1980s. I've added a couple of main original characters, and some minor. None of the main characters have ever died in canon, though I now sense some little plot bunnies twitching their noses at medium/minor canon character deaths.
So that's the main canon/AU that I write in. My Nanowrimo novel is a fantasy AU for this show, and I'm liking it enough to probably keep on with it. There are other versions I'd like to play with at least once or twice.
But how to label is what's throwing me a bit. Technically, I write a slightly AU, I know, but that is my canon. The Nanowrimo AU I can easily label for a reader, but adding new AU's off of either of those - that's where it could get complicated if I don't figure something out. I figure many readers will be unfamiliar with the details of 20+ year old fandoms, especially since only the Equalizer has official DVDs out, and that just the first season. (Plus, supposedly the EQ movie is still going to be made, and it sounds like it will be much of its own AU canon altogether....)
Would just a summary of the AU canon in the comments before the story work? That would be easiest. Or should I label the universes somehow? EQ, for example, being the canon canon and my AU canon for the Equalizer, then EQ2 being the stories written in my fantasy/Nanowrimo AU, and so on?
Thanks
Theresa
PS:linaewen I really like your LOTR AU canon, and am recommending it to one of my friends, another Sean Bean fan. I also read an interesting AU with the current Hawaii Five-O cast as mainly book/classical music store owner and employees and friends, but am not sure where. Both stories reminded me that I hadn't posted the reply I had wanted to post. Now I have time, and figured I'd waited long enough that it should be a post in itself! :). Have a good day.
Cleaning out my DW inbox, and reread the entry 4 weeks ago about fixing a favorite characters death in canon through fanfic. That hasn't happened in any of my usual fandoms canon.
But, unless you're writing completely in one AU where the character doesn't die, how do you keep track of which is which?
For example, my most written fandom is a show called the Equalizer from the mid-late 1980s. I've added a couple of main original characters, and some minor. None of the main characters have ever died in canon, though I now sense some little plot bunnies twitching their noses at medium/minor canon character deaths.
So that's the main canon/AU that I write in. My Nanowrimo novel is a fantasy AU for this show, and I'm liking it enough to probably keep on with it. There are other versions I'd like to play with at least once or twice.
But how to label is what's throwing me a bit. Technically, I write a slightly AU, I know, but that is my canon. The Nanowrimo AU I can easily label for a reader, but adding new AU's off of either of those - that's where it could get complicated if I don't figure something out. I figure many readers will be unfamiliar with the details of 20+ year old fandoms, especially since only the Equalizer has official DVDs out, and that just the first season. (Plus, supposedly the EQ movie is still going to be made, and it sounds like it will be much of its own AU canon altogether....)
Would just a summary of the AU canon in the comments before the story work? That would be easiest. Or should I label the universes somehow? EQ, for example, being the canon canon and my AU canon for the Equalizer, then EQ2 being the stories written in my fantasy/Nanowrimo AU, and so on?
Thanks
Theresa
PS:
linaewen I really like your LOTR AU canon, and am recommending it to one of my friends, another Sean Bean fan. I also read an interesting AU with the current Hawaii Five-O cast as mainly book/classical music store owner and employees and friends, but am not sure where. Both stories reminded me that I hadn't posted the reply I had wanted to post. Now I have time, and figured I'd waited long enough that it should be a post in itself! :). Have a good day.
