WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 18 - Wednesday

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Poll #14238

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Today I

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planned
2 (66.7%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
1 (33.3%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
0 (0.0%)

How I feel about that is

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Mean: 3.67 Median: 4 Std. Dev 1.25

Dreadful 1		0 (0.0%)
2		1 (33.3%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		1 (33.3%)
5		1 (33.3%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Spectacular 10		0 (0.0%)

What's the most obscure canon you've ever written? How about the most widely known? How did you feel about each?

The most widely known canon I've written is Harry Potter. I did it for Remix, and I've got a couple of crossovers that include Harry Potter stuff. The most obscure canon I've written is probably But We Are Not of Earth by Jean Karl. I wrote that for Yuletide. It wasn't my best story because I got really quite sick during the last couple of weeks of the writing time and couldn't give the story what it needed.

Writing a widely known canon meant more readers than I usually get (the fandom I write most is only moderately popular. It's an older anime/manga fandom. I'm lucky if a story gets 100 hits on AO3). It also, though, made me feel more aware that I might make mistakes and get called on them. There's a point at which I have to take the plunge and assume that I know a canon well enough to write it. I fact check some details, but I have to trust myself, too. (This can lead to screw ups, as it did with my one Pretender story.)

Writing an obscure canon is kind of cozy. I know that I'm not going to get many readers, so I can focus on making the story what I (or the recipient in an exchange situation) want it to be. Chances are that readers will be less critical in some ways because finding a story in that fandom is so rare. (They're more critical in other ways because they can't just move on to the next story and hope to find satisfaction there.)