WIP Challenge - Check In Day 15 - Thursday

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Poll #16356

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Today I

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planned
4 (57.1%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
2 (28.6%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
1 (14.3%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
2 (28.6%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 6.57 Median: 5 Std. Dev 2.32

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		1 (14.3%)
5		3 (42.9%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		1 (14.3%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		2 (28.6%)

When you write fanfic, do you try to preserve the tone and style of the canon as you write? Why or why not?

For me, it depends. When I'm writing for something like Yuletide, particularly for a literary fandom, I try to find the voice of canon and carry it forward. Well, I do unless the request is for something that doesn't fit with the canonical voice. I'm less likely to worry about it when I'm writing for a movie or a TV fandom-- There, I want to keep the characters and plots consistent with canon, but I feel that going from a primarily visual medium to text makes imitating the voice nearly impossible.