WIP Challenge - Check In Day 27 - Wednesday

[the_rck]

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Today I

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planned
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wrote
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sent to beta
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posted
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rested
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did something else
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The way I feel about that is

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What's the most obscure canon you've ever written? What's the most widely known? What did you like or dislike about that?

For the most obscure canon, it's got to be either But We Are Not Of Earth by Jean Karl or The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye. Neither of them had categories on fanfiction.net when I posted them there. Writing an obscure canon is fun because everything is new. I don't have to navigate fanon. The downside is that there isn't much audience.

The most widely known canon is probably either Harry Potter or MCU. I'm not sure which of those leads in numbers these days. I enjoy writing in big fandoms because I like the challenge of finding something new to say and of navigating audience expectations. The downside is that I tend to like writing G rated gen, and that's not what most readers are looking for.

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[linaewen]

I'm not technically writing today, but I'm typing up something I already wrote so that it can be posted. I may do some editing as I go, as well.

I write in only two fandoms currently, one is obscure and one is widely known. My obscure canon is Major, a baseball anime/manga. I've really enjoyed learning more about baseball as I researched for writing, and I've grown to love the characters even more. Interestingly enough, my fic is not about my favorite character, but about his best friend, so that's been an interesting thing for me. There's not a lot of readers in this fandom, but that hasn't deterred me.

My widely known canon is Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit. Everything else I write is in this canon. I never run out of ideas or characters to write about, and though I have a few favorites that almost always turn up in my stories, I am happy to branch out and write about things I don't know that much about in the canon.