WIP Challenge - Check In Day 14 - Wednesday

[the_rck]

Poll #16351

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Today I

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planned
2 (40.0%)

researched
1 (20.0%)

wrote
2 (40.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
2 (40.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 6.20 Median: 5 Std. Dev 1.94

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		1 (20.0%)
5		2 (40.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		1 (20.0%)
9		1 (20.0%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

Do you ever write crossovers? Why or why not?

I've written crossovers mostly when prompted to. I like the challenge of reconciling the details of different canons, of seeing which bits fit into which corners. A long time ago, there was a community on LJ that took character suggestions from different fandoms and then randomly paired those characters and challenged members to write fics that had those two characters interacting. I never wrote anything for it, but I loved trying to come up with plausible ways to fit characters together.

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[linaewen]

I'm dealing with life these days, which is very complicated. Hope to get some writing done this weekend, perhaps.

I have not ever written a crossover, but I am intrigued by them. I toyed with doing one once, but couldn't get the details to mesh. I am keen on things being plausible, so if I could figure out a way to combine two different fandoms in plausible fashion, I would probably go for it!

[samuraiter]

I love writing crossovers, but I rarely do them. The effort of making two (or, often more) different canons fit together is often not worth the (typically) tepid response. In fact, that seems to be a general rule of fanfic: The more ambitious the effort, the fewer the people who will read and appreciate it.