I'm getting back into writing fanfic after several years away, so I've been doing a lot of thinking and planning - coming up with the story idea and starting it has always been the hardest part for me.
To try to gather some ideas, I've been collecting bingo cards and using them for inspiration - I've got cards for tic_tac_woe and trope_bingo and I just requested a card for genprompt_bingo.
A big problem I have - and maybe some of you can relate to this and know some ways around it - is a sort of imposter syndrome: No matter how much I love a book/movie/whatever and no matter how much time I've spent reading/watching it, I always feel like I don't know enough about it to competently write a fic in it. So far I've written a total of 11 stories, of which 10-1/2 are Firefly, which I feel able to write because there's so little to learn about it (especially since I base my fics on just the TV show and almost totally ignore the movie and comics). The other fandoms I've been thinking of writing in are either things I've loved for a long time (Star Trek, Harry Potter) or things I've watched recently because so many people have recommended them to me (BTvS, Angel, Leverage). Except Leverage (which presents its own problems), there's just so much to learn about these universes that I never feel like I know enough to start writing. Have any of you ever felt that way? If so, how did you get over/around it?
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Date: Friday, July 28th, 2017 15:53 (UTC)To try to gather some ideas, I've been collecting bingo cards and using them for inspiration - I've got cards for tic_tac_woe and trope_bingo and I just requested a card for genprompt_bingo.
A big problem I have - and maybe some of you can relate to this and know some ways around it - is a sort of imposter syndrome: No matter how much I love a book/movie/whatever and no matter how much time I've spent reading/watching it, I always feel like I don't know enough about it to competently write a fic in it. So far I've written a total of 11 stories, of which 10-1/2 are Firefly, which I feel able to write because there's so little to learn about it (especially since I base my fics on just the TV show and almost totally ignore the movie and comics). The other fandoms I've been thinking of writing in are either things I've loved for a long time (Star Trek, Harry Potter) or things I've watched recently because so many people have recommended them to me (BTvS, Angel, Leverage). Except Leverage (which presents its own problems), there's just so much to learn about these universes that I never feel like I know enough to start writing. Have any of you ever felt that way? If so, how did you get over/around it?