WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 22 -- Tuesday

[linaewen]

Hello on Tuesday!  What kind of a writing day has it been today -- or yesterday, if today hasn't gotten going yet?

       - I thought about my fic once or twice
       - I wrote
       - I did some planning and/or research
       - I edited
       - I've sent my fic off to my beta
       - I posted today!
       - I'm taking a break
       - I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Tuesday Discussion: When you write certain characters from a particular fandom, do you have a head canon that carries over from story to story? That is, are there details of backstory and characterization that aren't from canon that you always use?

Comments

[linaewen]

I did research and outlining yesterday, as well as lots of thinking. Getting to the actual writing part is hard!

I do have head canon that carries over from story to story. Since my main character actually dies in canon, much of what I write is not canon in that it didn't happen with that character involved. So some of my recurring details are ones I've come up with myself. Most of my stories tend to be linked and it could be said they are all part of a longer story being told in snatches. Now and then I break from my head canon when I write about my main character as he is in "proper" canon before he gets killed off.

[brithistorian]

I've been at work all day so far, so haven't had a chance to write. So far I have done a little thinking and I'm being attacked by plot bunnies. I'm trying to decide whether I really want to start writing a boarding school AU (one of my faves), featuring a romance between my more controversial head canons (an autistic character and an asexual character).

I have some headcanons that I pretty much always use because it's something that that's the only way canon makes sense for me, or else because it's a way that canon works for me that I'm not interested (at present) in exploring alternatives. For example, I can't imagine writing a Firefly fic and not using autistic!River, because that's how that character makes sense to me.

Even more than head canons, I'm prone to personal canons: If I decide that several fics take place in the same universe, then the events of story A become canon for stories B and C, and so on. This sometimes causes me problems if I'm writing multiple stories at once with the same characters, because I've got to keep straight what's canon in each story (I've had to rewrite a whole chapter before because I realized right before hitting post that the whole thing was based on an event from one of my other fics that wasn't in the past of the fic I was working on).

[samuraiter]

Currently planning for the next story I want to write. Also recovering brain power after writing almost every day last week. @_@

I frequently have character details that carry from story to story, regardless of whether or not those stories share continuity. I especially do this in stories I post anonymously (e.g. for a kink meme) as a little wink and nod to anybody who is following my works in such places.