WIP Challenge Checkin, Day 25, Monday

[jagnikjen]

So how's the writing going today??

Share your word count, your struggles. Have you pulled your hair out or are you banging away on your keyboard churning out lots of lovely new words??

Discussion question: Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?

Comments

[jagnikjen]

I worked a little this morning when I got up, but haven't had much chance to do anything writing related at work. I've been busy catching up on my day job. I'll have peace and quiet tonight though to get some writing done and I'm looking forward to it.

I usually stick to canon. Sometimes, though, if it's my own fanon I'll stay true to whatever I've made up across all fics--unless I go completely AU and it doesn't work.

[pensnest]

I've written a bit more, and I feel *so* much better for it!

I write RPF these days and I love the canon, but fanon can be fun too. It's just sometimes difficult to tell which is which.

[linaewen]

Haven't had much chance to write yet, but things are quieting down for the day, so I'm hoping for a good block of writing time this evening. It would be nice if I could match yesterday's word count and make some more progress!

I prefer canon, even when I'm doing AU. It's not always possible to adhere to canon when I am writing characters who are supposed to dead in canon, but I try! ;-)

The interesting thing about writing fanfic is that it has made me see things in the original source material that I missed or had forgotten -- like when I'm doing research to make sure I remembered something correctly and I find a bit or a passage that totally is like new to me. That's exciting to find something new in something that's very familiar!

[lexicalcrow]

Not a lot of writing, but I did finish my edits on 'Glitter' and started posting last night. Will have to wait til LJ comes back up to post it there though. *kicks LJ*

Not feeling so great today though, might not get any writing done, but we'll see. I need to revise my AU big bang fic as well, and finally send an email to my beta just to see how she's going. I meant to send it sooner but the last few days have been busier than I'd imagined.

I also mainly write RPF, but because my fandoms are so tiny, there's not a lot of fanon to draw on, except my own headcanon. That makes things interesting. I don't know if it's ever changed the way I view it though. IDK. I'm pretty good at keeping canon and headcanon separate.

[rebecca2525]

Wrote 288 words yesterday. It was a busy day again, so that's quite good actually.

I normally stick very close to canon. Reading other people's fic can change my view on canon, writing my own fic not so much because that already fits my own headcanon. Though writing often hightens my awareness of canon details, or technical aspects about the source material.