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Discussion: canon review. How much time do you spend reviewing canon?
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Discussion: canon review. How much time do you spend reviewing canon?
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Date: Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 12:41 (UTC)Tidied up a ficlet for posting, that should be up soon.
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Date: Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 14:57 (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 16:24 (UTC)I spend A LOT of time doing canon review, sometimes to the detriment of actual writing. It's hard not to get caught up in the thing you love enough to write fic about.
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Date: Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 18:24 (UTC)Edit to add that canon review is important to any planning. :-) I have so many potential choices that it makes me a little dizzy, to be honest.
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Date: Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 20:29 (UTC)Canon review: depends heavily on the canon. For my own series, I've left canon behind a long time ago (it's appropriately tagged "Alternate Canon"), but with only 13 episodes, there wasn't much canon to begin with.
I'm much more anal when I write for exchanges, since the stories aren't for myself, but for my recipients. Since I can't assume that everyone has the same cavalier attitude towards canon as I, I tend to err on the side of caution there.
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Date: Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 02:58 (UTC)I feel like I have a very strange relationship with canon for the fics I've mostly been working on. I never played most of the games that make up the canon, and mostly write AUs that incorporate elements from the parts I am familiar with... despite that familiarity having been refreshed maybe 10 years ago at best? (It's Kingdom Hearts, which is fairly infamous for how off the rails aspects of canon got.)
Sometimes that leads to wiki rabbit holes where I try to find out what ultimately happened with a character or plotline, just so I can try to avoid big pitfalls, but mostly I just... kinda ignore the parts I don't know enough about. Someday I'll either own the systems necessary to play the rest, or I'll actually sit down and watch some lets plays to try and "get" all of it, but that day is not today, nor is it tomorrow.
For some canons, I've gone through far more meticulous dives back to make sure I'm getting every little detail right, lol. (And fandom wikis are my savior for that, a lot of the time.)