When fics take over

Jan 10, 2011 21:29

(NOTE: This is the meta I talked about previously that goes, kind of, with Chapter 70 of Insanity Underrated. It should have gone up at around the same time as 70 did, but as most of you are aware, I've been grappling with some health issues lately, and that rather delayed my ability to type it up in anything resembling a coherent fashion. Also, ( Read more... )

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kag523 January 11 2011, 02:45:44 UTC
Hee hee! I uh... I think my writer's brain might have been out at the unsupervised beach party with your writer's brain sometime in the last month. I actually had a number of highly frustrating moments when characters that I DIDN'T want to get involved suddenly kept jumping into my scenes demanding to be heard. I love the idea, actually - though it screwed a number of elements of my fic to hell, making it far more complicated than I originally intended - I was still happy with how it pulled together.

My take on it, (as odd as it sounds) is that at some point in flow, the fic has a life of it's own. It knows what it needs to be in the future, and you kind of follow the ripples back toward it. Strangely enough I talked about that in my fic. And that makes this comment a really longwinded way of saying:

I LOVE THIS IDEA!!!

*hugs tight* K :>D

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amidala_thrace January 11 2011, 04:23:30 UTC
Bwah, it's quite possible! My writer's brain has largely been on hiatus since I posted my last chapter, and I think it's slowly starting to come around to the realization that yes, I continue to require its services thank you very much. ;) I had a situation rather like the one you describe with the last chapter of IU, in which Bill Adama showed up in a situation where he was completely not supposed to be there. I ended up going with it, though, because it turned out to create a nice symmetry with an earlier scene in the fic. Sometimes those deviations can be a good thing ( ... )

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kag523 January 11 2011, 04:41:23 UTC
You are amazing! Seriously - to undertake the entire BSG canon - just blows my mind!

*hugs tight* So awesome!

(P.S. And I'm glad I'm not the only ones with rogue characters. Mine was Sam, BTW. He basically was supposed to be minor but wrote himself a HUGE role. <3 LOL)

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iluvworms January 11 2011, 03:45:56 UTC
I think I know what you mean. As I said a while ago, I have this great idea for a fic, and my brain is constantly telling me ways that I can make it work. The ideas I have now are somewhat different from what I originally came up with, and I'm sure other things will change with time.

In case you're wondering, this is a Rocky Horror Picture Show fic, which takes place after the movie ends. I was even watching the movie the other day and finding ways to prove that my story makes sense! LOL.

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amidala_thrace January 11 2011, 04:29:33 UTC
Hee, that's kind of what I call the "alphabet soup" phase of writing, in that the ideas keep arranging and rearranging themselves into different combinations. ;) I do that too, letting an idea sit around in my head for a while before actually starting to work on it. It seems to make for more coherence and less confusion once I go to write the thing, although much depends on the idea itself and how fixed it is in my mind.

And that sounds cool! I definitely do the same with BSG and Star Wars, but then you knew that already. ;) I've never seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show (I know, I know, what an uncultured swine am I), but I'm sure I will someday, and then I'd love to read your story. :)

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iluvworms January 11 2011, 19:03:23 UTC
We'll have to rectify that! Want to watch Rocky Horror next time we get together?

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qtshorty1625 January 11 2011, 05:02:29 UTC
the point at which a piece of writing veers suddenly from the predetermined plan you had for it, and starts to completely ignore your outline in favour of basically writing itself.
I know that feeling! I was trying to write a fan fic because the writers are majorly screwing up my favorite show this season so I have taken it upon myself to fix some of the story lines (okay, one so far). I had planned on keeping certain things from the original story line, but when I got to where they'd go in my fic, for some reason, I couldn't write them.

came out sounding trite, out of character, and very much like I was writing an instruction manual I love you for this comment (well, and other reasons, but you know that). I feel like so many fan fiction writers don't care if their characters sound OOC because in their mind if it has that character's name slapped on the action/thought, etc. it's in character. And I get tempted to gouge out my eyes. But with you, I know you have a handle on your characters, so I may be tempted (if I get the time ( ... )

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dibusmut April 9 2011, 16:37:38 UTC
I think that is right bout that. Nice info and thanks. Need to get in google feed.

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pineoga November 1 2011, 06:10:46 UTC
Keep posting stuff like this i really like it

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